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  • He felt strangely lethargic,   (source)
    lethargic = without energy
  • The red arm swept the screen with agonizing lethargy, and then ... Flash!   (source)
    lethargy = lack of energy
  • PHASE TWO [of Symptoms of Amor Deliria Nervosa]:
    periods of euphoria; hysterical laughter and heightened energy periods of despair; lethargy...   (source)
  • He turned lethargically and saw Brom's arms.   (source)
    lethargically = without energy
  • Now he is able to manipulate the emotions of those around him -- calm down a room of angry people, for example, or excite a lethargic crowd, conversely.   (source)
    lethargic = lacking energy
  • From there he wasted very quickly to a lethargic little bundle of skin-covered bones and a gaunt, skin-covered skull.   (source)
  • The Fugees gathered their gear lethargically.   (source)
    lethargically = without energy
  • There's an air of expectation in the psychology lecture hall as two hundred or so kids trod in, feeling none of their traditional lethargy.   (source)
    lethargy = lack of energy
  • My mind ordered itself out of lethargy.   (source)
    lethargy = a state with a lack of energy
  • ...at some point her lethargy dissipated of its own accord and...   (source)
    lethargy = lack of energy
  • Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency.   (source)
    lethargy = inactivity (lack of energy)
  • Bus number 7421 rolled lethargically into place at the end of the line of vehicles disgorging tourists.   (source)
    lethargically = slowly (unenergetically)
  • The change in climate had a profound effect on me; I spent all of June, July, and August fighting off the terrible lethargy of a depression caused in large part by the absence of sunlight.   (source)
    lethargy = lack of energy
  • Winston roused himself a little from his lethargy.   (source)
  • A lethargy had settled on him, and a little gray hopelessness.   (source)
  • A massive and lethargic woman, who had been urging Daisy to play golf with her at the local club tomorrow, spoke in Miss Baedeker's defence:   (source)
    lethargic = lacking energy
  • The Cottard incident seemed to have shaken the neighborhood out of its normal lethargy and even these remote streets were becoming crowded with noisy merrymakers.   (source)
    lethargy = lack of energy
  • They passed lethargically by in the dark street and the boy watched them out of sight with excited and hopeful eyes.   (source)
    lethargically = without energy
  • I would have got out to make certain on the point, but some leaden lethargy seemed to chain my limbs and even my will.   (source)
    lethargy = a state with a lack of energy
  • rousing myself from the lethargy that had fallen upon me, I looked down and saw...   (source)
    lethargy = lack of energy
  • What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.   (source)
    lethargy = laziness
  • He entered with a weariness and lethargy ... and he dropped heavily into the armchair   (source)
    lethargy = lack of energy
  • Becky roused up from her lethargy of distress and showed good interest in the proceedings.   (source)
    lethargy = a state with a lack of energy
  • ...then the rolling of thunder which had roused me from my lethargy.   (source)
    lethargy = sleepiness (lack of energy)
  • A lethargy had come upon him at times.   (source)
    lethargy = lack of energy
  • ...the effect of total darkness upon one arousing from lethargy or sleep!   (source)
    lethargy = unconsciousness without activity or energy
  • Startled from his lethargy by that direful cry, Jonah staggers to his feet, and stumbling to the deck, grasps a shroud, to look out upon the sea.   (source)
    lethargy = state of sleep
  • ...shake off the unaccountable lethargy which (for the ten intervening minutes, and five to boot, are already past) has made him such a laggard at this momentous dinner.   (source)
    lethargy = lack of energy
  • ...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 ... or as the consequence of my attempt to read Chalmers' collection of English poetry without skipping.   (source)
    lethargy = sleepiness
  • St. Clare knew this well; and often, in many a weary hour, he heard that slender, childish voice calling him to the skies, and saw that little hand pointing to him the way of life; but a heavy lethargy of sorrow lay on him,—he could not arise.   (source)
    lethargy = lack of energy
  • The day feeling caught up with him before lunch most days, a hot blanket of lethargy so suffocating it made his temples pound.†   (source)
  • Two days of confinement had made everyone lethargic.†   (source)
  • After the first shock, after you'd come to terms, it was better to be lethargic.†   (source)
  • A kind of lethargy came over him and he just wanted to sit in the sun and try to forget the last week.†   (source)
  • I remember a huge tiredness coming over me, a kind of lethargy in the face of the tangled mess before me.†   (source)
