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Nearing Chinnavaikal, we see two cows on the shore, one lying torpid in the sun, one nosing around desultorily.
All the members called him Sloth, which perfectly reflected his sluggish and torpid personality.
Later on, the caffeine seems to wear off, and torpid ballads take over as the singer ventures repeatedly into a strained falsetto.
The writing is torpid, the characters unfocused, the situations barely credible.
As the discerning stare of the procuress suggests, the eagerness of the suitor is by no means matched by his torpid purchase.
David, perhaps you could say more about this than I can, but I think in the most extreme case it leads to the animal becoming completely torpid.
They may survive the winter, when fewer insects are available, by becoming torpid.
In the evening, if you stand on the Roman bridge, you can watch men wading the torpid cressy river, carrying pans.
The white bass are on their annual spawning migration out of torpid Toledo Bend and into the living, breathing Sabine River.
It spends most of its life buried deep in the soil in a shriveled, torpid state.
Dogfish resting on the rocks are surprisingly alert, twitching away almost as soon as we notice them, with none of their usual torpid behaviour.
We fade, lose heart, become torpid, languish, then the sap rises again, and we are passionate.
A black sky stretched out above me and cold stars gazed down with torpid light that dulled and burned a stark yellow.
Whatever it is, they like it that way, and bleary-eyed and torpid they fin, in just enough slow motion to keep themselves in accurate alignment.
Sheep were torpid, and even with binoculars, there wasn't a walker moving anywhere.
This was a useful camouflage, as they were both cool, torpid, and temporarily unable to fly after their probably nightlong tryst.
Energy requirements when euthermic and torpid, as well as the frequency of arousals, vary strongly with ambient temperature.
Brain waves, absent when the animal is deeply torpid, return spontaneously.
Sweeping lawsuits like the ones brought by Lowry have long been a favorite tool for shaking up torpid child welfare bureaucracies.
But the comedy is slack, the song lyrics feeble, the pace torpid.
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Barbara and I crawl away with no more spring or backbone in us than a couple of torpid, wintery flies.
A snake who had lain torpid all winter in his hole took advantage of the first warm day to limber up for the spring campaign.
I was not deceived then, it was a torpid man that I had under my eyes, and not a dead one!
I was a cipher in this august company, and felt subdued, not to say torpid.
Bees are not, as some suppose, in a dormant, or torpid condition in Winter.
The muscles of the face, more than those of any other part of the body, are lazy and torpid.
Wedded to Rowena, indeed, her nobler and more generous soul may yet awake the better nature which is torpid within him.
I lie awake while thou sleepest, I weep while thou singest, I am faint with fasting while thou art sluggish and torpid from pure repletion.
In the white of his eye there was a torpid and composed abstraction.
They are the dullest, slowest, most torpid of mortal creatures.
He was torpid, and the look on his face was sullen and vindictive.
His mind, too, was in a torpid state, but might gradually awaken.
The bold and reckless young blood of ten-years back was subjugated and was turned into a torpid, submissive, middle-aged, stout gentleman.
Memory was not so utterly torpid in Silas that it could not be awakened by these words.
Not with such fervor prays the torpid recluse, looking forward to the cold, sunless, stagnant calm of a day that is to be like innumerable yesterdays.
He had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature's requirements like a torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom.
At one of these moments of less torpid, yet still imperfect animation, Phoebe became convinced of what she had at first rejected as too extravagant and startling an idea.
The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms.
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