| 单词 | enervated |
| 例句 | He took to his bed, eventually so enervated that he was forced to take an indefinite leave from his job at the shipyard. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I have heard more than a little hissing and roaring through the factory door, but my presently somewhat enervated condition precludes a descent into that particular inferno at the moment. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon my mind was saturated, my being enervated, yet my soul continued to live and hope for better days. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Heartfelt but enervated, “Song One” noodles around the Brooklyn music scene without stirring up magic. Anne Hathaway Falls for a Crooner in ‘Song One’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Here the ennui sometimes seeps into the narrative in a way that leaves stretches of the movie enervated and galumphing like a corpse. Review: 'Warm Bodies' could use more heat 2013-01-30T17:16:04Z “You are shaken and insecure, and simultaneously enervated.” For Better, for Worse: Three Memoirs Report From Marriage Country 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z In “Illusive,” a string octet, Mr. Moon evoked a difficult adjustment to New York with a wayward litany of pops, shivers and shrieks, by turns agitated and enervated. Music Review: Moving Sounds Festival at the Czech Center 2012-09-16T22:18:00Z Other painters’ work seemed enervated next to his. Review: ‘Turner,’ a Portrait of a Most Dazzling and Disagreeable Artist 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z And this “Hothouse,” like “Mission Drift,” reminds us of the theatrical energy to be minded from enervated empires. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: The Empire Crumbles 2013-06-28T17:06:22Z And he acknowledged being worn, enervated and world-weary. Books of The Times: ?Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters? 2010-07-19T22:25:00Z The picture of enervated, early-20th-century landed gentry seems intended to conjure up Chekhov. Betrayals and Barristers: Broadway’s New Dramas 2013-10-29T09:45:58Z When the storm finally breaks, an enervated calm falls over the stage, slowing down the dance to a bleak stillness. Clod Ensemble: Zero – review 2013-06-05T17:40:43Z Of course they’d have been enervated by the universal franchise, but they would have found it horrifying that people have the vote and don’t vote. 'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z Moreover, this episode is edited in such a busy manner that enervated viewers may just wait it out to see who lives, who dies and how any double crosses play out. In "Operation Fortune," Aubrey Plaza saves Guy Ritchie's latest action-packed but lackluster caper 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Comedy is, after all, divisive; performers will often play to a room in which some individuals are enthralled and others enervated. An Edinburgh comedy judge's diary: the gaffer of gaffer? 2012-08-16T10:35:41Z The close-knit clan is aloof and enervated in the face of ever tightening racial laws that will spell their demise. A Writer’s “Tomb of Words,” and the People Who Took It Personally 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Visually barren and somewhat enervated, the movie nevertheless has a powerful sense of implacable fate — Lang’s not least. Sam Fuller and Fritz Lang: Audacious Auteurs of Noir 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z But for all its kicking and shooting, the movie suggests the action equivalent of enervated 1970s European soft-core: all diffuse, sun-drenched exteriors populated by attractive stars on an exotic working vacation. Movie Listings for Sept. 2-8 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Though she was energized during a face-to-face interview, a phone conversation last week found her more enervated, reflecting a hard new turn in her story. Sharon Jones, a Burst of Light, Even in Dark Times 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z But in retrospect, I was fortunate to be too enervated to read much social media or to take in any reviews. "Cripples and bastards and broken things": Why the "Game of Thrones" ending was nearly perfect 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z “So enervated that it’s like a vampire movie after the vampires have left,” the critic Pauline Kael wrote at the time in The New Yorker. Amazon Tackles Hollywood’s F. Scott Fitzgerald Obsession 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z This is an actor who last year transformed Samuel Beckett’s enervated Gogo, from the Druid’s “Waiting for Godot,” into the human equivalent of a pogo stick. Review: All the World’s a Grave in the Druid ‘Richard III’ 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z I was very conscious of the fact that readers were no less spent; no less pinched for time or enervated by illness and uncertainty as my own family. Times Critics Discuss 2020 in Books, From ‘Pandemic Blur’ to Favorite Discoveries 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, the bloated “Certified Lover Boy,” released last year, was his least focused album, and also his least imaginative — he sounded enervated, fatigued with his own ideas. Drake Rebuilt Hip-Hop in His Image. Now He Wants You to Dance. 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z Raf Simons seemed enervated by this collection, which included belted jackets, quite a number of boyish shorts, and T-shirts in solid colors as well as grid patterns and deep-hued, splashy prints. Jil Sander: Detox 2010-06-18T14:46:00Z At university, Obaro was part of a grime collective, but on The Sound of Strangers EP Ghostpoet has come up with a different sort of music with a different kind of enervated energy. New band of the day ? No 799: Ghostpoet 2010-06-02T14:50:00Z For instance, “The Humbling” Bailey judges “an enervated performance” as if Roth is “only too conscious of writing a bad novel about not being able to write anymore.” Review | ‘Philip Roth,’ by Blake Bailey, is a colorful, confident and uncompromising biographical triumph 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Its aim: to “get rid of everything that smacks of journalism, worms, everything nice and right, blinkered, moralistic, europeanised, enervated.” Dada Was Born 100 Years Ago. So What? 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z And so Friday’s early set was casual, stylized, spare, genial, dreamy and, except for about four minutes near the end, almost enervated, frustratingly low-impact. Music Review: Bill Frisell and Friends Play Venerable Country Tunes 2014-01-19T22:08:32Z Unfortunately for the Kraken, they looked far more enervated in Monday’s Game 7 than they did energized. Game 7 loss can’t take away from Kraken team that ‘changed the landscape of hockey in Seattle’ 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Visually, the darkly personal images are enervated, at once tactile and jumpy. Review: William Kentridge's sprawling Broad installation is an extraordinary meditation on apartheid 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z He stayed cushioned upon her, breathless, dazed, enervated, with his heart beating like a hammer upon her. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z The enervated officials in question are tracked down and interviewed about how they had a moment of weakness but are fully committed to the task at hand. China tries to cover lockdown strains on Shanghai’s front-line workers 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z The freedoms of speech and assembly place at their center a vocal and enervated citizenry. Opinion | Furious parents at school board meetings have a right to speak. We should listen to them. 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Far worse than the extended screen time were the moments she didn’t share, when she was too frustrated, in too much pain or too enervated to post anything at all. Opinion | My Daughter, TikTok Warrior 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Never mind that Orchid is still enervated after her own bout of influenza. Apocalypse playlist 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Its newly enervated purpose was to “supplement state and local supplies during public health emergencies” and to provide a “short-term stopgap buffer”. Exclusive: US has three months to rebuild medical supplies stockpile, Obama administration scientists warn 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z It made for an eerie, echoey weirdly enervated atmosphere as the teams kicked off. Six minutes of added time for racism will live long in sporting infamy | Barney Ronay 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z And yet, if anything, they seemed energized, not enervated, by their head-to-head battle with Woods. Tiger Woods Shook Up Golf at the Masters. It Might Be Just the Beginning. 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Because the cornea is enervated, the prions, which prey on proteins found in neurons, may be reaching the surface via these tiny neural conduits. Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z It certainly seemed that way at his West Virginia rally, where he appeared distracted and enervated. President Donald Trump’s worst day yet: Manafort, Cohen fall and the walls are closing in 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z They’re emotional, enervated wrecks, husks of their formerly composed selves, and all they want to do is just finish the recording and move on with their lives. Valve is still making Half-Life 3 jokes 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Chef Anthony Bourdain, whose visceral prose enervated his roving culinary programs, was mourned by fellow chefs, writers and fans Friday. Anthony Bourdain's death stuns celebrity colleagues and admirers 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Bearing the enervated ambience in mind, I asked Day whether there was a particular day, at an average event, when maintaining the necessary levels of concentration posed the greatest challenge. Jason Day is saving a star-challenged leaderboard at Quail Hollow - Golf Digest 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Ironically, the depression left me so enervated that I couldn't rouse myself to do any planning. Waiting for Depression to Lift 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z Liberals complain about being enervated, unable to concentrate. Nothing about the Trump presidency is normal. Keep remembering that | Francine Prose 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z An enervated marriage and a strained father-daughter relationship are observed from three perspectives. ‘The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories’: A lively return to short fiction 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z But, as the activism increased, the classroom discussions occasionally seemed enervated, the participants vaguely distracted. An Underground College for Undocumented Immigrants 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Decadent and enervated, the West lies vulnerable in the face of a confident and convicted Islamofascism, which is the cosmic threat of our time. Bannon’s battle for hearts and minds 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z “You need ‘The 25th Hour’,” he told an enervated university student, referring to a novel by Mr. Benioff. ‘Book Doctors’ Say What You Need Is a Good Read 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z When the Dust Bowl smothered Oklahoma, the Joads were not enervated, they moved west in search of work. Trump’s Carrier deal is the opposite of conservatism 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z We're watching the grand narrative of reform growing dull and diffuse, its moral authority enervated. How Education Reform Lost Its Mojo 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z The public, bewildered by blitzkriegs of bad behavior, was enervated. Trump’s shallowness runs deep 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z An entire chapter of the memoir is devoted to a petty fight between his financially enervated parents over the cost of a Thai dinner and convenience-store dessert. Can an Addiction Memoir Help Us Understand Wall Street? 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z That annoyance is augmented by the delay when swiping to and from the camera viewfinder, rendering me both aggravated and enervated. Moto G4 Plus review: no 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Chelsea’s players have looked enervated, disgruntled, even openly insubordinate ever since, tottering their way to nine Premier League defeats in 16 games, culminating in a thrillingly hapless 2-1 defeat at Leicester on Monday night. Adeus, José – a fittingly operatic departure for the game's first celebrity manager 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z “It was so dear,” says Richards, but the encounter only enervated her. Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards: 'In this election, Roe v Wade is on the ballot' 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Formerly settled questions are being upended; our politics lacks a shared narrative; our entertainment infantilizes us; our media leaves us enervated. Pope Francis After America 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Somehow Spieth has avoided becoming drained or enervated or suffering a letdown from the effects of all that winning – something even British Open champion Zach Johnson couldn’t avoid, shooting 75 on Friday. Another major, another major run by the utterly unflappable Jordan Spieth 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Cavaliers fans seemed enervated too, filtering quietly out of Quicken Loans Arena with several minutes left while Golden State fans repeated their melodic, almost haunting, "War-riors, War-riors" chant. NBA Finals: Stitched-up LeBron James needs to pull Cavaliers together 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z In Munich he seemed energised not enervated by the prospect of getting to work on a team who are clearly in need of a little transitional working-over. Time for Pep Guardiola to impose his stamp on an ageing Bayern Munich side | Barney Ronay 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z These rising young leaders, Lee Kuan Yew and Park Chung-hee, were totally dedicated to elevating their enervated countries to incredible new heights of power and riches. Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, Korea's Park Chung-Hee, Two Tough Leaders With Much In Common 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z This kind of carefully crafted rhetoric started, after forty years of independence, the project of culturally distinguishing the United States from its enervated former colonizers. How the Battle of New Orleans Birthed the American Character 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Before Iyengar found yoga, he said many times, he was a sickly boy, enervated by tropical diseases. Iyengar and the Invention of Yoga 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z For all that, there are many shots of skinheads lounging around, doing nothing, bored and enervated. Skinheads: a photogenic, extremist corner of British youth culture 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z To buy this scenario would require you to believe that People is implicated in a grand conspiracy to keep Clinton’s enervated physical state from American voters. Why Clinton will run Other strongmen who supervised the bloody purges of economically enervated and unproductive people were also ruthless majoritarians, consecrated by big election victories. The new face of India 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z To put it plainly, the U.S. isn’t a magnet for – even in its present enervated state – massive amounts of foreign capital because half of the population looks forward to a life of government support. Mitt Romney, The 'Say Anything' Pol Of The Republican Party 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z "It's an abiding fear of becoming enervated by a poor work ethos where welfare becomes a crutch." How do Singapore's poor families get by? 2014-02-27T21:52:47Z Andy Murray said he tried a gluten-free diet but gave up, feeling enervated. Straight Sets: In Book and Magazine Profile, Views Into Djokovic’s World 2013-08-30T16:28:13Z The long wait at the peak had enervated her. Joyce Carol Oates: “Mastiff.” 2013-06-24T04:00:00Z The lack of affordable and decent housing, inadequate access to health care, enervated neighborhood schools, stagnant local economies and few economic opportunities are all substantial community-based stressors that present hard obstacles to success. Letters: It Takes a Community (1 Letter) 2013-05-20T20:11:45Z The rat in this analogy is the enervated American worker. Morality First: The End of Behaviorism 2012-10-03T21:39:51Z The experience was memorable, certainly better than warm milk, but Martin finished invigorated rather than enervated. Perchance to bleam 2012-04-25T17:21:07.597Z The Rajah, long enervated by excess and opium, probably cared little about the matter; there were, indeed, but a few moments in each day when he could be fairly pronounced awake. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z The fact is, that the people are mentally enervated and apathetic. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z The intermediate space from them to our own times has left only the traces of a weak and enervated school. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z This people was militant, aggressive and unsettled in the earlier part of that time; commercial, wealthy and enervated in the latter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Political subjection to an effete despotism, and addiction to opium, had enervated the national mind, and rendered the Chinese helpless as a race. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z Their frame is neither shaken nor enervated by the use of intoxicating liquor; they eat when hungry, and sleep when nature demands it. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z As in the case of the Throne, so in that of the provincial polities; it was the Tudor sovereigns who narrowed and enervated the privileges of their subjects. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z The main street, with its whitened doorsteps and gleaming knockers, lay languid in the sunshine; perhaps, enervated by the dissipation of the previous evening. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z At present there is little chance of the majority of its people being enervated by luxury or demoralized by wealth. Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences 2012-02-14T03:00:28.520Z His troops, which had signalised and enervated themselves by their licentious brutalities on a defenceless population, broke and fled—as Abercrombie foretold they would do—before the enemy. The Commercial Restraints of Ireland 2012-02-13T03:00:20.483Z Almost devoid of religion, they fought with all the madness of fanaticism131 against a people themselves constitutionally fanatic, but already enervated by climate, by sudden wealth, and a long experience of contaminating luxury. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z But to his iron heart love found a way, and enervated the mind of the man whom nothing before could soften. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z The hands and feet in particular appear soft, enervated, and delicate, without distinction of sex or character. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z His mind had been somewhat enervated and the spontaneity of his nerves somewhat impaired by thirty years of intensive drinking. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Pulteney had, perhaps, become enervated with a long period of merely negative opposition. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z The haughtiness with which these worthless sons of imperious but debauched and enervated 293 sires, affected to look down upon the solitary and unfriended alien, produced an impression upon his mind which was never effaced. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z It becomes enervated and discouraged, incapable of initiating any new and fashionable epidemics. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z He also stood for waste—the waste of powers which had left him stunted mentally and morally enervated. