The nation must rouse herself and shake off the torpor of her government.

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

"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.

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

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.

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.

I begin to master my torpor.