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  • I drove in a happy stupor.†   (source)
  • And when he did show up, he didn't collapse in a stupor but ate a meal and talked some.†   (source)
  • I remembered the way the mosque had jolted Sohrab from his stupor when we'd driven by it, how he'd leaned out of the window looking at it.†   (source)
  • If the Careers want me, let them find me, I think before drifting into a stupor.†   (source)
  • There was an oncoming stupor, a fading, as he tore at the wires and clenched his throat against the need to breathe.†   (source)
  • Harry sank into a stupor as Wood droned on and on.†   (source)
  • Instead of rejoining 1-66, however, in my stupor I wandered onto the bridge a few hundred feet south of it, and crossing the water, I found myself at the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery.†   (source)
  • When the creature fell at last into a stupor, he sharpened a great stake, heated it over the fire, and plunged it into his eye.†   (source)
  • Or maybe a catatonic stupor.†   (source)
  • Even the zebra, which at first snorted each time the hyena raced by its head, fell into a stupor.†   (source)
  • Hypnotically, he moved to the bedroom where his father lay on the bed in a drunken stupor.†   (source)
  • Then she shook Constance awake — or at least into a groggy stupor.†   (source)
  • Because otherwise I would have said that this animal shows all the classic signs of Melia toxicity: stupor, blistering of the mucous membranes, and pupillary dilatation.†   (source)
  • She saw very old, infirm people with their mouths agape; although they were, at best, only partially alert, they gave their stuporous attention to images that my grandmother described as "too surpassing in banality to recall."†   (source)
  • That time, as he grew conscious, coming up out of the stupor that often clung on, he heard noises.†   (source)
  • For a moment she stared as if about to sink back into her stupor, but then she sat forward, face brightening.†   (source)
  • Cinder shook herself from her stupor and stumbled forward.†   (source)
  • He choked on his spittle and fought for breath, then finally relaxed back into his stupor, leaning against the window.†   (source)
  • Her voice energized him, shook him out of his stupor.†   (source)
  • Afterwards, I sat on the carpet in a semi-stupor, with my cheek leaning against the bench and an ugly white roar in my ears.†   (source)
  • Lounging in the sun at 28,700 feet inside my thick down suit, gazing across the roof of the world in a hypoxic stupor, I completely lost track of time.†   (source)
  • The iron radiated a stuporous heat at them, and for some reason Jack thought of a large, dozing cat.†   (source)
  • Even the reflexes are diminished, as if the lower leg couldn't be bothered to jerk itself out of its stupor when the knee is tapped.†   (source)
  • His stupor yielded to sleep that covered him like a soft blanket.†   (source)
  • Even in my own self-absorbed funk, I was worried about her, because as my siblings and I slowly got to our emotional feet, Mommy staggered about in an emotional stupor for nearly a year.†   (source)
  • Leah who, even in her malarial stupor, rushed forward to crouch with the battery in the canoe and counter its odd tilt.†   (source)
  • I walked up the stairs slowly, a heavy stupor clouding my mind.†   (source)
  • She tried to pull his hand away, but he was prepared for this sudden surge of muscle stimulation that always preceded stupor, and with great force clamped the cloth to her face.†   (source)
  • Lucy's feet really were too big, but with every attempt she laughed herself into a stupor at May's antics, and I was doubled over watching it all.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure what exactly he has in mind, but whatever the plan, I'm grateful for it, if only because it's pulled him out of his emotional stupor I saw in the hallway outside the ICU.†   (source)
  • I had come home in a stupor from pills, liquor and from sniffing aerosol can spray.†   (source)
  • By the time the twins were two years old their father's drinking, aggravated by the loneliness of tea estate life, had driven him into an alcoholic stupor.†   (source)
  • He was expecting a series of monosyllables, mere yes's and no's dragged out of her, out of her lethargy and stupor; a series of compelled and somnolent responses to his own firm demands.†   (source)
  • Mack sat in his emotionally spent stupor, weighing the options in the feel of the gun.†   (source)
  • I need to bring myself out of this stupor, I can't afford to be weak.†   (source)
  • I spent the better part of the day in a mute stupor, unsure of what to do.†   (source)
  • I would go into a stupor, I guess.†   (source)