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z The Goths, though enervated, had not wholly lost their prowess, and they strove desperately with the fierce host of Tarik. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z He wished the country gentry encouraged to raise a militia, for he was anxious to call the country out of that enervated condition that the menace of twenty thousand men from France could shake it. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z She wished for nothing of all that; it only tired, enervated her. The Diamond Fairy Book 2011-11-14T03:00:18.297Z Spanish civilisation enervated the Berbers, but did not refine them. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z They are terrific athletes, though at the weigh-ins, two days before a bout, some look more enervated than buff. Ultimate Fighting Championship Comes of Age Financially 2011-11-11T16:55:50Z On the other hand, when, from over-indulgence, Sex or any other stimulant ceases to release new inspiration and forces, it is sign of a permanently enervated state. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z Addiction to pleasure--that undoubtedly often grows in vigorous soil; but a man may appear vigorous enough and still be excessively enervated. The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2) 2011-10-21T02:00:20.960Z The army had been thinned by desertion and was enervated by long indiscipline. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z As a necessary consequence the vicious practice has not only enervated their minds but made their "wealth small and their want great." The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z The establishment of this inequality in the distribution of the blood will derange the harmonious condition of the cerebral organs; some will be overcharged, and either inflamed or constipated, and others impoverished or enervated. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z Not for the children of a civilization, enervated and weakened. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z But that flashing made her feel weary, enervated, almost breathless in the room, which she found close.... The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z Exhausted by long struggles, enervated by a brilliant civilization, the Moslem peoples inevitably fell into a malaise, but they are not stricken, they are not dead! The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z In wars with the Commonwealth the nations of the Sultan, more enervated in general, could not measure strength with cavalry in equal numbers, and only through an immense numerical preponderance did they crush and conquer. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z These, enervated by their conquest of Gaul, were rolled in the dust and driven out, and then the Frankish conquerors, in turn, took possession of our poor country. The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 2011-08-29T02:01:02.680Z In thus presenting a united front to the last in adversity, the kernel of the Taira family, though much enervated by their court life, proved themselves true sons of the chivalrous warriors of old Japan. An Introduction to the History of Japan 2011-08-25T02:00:29.177Z As the physical strength of men develops, so will the means of combating infirmities, diseases, all that weakened, enervated, depraved the populations, develop also. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z Everybody, globally and domestically, just feels enervated by the whole process. Analysis: Debt debate diminishes almost everyone 2011-08-02T20:18:47Z The faint perfume of flower and leaf made the soft, moist air odorous and sweet, and there was a delicious coolness that seemed to give strength to her enervated frame. One Maid's Mischief 2011-07-15T02:00:22.283Z But, though enervated by long years of luxury, and so greatly demoralised by defeats, the Britons had yet some force left. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z My enervated system did not feel able to hold up against this new affliction, and so I threw myself down among the ropes and boxes in the hold. Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) 2011-06-15T02:00:22.810Z She is happy only when palpitating with desire or enervated by exhaustion: the transition terrifies her like a torture. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z I have no doubt of success in a course of years if I persevere—but it must be patience—for the Reviews have enervated and made indolent 341 men’s minds—few think for themselves. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z So quickly had a week of ease and luxury, of woman's society, and idle trifling enervated me! Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z And, as seems the way of all indulgence taken in secret and without restraint, this of mine enervated me, made me less fit for the society of my fellow-beings. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z No stoic has been as austere as stoicism, no epicurean as enervated as epicureanism. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z A happy awakening, although it went too far in establishing royal absolutism; and a victory too complete, in that it enervated all the forces of resistance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z Each new enterprise betrayed Trochu's plan, enervated the troops, but had no effect on the courage of the National Guards engaged. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z They had banished from all their estates a senseless custom which had enervated and depopulated the southern countries. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z His mind appeared less enervated than his limbs, and he bowed with an air of great courtesy to the new-comers, evincing no surprise at the appearance of strangers. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z We want no waifs and strays of civilization, enervated with excesses, or depressed with failure; men who can find no niche for themselves, who have neither the habit, the disposition, nor the education for work. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z The staff is enervated and needs to reconnect with normal life, a state sorely lacking in the restaurant racket. You're the Boss: Gone Fishing! 2011-01-18T12:00:18Z All these parleys had profoundly enervated the defence. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z It enervated him to contemplate the object of his attachment; however, he shook off this feeling. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z A certain effeminacy, and even the endemic practice of odious vices, appears to have early enervated it. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 2011-01-02T03:00:21.577Z And he was getting enervated in the midst of all his relations. Dr. Adriaan 2010-12-29T03:00:33.467Z He often, but in vain, attempted to go: a soft languor enervated the powers of his mind. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z The natural enjoyment of life, the susceptibility to beauty in art and nature, the love of simplicity, were no longer possible to minds enervated and hearts deadened by the unrelieved monotony of luxurious living. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil It is true the Roman world to the eyes of Seneca lay in the shadow of death, crushed under a treacherous despotism, and enervated by gross indulgence. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Independence, Confederation and foreign alliance are as formidable to some members of Congress—I fear a majority, as an apparition to a weak enervated woman. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution We are growing too serious, the railways and telegraph have upset us and enervated us, we are getting languid and dull. Friend Mac Donald The Latin text, which I would wish to transcribe from the learned Grotius, is rather long, and it would be enervated by translation. The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion Places declining from the poles have attractive forces, but a little weaker and languid in the ratio of their distance; so that at length on the �quinoctial circle they are utterly enervated and evanescent. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments And the system of household slavery enervated character while it made it heartless and cruel. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Fear, trembling, and dread pervaded and enervated all hearts: their minds had always been full of superstition, now everything was sought for, with impulsive credulity, which could be significant of the attacks of supernatural powers. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. Balder," said he, "I am returning to truth and nature, after having incurred the danger of being enervated by luxury. The Children of the World What advantage is it to a people to be clothed in costly stuffs when they are enervated, demoralized, and perishing? The Progressionists, and Angela. At sunrise they were out of sight from the land, but so enervated by sea-sickness that some would willingly have gone back. The West Indies and the Spanish Main At the worst, these vices infected only a comparatively small class, idle, luxurious, enervated by the slave system, depraved by the example of a vicious court. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius He can nobly spread the feast, yet is he not enervated by luxury. Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards It is the glory of country life that it is by no means enervated or over-civilized. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity A wearied, enervated nature, nerves blunted by the enjoyment of all kinds of pleasures, are frequently all that remains of womanly nature. The Progressionists, and Angela. A long interval of tranquillity had enervated the planters of Virginia: luxury had introduced effeminate manners and dissolute habits. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia The air of this cloister has at length enervated your steadfast mind. A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 For the country they cared nothing, except as it provided them with luxurious retreats where they might, for a short space, renew their enervated faculties after the dissipations of the city. Roman Women For some years I have recalled the long enervated Romans to arms, and have unceasingly practised them in the use of their weapons. A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) This enervated his poetry, said Gray, and he says the same thing of the same method by whomsoever adopted, for nothing is done so well as at the first concoction. Methods of Authors Having a dinner supplied to them, they 197 give up hunting, riding, and all their native sports, and become enervated. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things Not only the Jesuits and Jesuitism were struck by the blow, but, in general, all that portion of Christendom, which was enervated by an easy indulgence. Priests, Women, and Families Like Hannibal's soldiers on the fertile plains of Lombardy, they had become enervated in the luxury of their beautiful valley. Cathedrals of Spain Married at eighteen to Anselm Brevoort, a millionaire thirty years her senior, she had lived the life of luxury and dissipation inseparable from her social station, and was therefore naturally blas� and a bit enervated. The Song of the Wolf She had been enervated by the gossip of the lunch-table; a child startled by the possible horrors of a dark closet was never more absurd than she. Eden An Episode Whoever considers the following powers vested in the government, and compares them with the above, must readily perceive they are either all enervated or annihilated. Essays on the Constitution of the United States The reviewers have enervated men’s minds, and made them indolent; few think for themselves. Life of John Keats Her irregular method of study and desultory reading had rather enervated than strengthened a mind naturally clear and vigorous, and left its acquisitions in a confused and kaleidoscopic mass, bordering upon intellectual salmagundi. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part In order to receive them, indeed, Rome had performed on them a cruel operation: they were enervated, bleached. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages She was enervated still by the emotions of the preceding day, and her desire for companionship was slight. Eden An Episode A lengthened stay here would be a bad preparation for the wilderness life; they could scarcely but be enervated by it. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement It is to be feared that, if we do not form such a permanent attachment, we may be acquiring knowledge, while our enervated taste becomes less and less lively. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 The gloomy, extravagant, fanatical temperament of the Gayosos had been increased by the incessant gnawing of remorse, his imagination was distorted, his slight activity enervated, and his whole existence darkened. The Grandee After each hasty look, the deer redoubled its efforts to escape, but, either exhausted by fatigue or enervated by fear, it became, just before it was overtaken, scarcely able to keep its feet. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. For the moment she was benumbed, out-wearied with effort and enervated by the strain and depletion of force. Eden An Episode Its highest condition is that which first developed itself among the enervated Romans, and which was brought 136 to the highest perfection of which it was capable, by Raphael, in the arabesques of the Vatican. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) Sometimes coming out of her fragrant bath all warm and enervated, she would fall to musing on the nothingness of life, the sorrow, the labour, the malice of it.... Fathers and Children The clergymen were plainly enervated as they descended from the various vehicles which had conveyed them over from Little River. Captain Pott's Minister "By doing this," said Crœsus, "the people will, in a short time, become so enervated and so effeminate that you will have nothing to fear from them." Cyrus the Great Makers of History We, in contrast, because unwilling to experience such suffering, are weak and enervated. Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent But this operation took place upon minds enervated by luxury, and which were tempted, at the very same period, to forgetfulness or denial of all religious principle by their own basest instincts. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) I sat in the bright sunshine, profoundly enervated and quite convinced, but still maintaining out of mere indolence a show of hesitation.... The Passionate Friends I come back to my first love with an ardor undiminished, and an energy not enervated, with high hopes and very bold purposes. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 We should be mistaken, however, in thinking that the Venetians in their great days were enervated and lapped in the sensuality which we are apt to associate with Eastern ideals. The Venetian School of Painting Otherwise I would have been terrified and enervated when I saw the Pope, and bishops, emperors, kings and all the world, opposed to the doctrine they ought to sustain. Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent Peace and prosperity of long duration have enervated the spirit, rusted the armor, and blunted the swords of our men. Japan For a second Kell’s shadow wavered away from the thing, and the enervated newspaper man saw it plainly. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 At length, one morning, as Dr. Sevier lay on his office lounge, fatigued after his attentions to callers, and much enervated by the prolonged summer heat, there entered a small female form, closely veiled. Dr. Sevier Pointed against your weakened, prostrated, enervated, state government! Patrick Henry Allan made shift to reply, though a strange lassitude still enervated him, and his mouth was full of tongue. When the Sleepers Woke A spirit of speculation and adventure enervated their people, and led in time to commercial bankruptcy and political disaster. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses Not this Europe, O my Brothers, should we take for our model or emulate: not the Europe which is being dereligionised by Material Science; disorganised by Communion and Anarchy; befuddled by Alcoholism; enervated by Debauch. The Book of Khalid There is in the soul of every man, something naturally soft, low, enervated in a manner, and languid. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero Their contact with the Mussalmans has neither relaxed nor enervated that condition. Les Parsis There were other days, when the sea was calm and yellowish, of insupportable heat, of infinite tediousness; interminable and wretched hours, during which the enervated passengers, stretched motionless on the planks, seemed all dead. Cuore (Heart) An Italian Schoolboy's Journal Yet ease had not enervated him, nor position made him proud. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character For the Aquitanians, to whose shores, as being nearest and also pacific, foreign merchandise is abundantly imported, were easily brought under the dominion of the Romans, because their character had become enervated. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens But our minds are infected by sloth and idleness, and luxury, and languor, and indolence: we have enervated them by opinions, and bad customs. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero In ancient times the inhabitants, divided into tribes, led a simple, rustic life, superior in all respects to their neighbours the Medes, already enervated by civilisation. Les Parsis From the first of November to the middle of December, there is usually about six or seven hours a day of comparative comfort; but the season is too short to brace the enervated body. An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China An indolent and luxurious mode of life enervated every breast. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) It has been understood by the Latin races, even when morally enervated, that the law could not without risk of losing its majesty violate justice. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III And after him Epicurus easily gave into this effeminate and enervated doctrine. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero The bodies of men are enfeebled and enervated; and it is not uncommon to observe very high degrees of irritability under the external appearance of great strength and robustness. A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves When Frank came to me that night he was somewhat surprised at the state of my rather enervated champion, which he with great glee contrasted with the vigorous condition of his own. Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover Their courage was so greatly enervated in this bewitching retirement, that all their after efforts were owing rather to the fame and splendour of their former victories than to their present strength. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) He enervated the male behemoth, and made the female barren, and preserved her for the righteous in the time to come. Hebrew Literature For our sentiments of pain, as well as pleasure, are so trifling and effeminate, we are so enervated and relaxed by luxuries, that we cannot bear the sting of a bee without crying out. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero Even the very coachmen and footmen in the Park looked enervated, as the long lines of carriages passed in wearisome procession. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius It has been understood by the Latin races, even when morally enervated, that the law could not without risk of losing its majesty and force sanction illegality and violate justice. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I It was a very simple supper—cheese, honey, roasted apples, and brown bread; but the children had healthy appetites, and had not been enervated by luxuries. One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford I saw in civilization the world's sole hope; its brisk life and abounding force took sudden hold of a fancy enervated by dreams. Apologia Diffidentis It is said that his army was very much enervated and enfeebled by the comforts and luxuries they enjoyed at Capua. Hannibal Makers of History Beth, who had hitherto shunned easy-chairs, as Aunt Victoria had taught her, lest she should be enervated by lolling, now began to take to them, and so lost the strengthening effect of a wholesome effort. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius These restrictions have enervated her mind and paralyzed her powers. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I As I was by no means comfortable from a slight fever which enervated me, I determined to sleep below no longer, and therefore brought my mattress on deck. Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 The best disciplined troops have been enervated and made cowards by it. A sketch of the life and services of Gen. Otho Holland Williams Read before the Maryland historical society, on Thursday evening, March 6, 1851 Neither court life nor a corrupting opulence had yet enervated it. Political Women, Vol. 1 Intoxicated by this splendor, and enervated by luxury, Solomon forgot his higher duties, and yielded to the fascination of oriental courts. Ancient States and Empires I found myself active of body, and in sound mind, but in character and heart I found myself softened, enervated, timid,—and, why not say the word?—cowardly! The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death An idyllic people, not by any means enervated, though pleasure-loving—so we must regard them. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Atavism finds among them no weakened and enervated subjects on whom to perpetrate this strange travesty on nature. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire Senator Toombs combated the idea that slavery debased and enervated the white man. Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage The soldiers of the empire were dispirited and enervated, and threw away their defensive armor. Ancient States and Empires A Zoorph is worse than a disease, it has enervated my people until they have lost everything, and still they are among us. Valley of the Croen The girls wandered about languidly, too enervated by the heat to care to join in any noisy games. A World of Girls The Story of a School In the soft lap of refinement, we have suffered the energetic powers to become enervated which those ages called into action and rendered indispensable. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. His excesses must, however, have enervated his frame long before his death by suffocation. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Etruria, humbled and restricted within narrower limits, and moreover enervated by luxury, was in no condition to oppose a people inured to danger and sobered by adversity. Ancient States and Empires But from the number of flat-faced houses and three-toned wooden churches still being erected, it may be deduced that somewhere there are architects who are not enervated by too much good taste. The Job An American Novel "Had I my way, this port should be burned from river to river, fort, shipping, dock—all, even to the farms outlying on the hills—and the enervated garrison marched out to take the field!" The Reckoning But he said it faintly then, and more faintly on the days following, for inactivity again enervated him—made him, for the first time in his life, feel almost old. The Innocents A Story for Lovers It was the face of a criminal, crabbed, enervated, tense, and breathed upon, it seemed, by threatening clouds. The Goose Man It was external enemies, with a different system of warfare, that the Persian kings had to dread—not the revolt of enervated States, and unwarlike cities. Ancient States and Empires Then there are the mosquitoes with which the same careful mother peoples the groves, even in April, industrious little creatures not in the least enervated by the climate. In Nesting Time Fatigue and long abstinence had enervated his frame. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 That men accustomed to hard labor will endure more fatigue, than those of sedentary or enervated habits, needs no argument to prove. A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco And yet, who can tell that the very ease of such a destiny might not have wearied my heart, enervated my mind, and rendered me at once burdensome to myself and useless to the world? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 This thoughtless and enervated, but great city, ruled by demagogues, had insulted Rome—burning and destroying some of her ships. Ancient States and Empires "There," it continued, "you would meet only with men enervated by luxury, soft beings that would tremble before the soldiers of liberty." William Pitt and the Great War Looking through the medium of our own jaded and enervated feelings, we fancy all things have the same worn-out aspect, and contrast the present with the freshness and vigour of our former existence. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 I claim that the balloon is the best sanitarium within the grasp of enervated humanity. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science They miscalculated his nature, and supposed causes produced the same effects in a healthful and an enervated constitution. The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West But success enervated the victorious conquerors of the East, the empire of the Caliphs was broken up, and great changes took place even in those lands where the doctrines of the Koran prevailed. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges The Dutch republic, enervated by commercial success and under a constitution which by its intricate system of checks was a satire on organized liberty, had become a warning rather than a model to other nations. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) Who would not soon be enervated in that tropical and luxurious atmosphere? St. Winifred's, or The World of School Exhausted by long struggles, enervated by a brilliant civilization, the Moslem peoples inevitably fell into a malaise; but they are not stricken, they are not dead! The New World of Islam To dwell on it enervated and unnerved her. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Those who have no manliness or reason, the enervated and untrained, who retain the opinions they had as children. Plutarch's Morals There was, of course, in every place that saving remnant of high-minded men which is always providentially left as a seed; but the people as a whole were ignorant and enervated. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) The debaucheries into which that man impelled him soon became all indispensable distraction for that soft and enervated mind, to which the ennui of a court was insupportable. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 But besides, girls arrive at the period of adolescence already enervated by the senseless training of their childhood, on which distinctions of sex have been obtruded long before they are established by nature. The Education of American Girls It was like the liqueur that enervated her so deliciously. The Fête At Coqueville 1907 She was enervated by melancholy, scorched by impatience, then chilled by an indefinable foreboding, just as her father had been. Sacrifice Her health has been sacrificed, and in countless instances her life has paid the penalty; while posterity has been dwarfed, maimed, and enervated, and in body, mind, and soul deformed at its behests. The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 The men of the Brazen Age were quite a different race of beings, being as strong and powerful as those of the Silver Age were weak and enervated. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome He was a personality, a figure to enliven dinner parties, throw a glamour and a fever into the enervated routine of sets, cliques, and circles. Erik Dorn Fever not only decimated the expeditions and the garrisons of the forts, but enervated the main body of settlers who remained on the coast, soon reducing whatever enterprise or vigour they had brought from Europe. Impressions of South Africa Growing thinner, she found herself enervated as in the days of her mourning for Lawrence Teck, and all the while something at once indefinite and priceless seemed to be lost to her. Sacrifice The children of common laborers, by their talents and enterprise, are becoming nobles in intellect, or wealth, or office; while the children of the wealthy, enervated by indulgence, are sinking to humbler stations. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School The monasteries, at first the homes and shelters of charity and learning, had, before the sixteenth century, waxed fat with unduly accumulated wealth, become enervated with luxury and corrupt through bad government. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys I moved about without stopping, feverish uncomfortable, enervated. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories The sun's heat is tempered, even in summer, by cool nights, and in winter by cold winds, so that European constitutions do not, as in India, become enervated and European muscles flaccid. Impressions of South Africa Never," thus argued the chieftain, "had those brave men enervated their bodies and debased their minds by labours fit only for beasts or stupid drudges. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. He declared that Morgan was enervated by matrimony, and would never be the same man as he was. Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 But, though sunk from his former hardihood and virtue, though enervated by indulgence, and degraded in spirit by a consciousness of crime, he was resolute of soul, and roused himself to meet the coming danger. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 I slept badly that night; I was completely enervated and haunted by sad thoughts. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories To cure it involves the reduction of a dislocation; the breaking up of adhesions, and the arousing of the enervated organ or organs partially or wholly failing in the performance of function. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Clothing Artificial In the same way, clothing has protected our bodies from the cold but enervated or constricted them as well. