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  • At the height of its success, Gregarious Games appeared to fall dormant.†   (source)
  • On those rare occasions when we had close contact, I thought I saw a shadow of him stir behind your eyes … Harry remembered the feeling that a dormant snake had risen in him, ready to strike, in those moments when he and Dumbledore had made eye-contact.†   (source)
  • They lie dormant and waiting, these mud frogs, for without water their lives are incomplete, they are not fully themselves.†   (source)
  • So the scientists said it was probably an ancient and dormant volcano crater.†   (source)
  • Some dormant instinct tells me to smile, run my hand through my hair.†   (source)
  • But early in rainy season he learned his first lesson: The ditch was really a dormant riverbed, and when he returned from surfing he found that his "home" and all of his belongings had been washed away! a perfect match…. a world away†   (source)
  • Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert.†   (source)
  • It was this part of the aftermath that I thought of when I thought of Mr. Harvey—how he wandered the muddy excavations and got lost among the dormant bulldozers, their monstrous bulk frightening in the dark.†   (source)
  • But deep inside something that had been dormant for so long was finally getting the chance to grow and I felt it glowing inside me.†   (source)
  • It's just been dormant, which means it's been quiet."†   (source)
  • This dormancy cannot restrain death forever ….†   (source)
  • Mosquitoes that had lain dormant through the long drought now hatched and rose from the forest floor in clouds so thick they filled our mouths and nostrils.†   (source)
  • And while they were somewhat pricey, they bloomed for six months or more, then went dormant before surprising you with new blooms all over again.†   (source)
  • Three months before the teslas become dormant.†   (source)
  • Its tendency to lie dormant for so long, then make an appearance, its ability because of that dormant period to turn every victim into an unknowing carrier, its virtual one hundred percent mortality rates over the first decade or so of its history, all these things offer strong symbolic possibilities.†   (source)
  • Maxon pulled me into a large parlor and steered me to the wall next to a wide, dormant fireplace.†   (source)
  • The landscape opened into actual countryside—fallow fields, dormant vineyards, orchards of bare fruit trees.†   (source)
  • Dormant gears in Adel's mind had begun to turn.†   (source)
  • An eerie static, insistent but near subliminal, that made me think of wintering souls, some form of dormant life approaching the threshold of perception.†   (source)
  • One intriguing aspect of this knowledge is that it allegedly enables its practitioners to access powerful abilities that lie dormant in the human mind.†   (source)
  • It wasn't an accusing, protesting silence as much as a sort of estivation, a dormancy, the psychological equivalent of what lungfish do to get themselves through the dry season, except that in Estha's case the dry season looked as though it would last forever.†   (source)
  • He knew that if Hekate Awakened the twins dormant magical powers, then he could use what he had learned over six hundred years of study to increase their skills.†   (source)
  • "It also may serve as a trigger to activate dormant memories," said Magnus.†   (source)
  • The break with Sara Noriega, however, revived his dormant grief, and once again he felt as he did on those afternoons of endless reading in the little park, but this time it was exacerbated by his urgent need for Dr. Juvenal Urbino to die.†   (source)
  • Its green and white stripes indicate the constant multiple, condition of parallel active and dormant chlorophyll regions.†   (source)
  • Christmas morning found a brand-new toboggan beneath the tree and enough snow gear to outfit an excursion to Antarctica, but the view out our windows remained all bare branches, dormant lawns, and brown cornfields.†   (source)
  • They lay dormant, century by century. with only the stone to mark what had passed there.†   (source)
  • A dormant company?†   (source)
  • She smiles, but her eyes are glassy, like a dormant part of her is fighting its way out and spilling over.†   (source)
  • It was a specific tangent of post-traumatic stress disorder, one that suggested a woman who'd been repeatedly victimized both mentally and physically might so constantly fear for her life that the line between reality and fantasy blurred, to the point where she felt threatened even when the threat was dormant, or in Joe Riccobono's case, as he lay sleeping off a three-day drinking spree.†   (source)
  • It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years.†   (source)
  • He had planted a seed, and though I let that seed lie dormant for a long season, it eventually began to grow.†   (source)
  • In a corner, hoses lay coiled like a family of dormant snakes.†   (source)
  • The Ku Klux Klan lay largely dormant until 1915, when D. W. Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation (originally titled The Clansman) helped spark its rebirth.†   (source)
