Its fiends are the stewards who rouse us from our perpetual torpor with offers of food and praises of shadowy banquets,"Nice mutton-chop, Sir? roast-turkey? plate of soup?"

There was such a general intellectual torpor that scholars (and these were very few) were left at liberty to think and write as they pleased on the great questions of theology.

In a little while he sank into a deep reverie, or rather into a sort of mental torpor.

That 'awakening,'" I went on, after a moment of wondering why the distant stream of the valley was called "the Looking-glass," and learning only that such was its name, "was when after the bookish torpor of his mindyou remember he called books his opiateshe felt the beauty of the spring and the marvel of human service come back on him like a flood.

He is apt to end by wondering a little whether life is really worth the trouble it costs, when almost the best thing that can come of it is a condition of comfortable torpor like this.

And to know it a man must live here, and he will see the promising and ardent men sinking one after another in a deadly torpor, wrapped up in self-contemplation, dead to their Redeemer, and useless to His Church, under the baneful breath of this accursed upas tree.

The burning at my stomach now departed; I experienced no pain; but a dull torpor came over me; my hands and feet became cold; I believed I was dying, and I rejoiced at the thought.

In narration you must vivify emotional torpor; but lest in your efforts to inveigle boredom you yourself should induce it, you must have a wary eye for signals of distress.

Now my life was like a garden in the emotive torpor of spring; now my life was like a flower conscious of the light.

Irreligious Spirit This exaggeration of conscientiousness was already a symptom of its incipient torpor; and the reaction against itindifference and unbelieffailed not soon to appear.

But on this morning, again a sudden rush of tears had streamed down her cheeks, and she had begun to stammer words without any connection; which seemed to prove that in the midst of her senile exhaustion and the incurable torpor of madness, the slow induration of the brain and the limbs was not yet complete; there still were memories stored away, gleams of intelligence still were possible.

Now I feel an irresistible torpor coming over me.

Crawling out of the stream, he sank down on the bank in a species of lethargic torpor, from which, he awakened next morning in a raging fever.

Its limitless torpor weighed on the brain; the eyes ached, stretching to find some break before the dull russet faded into the amber of the horizon and was lost.

Souls who are bound to the countries of the past, shake off the neurasthenic torpor, wracked by outbursts of frenzy, which weighs you down.

Was it long ago that he was in a condition of "peaceful torpor?"

They set forth the situationthe torpor of the Faubourgs, no one at the Society of Cabinet Makers, the doors closed nearly everywhere.

"Say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!" Over and over again that voice breaks in upon the slumbrous torpor of Israel and smites the dead souls of priests and people alike.

As she was unable to communicate with people, she lived in a sort of somnambulistic torpor.

Even in the darkest times of spiritual torpor and general profligacy England could show a creditable amount of practical benevolence.

Weakness, however, after the first violent agitation was soothed, favoured a kind of stunned torpor, and Cecil lay still, except when her maid tried to do anything for her, and then the passion returned.

I felt a sudden torpor and sickness that pervaded every fibre of my frame.

The people who lived in those towns seemed like so many victims of a universal torpor.

Margaret had lived longer, but in absolute mental torpor.

He should wake up soon from this unnatural torpor of pain to an empty house of life, through the cold halls of which he would seek in vain for Jenny for evermore.