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torpid
1. I insisted that Philemon stir his torpid bones into a trot before all three of that monster’s maws came snapping at our flesh
2. The understandings of those who are engaged in such employments, can seldom grow torpid for want of exercise
3. Those creatures are cold blooded and they’ll become torpid in such a low temperature
4. The torpid spirit mingling with its clod
5. The other is too often asleep practically, and torpid, and idle, and content to leave the religion of the parish in the hands of the parson
6. It is a public acknowledgment that the time has come when lay Churchmen must be asked to take a more active interest in the affairs of the Established Church, and that their past torpid position, as sleeping partners in the great ecclesiastical concern, can no longer be maintained
7. As she fell, her torpid limbs attempted to grab anything to arrest her fall
8. Bingham continued to close the gap, his body torpid, his face writhing in agony and hate
9. Strorley, which looked such an unconscious place, such a torpid, unconscious riverside place, was nevertheless intensely sensitive to shocks, and it hadn't at all recovered from the shock of that poor Mrs
10. Both the intellect and the imagination are torpid, and require the awakening of a new inspiration in faith
11. My embryo has never been torpid, nothing could overlay it
12. To fill the gross the torpid bulk with vital religious fire,
13. I'll mind the lesson, solitary bird--let me too welcome chilling drifts, E'en the profoundest chill, as now--a torpid pulse, a brain unnerv'd, Old age land-lock'd within its winter bay--(cold, cold, O cold!)
14. The large room was emptying; the stove-pipe, in the shape of a palm-tree, spread its gilt leaves over the white ceiling, and near them, outside the window, in the bright sunshine, a little fountain gurgled in a white basin, where; in the midst of watercress and asparagus, three torpid lobsters stretched across to some quails that lay heaped up in a pile on their sides
15. She stayed there all day long, torpid, half dressed, and from time to time burning Turkish pastilles which she had bought at Rouen in an Algerian's shop
16. I lie awake while thou sleepest, I weep while thou singest, I am faint with fasting while thou art sluggish and torpid from pure repletion
17. On the other hand, those steadfast natures which can better be depended upon, which in a battle are impregnable to fear and immovable, are equally immovable when there is anything to be learned; they are always in a torpid state, and are apt to yawn and go to sleep over any intellectual toil
18. rouse to action his inactive torpid machine, he blushingly owned that no
19. In front of him the torpid lizards stirred in their cage on the picture box
20. The sun drew up a torpid moisture from the watery thickets
21. Despite the cool, exciting air of the July evening, he seemed apathetic and torpid
22. My nostrils, my ears are torpid under the frost
23. Great stretches of the long grass, once the teeming jungle of summer, were almost deserted, with only a hurrying beetle or a torpid spider left out of all the myriads for them were gone and instead of their screaming cries in the sky, the twittering of August
24. Barville, no stranger, by experience, to these situations, soon knew the pass I was brought to soon perceived my extreme disorder; in favour of which, removing the table out of the way, he began a prelude that flattered me with instant relief, to which I was not, however, so near as I imagined: for as he was unbuttoned to me, and tried to provoke and rouse to action his unactive torpid machine, he blushingly owned that no good was to be expected from it, unless I took it in hand to re-excite its languid loitering powers, by just refreshing the smart of the yet recent blood-raw cuts, seeing it could, no more than a boy's top, keep up without lashing
25. I never realized—it never occurred to my bemuddled and torpid brain that I was intruding upon his privacy, that he imagined himself to be alone in the room
26. Helpless, torpid, and vegetarian, with great limbs but a minute brain, they could be rounded up and driven by a child
27. Such arrows were of little avail to the hunter who attacked the beast, because their action in that torpid circulation was slow, and before its powers failed it could certainly overtake and slay its assailant
28. His was the overwhelming slumber of the torpid bear and the satiated leech
29. He said every nerve had been overstrained in some way, and the whole system must sleep torpid a while
30. Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me hopelessly dull; and, at first sight, all dull alike: but I soon found I was mistaken
31. Though, when I had been exposed to the rudest blasts a long time, my whole body began to grow torpid, when I reached the genial atmosphere of my house I soon recovered my faculties and prolonged my life
32. But while hapless Dough-Boy was by nature dull and torpid in his intellects, Pip, though over tender-hearted, was at bottom very bright, with that pleasant, genial, jolly brightness peculiar to his tribe; a tribe, which ever enjoy all holidays and festivities with finer, freer relish than any other race
33. And spur my spirit's torpid mood!
34. He retires in winter into caves, hollow rocks, and trees, where he lies, in a torpid state, from November to April; several have been found coiled up together, the head lying over the back: it is in the same situation he sleeps in the fields
35. When found in the torpid state, they may be carried without waking; but might wake in a warm room
36. They soon recovered from a torpid state, and hopped away