  • I felt like it was keeping a part of my brain alive that would otherwise lie completely dormant—even in prison you had to work at being a nonconformist.†   (source)
  • Two hours later a truck arrived at the dock where the Ethan Allen lay dormant.†   (source)
  • Recognizing the talent dormant in the horse and in one another, they began a rehabilitation of Seabiscuit that would lift him, and them, from obscurity.†   (source)
  • With her tan and frosted hair and too many brightly colored matching shorts-and-sandals outfits, she had brought out a side of my mother that I believed would otherwise have lain dormant forever, never shown to the world.†   (source)
  • The great curving ramparts of the Bala Hisar Fort loomed over the receding town, glowing in the fiery light like a long-dormant volcano on the verge of awakening.†   (source)
  • The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long nap.†   (source)
  • The serpent lay dormant; the hostile fire never materialized.†   (source)
  • Soon afterwards he was taken to a hospital in Fez, and as he lay dying his hands moved like birds forming a thousand gestures, dormant all those years.†   (source)
  • Instead they had simply gone dormant, like a bear hibernating in the winter, feeding on its own tissue, waiting for the season yet to come.†   (source)
  • But the earth still stirs with dormant blooms.†   (source)
  • Her fingers bit into the flesh of my wrist; I twisted, stepping back from her, foundering in the face of the hatred, the rage rising like some dormant beast in her, looking out through her eyes.†   (source)
  • Her sensuality was dormant, and on the rare occasions when she brooded over her unfortunate fate, she had a pleasant vision of herself floating in a nebula, without suffering or joy, far away from the cruelties of life, with her daughter as her sole companion.†   (source)
  • I could see these things lay dormant in the boy, though he had received no formal education.†   (source)
  • My dormant brain stirred, and I asked myself if things had gone too far.†   (source)
  • The cancer that had most likely lain dormant in his body until then suddenly blossomed like a rose.†   (source)
  • At that moment it was as if someone who'd lain dormant within Stone took over.†   (source)
  • The brain-wave monitor sat dormant to her left.†   (source)
  • Dormant, until the gun arms them.†   (source)
  • THE CABLES, THE codes, the teleprinters had all been waiting dormant for two years.†   (source)
  • Some days, when the light is good, she searches the hill behind her house for the dormant plants she will transplant in the spring.†   (source)
  • From what you've told us, Carlos would pick up on a long-dormant operation known as Treadstone Seventy-one if only because none of our agents or subagents has been in his personal neighborhood for over a decade.†   (source)
  • With John gone so much, a part of me says that Rose Red has nothing to fight for, that her dormancy results from the lack of a need to protect me; but if Sukeena is right-and who am I to challenge her understanding of such matters?†   (source)
  • When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.†   (source)
  • She's more dormant while I'm working.†   (source)
  • When Hespira left the mountain to visit her mother, as she did from time to time, the vines were dormant, but otherwise they grew and grew until the mortar was all picked to dust and the temple fell in on itself and nothing was left but a pile of stones covered in green leaves and red flowers.†   (source)
  • He is dormant now.†   (source)
  • There's a whole range: dormant, stealth, even the fairly terrifying seek-and-destroy mode you've just witnessed.†   (source)
  • The jewels on the naked shoulders of women carried the glitter of the chandeliers to the shadows of the tables crowded against the distant walls; the severe black-and white of the men's figures rescued the room's style of solemnly regal luxury from the discordant slashes made by news cameras, microphones and a dormant array of television equipment.†   (source)
  • The hope that has been dormant in each of us blooms again, and we are giddy with the happiness that possibility brings.†   (source)
  • Climbing rose vines ran up the porch columns, a screen of dormant maypops covered part of the porch, and a husky vine of sleeping honeysuckle spread against one wall.†   (source)
  • Safia Bourihane was dormant for many months after her return from Syria.†   (source)
  • And, of course, the mysterious disease I had had might have been dormant and contagious.†   (source)
  • Some inner logic persuaded us both that such moments of supreme intuition followed from perfectly natural "keys"—circumstances which had been buried in memory or had lain dormant in the subconscious.†   (source)
  • Later, I wrote a story called "Livvie" about youth and old age: the death of an old, proud, possessive man and the coming into flower, after dormant years, of his young wife—a spring story.†   (source)
  • They had a tool or a weapon that is also nearly gone, or perhaps it is only dormant for a while.†   (source)
  • And in the moment when the sound of "Om" touched Siddhartha's ear, his dormant spirit suddenly woke up and realized the foolishness of his actions.†   (source)
