lie torpid
Example Sentences
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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
Professor Smawl ate heavily and retired to her tent to lie torpid until evening.
From In Search of the Unknown by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
Do they change into anything, lie torpid, and then change again into something else, with wings?
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
After feeding-time they would lie torpid in a heavenly frowst reading Wisden's Annual or sixpenny magazines.
From Years of Plenty by Brown, Ivor
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