  • In Spedling's blunt words, "even after less than two days here it is obvious that the Bikura are too stupid, lethargic, and dull to waste time describing.†   (source)
  • Marley was acting lethargic, she said, and his hips had begun to droop worse than usual.†   (source)
  • After gathering a small mountain of firewood, her mania was fading, leaving her in a content, almost dreamy lethargy.†   (source)
  • He tries to get himself psyched up, tries to break out of the lethargy of the long term underemployed.†   (source)
  • Those who caught it began to shake with an icy cold that lodged in their bones, and gradually fell prey to a deep lethargy.†   (source)
  • But Beth remained lethargic after the operation and hard to wake up.†   (source)
  • But in the end they were convinced of the merits of the Roman strategy against heat, which consists of closing houses during the lethargy of August in order to keep out the burning air from the street, and then opening them up completely to the night breezes.†   (source)
  • A lethargic avalanche of synthetic thought can take days to fall.†   (source)
  • Somehow I've run out of fear; I feel lethargic instead, which is almost worse.†   (source)
  • Even my hands seemed lethargic, my fingers stiff as pencils.†   (source)
  • He felt like the lethargy of the addled sea creatures was starting to affect him.†   (source)
  • They put her in a private room, and there she falls into lethargy, and her face freezes into a mask.†   (source)
  • She doesn't know exactly what it was, but it made her head shake and induced lethargy, happiness, and compliance for about an hour.†   (source)
  • As I continued to talk, I was unaware of the shock that awakened the group from its malnourished lethargy.†   (source)
  • His fellow Pennsylvanians were "divided and lethargic," Mifflin wrote, "slumbering under the shade of peace and in the full enjoyment of the sweets of commerce."†   (source)
  • There was consternation darkening every expression, and Captain Black yawned deliciously, rubbed the last lethargy from his eyes and laughed gloatingly each time he told someone else to eat his liver.†   (source)
  • Around us, the motion of the room has slowed to the lethargic tempo of a music box coming unwound.†   (source)
  • He broke free of the lethargy that had nailed him to our steps for months.†   (source)
  • The entire nation, in fact, seemed overnight to have snapped out of its Depression-era lethargy.†   (source)
  • If some firemen did act strangely (moved lethargically, were clumsy, or had a glazed look in their eyes) on the night of the Great Fire, the best explanation is that they were completely exhausted from overwork and a lack of sleep.†   (source)
  • There are times for sleep, for inactivity, dreaming, indiscipline, even lethargy.†   (source)
  • There were six or seven of them, some drowsing, some munching lethargically at whatever grass they could find among the sun-scorched weeds.†   (source)
  • Dorim Lugar yelled, jolting some of them from the lethargy that had already begun to creep in.†   (source)
  • Steadily rising, the warm wind was brisk enough now to foil the lethargic bees on their lazy quest from bloom to bloom.†   (source)
  • The fan hangs on a long stem, revolves lethargic, its arms in a tilt to catch the air which it folds across the room.†   (source)
  • Life on the island took on a lethargic pace and the life I'd had before being kidnapped began to feel like a different lifetime.†   (source)
  • Even happy Cooper seemed lethargic.†   (source)
  • "Do you think we can go all the way this year, Mr. McLean?" the General said, his soft, lethargic voice brushed by the sweet cadences and slurred elisions of the upcountry.†   (source)
  • The lethargic mechanic sprang to life and, in mere moments, so it seemed to me, my mountain of supplies was on the ice, the canoe had been cut loose, and the landing-gear cylinder had once again been pumped back to the vertical.†   (source)
  • Rupert roused himself from the lethargy into which he appeared to have fallen.†   (source)
  • But a little before noon he came — if only for a moment — out of his lethargy.†   (source)
  • For now she was swollen up like a vase, and there was a peculiar lethargic lightness in her face and in her voice.†   (source)
  • He ran out into the street with this knowledge rocking in his head, remembering then the tremor of a great arrival which had shaken Natche2, caught fast in the grip of the cold, and shaken it through the lethargy of the snow, and it was dear now why the floors swayed with running feet and unsteady hands shoved him aside at the bar.†   (source)
  • There was nothing she could do about it, though instead of sinking into a dreary lethargy that was almost sleep, she would rack her brains to think of work she could give him.†   (source)
  • Suddenly Roran felt himself become lethargic and powerless to move; it was hard to even think.   (source)