  • He also knew that she locked herself in the bathroom at least three times a day to smoke, but this did not attract his attention because the women of his class were in the habit of locking themselves away in groups to talk about men and smoke, and even to drink as much as two liters of aguardiente until they had passed out on the floor in a brickmason's drunken stupor.†   (source)
  • The guard captain, Iakin Nefud, squatted on a divan across the chamber, the stupor of semuta dullness in his flat face, the eerie wailing of semuta music around him.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he imagined the man who drank himself into a stupor most nights wasn't his father.†   (source)
  • In church in a drunken stupor, he had seized the chalice and dispensed communion to his frightened attendants.†   (source)
  • For a fleeting moment, the glassy stupor in his eyes disappeared, something twisted and sinister eclipsing it.†   (source)
  • All summer Perry undulated between half-awake stupors and sickly, sweat-drenched sleep.†   (source)
  • Ameh Bozorg and the rest of the family sank into their daily siesta-like stupor.†   (source)
  • A long time passed before the cold brought Ch'idzigyaak out of her stupor.†   (source)
  • I snap out of my stupor.†   (source)
  • The resulting roar from the students jerks Barrius out of his stupor, and as the legionnaires tie him to the whipping post, he writhes and bucks.†   (source)
  • He couldn't continue in his hero role if he was sitting around the day room all the time in a shock stupor.†   (source)
  • A cold lassitude came over him and he passed into a dreaming, inert stupor, full of cramp and pain.†   (source)
  • The sting that followed snapped me out of the hazy, numb stupor I was falling into.†   (source)
  • "You aren't serious," I say, coming out of my sullen stupor.†   (source)
  • He confided in a friend that at times he'd wake up from a drug-induced stupor and have to ask another addict where he was.†   (source)
  • Feeling a finger of panic probing beneath his altitude-induced stupor, Mortenson sat to take stock.†   (source)
  • The pebbly voice, the sun, and the narcotic wine smell weakened both the boys, and they sat in a pleasant semi-stupor, listening to her go on and on….†   (source)
  • I stared out the window at Madame Edith's garden until exhaustion and hunger produced a kind of stupor in me.†   (source)
  • The fight has gone out of him and I think it finally hits him, in his drunken stupor, what's going on, because he looks at me like he's just now seeing me bleeding from the head on the floor in this room with him.†   (source)
  • He never awoke from his stupor.†   (source)
  • A fever of activity commenced that shook Tres Marias from its stupor.†   (source)
  • Yossarian gorged himself in the mess hall until he thought he would explode and then sagged back in a contented stupor, his mouth filmy with a succulent residue.†   (source)
  • Everyone rouses from their sated, full-bellied stupors to say good-bye, and, this time, Cedric moves quickly through the line.†   (source)
  • Instead of sleep I slipped into a deep stupor.†   (source)
  • Jacques de Raison seemed to have come out of his stupor.†   (source)
  • After New Year's, I was sitting at the breakfast table in a stupor.†   (source)
  • Far more, however, would be said later and repeated endlessly of Hessians who supposedly, on the morning of the attack, were still reeling drunk or in a stupor from having celebrated Christmas in the Germanic tradition.†   (source)
  • We would be sore pressed if she were fallen into a poppy stupor.†   (source)
  • The weapon tore Max from his spellbound stupor, bringing him back to the rain and wind and YaYa chuffing once again as the ancient ki-rin mustered whatever reserves she had.†   (source)
  • Most of the Americans were in stupors or asleep.†   (source)
  • For a moment, he stared at her in blank stupor; she saw the struggle of fear, obsequiousness and hatred in his filmy eyes.†   (source)
  • She drifted quickly into a deep snoring stupor.†   (source)
  • He opened one groggy eye and in his stupor he thought he saw someone standing at the foot of his bed.†   (source)
  • I remember scrounging for my own dinner because I couldn't shake her out of her stupor and my dear old dad worked swing shift.†   (source)
  • He thrust it in my hand like a man in a stupor, weeping, telling me to get out.†   (source)
  • Harriet was in a stupor most of the time, deaf to the laughter, the dancing and the singing, deaf to the clack of the bones, the beat of the juba.†   (source)
  • This afternoon he will sit at his desk in a half-stupor, surrounded by a confusion of papers.†   (source)
  • The children, who were still in a just-awakened stupor, merely stared, but Linnie waved and kept her head out the window till their truck had turned the corner and Doris was out of sight.†   (source)