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science It had now grown quite dark, for the moon had not yet risen; but there was a spring-time sweetness in the air, which was not yet enervated by the languorous heat of summer. Frank Merriwell's Chums In appearance they resembled their mother, and they had often much of her enervated and almost decaying manner. The Way of Ambition She was therefore enervated at a time when all her power was needed to resist the skeptical and immoral tendencies of the day. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology Also in Persia and Turkey it is in great repute for recruiting the exhausted vitality of aged, and enervated persons. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure A population, enervated by twenty years of slavery, corruption, and luxury, is not likely to immolate itself for country, like the Spartans at Thermopylæ. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Consequently the people here are enervated, and cannot be compared to the horsemen of the plains. Under Drake's Flag A Tale of the Spanish Main Stern truth suffered, and character was enervated, while courtesy and taste flourished: "The personality or self-love of all who came into the charmed circle was too much caressed." The Friendships of Women The Council of Trent, held at this time, says, in its decree concerning indulgences, "In granting indulgences, the Church desires that moderation be observed, lest, by excessive facility, ecclesiastical discipline be enervated." The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Cradled in luxury, wrapped in comfort, enervated by city indulgences, sophisticated by fashionable society—well, I won't finish the essay; but you won't come. Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter The painter, tired out by this scene, enervated by the cries and tears of his wife, could not help laughing when he discovered the motive of her irritation. Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) The bridegroom, neither oppressed with wine nor enervated with luxury, but perfectly sober, as having always supped at the common table, went in privately, untied her girdle, and carried her to another bed. Ideal Commonwealths Being kept in a prudent equipoise it is neither worn away by continual fighting nor enervated by unbroken peace. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator But our debilitated, enervated, hypocritical race wallows in a sly cannibalism. A Mummer's Tale My mind is enervated and feeble, like my body. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 This Moderation which, since the Sin of Sultan Adam, has ceased to be a Virtue, so enervated their Courage, that they became slothful and timorous. The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol I drew this aspersion upon myself by my endeavor to bring over eloquence to a more austere taste, which had been corrupted and enervated by very many softnesses and delicacies. The Training of a Public Speaker He thought that praise enervated the mind, and that to bear it required a much greater degree of fortitude than to withstand censure. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc If the power of the House of Commons be degraded or enervated, no other can stand. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) The people are enervated by long peace, and, except a few who have served with the heretics in Flanders, cannot bear their arms. English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 Thus a domestic feud, based on the very question of the war itself, enervated the national strength, and encouraged the mighty adversary. Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States As he walked, a faint glow stimulated his enervated intelligence; ideas, projects long abandoned, desires forgotten, even a far echo from the old ambition stirring in its slumber, quickened his slow pulses. The Danger Mark His morbid gloom has enervated him, and the call of the splendid earth is beyond him. Among Famous Books Its beauty, whether of silver Nile or lilac mountains or tawny desert, enervated by its appeal to the love of easy delight, and bred mad, vagrant thoughts, precursors of moral disaster. Roads from Rome The conquests of the National Assembly soon enervated the conquerors. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution But on the other side Spain was enervated and declining. Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States These practices extinguished all their fiery spirit and enervated their bodies, so that they could no longer bear toils or hardships or heat or cold or sleeplessness. Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form This was by no means cheering, especially to those who had lived in ease and affluence, whose bodies were enervated by voluptuousness and hands made tender by years of idle pleasures. Secret Band of Brothers A Full and True Exposition of All the Various Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds of This Powerful Organization in the United States. This is complicated and barren; it takes shape among men who are not engaged in practical life; it is enervated by the heat and vexatious of life. History Of Ancient Civilization Spain, enervated by the reign of Philip III. and Ferdinand VI., had recovered some degree of internal vitality and external dignity during the long reign of Charles III.; History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution They fancy that my heart is engaged in these frivolous pomps and gayeties with which I amuse the people—that I have become enervated by 'Capuan delights.' The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales You must think me a fool; a poor, enervated, simpering fool like—like—well, like one of those nobles of England. When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth Was he seeking for perfect oblivion, for that soothing repose in nature, in which a man becomes enervated, and which envelopes him like a moist, warm cloth? The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 Well, one day when I was feeling more enervated than usual, I was trying in vain to close my eyes. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 But the federative diet weakened and enervated its designs by those secret influences all federations naturally possess. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution The elder Hillars was so enervated by drink that he had no strength to fight the fever which came on top of the bullet-hole. Arms and the Woman The soft climate, which reduces toil to a minimum, invariably means the enervated race. The Quest of the Simple Life They spent long hours of transcendental love together, during which their souls alone embraced, and when they separated, they were enervated, weak and feverish. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 In the course of an hour a gheblee began to blow, and continued to increase in violence until it enervated the whole caravan. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government He found the Polish aristocrats corrupted by luxury, enervated by pleasures, employing in intrigues and language the warmth of their patriotism in the conferences and confederation of Epéries. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution A very good, and I dare say brave, old man; enervated, and shaking with the palsy. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 What claim has the slave-holder against the government for confiscation of property by the side of the claim of the slaves for a hundred years of wages and enervated and dwarfed manhood! Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South Her courts of justice became venal, property divided in a very unequal way, taxes became oppressive, her armies enervated, and she fell, 38, 39, 40. An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged And then I have effeminated and enervated myself with love and the summer in these last two months. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals The doctors, alarmed at these symptoms, ordered copious bleeding, which appeared to allay his sufferings; but they enervated the vital force of the prince, who had weakened himself by debauchery. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution The worst of it is, I feel quite enervated and indifferent. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals You have not become enervated by the luxuries of life. Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life And Also Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America See how his soul becomes enervated, his judgment warped and his heart invaded by every temptation. The Young Priest's Keepsake It shews little power, or power enervated by extreme fastidiousness. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution If the attacks of the enervated enemies of France were weak, so also were her own efforts feeble to resist these attacks. Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. Moreover, the troops of Antiochus had, we are informed, been enervated by an excessive indulgence on the part of their leader during the marches and halts of the preceding summer. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6. (of 7): Parthia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. It has enervated the whole race of womankind and led to their complete economic dependence upon a polygamous sex who abuse the trust. Diane of the Green Van She has proved herself capable of accommodating herself to her circumstances; the most difficult of all things to a young girl enervated by luxury and indulgence. Turns of Fortune And Other Tales The greatest Minds have thus been often wholly enervated, and the best Parts buried in utter Obscurity. 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation Julia looked, to see the lines from nostrils to mouth, the lines at the corners of the eyes, the enervated pallor and the grey hairs among the golden-brown. 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A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) It is a relief to me, to take up the pen, and write you a line; for I have had, about four o'clock this morning, one of my dreadful spasms, which has almost enervated me. The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol II. With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters By Distinguished Characters He became enervated by luxury, learned to despise the rude manners of his countrymen, engaged a Russian cook, and was served from silver plate. The Empire of Russia This was the bulky but enervated descendant of chivalric and pastoral romance. A History of English Prose Fiction Though no man is more capable of enjoying the refinements of modern society, luxury has not enervated his mind or his manners. Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century And he has truly enervated his Language in four several Lines. 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The Empire of Russia Who is a stranger to that manner of expression so common in all times and in all countries, of being softened, relaxed, enervated, dissolved, melted away by pleasure? The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) It is, therefore, properly said in this Dialogue, that Cicero thought Calvus cold and enervated. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements A soft sunlight lay enervated across the world. The Silent Places The captive raises himself as far as his chains will allow him; he clutches the throat of his enervated visitor. Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood I will add in conclusion, that the Italians are not enervated by the climate to such a degree as to dislike work. The Roman Question He finally flung himself on a couch and, enervated to the point of crying, he went through the back-breaking motions mechanically, like a dredge. Là-bas In the Brother's opinion it enervated the soul, put religion into petticoats, created and fostered a state of sentimentalism quite unworthy of the strong. Abbe Mouret's Transgression But, sometimes these seemingly enervated young blades approve themselves steadier of limb, than veteran revelers of very long standing. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I Her heart was full of tenderness, she felt languid and enervated, and her soul no longer rebelled at the other being so near. A Love Episode His whole body was enervated and tense, thrilled by the thought. Best Russian Short Stories The judges of the Tribunal, silent, enervated, reconquered themselves. Là-bas We hear, it is true, a great deal about the softening influence of wealth, and moralists speak of luxury as if its bad effects were negative and it only enervated. Four Psalms XXIII. XXXVI. LII. CXXI. Interpreted for practical use The man, though enervated by over-indulgence, had the brute force, the animal instinct of self-preservation, to carry him through. The Rim of the Desert Her expression, restless and dissatisfied, her attitude, weary and enervated, gave the idea of the title admirably, and I made a good sketch. Five Nights At another time, without mutilating the corporate body, it had enervated and deformed it, or dislocated and disjointed it. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History The enervated legionaries abandoned their own and the public defence, and their pusillanimous indolence may be considered the immediate cause of the downfall of the empire. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History The days were invariably long and despite their plodding movements they clunked into each other like two emaciated furless dogs in Thailand that were enervated and stupefied by starvation and blindness. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America It was a frightful sight to behold innocent young creatures, in the gay morning of existence, thus seized upon, horror-struck, and rendered feeble and enervated for ever. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 540, March 31, 1832 After having strained and enervated it, his mind had fallen victim to a sluggishness which annihilated his plans, broke his will power and invoked a cortège of vague reveries to which he passively submitted. Against the Grain Ay, but, Mowbray, replied the poor man, those wretches have not had their minds enervated by such infirmities of body as I have long laboured under. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 An unsuccessful raid into Persia induced him to turn his attention to the eastern empire, and the enervated troops of Theodosius the Younger dissolved before the fury of his onset. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History The Britons, it will be remembered, enervated by Roman dominance, had failed to defend their "border" when Rome first withdrew her legions. The Glories of Ireland Barbarians, up to that time vagabonds or nearly so, were flooding in upon populations disorganized and enervated. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 It is not of such enervated stuff that true lovers are made. Primitive Love and Love-Stories The tropics had enervated him, though he made no such confession. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel So stupid and enervated was the master's mate, however, that he let go his hold, and went into the ocean. Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" In India we see a people so enervated by alien and paternal government that they have hardly the courage or energy to take up such small responsibilities in local government as may be granted them. Essays in Rebellion The strongest Arguments are enervated, and the brightest Evidence disappears, before those tremendous Reasonings and dazling Discoveries of venerable old Age: You are young giddy-headed Fellows, you have not yet had Experience of the World. The Spectator, Volume 2. Three months would liberate Italy! but this court is so enervated that the happy moment will be lost. The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson His mind, enervated by a royal education, was oppressed and degraded by abject superstition: he fasted, he sung psalms, he blindly accepted the miracles and doctrines with which his faith was continually nourished. 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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Was the Phoenix of the ancients but an old civilization, enervated by luxury and corrupted by peace, that could only be purified of its foul dross and infused with new energy by fire? Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 But the armies of Rome, placed at a secure distance from danger, were enervated by indulgence and luxury. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 There your regenerate soul will acquire new life and vigor; your enervated genius will recover unconquerable energy; and your heart, perhaps already withered, will be rejuvenated! What is Property? It may be that you are becoming enervated; I do not know. The Lost Continent He turned to Austria, became enervated and depressed on Hungarian and Bohemian plains, and was refreshed again by breezes on the declivities of the Carpathians. A Pair of Blue Eyes The sailor started up, and took an enervated pace or two down the room. The Mayor of Casterbridge Some troops newly levied among the generous but enervated youth of Italy; and a body of German auxiliaries, on whose firmness, in the hour of trial, it was dangerous to depend. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 It was only whispered, for something unutterably mournful no less than distressing in this spectacle of a man showing himself to be so entirely the vane of a passion enervated the feminine instinct for punctilios. Far from the Madding Crowd She herself saw the world through a blue veil, heard the voices of life across an immeasurable distance and felt hot, alien shivers run through her enervated limbs. The Indian Lily and Other Stories Others lay listless, enervated by the sleepless misery of that night. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Add to this, my late scenes of idleness and dissipation have enervated my mind to an alarming degree. The Letters of Robert Burns Elated by success, enervated by luxury, and raised above the level of subjects by their dangerous privileges, they soon became incapable of military fatigue, oppressive to the country, and impatient of a just subordination. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 The city slept in strange, improvised beds drawn up beside windows or made up on floors, and awoke enervated and damp at the back of the neck. Star-Dust He enervated himself dangerously, Ramuntcho, in these prolonged contacts which she did not prohibit. Ramuntcho Physically Balzac was far from satisfying a romantic ideal of fragile and enervated genius. Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings Threadbare it may be to you, enervated and blasé man of pleasure, worn and hardened man of the world; but it is not for you I write. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 A feeble senate and enervated people cheerfully acquiesced in the pleasing illusion, as long as it was supported by the virtue, or even by the prudence, of the successors of Augustus. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Even after twenty minutes in that bedroom she had begun to feel enervated, as if she herself were also beginning to suffer from dry-rot…. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 She had never been one of those who are enervated for long, or at least, let it appear. Ramuntcho I awoke next morning with courage revived and spirits refreshed: physical debility no longer enervated my judgment; my mind felt prompt and clear. Villette But there is weak and strong, enervated and potently creative imagination; and very subtle is the boundary line between the idle thought image and the created one, endowed with personal being and reality. The Bride of Dreams The Assyrians reigned over the East, till the sceptre of Ninus and Semiramis dropped from the hands of their enervated successors. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 The te de de got mixed up in my enervated brain with the "Our Father," which I used to have to repeat some days fifteen or twenty times as a punishment. My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt His strong, healthy organism, enervated by the heat, was the more sensible to the influence of exciting thought. Sanine They are enervated by riches, and the luxurious sensual indulgences which they bring along by necessity in their train--all their evil power being here increased by the voluptuous softness of the climate. Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra Her cheerful acquiescence and placid contentment in the enervated, marrowless shadow of what was once, for a more childish generation, a solid joy, seemed pathetic to me. The Bride of Dreams This enervated, and so aggravated her malady: the girl began to droop and lose her good looks. The Forest Lovers Hannibal judged it best to go into winter-quarters at Capua, where his army was in a measure enervated by pleasure and vice. Outline of Universal History I reproach myself with having yielded, as I have done of late, my opinions to the persuasions of friendship; my mind has become enervated, and I must fly from the fatal contagion. Tales and Novels — Volume 01 He had parodoxical ideas in literature, and, being a poet, or believing himself one, he considered that verse enervated thought and that sentiments should only be written in prose. Initiation into Literature Society in Rome, enervated as it was by vicious pleasures, craved continually for new excitements. Caesar: a Sketch Then he knew that he was a coward also, and that religion had deprived him of his will, of his manhood, and enervated his soul itself. The Christian A Story But the Norman nobility was corrupted and enervated by the luxury of the South, and by the influence of Mohammedan customs, and modes of thought. Outline of Universal History This fine province had, during the reign of Frederick the Great, been placed under the government of the minister, Count Hoym, whose easy disposition had, like insidious poison, utterly enervated the people. Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 The titles of their works were changed: they dealt with Spring, the South, Love, the Joy of Living, Country Walks; but the music never changed: it was uniformly soft, pale, enervated, anemic, wasting away. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House This vice not only debauched the mind, but by sedentary confinement and the want of seasonable repose enervated the body. Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched They would be beaten—this depraved and enervated people!—and his feverish heart rejoiced. The History of David Grieve The storm passes without breaking: but you wake heavy, cheated, enervated, disheartened. Jean-Christophe, Volume I But they bragged a little: for they did not will anything much: they were like the enervated people of Thelema. Jean-Christophe Journey's End How healthy they were, all these young men, enervated by idleness, unsatisfied desires and ambitions, who scorned every man who had not the means to pay for a University education! Married The night was beautifully clear, but too cool for the enervated frame of an African voyager. Journal of an African Cruiser This softness of a well-cultivated earth, and unbroken verdure of foliage in many shades, and harmonious grouping and blending of floral hues, best suit my present enervated condition. 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Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature A new generation, braced by the keen air and scant fare of the desert, with firmer muscles and hearts than these enervated slaves had, was needed for the conquest. Expositions of Holy Scripture The command of the vessel was now virtually with him, Baptiste, enervated by the extraordinary crisis, and choking with passion, being utterly incapable of giving a distinct or a useful order. The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons Hannibal's army is enervated in mind and body by luxurious living at Capua. The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 Failing health has driven me from my old shooting grounds, and in sunny Australia I have been trying to recruit the energies enervated by the burning climate of India. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter Some parts of Mr. Burke's eloquent orations become intricate and enervated by superfluity of poetic ornament; which quantity of ornament would have been agreeable in a poem, where much ornament is expected. The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. Like the Romans, they were warriors and conquerors, but became enervated by luxury. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09 European Statesmen That Danish invasion was a chastisement not undeserved, for both the clergy and the laity had become corrupt, had been enervated by prosperity. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 08 Great Rulers Yet the progress of Christianity, and the establishment of a foreign sway, still met the partial resistance which a conquered but not enervated people are always capable of opposing to their masters. Holland The History of the Netherlands The punishment of the enervated and sensual Roman was by war. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity Antony, Caesar, Pompey, and Lucullus at home were enervated and self-indulgent, but at the head of their legions they were capable of any privation and fatigue. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03 Ancient Achievements Let me not be understood as saying that the strong, and the robust, and the active cannot digest food which the weak, and enervated, and indolent cannot. The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health These conquests were the most brilliant that Paul had yet made,--not among enervated Asiatics, but bright, elegant, and intelligent Europeans, where women were less degraded than in the Orient. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets It was a frightful sight to behold innocent young creatures, in the gay morning of existence, thus seized upon, horror struck, and rendered feeble and enervated for ever. Domestic Manners of the Americans He spoke to audiences cultivated indeed, but divided, enervated, embittered, infatuated, incapable of self-sacrifice, among whom liberty was a mere tradition and patriotism a dream; and he spoke in vain. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity Then, tired out and enervated, he swooned into the arms of the medical orderly. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) War and conquest had enervated and corrupted the masses. Elson Grammar School Literature v4 Hiokatoo was an old man when I first saw him; but he was by no means enervated. A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison The people, enervated and egotistical, are scattered like sheep or are made slaves. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. It was a fierce protest against the luxuries of an enervated age. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity All a man's nature must be on the alert, and this is not the case with those divided by abstraction, narrowed by formulas, enervated by application. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller This brutality alone relieved him of his enervated anguish. Theresa Raquin Moreover, the child is both weakened and enervated by the heat, and thus readily falls a prey to disease. Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children It was well, both for enervated orientals and wild barbarians, to be ruled by such iron masters. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. It has been said that Christianity enervated the English and gave them over into the hands of the fresh and robust sons of nature. Lectures and Essays She was a melancholy result of that artificial luxurious life by which the whole nature is so enervated that there seems no stamina left to resist the first cold blast of adversity. What Can She Do? His chilled being, as if inwardly rigid, became enervated at the kisses and feasts. Theresa Raquin Sin enervated the nation which should have protected it; while the immensity of its riches excited the cupidity of a neighbouring royal robber. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 Thus Persia, in her turn, yielded to the Grecian heroes when she became enervated with the luxuries of the conquered kingdoms. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. Intemperance means slavery to a habit, the loss of spiritual self- mastery, whereby the whole character is enervated, and efficiency, both physical and moral, is impaired. 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A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest Wealth and power had inflated them with false security, with egotistic aims; or else had enervated them and undermined their strength. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. “What,” replied the first, “for that trifler, who consumes her time with a giddy child, immersed in softness, and who at best can make but an enervated husband?” The History of Caliph Vathek Everything and everybody seemed enervated, except those frightfully active people in all countries and climates, "the custom-house officers:" these necessary plagues to society gave their usual amount of annoyance. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon They are sometimes enervated by it: that must be in continental countries. The Egoist We might otherwise have been morally enervated by the weakness which degrades Romayne—and priests might have become instruments in the hands of women. The Black Robe But they, in their turn, became corrupted by prosperity, and enervated by peace. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. The passionate disposition when it has too much gymnastic is hardened and brutalized, the gentle or philosophic temper which has too much music becomes enervated. The Republic Liza was as soft and enervated as Sappho was smart and abrupt. Anna Karenina You were sober and hardy; your enemies timid and enervated; you were expert in battle, your enemies unskillful; your leaders were experienced, your soldiers warlike and disciplined. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature And the reason of all this was the peace; for men's bodies lacked exercise and were enervated in the ease so propitious to vices. The Danish History, Books I-IX The empire did not fall till luxury and prosperity enervated the people and rendered them unable to cope with the barbarian hosts. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. Whether enervated by the heat or giving way to pent up irritation the professor surrendered himself to the mood of sincerity. Within the Tides I was young; I had good health; pleasure and I had never met; no indulgence of hers had enervated or sated one faculty of my nature. The Professor |
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