[Footnote 2: "Samâdhi," says Eitel, "signifies the highest pitch of abstract, ecstatic meditation; a state of absolute indifference to all influences from within or without; a state of torpor of both the material and spiritual forces of vitality; a sort of terrestrial Nirvâna, consistently culminating in total destruction of life.

Awkward disturbances will arise; people will not submit to have their throats cut quietly; they will run, they will kick, they will bite; and whilst the portrait painter often has to complain of too much torpor in his subject, the artist, in our line, is generally embarrassed by too much animation.

It appeared as if he was endeavoring, by light-heartedness as much as by devotion, to quicken Ottilie's torpor into life, and dissolve her silence.

It was they who moved the country, shaking its torpor like successive earthquakes.

"Turkey-in-Asia" is a transitory phenomenon, a sort of chrysalis which enshrouded the countries of Western Asia because they were exhausted and needed torpor as a preliminary to recuperation.

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?"

The soft rustle of a silk dress roused him from his torpor by its familiar sound.

While lying in a half torpor on your lap, I have again, as if out of another world, heard every syllable which you uttered.

Mercy on us, there has been a strange torpor over me.

It must be admitted, on the other hand, that there is a possibility of a period of reaction and torpor after the strain of the war; the country will be seriously impoverished, and there will be a heavy burden of taxation in spite of some probable relief from the burden of armaments.