    lethargic = sluggish (without energy)
  • In fact, I'm a model patient, my lethargy taken for restraint, obedience to the doctors' orders.   (source)
    lethargy = lack of energy
  • ...were playing a lethargic game of Ping-Pong.   (source)
    lethargic = lacking energy
  • He helped her up from the bed, ignoring the lethargy of her movements, and put his arms around her.   (source)
    lethargy = lack of energy
  • the lethargy of siesta time   (source)
  • He must concentrate his intellectual forces; he can't afford to flag now, give in to lethargy, lose hold of the thread he's been following over the course of these past weeks, for at last they are approaching together the centre of Grace's narrative.   (source)
  • He'd read once that one of the symptoms of clinical depression was "undue lethargy, without reason or cause."   (source)
    lethargy = a state with a lack of energy
  • Mel's angry reaction was lethargic.   (source)
    lethargic = lacking energy
  • Arising lethargic and groggy after my sleepless night at Camp Three, I was slow to dress, melt water, and get out of the tent on Thursday morning, May 9.   (source)
    lethargic = without energy
  • Long after he had finished eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister...   (source)
  • It is a very dull, wearisome, and lethargic affair.   (source)
    lethargic = lacking energy
  • He had gradually dropped to the floor, and lay there in a lethargy, worn out.   (source)
    lethargy = a state with a lack of energy
  • It was not a very easy matter to rouse him: so lethargic and heavy were his slumbers.   (source)
    lethargic = lacking energy
  • On winter's mornings such as this, when he was very tired and everything dragged itself lethargically through his head, this belief of his seemed irrefutable.   (source)
    lethargically = without energy
  • It is certain that if the soul had not already quitted this inert, sluggish, lethargic body, it had at least retreated and concealed itself in depths whither the perceptions of the exterior organs no longer penetrated.   (source)
    lethargic = lacking energy
  • They pushed lethargically to their feet, stomachs belled out.†   (source)
  • A deep, heavy fog of lethargy washed over me, and my eyes closed without my permission.†   (source)
  • It was all an excuse to keep our lethargy a little busy.†   (source)
  • And the fifth ....A strange lethargy overtook Nasuada.†   (source)
  • Exercise was indispensable, he explained to Charles, who had complained of feeling lethargic.†   (source)
  • Gabby nodded, watching lethargically as Stephanie leaned over the deck railing.†   (source)
  • But when Wulfgar mentioned the treasure, a new surge of energy blew away the dragon's lethargy.†   (source)
  • Ch'idzigyaak listened lethargically to her friend's sniffles.†   (source)
  • Seemingly lethargic Cooper, without a growl or warning, flung himself at the pony-sized dog.†   (source)
  • I'm wiping off the table with a dishrag, every movement an effort, my arm heavy with lethargy.†   (source)
  • She is able to walk now, but she is lethargic, brooding, distant.†   (source)
  • Suddenly wound tight as a tensioned spring I turned almost lethargically.†   (source)
  • She glanced up at him, a small flicker piercing the lethargic emptiness of her eyes.†   (source)
  • I lie in the snow, watching her with lethargy, and with a sluggish curiosity.†   (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)
  • I was lethargic, unmotivated.†   (source)
  • Severo felt that it was time for his daughter to shake off her lethargy, stand firmly in reality, and learn the domestic skills that would prepare her for marriage, but Nivea thought differently.†   (source)
  • In the lethargy of her pregnancy, Amaranta Ursula tried to set up a business in necklaces made out of the backbones of fish.†   (source)
  • The humidity in the Presidential Suite submerged them in an unreal lethargy in which it was easier to love without questions.†   (source)
  • It took her six years to leave, the worst years of her life, when she was in despair because of the bitterness of Dona Blanca, her mother-in-law, and the mental lethargy of her sisters-in-law, who did not go to rot in a convent cell only because they already carried one inside themselves.†   (source)
  • A postprandial lethargy had taken hold of Edgar and he stumbled to where the dogs lay stretched out in the shade of the lone tree overhanging the fence.†   (source)
  • I would fall into a daze, not difficult for someone in such an advanced state of lethargy to begin with.†   (source)
  • He didn't have much of a routine beyond eating, drinking and sleeping, but there were times when he stirred from his lethargy and rambled about his territory, making noises and being cranky.†   (source)
  • The next three days passed quickly for Eragon, if not for the rest of the Varden, who remained mired in lethargy.†   (source)