  • chapter five Leonardo was sprawled in the middle of Mavis's living room floor, where he had fallen hours before in a drunken stupor brought on by a full bottle of synthetic whiskey and a boatload of self-pity.†   (source)
  • When Ellie, the lost one, slipped home to her father's house before daylight, Mark knew now from whence she came, and when Ellie's mother sat sewing with the other women, totally unresponsive, in her vague, sweet way, Mark knew also that she was probably in a drunken stupor because Sam had beat her again.†   (source)
  • He did not know what had awakened him, and for a moment he lay in a puzzled stupor.†   (source)
  • The old niece of Wieniawski had fallen into a comalike stupor, the Polonaise in crumpled disarray, rivulets of drool flowing from the corners of her lips.†   (source)
  • Red was still in a drunken stupor in a cell, but the jailer helped Tom wrap him in a blanket and load him into the back seat of the Buick.†   (source)
  • From violence she went into a gloomy stupor.†   (source)
  • Only the state of stupor and insensibility which is gradually induced by all big funerals could have created the impression that he intended to speak over his mother's grave.†   (source)
  • Jamie has become restless, sensing his father's presence, struggling up from his stupor.†   (source)
  • But Senator Sam Houston of Texas, the hero of San Jacinto, was not easily discouraged by overwhelming odds; and as his deep, musical voice carried the bold if unpolished words of a powerful message to his astonished colleagues, they shook off the dull stupor which had deadened their fatigued brains and sat upright and attentive.†   (source)
  • The stupor of air, the quiet of the river that now went behind a veil, the sheen of heat and the gray sheen of summering trees, and the silence of day and night seemed all to touch, to bathe and administer to The Landing.†   (source)
  • She would sit for hours at a time on the shabby old sofa with the faded chintz curtains flapping above her head, as if she were in a stupor.†   (source)
  • The last word seemed to finally snap everyone out of their stupor, all of them speaking up at once.†   (source)
  • Harry lay there in a kind of stupor, thinking of nothing, suspended in misery.†   (source)
  • Minho shouted, finally breaking out of his stupor.†   (source)
  • This seems to jolt Haymitch out of his stupor, and he paws through the box in disbelief.†   (source)
  • He lay in a stupor for some unknown length of time.†   (source)
  • As I came out of my stupor, the sounds crashed into my ears again.†   (source)
  • He shook himself to alertness and tried to focus through his stupor.†   (source)
  • Seeing the vast, open sky in front of and below him had put him into some kind of hypnotized stupor.†   (source)
  • Pulling the door closed, she fled the deserted house, and drove in a tearful stupor back to Paris.†   (source)
  • Those words jarred Thomas completely out of his stupor.†   (source)
  • She looked over the bar and there he was, sprawled out on the floor in a stupor.†   (source)
  • Thomas had gotten to his knees and was looking on in a stupor of inaction.†   (source)
  • He stirred at the sound of soft voices, though it came through the haze of his drugged stupor.†   (source)
  • Thomas snapped out of his stupor and swatted at her hand, though she didn't let go.†   (source)
  • Dad would come out of his stupor to defend me and then things would get bad and bloody.†   (source)
  • Annabeth plodded along, half in a stupor, trying to form a plan.†   (source)
  • Abruptly, they focused through the drunken stupor and the pain.†   (source)
  • Eragon, Saphira, and Arya tried to rouse the dragon from his stupor.†   (source)
  • Most of the children were still in a land of half stupor, languid, like limp rags.†   (source)
  • She seemed to have wakened from a protracted stupor and discovered the joy of being alive.†   (source)
  • All the while Patsy would spend the day in bed sleeping off another stupor.†   (source)
  • The President, it was said, had awakened the nation from its "fatal stupor."†   (source)
  • They'll assume I've drunk myself into a stupor at a friend's house.†   (source)
  • I was in a semi-conscious stupor when Mosehn came for us about eight o'clock in the morning.†   (source)
  • I started at the sound of it, and even Jane, in her stupor, shuddered.†   (source)
  • The only monsters left were his own undead Romans, standing in a stupor with their weapons lowered.†   (source)
  • He sank down on a chair in a trembling stupor, his stumpy, lax hands quaking in his lap.†   (source)
  • "Charlie," I mumbled, trying to shake off the stupor.†   (source)
  • In the past hour or two, they had become even more docile, as if in a stupor.†   (source)
  • TYRONE Trying to shake off his hopeless stupor.†   (source)
