| 单词 | torpid |
| 例句 | A thoroughly mysterious coming and going, like the surging of torpid tides. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Even when he was awake he was completely torpid. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The hares on the down, stupid and torpid with cold, were resigned to sinking further and further into the freezing heart of snow and silence. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was no easy matter to rouse the torpid, bewildered does and make them understand what they had to do. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Mentally, spiritually, and physically, I was feeling pretty torpid along toward four-thirty in the afternoon, and I only half stood up when M. Yoshoto came over to my desk for an instant. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z By October San Piedro had slipped off its summer reveler’s mask to reveal a torpid, soporific dreamer whose winter bed was made of wet green moss. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The two female Scholars sat up very slightly, though their daemons, either well behaved or torpid, did no more than flick their eyes at each other. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z 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. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z But it was like trying to identify one particular cell that coursed through the torpid veins of my body. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z And then there were huge bright yellow ones, twice as big, and torpid, so waxy and fat that they bowed down the grasses when they landed. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She woke up torpid each morning, slowed by sadness, frightened by the endless stretch of day that lay ahead. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z 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 of August. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the novelty of moving wore off, I feared Jesse would sink into the same torpid, depressed state he’d been in back in Idaho, only worse. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature’s requirements like a torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun drew up a torpid moisture from the watery thickets. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He said every nerve had been overstrained in some way, and the whole system must sleep torpid a while. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Isolated, torpid, tattered little Durham had become the envy of the South. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z My nostrils, my ears are torpid under the frost. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the cool, exciting air of the July evening, he seemed apathetic and torpid. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember the sense of calm in there, the torpid movements of the midwives, the whispering, the sweet smell of formula milk, the little cooing sounds from the incubators. 'Her needs had to come first': becoming a father and a widower in a week 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z Lively one moment, torpid the next, the show is utterly overstuffed yet winsome anyway. Finding Some Treasures at FringeNYC 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z The title track is torpid rhythmic goth that includes references to asylums and rhymes "crawling on your knees" with "disease", presumably as in: dis-ease, a discomfiture with the quotidian drag that is existence. New band of the day (Rough Days for Diamond Trade No 1,473) 2013-03-18T17:00:00Z The film’s signature scenario shows a torpid older man being outfitted with headphones and an iPod. 'Alive Inside,' About Music’s Effect on Health 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z "The pressing question," writes Seal, "was how far the west might extend its influence inland into Asia before running into the torpid oriental headwind that traditionally blew there." Meander: East to West Along a Turkish River by Jeremy Seal – review 2012-07-06T21:55:10Z Much to my amazement, I did manage to finish my novel – a torpid affair about sheep and angels – which the critics predictably praised, failing to recognise its inherent mediocrity. A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgård – digested read 2013-04-21T17:30:01Z Gary is a torpid man who works as a translator for the CIA in the Washington area. Book review: ‘A Map of Betrayal,’ by Ha Jin The question presses still, though the wind is no longer torpid. Meander: East to West Along a Turkish River by Jeremy Seal – review 2012-07-06T21:55:10Z One downside: the jostling yet torpid mass of humanity you will find yourself a part of. Broadway Is Back! A Guide to Shows, Tickets and Covid Protocols. 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z “The glue boogers in the binding are more captivating than Gilstrap’s torpid prose.” Author John Gilstrap explains what makes a book a thriller 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Even grief is a blunt instrument in this torpid place. Happy Valley by Patrick White – review 2012-12-19T08:00:06Z He is not a winter man; as a depressive, its dinge makes him torpid and morose. Turned Out Nice Again by Richard Mabey – review 2013-03-08T09:00:01Z It is a seamless amalgam of torpid heavy rock, icy New Wave vocals and noodling jam instrumentalism, and it faithfully reflects the band’s classic rock influences. Julia Cumming, Teenage Model and Rocker 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z So extended are the pauses between sentences, so torpid the pace even of the chase scenes. In Child 44, Tom Hardy Slogs Through a Stalin-Era Procedural 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Beane offers his usual hilarious zingers and, beneath the noise of Mark Brokaw’s busy yet torpid production, something to think about. Onstage, the New Gay Agenda Involves Cake and Not Getting Fired 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z The summer blockbuster season arrived in emphatic style at the weekend as stirred up a torpid US box office to deliver the second biggest weekend launch in history on an estimated $175.3m. Iron Man 3 shows its mettle with $175m US box-office launch weekend 2013-05-06T13:00:01Z Britain had a famous navy and a courageous air force, but its army, Hastings writes, had a "torpid" culture that made it slow to act and quick to congratulate losers. 'Winston's War': A different take on Winston Churchill 2010-04-28T23:49:00Z It is mostly torpid and colorless, a copiously annotated list rather than a cohesive narrative or an extended argument. Books of The Times: Sing It Loud: Changing the World With a Song 2011-04-28T16:23:27Z Off-Center summer season, is guaranteed to leave you feeling windblown, hyped up and ready to race through the most torpid summer night. Review: Homeless Teenagers, Strutting and Seething in ‘Runaways’ 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z As the titular operative, George Clooney is torpid with the weight of his past. "The American": George Clooney's killer trip through Italy 2010-09-01T15:02:00Z Breakfast at Tiffany's managed it, finding what the Evening Standard critic described as "an amusingly torpid specimen" to play Holly Golightly's feline friend. Theatre is alive with the sound of super furry animals 2011-03-09T17:00:58Z In her poem “Women Who Sleep on Stones” she observed: “If I sleep on my belly, pinning it down, / my breasts start puling like baby pigs / trapped under their slab of torpid mother.” Lucia Perillo, poet who unflinchingly dissected mortality, dies at 58 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The duo of the night was unquestionably Anthony and Lopez, who jolted the mostly torpid pageant to life with a raucous, shimmying Latin pop showcase with Sheila E. on drums. "American Idol's" pageant of boredom 2011-05-26T12:27:00Z All the silverback gorillas of auteur world cinema were getting respect that year, no matter how torpid and unfinished their movies. The Paperboy – review 2013-03-14T15:00:01Z But the ethereal texture of the whole, from the heavy-lidded, torpid glissando of the strings as the start, is elusive to all but the most technically assured. OAE/Rattle; Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Manze; A Midsummer Night's Dream – review 2013-02-03T00:05:56Z Hughes filmed dozens of takes of many scenes — Russell told McCarthy the whole shoot was "painful S the most insane thing I've ever seen" — but the stars' acting is slapdash and the pace torpid. Remembering "The Two and Only" Jane Russell: 1921-2011 2011-03-04T09:05:00Z That seems to what the spectre Earths do, hanging above the characters and their first-world problems – wedding-day alienation, worn-out souls in young bodies, rootless anxiety – in those two torpid movies. Post-apocalypse cinema: abandoned Earths and disturbing doppelgangers 2013-06-12T13:17:52Z Breathing the same air as they do sometimes makes their torpid anomie a little too infectious. Theater Review: ‘Uncle Vanya,’ Adapted by Annie Baker, at Soho Rep 2012-06-18T02:00:00Z What is dismayingly absent from Mr. Gold’s torpid production, unfortunately, is any palpable sense of the fraught emotional connections among these characters. Theater Review: ?Look Back in Anger,? Starring Matthew Rhys 2012-02-03T03:03:00Z Bim purvey a breezy version of the latter's torpid, torrid trip-hop – it's less massive, and it doesn't attack, it soothes while Rosier's voice sighs and whispers, like Dido and Sarah Cracknell's sweetly sibilant kid sister. New band of the day ? No 819: Bim 2010-07-06T16:12:00Z Apparently, they chose Abbiss because of his early engineering and mixing work on Massive Attack and DJ Shadow albums; they wanted some of trip hop's torpid, tense atmosphere to rub off on them. New band of the day (The Family Rain No 1,518) 2013-05-23T15:06:52Z Barnes sets his tale in its twilight, among what he calls “furrow-dwellers,” the torpid English middle classes, but he refrains from deriving much comedy from it. He’s 19. She’s 48 and Married. When They Play Doubles Tennis, It’s a Match. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z The truth: They went down a storm at In the City, so maybe there is a market for this brand of torpid disco. New band of the day ? No 938: D/R/U/G/S 2011-01-04T16:45:57Z This film whooshes wildly all over the place, and it's got plenty of energy, but nothing about it is convincing for a single moment, and the acting is on the torpid side. Film review: 4.3.2.1 2010-05-27T22:05:00Z Such figures on horseback, men in mysterious freedom of agency and movement, recur in the background of Gauguin's Polynesian pictures, the miniature landscapes glimpsed beyond the torpid and often melancholy world of the women. Gauguin: Into the mystic 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z Ambitious, torpid, wildly overlong and frustratingly underdeveloped, “Palm Trees” follows Lea as she falls for Tom, who turns out to be as awful — and as much a near-parody of villainy — as his clichéd smooth talk. ‘Palm Trees and Power Lines’ Review: A Teen’s Cautionary Tale 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Scenes of their life after prison – too often torpid and hampered, with tons of admin to get through – were set against frenzied glimpses of their time inside. Edinburgh fringe theatre roundup 2011-08-06T23:06:34Z I think I called it “graphically torpid” in the book, but before that it was a typographic carnival — just too nuts to be believed. A look back at the wacky, colorful history of election ballot design 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z This was productive, to a point — all those voices and instruments encouraged the beatific heave — but it often felt like a product of torpid indecision, unsustainable and self-defeating. Critics? Choice: New CDs by the New Pornographers and the Hold Steady 2010-05-02T20:55:00Z Although Summertime of the Dead leaves Yukio incarcerated in torpid resignation and regret, the only way you can find solace in this novel is to read it Japanese-style from back to front. Summertime of the Dead by Gregory Hughes – review 2012-09-28T21:55:03Z From torpid opening to explosive finale, Marfa Girl surfs through familiar Clark country, dragging a dilated eye across the wanton youth of smalltown Texas. Marfa Girl – first look review 2012-11-12T16:51:16Z The square itself is a bright cacophony of sensory stimulation and a jostling yet torpid mass of humanity. The Broadway Shows to See Now 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z In situations like these, there are defining moments along the way that set off alarm bells, but these clarion calls were left mostly unmet by a torpid international community. One of the world’s oldest Christian communities faces genocide. Where’s Biden? 