lie torpid
Example Sentences
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All the exquisite nerves that bear to your soul these tidings of heaven in me lie torpid or dead.
From Gala-days by Hamilton, Gail
They sleep, perhaps—like the creatures that hide themselves in the ground and lie torpid all the winter—but with one breath of the past they flame into life again.'
From Milly Darrell and Other Tales by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
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
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
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
