It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age.    From LearnThat.org.  [Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)]

All was cold and rainy and dark, and we waited in a kind of torpid misery for daylight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Views a-foot] Reference

Sometimes I have a kind of torpid languid feeling, which is scarcely unpleasant, only strange, you know.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlotte's Inheritance] Reference

One evening, I sat upon our front step, in a kind of torpid state of mind through my refusal to contemplate the dismal future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces.] Reference

But he did not shed even a single tear, only his face looked more severe than usual, but there was depicted in it a kind of torpid calm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy] Reference

A siege of the most agonizing pains describable, fell into a kind of torpid state of insensibility which continued for some hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nick-named Jeffrey Brace. Containing an Account of the Kingdom of Bow-Woo, in the Interior of Africa; with the Climate and Natural Productions, Laws, and Customs Peculiar to That Place. With an Account of His Captivity, Sufferings, Sales, Travels, Emancipation, Conversion to the Christian Religion, Knowledge of the Scriptures, &c. Interspersed with Strictures on Slavery, Speculative Observations on the Qualities of Human Nature, with Quotation from Scripture.] Reference

It seemed to be always in a languid or torpid condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference

Now the inmates seemed numbed, silent and torpid with cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

Unconsciously, her somewhat torpid mental powers quickened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference

One of the last cases of affection of the brain in torpid scarlatina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms] Reference

Lance, truthfully, not only felt weary and torpid, but a great deal disappointed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Next Door, Next World] Reference

The torpid political world, the ancien regime, has put the nation at long-term risk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tea Party and Its Demons] Reference

The reaction was torpid, and the brain became affected almost from the commencement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms] Reference

My sleep is torpid, stubborn, accursed, but the dawn is here, and I must soon awake! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

It brings back lost hair by giving life and vigor to the torpid or paralyzed scalp nerves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference

Instead of glowing with activity, the middle sections of their brains appear dim and torpid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Disappearing Mind] Reference

The muscles of the face, more than those of any other part of the body, are lazy and torpid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference

Rouse then from your lethargy, and let not such torpid indifference prevail in your councils.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872] Reference

The Northeast has been hit hardest by a torpid economy, but other urban governments are not immune.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cities On The Brink] Reference

But we must manage our affairs shrewdly, for it is not the first time that he has played the torpid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Hence torpid campaigns, languid strategy, advances without purpose, and surrenders without necessity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

I fell into a miserable torpid state, taking no interest in anything, and feeling only my misery acutely.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference

There's a long history of torpid American whining, especially evident in the years between the world wars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Whining: We're No. 1] Reference

Hot water is good for constipation, torpid liver, and relieves colic and flatulence, and is of special value.    From Wordnik.com.  [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] Reference

The wet compress on the throat in torpid cases should not be changed often, but left till it becomes almost dry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms] Reference

He then gazed long and anxiously at the torpid slumberer, standing at the bedside and watching that marble face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edmond Dantès] Reference

New conditions have called into play valuable qualities which were torpid until touched by the wand of necessity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference

His mind was making the visit in advance of the appointed time, and his torpid body alone observed the social usages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference

Were it all sadness the world would grow morose and torpid; were it all gladness men would be selfish and hard-hearted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge] Reference

This breezy but firm assertiveness seems to chime with the mood in a Britain that has just shown the torpid Tories the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wannabes] Reference

Both repeatedly interrupt the action with annoying stand-up comics, apparently to distract from the torpid plot development.    From Wordnik.com.  [UH-OH! TOMMY TUNES OUT] Reference

The question has been raised, whether in typhoid cases, and in cases of torpid reaction in general, water is at all applicable?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms] Reference

In torpid cases, some beef-tea, chicken-broth, and even a little wine with water, will raise the reactive powers of the patient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms] Reference

The strict propriety with which he had been brought up had resulted in weak lungs, poor digestion, sluggish circulation, and torpid liver.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Brace Of Boys 1867, From "Little Brother"] Reference