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Meanings of torpid state in английском

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Usage of torpid state in английском
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In their strange torpid state the creatures didn't seem to notice her.
Metro 2034
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His mind, too, was in a torpid state, but might gradually awaken.
Fairy Fingers / A Novel
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So Averan lay in a torpid state, plagued by strange sensations.
Wizardborn
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He is scarcely roused from this torpid state but by the cravings of nature.
Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries / Inter...
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Again he attempted to shake off the torpid state that was slowly mastering him.
The Stowmarket Mystery; Or, A Legacy of Hate
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Thinks that a torpid state of political life is unfavourable to intellectual product in general.
Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nas...
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Do they lie in a torpid state?
The Natural History of Selborne
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By digging, however, in the ground, several insects, large spiders, and lizards were found in a half- torpid state.
The Voyage of the Beagle
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Hence by this ingenious exertion, they for a long time prevent the torpid state they would naturally fall into.
Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I
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Hibernation is a dormant or torpid state which allows animals to survive for several months while using very little energy.
The Irish Times
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We had a head wind, and rough sea, and I remained in a torpid state during most of the voyage.
The Lands of the Saracen / Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Si...
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This appeal, although made to the least sensitive part of his frame, roused the indolent Asiatic from his usual torpid state.
Frank Mildmay; Or, The Naval Officer
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Like ungrateful vipers, who in a torpid state were harmless, they will when warmed by your benefits turn and kill you.
Massacres of the South (1551-1815) / Celebrated Crimes
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Was the mind the origin of this condition, or was it the body which brought about this torpid state of mind?
Philosophical Letters of Friedrich Schiller
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The grand enemy of truth is the torpid state of error; for the beginning of doubt is always the beginning of discovery.
Anna St. Ives
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When Gervaise went back upstairs, she found Coupeau seated on the bed, in the torpid state induced by one of his attacks.
L'Assommoir
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