  • I had seen the slow, calm beauty of our village wilt in the blast from town, and I grieved no more; so now I accepted the future and Ira's lot in it, and thrust it from me; only sometimes when I was weak, or in sleep while my will lay dormant, I found myself rebellious, protesting, rejecting, and no longer calm.†   (source)
  • I can tell you this, those seeds stayed dormant until a night twenty-one years ago this July.†   (source)
  • Dormant grapevines festooned the dining area—no doubt the work of my old friend Dionysus.†   (source)
  • For the dormant mud frogs we had been for so long.†   (source)
  • Like the monster it had once commanded, it might have lain dormant there for centuries.†   (source)
  • Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous.†   (source)
  • Maybe he's able to store some of this energy he pulls in during the dormant period."†   (source)
  • Each time it was like an electric shock to my long dormant heart.†   (source)
  • Nico held up his scepter, its orb dark and dormant.†   (source)
  • Ideally, they just kind of …. go dormant.†   (source)
  • His instincts of an agitator remained dormant as long as Don Apolinar Moscote was a figurehead.†   (source)
  • The terrain was mountainous around a dormant volcano, Grand Etang.†   (source)
  • Leo glanced at the dormant spheres on the worktables.†   (source)
  • Mattie said all the things that looked dead were just dormant.†   (source)
  • My ulcer, long dormant, rumbled in my stomach, as if answering this call.†   (source)
  • And besides, since she'd created the binding rune in Idris, her power had lain seemingly dormant.†   (source)
  • The few patches of dormant grass seemed out of place.†   (source)
  • The nerves that had been dormant for days began to jump again.†   (source)
  • He clutched hopefully at the gae bolga, but the spear lay dark and dormant in the mud.†   (source)
  • You said Melanie grows bored during your working hours… that she is more dormant.†   (source)
  • The company has been more or less dormant since it was set up.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, the malady might have lain dormant for many more years.†   (source)
  • Go dormant, like those toad frogs Mattie told us about.†   (source)
  • "He was dormant for a while," said Knowlton of the CIA.†   (source)
  • But in this horse, Smith knew there was something lying dormant.†   (source)
  • And then no more, for life was lived for active memories; the dormant ones lost meaning.†   (source)
  • Perhaps because he was determined to make up for having walked out on them, perhaps because Harry's descent into listlessness galvanized his dormant leadership qualities, Ron was the one now encouraging and exhorting the other two into action.†   (source)
  • The double blow to his head had somehow sapped him of everything, as if all his muscles had gone dormant because his brain didn't have enough energy to tell them what to do.†   (source)
  • My object is to wake the part of her mind that lies dormant — to probe down below the threshold of her consciousness, and to discover the memories that must perforce lie buried there.†   (source)
  • I wanted to believe Horus was giving me courage, or that maybe the past few days had finally woken up some dormant bravery gene I'd inherited from my parents.†   (source)
  • What I can do is Awaken your dormant powers, but the danger the very real danger is that it will overload your senses.†   (source)
  • No one outside the highest circles of the New Vatican knew precisely what had happened, but there were whispers of excommunication and even of a hearing before the Holy Office of the Inquisition, dormant the four centuries since the confusion following the death of Earth.†   (source)
  • If I had the time, I would take them to be properly trained, gradually Awaken their dormant powers but events have conspired against me, and time is that one precious commodity I do not have.†   (source)
  • I wondered if she even felt uncomfortable, or if the power of Demeter kept her safe through the winter like a leafless tree or a dormant seed in the earth.†   (source)
  • And the small pink hollow where the two sides of the girl's divided lip met shimmered and crawled, as if a dormant creature were stirring beneath the surface.†   (source)
  • These are the most potent of spells, for they can lie dormant for a thousand years or more and are difficult to perceive or avert.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist calls them 'the Zalachenko club,' a small group of dormant Cold War mongers who hide out in some dark hallway at Säpo."†   (source)
  • He deferred to Klara in a number of ways, sometimes subtle, sometimes not, and forced soft arguments he knew he could not win and played certain subjects toward her strength, which should have annoyed her but didn't, and was otherwise thoughtful, carrying her brand of cigarettes and talking her through this dormant period in her work, a time of small despair.†   (source)
  • I walked through the lobby, past the dormant metal detectors, took a deep breath, and opened the door.†   (source)
  • The secand is the absence of a correlation between lynchings and Klan membership: there were actually more lynchings of blacks between 1900 and 1909, when the Klan was dormant, than during the 1920s, when the Klan had millions of members—which suggests that the Ku Klux Klan carried out far fewer lynchings than is generally thought.†   (source)