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z Just 38 at the time, with three young children and a successful law career, the charismatic Mrs. Ewing sliced through Scotland’s torpid, sclerotic politics with her vision for an energized, independent nation. Winnie Ewing, Who Transformed Scottish Politics, Dies at 93 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z In previous studies, scientists genetically engineered these neurons to respond to light or certain chemicals, and found they could cause mice to enter a torpid state even when they were warm and well-fed. Ultrasound brain pulses put mice in a hibernation-like state 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Last year, in retirement, I took a trial separation from watching MLB in its torpid entirety. Perspective | The pitch clock is saving baseball — by returning it to the past 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z “Plaintiffs believe that the Supreme Court is poised to knock out the exemption, like a boxer waiting to launch a left hook after her opponent tosses out a torpid jab,” Carter wrote. Justice Department: MLB antitrust exemption should be narrow 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z While Stevens Pass is clearly beating the torpid pace it set last winter, the competition means Galbraith will have to fine-tune her operation for many offseasons to come. With a racer’s discipline, new GM turns a corner at Stevens Pass 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z It’s unfortunate that his final project wound up as the torpid Depp collaboration “18,” but even that record felt true to Beck’s artistry. Back when the electric guitar promised revolution, Jeff Beck fearlessly explored and mastered it 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z By automatically delivering additional pulses of ultrasound when the animals’ body temperatures began to climb back up, the researchers could keep the mice in this torpid state for up to 24 hours. Ultrasound brain pulses put mice in a hibernation-like state 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z The intensity of that airlift — one of the largest in history — stands in sharp contrast to the torpid pace of evacuations following the withdrawal. The U.S. killed him in error and vowed to help relatives leave Afghanistan. A year later, some are still stuck 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z It seemed thick, heavy, torpid, lacking in stimulation and slow in its motion. Friday was no 90-degree day: only a humid 89 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z For example, torpid birds become stiff and unable to respond to threats. Hummingbirds Choose How Much to Chill Down 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Will the announcements make any difference in the torpid vaccination rates in the country, especially with cases still on a steady decline? Should you get another COVID booster? Consider these factors 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Breukelen says his confidence in the team’s results is strengthened by the fact that when the researchers directed the ultrasound to other brain regions, the mice didn’t appear to enter a torpid state. Ultrasound brain pulses put mice in a hibernation-like state 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z The water was so torpid that a thick layer of dust had settled onto it, giving it a cheerless brown tinge. Taking the scenic route to Aveiro, on Portugal’s Atlantic coast 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z When asked what drew Trump to the Reform Party, Salkin said that the party-agnostic primary mechanisms, including voting arrangements, appealed to Trump's torpid nature. Donald Trump called voting by mail "refreshingly democratic" in 2000 New York Times op-ed 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z He said: “Another turgid, torpid, toxic appalling EU referendum, which is the last thing we need.” Boris Johnson: goods from Northern Ireland to GB won't be checked 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z The attendees, many of them students, had packed themselves shoulder to shoulder on yellow chairs; hand-held fans stirred the torpid air as a drizzle fell on the palm trees in the courtyard. The Journalist vs. the President, With Life on the Line 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Even when researchers roused the torpid squirrels, they wouldn’t drink a drop—until the team artificially increased the concentration of their blood serum. Here’s how hibernating squirrels live for months without water 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z This “real territorial fracture,” as Borello puts it, between hopping cities and torpid towns and villages was dramatically exposed by the so-called “yellow vest” protest movement that erupted last November and rocked Macron’s presidency. Perk up: France resuscitates dying villages 1 cafe at a time 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z A lunch or supper of small plates may be just the ticket on a torpid day. Middle Eastern dips and spreads to bump hummus off your summer menu 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z The prestige of the Senate does not, in her estimation, offset its torpid pace of change. Stacey Abrams’s Fight for a Fair Vote 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z And he interrupted himself during his torpid remarks to a few hundred Iowans in Cedar Rapids to testify to Mr. Obama’s character in the face of adversity. Sanders and Biden Circle Each Other, Using Different Rules of Engagement 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Wage growth remains torpid in the middle of the distribution. Capitalism is failing workers. People want a job with a decent wage – why is that so hard? | Richard Reeves 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z He wished to point out to the ill-educated scum, the work-shy filth, the crippled whiners and the torpid halt, that the plural of asylum is asyla. Militias, chaos and starvation: Britain 10 years after Brexit 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The Obama administration’s response to Russian meddling was ineffective and oddly torpid. Opinion | For once, Trump is right about Obama 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z President Vladimir Putin is set to glide easily to another term against a familiar pack of torpid rivals — leftovers from past races. For the Kremlin, boosting turnout is key task for 2018 vote 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z An opposition liberated from the stylistic straightjacket of recent torpid years, and a Twickenham crowd silenced by unexpected uncertainty and fear. Six Nations: Are Eddie Jones and Owen Farrell the new Ferguson and Keane? 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z The mouse was in a torpid state – a very deep sleep. The best photographs of 2016 - in pictures 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z For all that Palace rallied after conceding the opening goal, attacking with aggression and verve, there was always the suspicion that their determination would only rouse a torpid City, and so it proved. Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z In China, those with government grievances must endure a torpid — usually fruitless — tussle with state petition offices to plead their case. Police to Guard Chinese Hospitals to Stop Attacks on Doctors 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Cleveland sits in Bolivar County at the center of the Mississippi Delta, a torpid and poverty-stricken portion of the state that hasn’t known widespread prosperity since slaves hauled cotton on plantations. Mississippi city ordered to desegregate schools 60 years after landmark ruling 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Into this torpid mix of fear and illness crept the bat. Facing my fear: my ex is bipolar. I was scared our daughter would be, too | Elizabeth Hamilton 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Some of its productions were torpid dramatic fare, but the lighter, comedic films were often delightful because of the actress' deft comedic timing and natural charm. A triple feature of Marion Davies' films heads to DVD 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z Mullin was hired by a new president to give a torpid program a jolt, and he inherited a bare roster he could remake in his image. Chris Mullin, the Red Storm’s Savior, Instead Finds There Is a Lot of Work to Do 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Such hindsight belies the actual experience of seeing an entire region—and the world’s most politically torpid region, at that—whirl into sudden, synchronised motion. The Arab winter 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z It also includes “absquatulate,” ”anathema,” ”epigone,” ”puerile,” ”rumpus,” ”sockdolager,” ”sybaritic,” ”torpid” and “turpitude.” School’s list seeks to bring worthy words back from brink 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z In contrast to the torpid first half, the second-half energy levels surged. Laurent Koscielny tap-in gives Arsenal win against Newcastle United 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Thursday’s torpid evening rush-hour traffic testified to the number of drivers still taking it. Mysterious Phoenix highway shootings put drivers and police on high alert 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z For Mr. Burger, correcting the geographical record is the best way to boost Cape Agulhas’s torpid economy. Where Do the Indian and Atlantic Oceans Meet? Disagreement in South Africa 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z And a video of a torpid cat ruining some poor woman’s yoga practice. Inside the Reddit Reboot 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z To visit Havana in the late spring, before the torpid humidity and showers of summer, is a glorious thing. Havana: a city on the brink of a potentially fraught transition 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z What if in our torpid conditions today, everything cost 25 percent more every two years, and each of these periods was inclusive of a recession? Hillary Will Run Against The 1980s -- What Were The 1980s Again? 