lie torpid
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This time he had no energy to attack himself with adjurations and sarcasms; body and soul were oppressed with uttermost fatigue, and for a time must lie torpid.
From The Emancipated by Gissing, George
The beautiful star-fish, with its five points, as equally, and regularly arranged, as though it had been done by the rule of the mathematician, with great worm-like molluscs, lie torpid on the white sand.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
It is also undoubtedly true that they creep into holes wherever they can find one, and that in these holes they lie torpid for a considerable period.
From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Allen, Grant
In winter they lie torpid, and in spring deposit their eggs about two inches beneath the earth's surface.
From Charley's Museum A Story for Young People by Unknown
In temperate climes lizards lie torpid and buried all winter; some species of the tropic deserts sleep peacefully all summer.
From The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English by Castle, Egerton