  • They were headed to Mount Zuquala, a dormant volcano, where they hoped to shelter on land belonging to the Mojo family.†   (source)
  • They would camp near the towns and one of them, with a small gold fish in his hand, would go in disguise in broad daylight to contact the dormant Liberals, who would go out hunting on the following morning and never return.†   (source)
  • Their families grown, their work lives nearing an end, many of them felt an urge, long dormant, to reconnect with one another; to remember with their buddies.†   (source)
  • The rain over the previous couple of days had melted all the snow; where I once saw lawns blanketed in white, I now saw the familiar brown of centipede grass, gone dormant over the winter.†   (source)
  • More miles went by, and then Eugene turned the car down a lane that wasn't much more than twin ruts in the dirt spread over with still dormant grass and bracketed by thick wild brush.†   (source)
  • It meant that Jalal had no secrets to divulge, that the network, at least for the moment, was dormant.†   (source)
  • My comrades and I were enormously cheered; the spirit of mass protest that had seemed dormant through the 1960s was erupting in the 1970s.†   (source)
  • But when the approach of the armistice became known and they thought that he would return changed back into a human being, delivered at last for the hearts of his own people, the family feelings, dormant for such a long time, were reborn stronger than ever.†   (source)
  • My thespian career, which had lain dormant since I played John Wilkes Booth while at Fort Hare, had a modest revival on Robben Island.†   (source)
  • The virus became so dormant that my blood tests showed I wasn't a carrier, and that I couldn't infect anyone.†   (source)
  • So dormant, in fact, that the French lost interest in her, which is exactly what Saladin wanted to happen.†   (source)
  • The account had been dormant for more than a year, and one deposit of 9,312 kronor had been made the previous autumn.†   (source)
  • She wondered if perhaps the burrow grubs were still inside of her,lying dormant while they digested their meal.†   (source)
  • More than half of the enchantments were dormant—because they lacked energy, no longer had an object upon which to act, or were waiting for a certain set of circumstances that had yet to arrive—and a number of the spells seemed to conflict, as if the Riders, or whoever had cast them, had sought to modify or negate earlier pieces of magic.†   (source)
  • Sometimes in the nights Joel would feel himself surely under their eyes, and think they must have come; but that would be a dream, and when he sat up on his bench he often saw nothing more than the dormant firelight stretched on the empty floor, and he would have a strange feeling of having been deserted and lost, not quite like anything he had ever felt in his life.†   (source)
  • His massive physique had emerged from dormancy, more powerful now than ever before.†   (source)
  • For a while, we thought one of them was Cain; the timing corresponds to Cain's dormancy.†   (source)
  • The race of humans had felt its own dormancy, sensed itself grown stale and knew now only the need to experience turmoil in which the genes would mingle and the strong new mixtures survive.†   (source)
  • The splendor shrouded in the earth, the titan, dormant in his lair, disdainful.†   (source)
  • Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and fall and rise again.†   (source)
  • …in which men and women who once lived and breathed are now merely initials or nicknames out of some now incomprehensible affection which sound to us like Sanskrit or Chocktaw; we see dimly people, the people in whose living blood and seed we ourselves lay dormant and waiting, in this shadowy attenuation of time possessing now heroic proportions, performing their acts of simple passion and simple violence, impervious to time and inexplicable—Yes, Judith, Bon, Henry, Sutpen: all of them.†   (source)
  • , and event and change, inactive, dormant, void, beyond even the wonder of the hermaphroditic mystery.†   (source)
  • Also it was partly that my mother's death unveiled and intensified; made me suddenly develop perceptions, as if a burning glass had been laid over what was shaded and dormant.†   (source)
  • Indeed, the only way in which he might help was to provide opportunities for the beneficence of chance, which too often stays dormant unless roused to action.†   (source)
  • As the preacher talked there appeared before him a vast black silent void and the images of the preacher swam in that void, grew large and powerful" familiar images which his mother had given him when he was a child at her knee" images which in turn aroused impulses long dormant, impulses that he had suppressed and sought to shunt from his life.†   (source)
  • The discussion took them to dinner, lay dormant in the presence of the servants, started again as soon as they were alone, and lasted long after midnight.†   (source)
