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1. every thing that might impair his health or enervate his const-
2. To harass is to “disturb or irritate persistently”—to “wear out, exhaust, enervate by repeated attacks”—and comes from the Old French for “to set a dog on”
3. motions, they have at length accomplished a flashy enervate enjoyment,
4. In the mean time, if I may judge from my own experience, none are better paid, or better treated, during their reign, than the mistress of those who, enervate by nature, debaucheries, or age, have the least employment for the sex: sensible that a woman must be satisfied some way, they ply her with a thousand little tender attentions, presents, caresses, confidences,
5. and exhaust their inventions in means and devices to make up for the capital deficiency; and even towards lessening that, what arts, what modes, what refinements of pleasure have they not recourse to, to raise their languid powers, and press nature into the service of their sensuality? But here is their misfortune, that when by a course of teasing, worrying, handling, wanton postures, lascivious motions, they have at length accomplished a flashy enervate enjoyment, they at the same time light up a flame in the object of their passion, that, not having the means themselves to quench, drives her for relief into the next person's arms, who can finish their work; and thus they become bawds to some favourite, tried and approved of, for a more vigorous and satisfactory execution; for with women, of our turn especially,
6. With such a record at the age of thirty-one, it was felt that a considerable career lay before him, and no one was surprised when he was elected to the curatorship of the Belmore Street Museum, which carries with it the lectureship at the Oriental College, and an income which has sunk with the fall in land, but which still remains at that ideal sum which is large enough to encourage an investigator, but not so large as to enervate him
7. When you are at Madagascar, or at the Cape, or in India, would it be a consolation to have that memento in your possession? or would the sight of it bring recollections calculated to enervate and distress?”
8. Violence serves but to enervate this influence, disintegrating it, and substituting for it one not only useless, but pernicious to the welfare of humanity
1. Weak is the leveled, enervated mind,
2. Took every opportunity to show my enervated state in the manner of my actions, breathing, posture and facial expression
3. Suppose a sick man is suffering from a disease which has been affecting him for such a period of time that it has exhausted and enervated him
4. Since men cannot receive the gospel until they become 'spiritual,’ how can they be accountable for its non-reception if destitute of the spiritual faculty? Is it not easier to understand that the enervated 'spirit’ is supernaturally energised by the Holy Spirit—so that a spiritual life is produced, which is called pneu~ma—than it is to conceive of the fall as involving the loss of one part of man's nature, or of redemption as bestowing a wholly new element of being? Without dogmatising on a subject, which certainly has two sides, perhaps the most considerable alleviation of the difficulty will be found in the suggestion above made, that by spirit, as produced in the twice-born man by the Spirit of God, our Lord intended the spiritual and eternal life secured by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, not the addition of a wholly new faculty to the humanity
5. Enervated, prostrate, and breathless, he became unconscious of outward objects; he seemed to be entering that vague delirium preceding death
6. On Wednesday he appeared at the office after a week at home, and Leona Cassiani was horrified at seeing him so pale and enervated
7. Fermina Daza, bored with the men’s enervated discussion concerning the possibility of establishing differential fares, ate without will
8. But the handsome, strong Phillip concealed his impatience, and calmly carried out the instructions of the enervated, weak, artificial Princess Sophia Vasilievna
9. For such a mother, to see her child overfed, enervated, decked out, will mean suffering; for all this, as she well knows, will render difficult for him the fulfilment of the law of God in which she has instructed him
10. His whole body was enervated and tense, thrilled by the thought
11. Is there no danger that we shall become enervated by the spirit of avarice, unfortunately so predominant? I do not wish to see that diffusive military character, which, pervading the whole nation, might possibly eventuate in the aggrandizement of some ambitious chief, by prostrating the liberties of the country
12. To be sure, he is a good Catholic, which the Incas were not, but he is indolent, enervated, and enslaved by his own passions
1. ” If democratic citizens should abandon religion and rely only upon themselves, Tocqueville cautions, that would generate “a politically enervating status” that would “prepare a people for bondage
2. it wasn’t Sharon and Kirk fell again into the enervating hollowness that gripped him each time the returning prisoners didn’t include Sharon
3. Desert air is hot, dry and enervating – I was very tired and would have preferred to impale myself on the chauffeur’s dagger than struggle to converse in my increasingly inadequate French and his six words of English
4. Rather than facing the ensuing day with exhaustion the experience is uplifting and enervating
5. “I love him because he is kind and generous to me and despite his enervating interrogations which after all are not misplaced
6. Plato has himself admitted, in the earlier part of the Republic, that the arts might have the effect of harmonizing as well as of enervating the mind; but in the Tenth Book he regards them through a Stoic or Puritan medium
7. Morrel hesitated to advance; he dreaded the enervating effect of all that he saw
8. The raw, drenching chill was worse, more enervating, than a fiercer, harder cold might have been
9. The air of the place, so fresh in the spring and early summer, was stagnant and enervating now
10. The three o'clock sun shone full upon him, and the strange enervating conviction that her seducer confronted her, which had been gaining ground in Tess ever since she had heard his words distinctly, was at last established as a fact indeed
11. There was no denial of his neuroses; he seemed to find them amusing rather than enervating
12. It was hot in Darwin, with a damp enervating heat that brought her out in streams of perspiration at the slightest movement
13. I felt that stinging hurt again all over my skin, the hurt I'd felt when Rowan had been railing at me at the Retreat House, an enervating, crippling pain