There are three forms in which heat is universally applied to the body,that of the tepid, warm, and vapour bath; but as the first is too inert to be worth notice, and the last dangerous and inapplicable, except in public institutions, we shall confine our remarks to the really efficacious and always attainable onethe 2601.

Gloria lay inert; she chewed slowly at a bit broken from a slab of hard chocolate and kept her eyes closed.

Leaving Gloria where she lay inert in the snow, King put down rifle and pack and hurried down into the hollow where he had tethered his horse.

And in the face of such a menace the Arabs remained inert.

can this be a specimen of the art which gives elasticity to the most inert confirmation, which sets the blood glowing with a warm and genial flow, and makes beauty float before our ravished senses, stealing our admiration by the gracefulness of each new motion, till at last our souls thrill to each warning movement, and dissolve into ecstasy and love?

His head fallen forward, chin resting on his chest, mouth ajar, inert arms dangling over the arms of the chair, heavy legs lax, the Englishman sat quite dead, dead without a sign to show how death had come to him.

" The Chinaman bent over, gathered the inert body into his arms, and without perceptible effort stood erect.

Dreamy and inert and phlegmatic people shiver and huddle, see only the sombreness, and find the winter one long imprisonment in the dark.

Is there nothing more cheerful for us to contemplate than what the old Pagan philosophy holds out,man destined to live like brutes or butterflies, and pass away into the infinity of time and space, like inert matter, decomposed, absorbed, and entering into new and everlasting combinations?

It was at once a powerful instrument of industrial development, and of progress in the conquest of man over inert matter, and a terrible engine of devastation in warfare, and of massacre and vandalism where homicidal and destructive passions were aroused in mankind.

Of such a "sluggish, inert mass" why should you be afraid?

Beside inert matter, this requires only two active forces, on whose interaction all becoming and all life depend.

Politically inert, divided into petty states, powerless, the ever-ready prey of more active or ambitious neighbors, it has played a pitiful rôle in the world's history, with annals made up of petty feuds and jealousies and tyrannical meannesses, never working as one people, save when driven to extremity.

Chess may be all very well to tax with tough problems a brain otherwise inert, to vary a monotonous day with small events, to keep one awake during a sleepy evening, and to arouse a whole family next morning for the adjustment over the breakfast-table of that momentous state-question, whether the red king should have castled at the fiftieth move or not till the fifty-first.

Philippe gave her a last glance, hoping for some softening; but she remained inert and frigid.

Feeble, languid, and inert, sitting motionless for hours at her window, or moving her small fingers over the strings of her guitar, to some soft and languishing air, she would have seemed to a stranger incapable of rousing herself from that indolent repose, in which mind as well as body participated.

He felt that such a yielding was, after all, like the inert obedience of the leaf to the storm windthat what he could compel, what women call love, would be as utterly without substance as an image in a mirror, indeed, would be a mere passive reflection of his own loveall most men want, but worthless to him.

Panting and choking, he had made one last desperate attempt to break the grip that pinned him down; and then lay spent and inert except for an occasional hoarse gasp, or convulsive movement of his massive frame.

Given the order, Baldy wheeled instantly, and dashed forward with no slackening of his former speed, though "Scotty" was lying inert and useless, an unusual and unexpected burden.

It had left her more than ever helpless, more than ever subject to infatuation, more than ever morally inert.

Now that the struggle was over, that Ireland lay like an inert thing in the hands of her victors, her punishment, it was resolved, should begin.

Then came a thud and the lion lay inert.

And one of the reasons why many men who start as promising writers come to nothing is because they can't be inert, acquiescent, easy-going.

How can there possibly be a paradise where one would find happiness again?" His voice rose, his inert arms trembled.

The woman on her knees and the woman standing up watched the man who was stretched there, inert as if he had never lived.