  • He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good; that it can lie dormant for years and years in furniture and linen-chests; that it bides its time in bedrooms, cellars, trunks, and bookshelves; and that perhaps the day would come when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.†   (source)
  • So he turned with a passion that made up for his indolence upon Catullus, Horace, Lucretius, lying lazily dormant, yes, but regardant, noticing, with rapture, cricketers, while with a mind like the tongue of an ant-eater, rapid, dexterous, glutinous, he searched out every curl and twist of those Roman sentences, and sought out one person, always one person to sit beside.†   (source)
  • With that realisation my dormant sense of wonder, my sense of the proportion of things, awoke again.†   (source)
  • His love still dormant might sleep the sleep of death.†   (source)
  • With him, she was only half-alive; the rest was dormant, deadened.†   (source)
  • Jane Withersteen realized that the spirit of wrath and war had lain dormant in her.†   (source)
  • And the dormant woman was the femme incomprise, and she HAD to be awakened.†   (source)
  • It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts.†   (source)
  • Ethan had an idea that if she were to marry a man she was fond of the dormant instinct would wake, and her pies and biscuits become the pride of the county; but domesticity in the abstract did not interest her.†   (source)
  • Her anxiety about Helen's extraordinary absence was still dormant, and as for a possible brush with Miss Avery-that only gave zest to the expedition.†   (source)
  • …itself from those Combray days to take its place among others more recent; perhaps because of those memories, so long abandoned and put out of mind, nothing now survived, everything was scattered; the forms of things, including that of the little scallop-shell of pastry, so richly sensual under its severe, religious folds, were either obliterated or had been so long dormant as to have lost the power of expansion which would have allowed them to resume their place in my consciousness.†   (source)
  • His tremendous, dormant strength must have stirred, swiftly and accurately, or I must have slept a moment, for before I knew it he had stepped two paces forward, gripped my right hand in his, and held it up for inspection.†   (source)
  • After looking to his rifle and ascertaining that it was in working order, he watched, and as he watched, slowly the force of a bitter fierceness, long dormant, gathered ready to flame into life.†   (source)
  • In fact, though this strength pervaded every action of his, it seemed but the advertisement of a greater strength that lurked within, that lay dormant and no more than stirred from time to time, but which might arouse, at any moment, terrible and compelling, like the rage of a lion or the wrath of a storm.†   (source)
  • She knew in a moment that for the past few months she had been mistaken: that this man who stood here before her, cold as a statue, when her musical voice struck upon his ear, loved her, as he had loved her a year ago: that his passion might have been dormant, but that it was there, as strong, as intense, as overwhelming, as when first her lips met his in one long, maddening kiss.†   (source)
  • While she was gone Mr. Rushworth arrived, escorting his mother, who came to be civil and to shew her civility especially, in urging the execution of the plan for visiting Sotherton, which had been started a fortnight before, and which, in consequence of her subsequent absence from home, had since lain dormant.†   (source)
  • But the heart of the old man had been too sensibly touched, through long dormant but still living recollections, to break off the communication so rudely.†   (source)
  • She had then taken the impassive figure in her arms, and, still upon her knees, was weeping over it, kissing it, calling to it, rocking it to and fro upon her bosom like a child, and trying every tender means to rouse the dormant senses.†   (source)
  • And when Jarvis Lorry saw the kindled eyes, the resolute face, the calm strong look and bearing of the man whose life always seemed to him to have been stopped, like a clock, for so many years, and then set going again with an energy which had lain dormant during the cessation of its usefulness, he believed.†   (source)
  • He was telling me this morning that, tired of letting his property lie dormant in Italy, which is a dead nation, he wished to find a method, either in France or England, of multiplying his millions, but remember, that though I place great confidence in Busoni, I am not responsible for this.†   (source)
  • It was not that Catherine was jealous; but her sense of Mrs. Penniman's innocent falsity, which had lain dormant, began to haunt her again, and she was glad that she was safely at home.†   (source)
  • This roused me from my nearly dormant state, and I ate some berries which I found hanging on the trees or lying on the ground.†   (source)
  • One day the soft airs of spring seemed to be stealing along the valley, and, in unison with an invigorating sun, attempting covertly to rouse the dormant powers of the vegetable world, while, on the next, the surly blasts from the north would sweep across the lake and erase every impression left by their gentle adversaries.†   (source)
