They were beginning slowly to form together with Mongol elements a new unit, the Juan-juan, but at this time were still politically inactive.

The remains of the Brissotin faction, still at liberty, from whom some exertions might have been expected, were cautiously inactive; and those who had been most in the habit of appreciating themselves for their valour, were now conspicuous only for that discretion which Falstaff calls the better part of it.

NIEBUHR It is one of the inestimable advantages of a hereditary government commonly called the legitimate, whatever its form may be, that it may be formally inactive in regard to the state and the populationthat it may reserve its interference until it is absolutely necessary, and apparently leave things to take their own course.

A pleasant languour, like a light opiate, infused his consciousness; yet he was by no means mentally inactive.

How mournfully inactive I am!'Tis night; good night.

This, of course, renders the water more stimulating to the skin; but except when the perspiration is checked, or the skin peculiarly inactive from some other causein other words, unless we are sickit is seldom expedient to use it.

They are slow and dull, and sexually inactive, often impotent.

He remained, after the battle of Lutzen, unaccountably inactive in Bohemia.

For some while after Leo gave him his liberty, he seems to have remained comparatively inactive.