lethargy


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But the possibility which now suggested itself that one of the shapes might be the shape of Terence roused her from her melancholy lethargy.
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But with the coming of Peter, who hates lethargy, they are under way again: if you put your ear to the ground now, you would hear the whole island seething with life.
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The fellow was almost upon Perry when the feel of the gun in my hand awoke me from the lethargy of terror that had gripped me.
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He would have risen to fight off the creeping lethargy, but his legs seemed weak, so that he sank again to the bench.
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It was strange the absolute lethargy which had come upon us as a reaction after our tremendous emotions of the last twenty-four hours.
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Once, he tried to arouse himself from his lethargy, and went forward into the forecastle with the sailors.
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For hours together he remained in a state of utter lethargy in his chair.
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His years were too heavy upon him, the debility of disease and the lethargy and torpor of the silence and the cold were too profound.
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After some years of increasing lethargy and imbecility, occasionally varied by fits of violent madness and terrible pain, he died in 1745, leaving all his money to found a hospital for the insane.
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Buckwheat could no longer be the food of a population which, awakened from its lethargy, had become essentially active.
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I lived on the edge of the village then, and had just lost myself over Davenant's "Gondibert," that winter that I labored with a lethargy -- which, by the way, I never knew whether to regard as a family complaint, having an uncle who goes to sleep shaving himself, and is obliged to sprout potatoes in a cellar Sundays, in order to keep awake and keep the Sabbath, or as the consequence of my attempt to read Chalmers' collection of English poetry without skipping.
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Aroused from his lethargy by the cries and reports, Larsan opened the window of his chamber and called out to us.
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