  • They soon began to ascend; but as the motion had a tendency to revive the dormant faculties of her sister, the attention of Cora was too much divided between the tenderest solicitude in her behalf, and in listening to the cries which were still too audible on the plain, to note the direction in which they journeyed.†   (source)
  • Mr Dorrit, in a resplendent dressing-gown and cap—the dormant grub that had so long bided its time among the Collegians had burst into a rare butterfly—rose to receive Mrs General.†   (source)
  • Like the marmots in the surrounding hills, it closes its eyelids and becomes dormant for three months or more.†   (source)
  • He was quite unable, by means of anything he heard or saw, to identify the Raveloe religion with his old faith; if he could at any time in his previous life have done so, it must have been by the aid of a strong feeling ready to vibrate with sympathy, rather than by a comparison of phrases and ideas: and now for long years that feeling had been dormant.†   (source)
  • The lock of hair that had escaped and curled loosely over her brow, the traces of tears yet scarcely dry, the flushed cheek, the look of sorrow, all fired some dormant train of recollection in the old man's breast; and the face of his dead brother seemed present before him, with the very look it bore on some occasion of boyish grief, of which every minutest circumstance flashed upon his mind, with the distinctness of a scene of yesterday.†   (source)
  • They stood indolent, lounging, and inert, as usual when no immediate demand was made on their dormant energies, clustered in front of some four or five habitations of skin, for which they were indebted to the hospitality of their Teton allies.†   (source)
  • It instantly roused all his dormant energies; rekindled in his breast the passions that, for many years, had found an improving home there; called up all his wrath, hatred, and malice; restored the sneer to his lip, and the scowl to his brow; and made him again, in all outward appearance, the same Ralph Nickleby whom so many had bitter cause to remember.†   (source)
  • Elnathan gave a hem—one that might have been equally taken for that kind of noise which cowards are said to make in order to awaken their dormant courage, or for a natural effort to clear the throat; if for the latter it was successful; for, turning his face to the veteran German, he said: "Very true, Major Hartmann, very true, sir; a prudent man will always strive to make his remedies agreeable to the eyes, though they may not altogether suit the stomach.†   (source)
  • Ere long, not only on these banks, but on every hill and plain and in every hollow, the frost comes out of the ground like a dormant quadruped from its burrow, and seeks the sea with music, or migrates to other climes in clouds.†   (source)
  • I know'd it!" shouted the old man, in his tremulous voice, his rigid features working powerfully, as if the names the other mentioned awakened some long dormant emotions, connected with the events of an anterior age.†   (source)
  • Overcome by a flood of unusual and extraordinary sensations, and stimulated by tender and long dormant recollections, strangely and unexpectedly revived, the old man had just self-command enough to add, in a voice that was hollow and unnatural, through the efforts he made to command it— "Boy, I am that scout; a warrior once, a miserable trapper now!" when the tears broke over his wasted cheeks, out of fountains that had long been dried, and, sinking his face between his knees, he…†   (source)
  • When the old man had thus given vent to the nearly dormant, but far from extinct, military pride, that had so unconsciously led him into the very error he deprecated, his eye, which had begun to quicken and glimmer with some of the ardour of his youth, softened and turned its anxious look on the devoted captive, whose countenance was also restored to its former cold look of abstraction and thought.†   (source)
  • I therefore, in 1743, drew up a proposal for establishing an academy; and at that time, thinking the Reverend Mr. Peters, who was out of employ, a fit person to superintend such an institution, I communicated the project to him; but he, having more profitable views in the service of the proprietaries, which succeeded, declin'd the undertaking; and, not knowing another at that time suitable for such a trust, I let the scheme lie a while dormant.†   (source)
  • But later when I had thought it through I conceded to myself that we couldn't have kept the old home going much longer and set up a gentle kind of retirement there for Mama, neither of us having that filial tabby dormancy that natural bachelors have.†   (source)
  • The few survivors entered a semidormant cyst-hibernation to emerge in six years as small (about three meters long) sandworms.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "semi-" in semidormant means half or partially. This is the same pattern you see in words like semicircle, semisweet, and semiautomatic.
  • You have lashed the dormant tigress in my nature into fury.†   (source)
  • His table dormant* in his hall alway *fixed Stood ready cover'd all the longe day.†   (source)
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