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z While the squirrels were in their torpid state, some leg tissue was damaged with injections of snake venom. Ground squirrels may have something to teach us about space travel 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z If there are parts where the action slackens, they’re never torpid or dull. ‘It Follows’ movie review: Spooky stick-to-itiveness 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z They roll with the attacks on her family’s foundation, the big checks from foreign governments, the torpid response of her not-yet-campaign. Democrats See a Field of One Heading to 2016 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z The bet is that securities from these countries, despite their torpid growth and heavy debt load, will be bought up by the European Central Bank — an outcome that has yet to be determined. Fears That Pimco and Other Big Firms Could Be Unable to Unload Risky Bonds 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z In Baghdad, the war seems far away, with the Ramadan fasting season proceeding at a torpid pace beneath the sweltering midsummer sun. In Iraq, death toll rises among Shiite recruits battling insurgency 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z And it might not be a bad thing if the President tried something to change the rather torpid and depressing conversation going on in Washington right now. American Legion Agrees: Shinseki Should Go 2014-05-05T20:44:58Z Images of Laura undressing, to lure her victims into a fatal pool of ooze, are murky and torpid. REVIEW: Scarlett Johansson Is an Alien Seductress in Under the Skin 2014-04-03T15:00:20Z Yingluck is simply “banging a drum” after criticism that she sits torpid while mayhem unfurls around her, says Davis. Thai Emergency: Polls in Doubt 2014-01-23T06:20:23Z But critics say that Pakistan is currently faced with a formidable array of challenges – crippling electricity shortages, deadly terrorist attacks, a torpid economy – that are more deserving of Sharif’s attention. Revenge: Pakistan's Sharif Charges Musharraf with Treason 2013-06-27T09:05:25Z Most of Seat's sales are in Spain, a country that saw car sales rise 10.8% despite the torpid state of its economy. Europe car sales break losing streak 2013-05-17T09:46:43Z Cricket writing did become more torpid, more comfortable in their wake. John Crace surveys the past year's cricket books for Wisden 2013-04-11T07:00:02Z Edwin is the sort of voter Mitt Romney, the presumed Republican nominee for president, hopes to woo - the victim of a torpid economy that Romney blames on President Barack Obama. Young, worried, and unsure - about both candidates 2012-06-29T14:01:35Z Gloating in his corporate power over the torpid masses, Stimptner sneers, “Your community is 10 trillion McNuggets into a food coma from which it will never awaken.” | New Jersey: A Review of ‘American Stare,’ at the New Jersey Repertory Company 2012-06-23T00:10:08Z But weeks can quickly become months in the torpid Congress, and imminent action is more likely in the monetary wing of Washington’s policy-making apparatus. Dire Jobs Report Throws Washington into the Pressure Cooker 2012-06-01T16:51:03Z Even while on foreign service he had amused himself with studying the digestive faculties of snakes and lizards when in a torpid state, and many were the contributions he sent home to his brother’s museum. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z But dormant vitality is still maintained in hibernation, because the heart's fibre, excited to contract by the carbonized blood, continues to propel the blood through the torpid body. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z But if these lay like bivalves, torpid and content, another and more active element had awoke in the throng. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z The Asiatic nature is torpid and slow to move, and cannot rouse itself to great exertion. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z It does not kill, it only paralyzes them; and there they lie, torpid and immovable, till the larvae come into the world and feast off the sweet and succulent flesh at their leisure. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z If the possession of wealth exempts her from labor, there are four ways in which she can appease the ennui of a barren mind and a torpid conscience. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z When the temperature 443 is below 12� C., the torpid animal exhibits long periods of apnoea of several minutes’ duration and interrupted by a few respirations. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z What Carey was in his day, Dr. Duff in Calcutta and Dr. Wilson in Bombay were a generation later, vigorous advocates 290 of education as an indispensable means to quicken the torpid mind of India. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z A trifle of pepper is sometimes placed in the milk, and with good effect, for the purpose of rousing the cold and torpid stomach into action. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z The hand of Art here torpid lies, That traced th' essential form of grace, Here death has clos'd the curious eyes That saw the manners in the face. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z She was followed by Vladimir’s mother, a mountain of shapeless, trembling flesh with a torpid, wide-eyed look. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z They say that riding is good for a torpid liver. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z His belated release from slavery had left him with his wits benumbed and torpid. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z His Senses seem torpid, or as it were benumbed. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health 2012-03-10T03:00:11.780Z “Never mind the lamp!” his wife said, fixing her torpid eyes on him. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z Violent vomiting frequently arose, and the patient gradually sank into a torpid and heavy sleep. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Ruth had not spoken; she had moved automatically; her senses were half torpid. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z Like torpid snakes they lay there, glistening in the grass, the children naked, the mother in rags, breathing out poison under the stars. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z She came out imagining that mercy was alive, that justice was only torpid, that she could plead with human creatures to whom justice and mercy were precious. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z A sect called the Soul-sleepers, take the position that the soul, after death, goes into a torpid state, like bears in winter, and thus remains till the sounding of the Archangel’s trump. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z As a remedy, it was supposed to reanimate the torpid circulation of the capillary or cutaneous vessels, to increase muscular energy, promote absorption, and favour the necessary secretions of our nature. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Hobbil in the northern and Dobbin in the midland districts of England are terms used to denote a heavy, torpid fellow. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 102, October 11, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-02-07T03:00:08.550Z He was in the heyday of his youth, progressive and determined, but the torpid blood of an aged people clogged his veins. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z The selfish fell into torpid and isolated despair—the good forgot their own sufferings in trying to relieve those of others. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z God is not the God of the dead or torpid, but of the living. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z At the same time, while we watch the efforts of nature, it is our duty to rouse her energies when they become torpid, or to check inordinate action which would soon exhaust her power. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The torpid sensibility of Christendom had at this time been aroused by the intelligence of the fall of Jerusalem, and of the profanation of the holy places by the conquering infidels. The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple 2012-01-18T03:00:11.003Z As Newt slouched up to the porch in the forenoon, the waves of heat were playing over the earth, and the mountains were torpid with mid-day stillness. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z The torpid insects feel thy force, Which all with life supplies. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z Alas, alas! they turn their backs upon me, And rather choose to wallow in the mire Of want, and torpid inactivity, Than by one bold and masterly exertion Themselves ennoble, and enrich their country! The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z If the iris be weak and torpid, it is enlarged; if strong and contracted, diminished. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The situation seemed like a dream, or his sense of danger had grown torpid. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z On retiring for the winter the hamster closes the various entrances to its burrow, and becomes torpid during the coldest period. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z In these grandiose structures they cherished a blighting etiquette, and led lives as dull as those of the aged and torpid carp in their own stew-ponds. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z The inspection of such a volume, on the coldest possible morning, even when the thermometer stands at zero, is sufficient to warm the most torpid system.' Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century 2011-12-18T03:00:20.923Z Here the eye is habitually exposed to too great a flood of light, whence the retina becomes torpid. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z That thunderstorm by night would have made even your somewhat torpid blood tingle in your veins. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z His eye was quite satisfactory, but his habit of hesitating before answering a question, and then usually saying “I dunno,” conveyed rather the impression of torpid mentality if not actual dulness. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z In many cases of sterility, where the general health is considerably in fault, and especially when the digestive organs are torpid, I should have much faith in a Thomsonian course. Fruits of Philosophy A Treatise on the Population Question 2011-12-03T03:00:10.910Z By that time my brain was torpid, all I could do was move my fingers; presently I could no longer move those. A Woman Perfected 2011-12-02T03:00:24.420Z If the men in the torpid do not learn how to row the stroke to the finish under the excitement of a race, it is not for the lack of 110 coaching and experience. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z Stewart began his journal late in 2009 to inject some vitality into a torpid campus, he said. China Halts U.S. Academic Freedom at Classroom Door for Colleges 2011-11-29T00:58:45Z Why does not patriotic fire My all too torpid heart inspire With irresistible desire To seek the tented camp, sir, Where Glory, with her bronze V.C., Mr. Punch on the Warpath Humours of the Army, The Navy and The Reserve Forces 2011-11-28T03:00:24.727Z They formed a little clique among themselves; they, too, were waiting for the drowsy and torpid weather to wake up and send them townward. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Suppose the bowels to be torpid; then use injections of soap-suds and salt. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z The torpid is, so to speak, the understudy to the college eight. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z On the approach of the cold weather it closes the entrance to its burrow, and makes a nest of straw in which it sleeps; becoming torpid in extreme cold. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z Possibly you may think that I am like the torpid snake that the forester warmed by his hearth. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z From where she sat, Helena could look out of the window, and from her torpid discontent she leaped with a bound into a state of alert expectancy. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z If the animal ever recovers from the dangerous effects resulting from powerful purges, it is evident that the delicate membranes lining the alimentary canal must lose their energy and become torpid. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z As to my work, it has stood obstinately still for a long while; certainly a torpid liver makes a torpid brain. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z They lay up store for the winter and become torpid in the cold weather, rolling themselves into a ball, in which condition they may be handled without disturbance or injury. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z "Nip below," he ordered, addressing the still torpid Partridge. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z London I dearly, dearly love—except during the months of August, September, and October, when it goes to sleep, and lies utterly torpid. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z Suppose the bowels to be torpid during an attack of inflammation of the brain; then it will be prudent to combine relaxants and anti-spasmodics, in the following form:— Extract of butternut, half an ounce. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z This condition admits of cure, for it suggests a torpid conscience rather than deliberate acquiescence. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z Neill reported that many turtles left their burrows in late autumn and began to forage; if the temperature dropped suddenly, the turtles became "… too torpid to dig" and froze. Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz 2011-10-01T02:00:30.200Z The hours passed and the Indian became almost torpid. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z We have known a watchful president ask of a college captain to this effect: ‘What has become of the man who rowed No. 6 in your torpid?’ Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z By then they spent much of their time in torpid sleep. Comet's Burial 2011-09-19T02:00:15.417Z There will be leading villains and low comedians so long as society permits, and so long as the conscience of democracy is torpid. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z I merely wish to learn, before I return to my torpid ignorance, whether it can be a fact, that you, Harleigh, you! believe in a future state for mortal man? The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z His heart beats are not regular and his liver seems to be very torpid. The Motor Maids Across the Continent 2011-09-17T02:00:31.140Z He had previously stroked the Queen’s torpid, and with good success. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z "At any rate," observed Gronski, "a certain ventilation of torpid conditions is taking place, and since you compared yourself to a microbe, by the same token, you admit that these are times for disinfection." Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z Thus rudely awakened to a sense of her actual condition, the heroine forthwith feels the promptings of her own conscience, that has lain torpid since the abjuration. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z And as uncommon pain kills itself and ends in torpidity, so he became torpid at last. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z Miller, as if he had become torpid, said not a word, and let himself be led out of range of the missiles. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z The torpid monster owes all his power to his voice and his terrific shape. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z A thing that had lain torpid and dormant in the dregs of his being thrust up its head. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z But was this persuasion likely to make these men torpid? The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z His mind seems to have had no torpid moments, except, perhaps, when some Congressional orator was speaking. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z Indeed, if not asleep, he had become torpid; and through his brain passed dim visions instead of thoughts. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z Its indolence, and anger at the stirring of inward strife by nature, caused it to assume a torpid indifference. Papers from Overlook-House 2011-08-07T02:00:08.643Z The climate appears to be particularly injurious to persons who are troubled with a torpid liver. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z Mr. White remarks that his Tortoise did not bury itself into the ground before November 1st, but ours are cold and torpid, and quite ready to hybernate by the first week in October. Addresses & Papers / Collectanea 2011-08-04T02:00:22.097Z The first part of Henry's sickness he seemed quite unconscious of what was around him; torpid, and at times wandering in his expressions. Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. 2011-08-02T02:00:25.157Z If it is Jewish, when mixed with mead or wine it will boil; if clownish, being torpid and heavy, it will sink. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z But Plato the Philosopher says, in the Meno, "You seem very much to resemble the sea-torpedo; for that fish causes any one who comes near it to become torpid." The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z The flies bask in half torpid indolence, the tormenting whine of the mosquito is heard no more. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z But, as the last sentence stands, these, as well as the torpid, live to old age. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z By slow degrees the music had done the first part of its work: the sluggish forces of his life began to tremble, the quiverings of returning vital force began to thrill his torpid nerves. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Beneath it her young heart grew torpid; and she took this quiet, painless sleep for peace. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z But the torpedo, says Aristotle, is one of the cartilaginous and viviparous fish; and, to provide itself with food, it hunts after little fish, touching them, and causing them all to become torpid and motionless. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z The system grows torpid, the energies die, indifference takes possession, and thus he vegetates—he does not live. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z And is a stagnant, torpid, and retrogressive state of mentality, a natural or an unnatural condition—a sane, or an insane state? Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z They were most disgusting and sensual ruffians, eating themselves torpid, and constantly manœuvring to get at the brandy bottle. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z No doubt a man with a torpid mind, if his social affections and sympathies are394 well developed, will be led to good actions, and may have a fairly sensitive conscience. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z Something hideous and hateful skulking like a torpid snake in the shadows beyond the threshold of consciousness, some foul shape that she instinctively shrank from calling up.... Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z With the resuscitation of the torpid intellect, came a flood of tears, mingled with anguished exclamations—an hysterical attack that only abated with her strength. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z And there he sat panting and torpid as an Anaconda who had just swallowed a young buffaloe. The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers 2011-06-15T02:00:17.903Z This kind of revolution, with the military genius of Cleomenes to give it strength and brilliancy, attracted men's minds far more than the constitutional, but somewhat torpid and plutocratic, League. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z So the African now stands torpid, unprogressive, sensual, barbaric, bearing on his very body the typical shadows of hell.” In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z Jones was very weary and half torpid with the heat of the past days. Gunpowder Treason and Plot And Other Stories for Boys 2011-06-08T02:00:16.797Z The hours crawled by like a slow procession of half torpid serpents till I fell asleep, and the next morning passed in eager expectancy. Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z I am subject to fits of violent nervous depression, and the agitation of this scene has completely overcome me; my brain seems stunned, and all my faculties have become torpid. Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography 2011-06-02T02:00:21.050Z This sudden address at last completely roused Akaki from his torpid condition. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z They are not forced back to concentrate their interest on a torpid liver, or tubercled lungs. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z Sometimes it happens that grass and quick-growing shrubs spring up on the back of this torpid animal. St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-05-07T02:00:31.650Z In winter in the northern portion of its habitat it becomes more or less torpid, and during the coldest weather usually hibernates, thus lessening the exertion required to procure sustenance. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z One of these may well come under De Giovanni’s category of the torpid. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The question that I have already stated comes up again, as to the possible survival of old tradition in a kind of dormant, or torpid, semi-conscious state. The Great Return 2011-03-20T02:00:35.837Z He became torpid, bloated and horrible to look at. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z The minimum reached by the most deeply torpid one in the winter was 8.9. Study Shows How Bears Hibernate: What It Means for Science 2011-03-11T18:00:00Z I cannot tell you all the treasures of love, of thought, of ingenious narrative she displayed before that torpid intelligence, which repeated, like an echo, the last of her gentle words. Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 2011-03-13T03:00:21.980Z “Half the lovesickness in the world is nothing but dyspepsia; mighty few cases of disappointed affection outlast a torpid liver.” Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z Such a catalogue tends to discredit the all too common idea that the untutored tradesman was torpid to the information and wisdom found in books. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z Yet these feelings though unexercised were not extinct; they betrayed their existence even in the torpid life he had chosen, etc.” The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z His prize was a fat grasshopper, too torpid with morning cold to move swiftly. Swamp Cat 2011-03-06T03:00:20.453Z Their palsied hands could hardly hold, or their fading sight distinguish, the cards, while their torpid faculties made them doze between each deal. Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 2011-03-04T03:00:58.347Z In course of time the egg would hatch into a grub barely as long as Burl's forefinger, which would then feed upon the torpid caterpillar until it had waxed large and fat. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z Before I was born out of my mother, generations guided me; My embryo has never been torpid—nothing could overlay it. The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman 2011-02-26T03:00:49.377Z But as the declining rays cast a lengthened shadow across the narrow alleys, and the hot puffs, abating in violence, are succeeded by a suffocating calm, the hitherto torpid population is to be seen abroad. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z The disturbances passed into his ear, which pressed upon the palliasse, and entered the torpid brain to make a dream. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z The city was torpid in the quivering heat. A Song of a Single Note A Love Story 2011-02-24T03:01:01.930Z But there was an air of torpid responsibility about them. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z When opportunity offers, it becomes a veritable glutton, and is then indolent and torpid at the close of its meal. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z The life of the church seems, indeed, to have been in a more stagnant and torpid condition in this age than at any other period of English history. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z You remember how the air for weeks after that lay torpid with a suppressed heat,—as though the very earth held her breath to hear the sharp tidings of death. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z I sympathised with the general rejoicing, for I can fully understand all the animation and bustle which the opening of the navigation will bring to our torpid capital. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z The rest of us, when not on watch, lay torpid all the hot hours in the shallow holes we had scratched behind the trench, and called Company Headquarters. The Secret Battle 2011-02-06T03:00:59.983Z So long retaining the principle of life, these curious plants, as well as the two species above mentioned, may be transported to any distant country in a torpid condition, where they might again be animated. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 2011-02-05T03:00:13.817Z And still the long miles stretched away, and still she plodded on, torpid from over-exhaustion, scarcely conscious, and taking each step only because she had taken the preceding. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z At that season he supposed that all the insects of the year previous would be dead or torpid, and certainly full-grown, while those of the coming summer would be still in the egg. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z For perhaps twenty minutes Vaughan sat alone in the library, his mind, after the long strain of all he had undergone, singularly torpid. The Carleton Case 2011-01-24T03:00:17.240Z The beautiful star-fish, with its five points, as equally, and regularly arranged, as though it had been done by the rule of the mathematician, with great worm-like molluscs, lie torpid on the white sand. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z There was something slumberous and torpid in the scene. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z She dragged her torpid legs up the steps to the rooms where she felt at home. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z The Seven Sleepers were born in Seville, and their descendants still have their torpid being in the city. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z I like local merchants as much as the next New York nostalgist, but on a torpid summer day there is much to be said for the suburban efficiency of one-stop shopping. City Critic: One-Stop Shopping at Manhattan?s First Target 2010-07-31T17:55:00Z Heavy and torpid, she lay in the royal chamber at the bottom of the subterranean nest, five feet below the surface, a distance of four hundred ant lengths. 2010-01-18T05:00:00Z At first a profoundly stunned and torpid feeling held him numb; a blunt agony of loss and guilt, but slowly out of that wretched paralysis emerged another thought. The Law of Hemlock Mountain With ardour I seized each hand held out to help me, but each thrust me still lower, until my whole being sank into a torpid state of discouragement. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Meanwhile the marquis, instead of following up his victory, remained torpid within the walls of Calahorra. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies Many of the swallow tribes, in like manner, hybernate in large hollow trees, and for months eke out a torpid, scarcely perceptible existence, independent of food. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. In youth he was cheerful, in age not torpid, in business most active. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Then through the first, torpid misery of hurt pride, crept a more terrifying thought. The Law of Hemlock Mountain All human nature requires to be occasionally stimulated, and a mild Curry acts upon the torpid liver, reacts upon the digestive organs, and provides the necessary stimulant without injurious consequences. The Curry Cook's Assistant or, Curries, How to Make Them in England in Their Original Style In winter they burrow in the mud of swamps and marshes, lying torpid till the warm weather. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide The indignation it roused in him cleared his torpid brain as if by magic. Left on the Prairie As long as vigorous discontent Goads us from torpid ease, or worse, I thank the power that sent Struggle, the savior of the universe. Challenge The rich red earth drinks in the heat and holds it, and no breezes come up from the southern torpid sea. Rachel Ray He was like a numbed and torpid figure suddenly galvanized into acute life. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 My body is an unwieldy sheath overspread with sleepiness, ramified by thick blood, its cells given over to contented, torpid well-being. Woman And yet all generation takes place from motion, without which the universal nature of things would become torpid. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments And as it hung there, vivid and unreal, The whole world's lethargy was brushed away; The night kept tugging at my torpid mood And tore it into shreds. Challenge Rain, with its many wrinkles, the long rain With its grey nails, and with its watery mane; The long rain of these lands of long ago, The rain, eternal in its torpid flow! Poems of Emile Verhaeren It seemed incredible that under such stimulus his memory should remain torpid. The Key to Yesterday The mind of a good man is rather communicative than torpid. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact He woke quickly enough when the Englishman’s hand was clapped over his mouth and held there until his torpid wits were sufficiently clear that he should understand the stern words muttered in his ear. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 Still it was that torpid terror that gazed at him. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece As in the icy north animals become torpid from cold, so here the crocodile and the boa-constrictor lie wrapt in unbroken sleep, deeply buried in the dried soil. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 As in the icy north animals become torpid from cold, so here the crocodile and the boa-constrictor lie wrapped in unbroken sleep, deeply buried in the dried soil. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes The mind of a good man is rather communicative than torpid. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact In character he was not malignant, but he was intellectually torpid, and of a credulity which almost passes belief. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" His torpid neighbours were swarming like slimy reptiles in a tub. The Tremendous Event But after they have gorged their prey, they are killed as easily as so many sheep—more easily in fact, for they are quite torpid.” Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa All very well, you say; without such bent, souls would be cramped and torpid. The Day of His Youth There were those who were already insensible, torpid with the heavy poison that ran through their blood. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I The number of the idle clergy, and more particularly of the monastic orders, was reduced, and the Inquisition, though not abolished, was rendered torpid. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" With such a thought lying like a torpid snake upon my breast, it is not strange that I slept ill that night. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois It is supposed, I believe, that they are torpid by day.” Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa The snake, suddenly brought from the darkness of the kennel to the light of day, was torpid and weary. Bye-Ways Suddenly, startlingly, the torpid silence was rent in twain. An Unknown Lover Mrs Ingram, watching from the hall beneath, felt a smarting of the eyes as she looked at that face, and remembered the torpid complacence of the days that were gone! What a Man Wills Even in the midst of his numbed and torpid stupor the loathing horror wherewith he had encountered the touch of the wild creature’s muzzle acted like a whip. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt She experienced a torpid satisfaction in the transaction, but it soon faded, and left her mind empty as before. Lady Cassandra It was not in a completely torpid state, and after being exposed to the air a few hours, it crawled in true toad-like style. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series While not actually unconscious, her mind was torpid. An Unknown Lover Young blood is not torpid like that of age; and song and woman will ever be dear till time furrows the brow and silvers the hair. The Night Side of London A warmer day than usual restores it to temporary activity, and then it supplies itself with food from its autumn hoard, again becoming torpid till roused by the advent of spring. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" These gentlemen would like the official situations for themselves as in Trinidad, and they occasionally attempt a stir with partial success; otherwise the island goes on in a state of torpid content. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses But Toads that had hid themselves would have been torpid during the winter months; and thus we have a sufficient proof that a natural condition of body had been by some means prevented. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series But once made, one needs to exercise them, otherwise they grow cold and torpid on one's hands. Anne The reptile then slowly gorges its prey, and remains torpid many days. The White Chief of the Caffres I cannot say that the thought alarmed me; I merely felt conscious that my mental powers were either failing or torpid. Waldfried A Novel From August 29, it is like a torpid Oriental town. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty But in either case the question arises, why are they torpid during these the hottest months of the year? The Romance of Natural History, Second Series Do they change into anything, lie torpid, and then change again into something else, with wings? Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) At the commencement a gentle emetic given every other morning until six or seven have been administered, with a laxative occasionally if the bowels are torpid, is often productive of speedy benefit. The Dog But though my bodily feelings were thus torpid, my mental ones were very different. Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 No wonder, that when Wabun passed away, Their torpid natures should have lost the charm That held so perfect, with its gentle sway, Yet slacked so quickly, with the palsied arm. Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation The birds on examination were, however, considered to be in a torpid state, and were placed near a fire in a warm room. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series This was a period of torpid inactivity, during which it was customary for convocation to be summoned and to meet pro forma, and to be continued and prorogued indefinitely. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" Soon, however, I was not able to give utterance to my thoughts; but had only an unvarying, torpid consciousness of existence, such as we feel while sleeping, when not even dreams present themselves. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors With Commencement only two weeks away, Len's students were torpid and galvanic by turns. Special Delivery All humanity here appears to be more or less torpid. The Pearl of India On the removal of the stone, the Toad remained torpid for a few minutes, when it seemed to revive, and then crept out. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series When all appears dead and torpid to you idle spectators, all is secretly at work; nature is busy in preparing her treasures under ground, and art has a hand in the process. Coelebs In Search of a Wife When hibernation was observed, it was found, that, whilst some animals become torpid in winter, others were torpid in summer: hibernation then was a false name. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse A one-eyed, grim-jawed folk the reformers are apt to be: one-eyed, grim-jawed, seeing but the one thing, never letting go, they have to be, to start a torpid nation. Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation His torpid look, flushed countenance, and uneasy respiration, convinced me that he had taken a large quantity of ardent spirits. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 It is the popular belief that these birds spend the winter in a torpid condition in their roosting trees. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series This system of criticism sprang up in that torpid interval when poetry was not. Life of John Keats You lose sight of that same ugly and ill-mannered fact, much more frequently than I am in danger of doing; and I affectionately suggest that you stimulate your own torpid memory. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part The Japanese have been alert in availing themselves of all things new, the Chinese torpid and slow, sluggishly resisting change, hardly yielding even to the logic of war. Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Pierre had a happy, languid, thoughtless, torpid air, indifferent as to persons, inattentive to what is about them, floating in an atmosphere of voluptuous dream, like a young girl. Pierre and Luce If they had not been torpid during those weeks, if the more active functions of life had not been suspended, would they not certainly have been starved? The Romance of Natural History, Second Series He stretched himself in the warmth of the fire, sleek, torpid, and loathsome. The Girl in the Mirror It had been very cold and gray for a day or two, and I felt dull and torpid. Bear Brownie The Life of a Bear Within the few years since the dawn of the twentieth century the torpid leviathan of the East has shown decided signs of awakening. Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality His energies are suspended, his senses become numbed and torpid—in short, he feels as one who goes to sleep in a snow-storm. The Boy Slaves The woodchucks asleep in their burrows, the snakes, torpid in their holes, are as safe from frost-bite as if they had migrated to the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. Old Plymouth Trails But he was not the sleek, familiar, torpid figure of recent encounter. The Girl in the Mirror "Good for any one with a torpid liver this," said Haigh. The Recipe for Diamonds Kept in the dark, they are nearly torpid, eat but a mere trifle, and winter well. Soil Culture It may be found, however, that toads can remain for a series of years torpid. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. For fire-arms in July are torpid mostly, and this was a gunshot somewhere. When Ghost Meets Ghost He palsied the character 231 which could never die; heroes sunk pusillanimously under his hand; and in his torpid silence, even Milton seemed suddenly deprived of his genius. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors “Who talks of Frank Elliot and love in the same breath?” cried Rhimeson; “why, his heart is like a rock, and love, like a torpid serpent, enclosed in it.” Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative Will it press onward towards some yet mightier endeavour, or, mastered by some hereditary taint, sink torpid and neglectful, leaving its vast, its practically inexhaustible forces to waste unused? The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe Soh! how the lady trembles with alarm, How wildly round the cave her glances stray, Until amid the torpid gloom they die Of space deep darken'd to immensity. Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems Now and then her horse reared from an adder squirming underfoot, or she would see a torpid boa twined sluggishly around a limb, as about a victim. The Missourian My head and heart, however, are neither as torpid nor as empty as my hours; and I often find, as others have done, that external stagnation does not necessarily produce internal repose. Records of Later Life Animals which live in a half torpid state during the winter, derive their nourishment from the same source. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) The torpid generally are first made drowsy, and afterwards sleep well, the erethic or irritable are specially wakeful on arriving, and later their sleep is broken, exactly the reverse occurring on the sea shore. The Truth About America They go to make up the world, it is true; but is that narrow, torpid, insensate life any pattern for human souls and active bodies? Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart The torpid, sordid and sun-baked port of Tampico gave little promise of aught so romantic and rare and exotic as the young French woman’s coveted thrill of ecstasy. The Missourian How prone are our hearts perversely to quarrel with the friendly coercion of employment at the very instant in which it is clearing the torpid and injurious mists of unavailing melancholy!' A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen Among the inhabitants of cities, and especially in persons who have a torpid state of the skin, the contents of the oil-tubes become too dense and dry to escape in the usual manner. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) Before I was born out of my mother, generations guided me, My embryo has never been torpid—nothing could overlay it. Whitman A Study I tried to picture to myself what my own thoughts would be if condemned to this sad condition; I could only foresee a fretful irritability, a wild anguish, alternating with a torpid stupefaction. The Thread of Gold But, to make this still clearer to torpid minds, Paul wrote, “For in Him we live, and move, and have our being.” Carmen Ariza In the torpid form of the disease there is much less indication of fever or violence. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle This state must not, however, be conceived to be perfect in proportion as it is inactive and torpid, but in proportion as all the functions of life are quietly and pleasantly performed. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." And, with his torpid look of a creature hypnotized, Franz obeyed her, taking from her hands the worn brush, the shaving appliances, the socks and book and nightshirt. Tante “Well, what are you staring at, old torpid?” cried Sam, as he now began to divest himself slowly of his coat and vest. The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam Surely one lame old woman, and a torpid machine for knitting and writing notes like Miss Smeardon, can’t want to be out of doors all day. Robinetta The bowels, which may have moved at the onset of the attack, become torpid or completely paralyzed, and, unless in case of improvement, they are not likely to operate again. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle The battles issued, stretching torpid wings; And laurels showered upon my slumbering eyes. L'Aiglon Karen sat, her head erect, her eyes downcast, with a rigidity of expression almost torpid. Tante He wondered miserably what could be the reason why he felt so torpid and shivery, disinclined to move, and yet so uncomfortable when he sat still. Jan and Her Job And then it had been discovered that, by feeding these devils human flesh, they could be rendered torpid and their advance stayed—so long as the periodical meals continued! Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 In constipation there is an inactive or torpid condition of the bowel, and the bile which passes into the intestine may be absorbed and cause the yellow staining of jaundice. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle His wrongs, instead of accelerating the progress of death, seemed instantly to check its strides, while the desire of revenge so powerfully operated on his mind, that it warmed the torpid energies of decaying mortality. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. His stillness and his look of arrested stupor suggested, indeed, a large blue-bottle slung securely in the subtle threads of a spider's web and reduced to torpid acquiescence by the spider's stealthy ministrations. Tante Weather that seemed to brace his sister to the most energetic gaiety only made him feel torpid and miserable. Jan and Her Job If the pupil reacts very slightly to the light, it is called torpid: if it does not react at all, it is called rigid. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso The class we are now about to consider makes provision of animals either dead or in a torpid condition, with more or less art and more or less sure instinct. The Industries of Animals No doubt, a man with a torpid mind, if his social affections and sympathies are well developed, will be led to good actions and may have a fairly sensitive conscience. Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer Butterflies and flies of other kinds will generally become torpid, and seemingly dead, after being held a few minutes over the fermenting liquor; but they revive again after being brought into the fresh air. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. Nature Their limbs grew torpid, their minds grew dull, and often they walked like men half asleep; then a slip or a sudden fall would rouse them for a few moments from their sluggishness. The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras But it was founded on an exclusive study of these insects in northern countries, in which, during the cold season, they become torpid and buried in their hybernal sleep. The Industries of Animals Sparrows and cuckoos have been found during the winter in hollow trees, torpid and without the least appearance of life, which being warmed recovered themselves and took flight. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. But there are very great varieties with respect to the time in which different kinds of flies will either become torpid in the fixed air, or die in it. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air Let the torpid monk seek Heaven comfortless and alone. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges The liver is not performing its function; and given such weak nerves as the child’s, a torpid liver in certain cases will produce paralysis. The Book of Khalid Work is the sole and sovereign balm that brings Peace to the torpid soul when doubts assail, And sickening pleasures are of no avail To lull the torture of affliction's stings. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland For a long time after she rode away he continued to crouch as she 47 had left him, motionless, almost torpid with the immensity of his loss. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation Wilson reached his holster, but the girl checked his hand, realizing, even in her torpid 204 condition, the uselessness of it. The Web of the Golden Spider The bees remaining in a torpid state during the winter, they require but little food; but as every sunny day revives and prompts them to exercise, a small supply is necessary on these occasions. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families The conscientious man is apt to be very much dissatisfied with himself,—much, more so than the man whose conscience is torpid and indifferent. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors Not only his hair and his whiskers, but his very face had become grey from the effect of the miserable, torpid life he led. The Macdermots of Ballycloran It turned me from a rather heavy, torpid youth into the happiest of men, and, for many years, one of the most ardent and energetic. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice There is work to be found everywhere in this sense, and none but the most torpid can find an excuse for joining the spiritually unemployed. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies Savages in the tropics are torpid and without progress. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character No wonder the comet gave evidence of violent excitement, coming from the cold region outside the planetary system torpid and ice-bound. The Children's Book of Stars Ideas may remain long useless, and almost forgotten in the mind, and may be called forth by some corresponding association from their torpid state. Practical Education, Volume II Young people, of a torpid, indolent temperament, are much under the dominion of habit; if they happen to have contracted any disagreeable or bad habits, they have seldom sufficient energy to break them. Practical Education, Volume I The storm of feeling had spent itself, the mood of the Gap was relaxed and torpid, and the serenity of coming dusk began to fill the mountain air. Red Men and White I fell into a miserable torpid state, taking no interest in anything, and feeling only my misery acutely. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 To my daughter Mary I bequeath my sallow complexion and torpid liver, which are the result of my gross living; also my melancholy disposition and tendency to look on the dark side of life. What a Young Woman Ought to Know The music has gone as near touching the torpid memory as the wild autumn night and the cloud-race round the moon had done in the little front garden at home a year ago. Somehow Good Philosophically, Jérôme Fandor was preparing to go to sleep on the plank bed which decorated one end of the cell, when the little costermonger, roused from his torpid condition, began to moan and groan. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas Their white and dark sides gleamed and went out with chasing lights that quickened the torpid place into a holiday of motion. Red Men and White During the tedious winters, when the days are but six hours long, all who can afford it become torpid, like frogs, and lie up in their houses till the summer sun thaws them out. The Land of Thor All life seems more or less torpid and listless in the tropics. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months The patient in the next room is asleep or torpid, so he omits farewells. Somehow Good For the moment she thought only of taking the shortest, and, as she judged, the only way for a "torpid country wife," like herself, to acquire the freedom of action and the enlightenment she needed. Famous Women: George Sand Nothing but will is wanting to transform the torpid, unhappy tenant of the wilderness into a rational and happy thing—the happiest being on earth, as far as sensual pleasures are concerned. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Both men and women were usually in a torpid state, the result, doubtless, of breathing a poisoned atmosphere, and of insufficient food. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Everything is in a torpid state of existence, and the combined forces of frost, snow, wind, and rain render December unpleasant both indoors and out. Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young Bitterkin of the Post has his brain, stomach, and heart stowed away in a single sack under his liver, which is very torpid, and his stomach is always sour. The Art of Disappearing This untimely answer, which betrayed a perfect insensibility, convinced me that intelligence resulting from methodical and practical study is preferable to the torpid insanity incident to much learning. Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament. It seemed that a torpid inertia, doomed to be everlasting, had settled upon me. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Without light nature is lifeless, inanimate, and torpid. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease That illuminating love which Dr. H. ascribes to the heart, belongs to the upper region of the brain, and is never found when that region lacks development, or is in a cold, torpid condition. Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 Her faculties and her senses were so torpid that she swooned for no cause at all, for so small a matter as the fatigue of combing her mistress's hair. Germinie Lacerteux By thus stimulating the torpid stomach into greater action, the motions of the heart and arteries will likewise be increased by the greater excitement of the power of association. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Conscience often is intense and vivid in the most ignorant, inactive and torpid in persons whose cognitive powers have had the most generous culture. A Manual of Moral Philosophy As age advances, more sleep is again required; and the excitability at last becomes so far exhausted, and the system so torpid, that the greatest portion of gradually expiring life is spent in sleep. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Jesus! draw near, in thy mercy, to this torpid heart, as thou didst of old to thy mourning disciples, and breathe upon it, and say, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost.” The Faithful Promiser Every leaf, every flower, lay as if it were torpid, and the people seemed torpid, too. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen And as the absorbents, which resume the thinner parts of the bile from the gall-bladder and hepatic ducts, are also torpid or quiescent, the bile is more dilute, as well as in less quantity. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Many physicians have for a long time distinguished a torpid and an erethistic scrofulous constitution. Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated Bring a snake or other torpid animal into a moderately warm room, and observe what will be the consequence. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Our young men are again becoming torpid beneath the weight imposed upon them. The Fixed Period IT was a sweltering, hot day in July and the good ship Aurora swung lazily in the torpid waters of the Indian Ocean. Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure The whole system becomes torpid from defect of the excitement or the sensorial power of association owing to the too feeble actions of the stomach, this is the cold fit. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life With a torpid constitution the body is pale, spongy and bloated, the nose and lips are thick, the abdomen swelled, there is plenty of fat and but weak muscles. Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated In instances of this kind the noise probably excites the action of the torpid muscles, which then put the apparatus in a proper condition to hear. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease He was torpid, and the look on his face was sullen and vindictive. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands The boys, who had sunk, as they always did, into a state of torpid awe under the Doctor's eloquence, now recovered spirits enough to rally Paul with much sprightly humour. Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers In this situation if the patient recovers, it is owing to the renovation of life in the torpid stomach, as happens to the whole system in winter-sleeping animals. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life "Our torpid would have bumped the best of them," said Hardy. Tom Brown at Oxford When taken into the stomach the action is the same as with any other narcotic; the meaning of this word is to become torpid. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say All that dead and torpid formalism—that mockery of outward foliage—is to me nothing. Memories of Bethany It is true that great public fermentations awaken and adopt many geniuses, who in more torpid times would have had no chance to work. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Hence heat, where it can be confined on a torpid part along with moisture, as on a scrophulous tumour, will contribute to produce suppuration or resolution. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life "I suppose we must press somebody from the torpid—let me see, there's Burton." Tom Brown at Oxford Almost exhausted they hung to their supports, listless and torpid. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War He ate only poached eggs on toast or soup and salad for dinner, that he might not be torpid. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Ignorance is mere privation, by which nothing can be produced; it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction.—Johnson. Pearls of Thought And that the stomach has become torpid by the too great stimulus of some poisonous or contagious matter; and this very intricate idea of continued fever with feeble pulse is reduced to curious simplicity. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life From that time there were many defaulters; and the spirit of Diogenes groaned within him, as day after day the crew had to be filled up from the torpid or by watermen. Tom Brown at Oxford Some sarcastic inflection in Winter's voice seemed to reach a rather torpid brain. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley But the martyrdom of Telemachus at last touched the callous and torpid consciences of nominal Christians. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History He would then pass whole hours half reclined, and as if torpid, awaiting with a novel in his hand the catastrophe of his terrible history. The Two Great Retreats of History If the meninges of the brain sympathize with other torpid parts, or are primarily affected, delirium, stupor, and perhaps hydrocephalus internus occur, see Class II. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life I don't blame the young ones, and I hope to do my duty in the torpid. Tom Brown at Oxford Her mind had been so long torpid that now this shock seemed to have swept away the last vestige of her intelligence. The Son of Monte-Cristo Lance, truthfully, not only felt weary and torpid, but a great deal disappointed. Next Door, Next World The vegetable cell, torpid from the start, is entirely absorbed in this work of maintenance alone, as if it took for end what must at first have been only a means. Creative Evolution In continued fevers with weak pulse the torpid stomach is affected primarily by previous exhaustion of its irritability by stimulus, as of contagious matter swallowed into it. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life To tempt the appetite, highly seasoned foods, many of which are deleterious and injurious, are prepared and taken into the torpid and crippled stomach. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire "It is the ants which have stripped a tree of its leaves, in order to hoard them up in their store-houses—a useless precaution, for these insects become torpid during the winter months." Adventures of a Young Naturalist In torpid cases, some beef-tea, chicken-broth, and even a little wine with water, will raise the reactive powers of the patient. Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms But for hunger, I might have remained longer in the sort of torpid lethargy into which I had fallen; but nature craved loudly for sustenance. The Boy Tar Hence, when the motions of the absorbents of the stomach are rendered torpid or retrograde in fevers with arterial debility, those of the skin, lungs, and cellular membrane, act with increased energy. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Like Gulliver, it was bound when asleep, and it must continue fettered while its intellect remains torpid. Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality The tree-frog, like all its fellows, buries itself in the mud during winter, and remains torpid. Adventures of a Young Naturalist The wet compress on the throat in torpid cases should not be changed often, but left till it becomes almost dry. Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms Moreover, my mind, torpid for a year, was free and refreshed for those practical details it must grapple with at once. Black Oxen He had complained of violently acute pain in his head, shrieked frequently, ground his teeth hard, could not bear to have his head raised from the pillow, and was torpid or deaf. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Van said his liver was "not very torpid, thank you; how are you fixed for tea?" Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 A fallen tree tempted us into the forest, and on the damp ground Lucien caught sight of a magnificent rattlesnake, seemingly torpid. Adventures of a Young Naturalist If the circulation of air is necessary in any other form of scarlet-fever, it is all-important in torpid reaction, especially when it inclines to a typhoid type. Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms Now, a Romance, with reading Debauchees, Rouses their torpid powers when Nature fails; And all these Legendary Tales Are, to a worn-out mind, Cantharides. Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and Slippers." Hence if all the parts, which were previously torpid, regain their due degree of irritability, or of associability, the disease is removed, and health restored. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life We were desperately cold, our very blood freezing in our veins, and our limbs numb and torpid. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland For her heart, her soul was not merely asleep, torpid, lethargic; it was hopelessly dried up, withered. The Goose Man In such cases of torpid reaction, the patient frequently passes at once into a typhoid state. Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms "As sure as Mahomet was a liar, and the Pope has excommunicated him from Paradise, 'tis the same still, torpid, dead-like sea we ought to have long since passed." Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 In continued fevers with weak pulse the stomach remains torpid during the whole course of the fever; and at length by the recovery of its irritability and sensibility effects the cure of it. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Tirelessly they fed the caterpillars; tirelessly cleared away the litter that it might not ferment and cause malady, or bury the worms beneath its weight and render them hot and torpid. The Story of Silk And such letters as they were, growing longer and fuller and freer as time went on—such wise, witty, brilliant, pungent letters, stimulating all my torpid life into tingling zest! Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 The question has been raised, whether in typhoid cases, and in cases of torpid reaction in general, water is at all applicable? Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms Six months the warrior's slumbers last And bind his torpid senses fast; But now his deep repose he breaks, The best of all our champions wakes. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Thus we see in associate motions, which are rendered torpid by defect of excitement, that sometimes a direct, and sometimes a reverse sympathy succeeds in the subsequent links of the chain. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life It is of advantage to squeeze the juice of half a lemon into the water taken on arising if there is any tendency to constipation or if the liver is lazy or torpid. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 2 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies At this season even the animals take their departure; here and there the alligator and anaconda alone remain, in a torpid state, buried in the clay of the dried-up swamps. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Nor did the physicians before Priessnitz know anything about the use of the sitz-bath for affections of the brain in torpid reaction, which in such cases, is the only anchor of safety. Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms Bertha's letter reached Maurice the day after it was written, and found him in a state of such torpid despondency that any summons to action, even the most painful, was a blessing. Fairy Fingers A Novel But when the heart and arteries become torpid, either primarily, or by their sympathy with the stomach, this accumulation of the sensorial power of irritation can take place but slowly; as to rest is death! Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Her position was by the tree; but in order to rouse her torpid faculties, she took a walk around the island. Hope and Have or, Fanny Grant Among the Indians, A Story for Young People Bees are not, as some suppose, in a dormant, or torpid condition in Winter. Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual The reaction was torpid, and the brain became affected almost from the commencement. Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms His mind, too, was in a torpid state, but might gradually awaken. Fairy Fingers A Novel In cold fits of the ague, the head-ach arises from consent with some torpid viscus, like the pain of the loins. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life His energies are suspended, his senses become numbed and torpid, in short, he feels as one who goes to sleep in a snow-storm. The Boy Slaves "Forever closed the impenetrable door, It naught avails that in his torpid veins Year after year, life's loitering spark remains." Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual O haste to grant thy suppliant's prayer, To me thy torpid calm impart; Rend from my brow youth's garland fair, But take the thorn that's in my heart. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) Standing in my office window, I could see the flow of black umbrellas moving up and down town, like two torpid snakes. The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle Sometimes the stomach is torpid along with the pained membrane of the head; and then sickness and inappetency attends either as a cause or consequence. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life In the next place when you design coming to church, don't lie in bed until half past ten o'clock and then come in looking all swelled and torpid, like a doughnut. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) It requires a torpid temperament to remain calm under this visitation. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 For an hour or more, it remains torpid and listless, with its flabby, soft wings remaining motionless. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses They probably breed there under stones in summer, and creeping in among the stones pass the winter there, at certain seasons doubtless in a kind of torpid state. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II If the beginnings or absorbent mouths of the venous system remain torpid, petechi� or vibices are produced in fevers, similar to those which are seen in scurvy without fever. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Through the cold season they lay snug in their houses—although not in a state of torpidity, as the beaver does not become torpid in winter. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness The country lay torpid and apathetic under the blow. The Northern Iron Thou calm retreats, farewell, Where my days in the wilderness Of languor and of love did tell And contemplative dreaminess; And thou, youth's early inspiration, Invigorate imagination And spur my spirit's torpid mood! Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse Even Mr. Early looked around startled as his usually torpid guest burst into the little den. Jewel Weed The irritative motions of the stomach become torpid, and do their office of digestion imperfectly, in consequence of their association with the torpid motions of the vessels of the extremities. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life His yellow cigar was alight; he was fed and torpid; digestion and civilization were doing their best for him. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Then, when the inflammation is sufficiently subdued, treat as when torpid, with mild force and less frequently. A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication The beginning of both symphonies is, of course, a slow introduction representing the torpid gloom of winter, out of which spring aspires and ascends. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The religious feeling was torpid, and in a degree which insured the strong reaction of some irritating galvanism, or quickening impulse such as that which was in fact supplied by Methodism. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 The membrane of the upper end of the gullet becomes torpid, and consequently painful, when there is a deficiency of aqueous fluid in the general system; it then wants its proper stimulus. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life The bowels, which had been all along torpid, now, in most cases, demand stimulating medicines of very considerable power: the expulsion of the fæces from the rectum sometimes requiring mechanical aid. An Essay on the Shaking Palsy Or I wish to rouse to action a torpid liver. A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication His mind was making the visit in advance of the appointed time, and his torpid body alone observed the social usages. The Flaw in the Sapphire The muscles of the face, more than those of any other part of the body, are lazy and torpid. The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture The capillaries of the skin are rendered torpid by the subduction of the stimulus of heat, and by the consequent diminution of the sensorial power of irritation. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life In winter they lie torpid, and in spring deposit their eggs about two inches beneath the earth's surface. Charley's Museum A Story for Young People And the youth appears to have lost all control not only of the animal but himself; all energy to act, sitting lollingly in his saddle, as if torpid, or half-asleep! Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco Putty-like pasty passages are due to acidity curdling the milk or to torpid liver. Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage At the approach of winter this animal has the singular habit of returning to his den, and there remaining dormant or torpid throughout the season of cold. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys Thus when the liver is torpid, a perpetual uneasiness and depression of spirits occur; which a fit of gout is supposed to cure by a metastasis of the disease. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life The interest of mankind in the conquests and records of Byzantine Rome has become torpid; but the feelings of humanity, in favour of the victims of courtly ingratitude, are immortal. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 It is hardly possible that animal food produced a direct effect on his mind; but the effort to obtain it certainly did, arousing his torpid faculties to a keener activity. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Hot water is good for constipation, torpid liver, and relieves colic and flatulence, and is of special value. Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage To be sure, sometimes, across his torpid brain and heart may echo some harsh expressions, from those stern old Hebrew prophets, about these things. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy All inflammations, which do not arise in the part which was previously torpid, belong to this genus; as the gout, rheumatism, erysipelas. 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