The stories are collectively a portrait of a certain kind of enervated sophistication that even the enervated sophisticates yearn to see upended. From Wordnik.com. [The Munro Doctrine of Humor] Reference
Christianity because he feared that it might otherwise lapse into a kind of enervated allegory. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
I started thinking about the kind of enervated torpor-like state that CFS patients experience and I asked him if this could be related to CFS. From Wordnik.com. [Mangan's] Reference
War and conquest had enervated and corrupted the masses. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
And he has truly enervated his Language in four several Lines. From Wordnik.com. [A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)] Reference
The best disciplined troops have been enervated and made cowards by it. From Wordnik.com. [A sketch of the life and services of Gen. Otho Holland Williams Read before the Maryland historical society, on Thursday evening, March 6, 1851] Reference
This was the bulky but enervated descendant of chivalric and pastoral romance. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
My mind at the time was enervated by disease, and by no means well disciplined. From Wordnik.com. [A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery] Reference
A very good, and I dare say brave, old man; enervated, and shaking with the palsy. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1] Reference
It was this concept that also led Purney to his unusual theory of enervated diction. From Wordnik.com. [A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)] Reference
But she goes on, and now we shall not\ doubt that he is enervated, for this is what she says. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
We return home exhausted and enervated, but satisfied that we've ticked the boxes on our list. From Wordnik.com. [Art Attack] Reference
She was lethargic and enervated, unable even to muster the strength to raise herself to defecate. From Wordnik.com. [Take Two Roots; Call Me . . .] Reference
See how his soul becomes enervated, his judgment warped and his heart invaded by every temptation. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference
But the whale irritated, instead of being enervated by its wounds, recommenced its furious conduct. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
Her limbs enervated and supine, wanting of that Energy which should bear her from a Solitude so affrighting!. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
Instead, indeed, we are bored and enervated, where we might have been refreshed, either by romance or laughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII] Reference
But you couldn't tell that by listening to the sweet if somewhat enervated reasonableness of William J. Clinton. From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: In Eight Minutes, Clinton Shows His Mastery] Reference
Those who have no manliness or reason, the enervated and untrained, who retain the opinions they had as children. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
The mozo, feeling his secondary position, had enervated himself slightly -- the superior was magisterially tipsy. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873] Reference
The sun was hot on the back of his neck: still morning and already he felt enervated by the brassy blare of the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Gansevoort Ridge] Reference
Also in Persia and Turkey it is in great repute for recruiting the exhausted vitality of aged, and enervated persons. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
They miscalculated his nature, and supposed causes produced the same effects in a healthful and an enervated constitution. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
To be sure, he is a good Catholic, which the Incas were not, but he is indolent, enervated, and enslaved by his own passions. From Wordnik.com. [The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal] Reference
Even the very coachmen and footmen in the Park looked enervated, as the long lines of carriages passed in wearisome procession. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
She was enervated by melancholy, scorched by impatience, then chilled by an indefinable foreboding, just as her father had been. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
The man, though enervated by over-indulgence, had the brute force, the animal instinct of self-preservation, to carry him through. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
The debaucheries into which that man impelled him soon became all indispensable distraction for that soft and enervated mind, to which the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
It has enervated their strength, multiplied their diseases, and superinduced upon their original barbarity the law-vices of artificial life. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
It has enervated their strength, multiplied their diseases, and superinduced upon their original barbarity the low vices of artificial life. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
For all the respect these films garnered, there were always detractors who dismissed their work as enervated "Masterpiece Theatre" gentility. From Wordnik.com. [Forster Revisited] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
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