lie torpid
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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
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)
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
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)
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
