torpitude

That fact cannot be lost on our voting public and that fact has pushed many from the easy going torpitude of classic Britishness into the arms of fringe extremism.

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Usually, however, the fever is not preceded by a chill, but after languor and torpitude have seized him, with excessive heat and throbbing temples, the loin and spinal column ache, and raging thirst soon possesses him.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

The following morning, in order to rouse my people from the sickened torpitude they had lapsed into, I beat an exhilarating alarum on a tin pan with an iron ladle, intimating that a sofari was about to be undertaken.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

Country Men from that state of security and torpitude into which they seem to be sunk.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 6 - 9 May 1777 1963

Her voice made a tiny noise in the grave torpitude of the day.

Erik Dorn Ben Hecht 1929

The torpitude of digestion a little passed, she flutters half an hour through the streets, by way of paying visits, and then to the spectacles.

The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) Thomas Jefferson 1784

The torpitude of digestion a little passed, she flutters half an hour through the streets, by way of paying visits, and then to the spectacles.

Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Thomas Jefferson 1784

The Russians seem not yet thawed from the winter's torpitude.

Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Thomas Jefferson 1784

It is impossible, Madam, that the generous warmth and angelic purity of your youthful mind can have any idea of that moral disease under which I unhappily must rank as the chief of sinners; I mean a torpitude of the moral powers that may be called a lethargy of conscience.

The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777

It is impossible, Madam, that the generous warmth and angelic purity of your youthful mind, can have any idea of that moral disease under which I unhappily must rank us the chief of sinners; I mean a torpitude of the moral powers, that may be called, a lethargy of conscience.

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777