  • Went into some sort of stupor.†   (source)
  • For almost two days, tied to the big oak at the back of the house, he was beaten with a belt and Bible verses every time his dad woke from a stupor and put down his bottle.†   (source)
  • She said that since Dr. Jordan went away, her mistress was spending hours in pacing the floor, and looking out the window, or sitting as if sunk into a stupor; which was no wonder, as she must be fearing he'll run off on her, as did the other one.†   (source)
  • When I finally woke up from my drugged stupor in Bulungu I could see what a burden I'd been, not just for the fufu and fish sauce I'd eaten day after day, but for being a foreigner in the eye of a storm.†   (source)
  • It didn't occur to me then, though it certainly does now, that it was years since I'd roused myself from my stupor of misery and self-absorption; between anomie and trance, inertia and parenthesis and gnawing my own heart out, there were a lot of small, easy, everyday kindnesses I'd missed out on; and even the word kindness was like rising from unconsciousness into some hospital awareness of voices, and people, from a stream of digitized machines.†   (source)
  • Professor Binns opened his notes and began to read in a flat drone like an old vacuum cleaner until nearly everyone in the class was in a deep stupor, occasionally coming to long enough to copy down a name or date, then falling asleep again.†   (source)
  • But I fought against the stupor weakly.†   (source)
  • Dad, his fervor kindled, would drone for an hour or more, reciting the same lines over and over, fueled by some internal passion that burned long after the rest of us had been lectured into a cold stupor.†   (source)
  • Politely I stood around their antique farm tables, drinking myself into a stupor as they chatted about their country houses, their co-op boards, their school districts, their gym routines—that's right, seamless transition from breast feeding although we've had some big changes in the nap schedule lately, our oldest just starting pre-K and the fall color in Connecticut is stunning, oh yes, of course, we all have our annual trip with the girls but you know these boys' trips we do twice a…†   (source)
  • At first the snowmobile wove drunkenly from side to side, but by half-standing to get his face above the windscreen and into the sharp, needling blast of the wind, he drove some of the stupor out of himself.†   (source)
  • Does his mother really believe that he can be charmed by such a vision of himself — married to Faith Cartwright and imprisoned in an armchair by the fire, frozen in a kind of paralyzed stupor, with his dear wife winding him up gradually in coloured silk threads like a cocoon, or like a fly snarled in the web of a spider?†   (source)
  • Numbs your emotions, numbs your brain processes, slows you down to a drunken stupor so you don't feel much.†   (source)
  • "Urgg," the giant mumbled in a stupor.†   (source)
  • The Ra'zac and Lethrblaka had no need for such tricks when their breath alone could induce a stupor in the largest of men.†   (source)
  • Alec seemed to be in the same stupor.†   (source)
  • In a letter to Chastellux, Jefferson described himself as emerging from a "stupor of mind which had rendered me as dead to the world as she…."†   (source)
  • I emerge, blinking, for meals and sit in stupor and demi-silence, picking at my chicken fricassee and mashed potatoes, while my mother comments on my lack of appetite and pallor and my father tells me useful and interesting things as if I am still young.†   (source)
  • And Rebeca did take a casual look toward the wall and was paralyzed with stupor, barely able to react and wave good-bye to Arcadio.†   (source)
  • The first: time it opened he had almost come around from the front of the car where he had been lying in a semi-stupor.†   (source)
  • Can she be totally smashed so early in the morning, or is she still under the effects from last night's stupor?†   (source)
  • I don't think I'd really fallen asleep; I was just lost in an unthinking stupor, holding with all my strength to the numbness that kept me from realizing what I didn't want to know.†   (source)
  • In the last few moments before he roused himself from his stupor, his vision flickered and the images acquired a sense of heightened reality.†   (source)
  • Macondo woke up in a kind of angelic stupor that was caused by a zither that deserved more than this world and a voice that led one to believe that no other person on earth could feel such love.†   (source)
  • He's off drinking himself into a stupor and looking for Mavis, who is drinking herself into a stupor.†   (source)
  • A Lot of Wine Later We are no closer to learning each other's dark secrets, and much closer to our own states of stupor.†   (source)
