Towards the end of the last century a certain torpidity fell upon this concept of the chemical atom. From Wordnik.com. [Johannes Stark - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Chisleu -- meaning "torpidity," the state in which nature is in November, answering to this month. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
And no, torpidity is not something a U-boat used to sink ships. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-03-01] Reference
But very much more -- mere inertia and torpidity in mind and body. From Wordnik.com. [New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments] Reference
Oppressed with grief, She continued for some time in this state of torpidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Monk] Reference
No! That was the danger — she must not sink into torpidity — not at her age. From Wordnik.com. [A Haunted House, and other short stories] Reference
Here and there a little animal lies curled up in the corner of his cage, in a state of torpidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828] Reference
Under its light and warmth, we wake from our torpidity and coldness, to a sense of our capabilities. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met] Reference
His words sounded like thunder to her ears: She awoke from her torpidity only to be sensible of the dangers of her situation. From Wordnik.com. [The Monk] Reference
In the last three decades the concept of the chemical atom has been set free from this torpidity by our experiences in physics. From Wordnik.com. [Johannes Stark - Nobel Lecture] Reference
The inability or refusal to reason, to seek truth and understanding, inevitably leads to intolerance and intellectual torpidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Absence of Reason] Reference
When the last rays are shedding their rich red glow over the tall black trees which hem in the village, all torpidity disappears from it. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
The former method in wise hands is the better, both as the speedier, and, considering the opiate torpidity of the intestines, by far the more certain. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
Horseback riding will form another admirable means of effecting our purpose, especially where the patient suffers from more than the usual opiate torpidity of the liver. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
Still he expressed no sense of pain, and probably experienced none, from the gradual operation of the fire and his own torpidity during the hours his foot was consuming. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 363, March 28, 1829] Reference
Frankly to me, the lack of a sense of humor, as evidenced by today's earnest laugh-like essay on the perils of television is in itself a dangerous form of mental torpidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Chimes at Midnight] Reference
The blockhead would be discerned by the torpidity and sluggishness of all his movements: folly sets its mark upon every gesture, and so does intellect and a studious nature. From Wordnik.com. [Religion] Reference
He read, raised his hand to his head, read again -- read again, seemed to lose his eyesight, felt a sensation of cold, of torpidity spreading from his breast throughout his body. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian] Reference
They shook off their normal and habitual torpidity, and cheerfully elbowed their neighbours, nearly tumbling down the companion-ladder in their eagerness to be first in the field. From Wordnik.com. [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference
I wonder now, how long this torpidity in the psychic germ has lasted in you?. From Wordnik.com. [Ziska] Reference
The extraordinary torpidity of the surrounding objects gradually affected the persons. From Wordnik.com. [The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
The torpidity leaves the snakes and the turtles, and they come forth and bask in the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Poets : with Other Papers] Reference
It was short, sharp, quick, and clear; and so loud as to startle even Snowball from his torpidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea] Reference
After a year and a half of congealed torpidity, the March wind once more began to blow in his soul. From Wordnik.com. [Gänsemännchen. English] Reference
Herr Carovius, awakening from his torpidity, saw that it was high time to make some effort to escape. From Wordnik.com. [Gänsemännchen. English] Reference
No 'jargon ridden pleonasm' here, as Martin's friend Evan might observe, and no turgid torpidity either. From Wordnik.com. [WalesOnline - Home] Reference
A strange torpidity had come over him; every rising day gazed into his eyes with a fierce unmeaning glare. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Two Hemispheres] Reference
And although she had announced the torpidity of her nerves, her hands clenched and her voice shook slightly. From Wordnik.com. [Black Oxen] Reference
During 1817 Irving was mostly in the depths of gloom, a prey to the monotony of life and torpidity of intellect. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
And he knew now that it was his own voice, for he was rapidly shaking off the strange feeling of mental torpidity. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain] Reference
Have I got to stand another month of this torpidity before I can begin to browse among the lively capitals of Europe?. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Letters of Mark Twain] Reference
The lurking passages began to brighten with life, and where, a moment ago, was sick torpidity was now movement, clamour. From Wordnik.com. [Nights in London] Reference
Now you see only torpidity and flabbiness, you hear only the trivial, the rhythmically inaccurate, and the melodiously trite. From Wordnik.com. [On the Future of our Educational Institutions] Reference
Iron conservative, miser, or thief, no man is but by a supposed necessity which he tolerates by shortness or torpidity of sight. From Wordnik.com. [Essays — Second Series] Reference
I take pains to remember these small items, because they suggest the day-life or torpidity of what may look very brilliant at night. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
'One day, which it appears was the paroxysm of my disorder, I sunk in to a state of total torpidity, in which I lay for several hours. From Wordnik.com. [A Sicilian Romance] Reference
In what secret place, in what dungeon of darkness and despair, in what chains of torpidity and oblivion, have you hidden away their souls?. From Wordnik.com. [Gala-days] Reference
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