  • Other than that, Mortenson remembers little about the meal that evening, other than eating in a stupor, marveling at how his financial problems seemed to have been wiped out with one flourish.†   (source)
  • He tried to rouse the old dragon from his stupor, as he had so many times before, and as always, he failed.†   (source)
  • In his stupor, he was unable to react in time—the man reached out and tore the Transvice out of his hands, breaking the strap in the process.†   (source)
  • Even with the benefit of full water troughs and a cross-breeze, the animals are in a heat-induced stupor.†   (source)
  • They listened, in silent stupor, to a stream of profanity such as they had never heard from any section gang.†   (source)
  • But Fiver was lying in a deep stupor.†   (source)
  • The stranger's face had a pained expression of stupor and he seemed to be battling silently against his primary instincts so as not to break up the mirage.†   (source)
  • The only ones left in the parlor were Clara, with the animal on her lap, her parents, who were locked in terrified embrace at the thought of such an evil omen, and her fiance, who could not comprehend such an uproar over a dead dog; but when he realized that Clara was transfixed, he picked her up in his arms and carried her half-conscious to her room, where Nana's ministrations and Dr. Cuevas's pills prevented her from falling back into her stupor and her muteness.†   (source)
  • As soon as the plane was in the air, Alice closed her eyes and slid back into the same stupor as before.†   (source)
  • He rubbed his forehead harshly with his knuckles, like a man in an alcoholic stupor, and snickered lewdly.†   (source)
  • Exhausted from everything that had happened in these past few horrid days, I finally sank to the floor, lying in stupor for I know not how long.†   (source)
  • The spellcaster's seeming indifference to Roran's approach tempted Roran to ignore the man's unusual behavior—or lack of behavior, as it was—and simply bash him over the head before he recovered from whatever strange stupor ailed him.†   (source)
  • When Fiver's urging had penetrated his dark, ebbing stupor, he had at first actually tried not to respond.†   (source)
  • At such exclusive clubs as Brooks or Boodles on St. James's Street, fortunes were reputedly gambled away at the turn of a card, and, nightly, young men drank themselves into a stupor.†   (source)
  • Are you thinking, in some foggy stupor, that it's only material values that your morality requires you to sacrifice?†   (source)
  • She sat on the sofa in a passive, phlegmatic stupor, her mouth open and all her clothing crumpled in a corner on the floor, and wondered how much longer they would sit around naked with her and make her say uncle in the elegant hotel suite to which Orr's old girl friend, giggling uncontrollably at Yossarian's and Dunbar's drunken antics, guided Nately and the other members of the motley rescue party.†   (source)
  • Dimly, through the pleasant stupor of relaxing, of sprawling back in his chair and smiling, he knew that this was the enjoyment he wanted: to be himself.†   (source)
  • She could only shake her head, before she recaptured her voice to say, "It's not what you're doing to anyone …. it's what they're doing to you…… " His laughter swept her out of her moment's stupor, "Be careful, Miss Taggart.†   (source)
  • She stood, in unexacting stupor, until she heard the muffled drawl of two voices behind the door of Jim's bedroom; she could not distinguish the words, only the quality of the sounds: Jim's voice had a tone of irritation, the woman's-of contempt.†   (source)
  • He had thrown dollars about by the hundredsat that party he had given today-for unfinished drinks, for uneaten delicacies, for unprovoked tips and unexpected whims, for a long distance phone call to Argentina because one of the guests had wanted to check the exact version of a smutty story he had started telling, for the spur of any moment, for the clammy stupor of knowing that it was easier to pay than to think.†   (source)
  • …these men were moved forward, not by the image of an industrial skyline, but by the vision of that form of existence which the industrialists had swept away-the vision of a fat, unhygienic rajah of India, with vacant eyes staring in indolent stupor out of stagnant layers of flesh, with nothing to do but run precious gems through his fingers and, once in a while, stick a knife into the body of a starved, toil-dazed, germeaten creature, as a claim to a few grains of the creature's rice,…†   (source)
  • …to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work ft done by a thinking mind, and no work is creative if done by a blank who repeats in uncritical stupor a routine he has learned from others-that your work is yours to choose, and the choice is as wide as your mind, that nothing more is possible to you and nothing less is human-that to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can…†   (source)
  • Lulled as if amid sluggish waves of time she drowsed in a blessed stupor, awoke listlessly to the sound of a distant gathering ululation that blossomed in her ears, grew louder, becoming a savage roar.†   (source)
  • As the long afternoon passed, she watched, in a kind of alert stupor, the naked brown backs bend, steady and straighten, the ropes of muscle sliding under the dusty skin.†   (source)
  • Amid the heat of July, seven months later, she faded away in a stupor of morphine, while all the night before, I pondered over and over those feeble embers in the cold smoky room and speculated with dread on the notion that my abandonment that day had sent her into the long decline from which she never recovered.†   (source)
  • He spoke it aloud this time as he stepped into the huge and stuporously warm West Country kitchen.†   (source)
  • Mahtob was fast asleep at my side and I saw the winter scene outside only through a stuporous haze.†   (source)
  • They were renowned not only for their brutal killings, but also for celebrating their slayings by plunging themselves into drug-induced stupors.†   (source)
  • The photos of wild parties on yachts and drunken disco stupors were hard for the Solomons to take, but the photos of their wayward teen turned from tragic to frightening when the papers reported Zachary had been caught carrying cocaine across a border in Eastern Europe: SOLOMON MILLIONAIRE IN TURKISH PRISON.†   (source)
  • The Wiggins insisted that the Baby Jesus not shed a tear, and in this pursuit they were relentless in gathering dozens of babies backstage; they substituted babies so freely that the Christ Child was whisked from the manger at the first unholy croak or gurgle—instantly replaced by a mute baby, or at least a stuporous one.†   (source)
  • The other students sat mostly in stupors, worn out from the class, or else were scouring their notes in hopes of discovering they'd done better than they thought.†   (source)
  • Perhaps just stuporous.†   (source)
  • I watched the road ahead in a kind of stupor.†   (source)
  • He was as though suddenly and joyfully awakened from a dark annihilating stupor.†   (source)
  • They lay there silently, while he looked, in an ugly stupor.†   (source)
  • He remembered them dimly, because they were spent chiefly in sleep or stupor.†   (source)
  • He's in an amorous stupor, poor beast, and doesn't quite know where he is.†   (source)
  • We have come to hold, in a kind of mawkish stupor, that greatness is to be gauged by self-sacrifice.†   (source)
  • It was gin that sank him into stupor every night, and gin that revived him every morning.†   (source)
  • …brown earth, the torn, blasted earth, with a greasy shine under the sun's rays; the earth is the background of this restless, gloomy world of automatons, our gasping is the scratching of a quill, our lips are dry, our heads are debauched with stupor—thus we stagger forward, and into our pierced and shattered souls bores the torturing image of the brown earth with the greasy sun and the convulsed and dead soldiers, who lie there—"it can't be helped—who cry and clutch at our legs as we…†   (source)
  • As he said this, Oliver appeared to my thought in a shack of Outer Mongolia, where soldiers in quilted coats saw him lying in his vomit in a stupor.†   (source)
  • It was the calm of blank stupor.†   (source)
  • He was not so much in a stupor, as in the grip of a deep physiological resolution not to react to anything.†   (source)
  • He must fix his mind, first of all, on the observed facts: stupor and extreme prostration, buboes, intense thirst, delirium, dark blotches on the body, internal dilatation, and, in conclusion ….†   (source)
  • His head has sunk forward, and he stares at the table top, sunk in the same stupor as the other occupants of the room.†   (source)
  • If we promoted justice and charity among men, we should be playing directly into the Enemy's hands; but if we guide them to the opposite behaviour, this sooner or later produces (for He permits it to produce) a war or a revolution, and the undisguisable issue of cowardice or courage awakes thousands of men from moral stupor.†   (source)
  • Sleepy-eyed and curious, the dog came up from the basement, her tail wagging slowly in a contented stupor.†   (source)
  • He sought these phantoms fruitlessly for weeks, until he discovered that he might find them only on Sunday morning, tossed like heavy sacks across one another, in the fetid dark of a tenement room, a half-dozen young men and women, in a snoring exhaustion of whisky-stupor and sexual depletion.†   (source)
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