  • Because it is Sunday, and because this is evidently a routine after-church Sunday event for the Smeaths, I have the idea that the train tracks and the lethargic, ponderous trains have something to do with God.†   (source)
  • Looking down off the edge of the garden we could see the road to Pelmadulla wind and disappear like a lethargic dark yellow snake into overhanging foliage.†   (source)
  • Unlike Cate's memories, which came and went like fluttering eyelashes, Rob's thoughts seemed almost lethargic ...velvety and murky.†   (source)
  • The few accountants and bookkeepers who found themselves laboring alongside revolutionary factory workers and lethargic peasants might have calculated that even had each man turned out one complete stone every day-which was not the case, for each stone had to be cut from the steep cliffs, lowered, re-cut, beveled, polished, and transported-they would have had to labor for many years to mark the graves of their fellow soldiers.†   (source)
  • The only creatures who appeared immune to the general lethargy were the lean, half-feral dogs that ranged through the camp, constantly sniffing as they searched for discarded scraps of food.†   (source)
  • One must rouse oneself from lethargy.†   (source)
  • Earlier today, he'd been exhausted and lethargic; as the day wore on, his sense of commitment had only grown stronger, leaving him certain that he would have the ability to laugh with his daughters, to be the father Gabby wanted him to be.†   (source)
  • For weeks I put up with the situation, avoiding confrontation, hoping that he would snap out of his lethargy.†   (source)
  • The lesions by this time were showing a pattern of marked splenomegaly [swollen spleen]—strikingly thy on cut surface, enlarged kidneys, and sporadic occurrences of hemorrhage in a variety of organs....Clinically, the animals showed abrupt anorexia [loss of appetite], and lethargy.†   (source)
  • A little while later she rose with an unconscious sigh and stepped lethargically into her tight cotton panties and dark skirt, then buckled on her shoes and left.†   (source)
  • Julie stood, her movements lethargic.†   (source)
  • In the government's eyes a free man now, he sat, like those black slaves you hear about who, when they got word of their freedom at the end of the Civil War, just did not know where else to go or what else to do and ended up back on the plantation, rooted there out of habit or lethargy or fear.†   (source)
  • I replaced the screen, hid the table knife, and once more sank into lethargy, wondering whether the episode had been merely a dream.†   (source)
  • He wondered often how he would ever recognize the first chill, flush, twinge, ache, belch, sneeze, stain, lethargy, vocal slip, loss of balance or lapse of memory that would signal the inevitable beginning of the inevitable end.†   (source)
  • And with Ten-Towns' scrimshaw fast becoming the rave of the south, the halfling meant to shake off his customary lethargy and turn his new-found trade into a booming business.†   (source)
  • With relief, Eragon felt his burden decrease as the dragon's strength flowed into him, a flush of fever-like heat that washed away his lethargy and restored the vigor of his limbs.†   (source)
  • Gabby's lethargy vanished immediately, but before she could say anything, she saw Travis give a thumbs-up.†   (source)
  • The Tylenol had left her feeling groggy and lethargic, with an acidic taste in her mouth, and she wasn't in the mood for his superior attitude.†   (source)
  • The battle was slowed by the lethargy that arose from realization that all movements were as if in a dream, for the small groups of men fighting in the cirques and towers were subject not merely to the wishes of Rome or Vienna but to illusions of time, space, and the alpine air.†   (source)
  • She felt a lethargic weariness at the prospect of a dramatic homecoming, of facing Jim and the press, of witnessing the excitement.†   (source)
  • But I'm no longer lethargic.†   (source)
  • Ragged people listened to the offers of material comforts and turned away with lethargic indifference, as if they had lost the concept of "Value."†   (source)
  • For whatever reason, the energy required to maintain the second spell multiplied out of all proportion to the first, and he soon felt the symptoms that indicated the magic was upon the verge of stealing away what little remained of his life force: a coldness of his hands, an uncertainty in the beating of his heart, and an overwhelming sense of lethargy, which was perhaps the most worrying sign of all.†   (source)
  • Awakened from lethargy, I listened from the bedroom and could hear the voice of Mostafa, third son of Baba Hajji and Ameh Bozorg.†   (source)
  • Eddie knew that they felt, as he felt it, that they would find no such man; not among the lethargic, extinguished faces of the passengers they had seen.†   (source)
  • were dearest to him and most trusted, struggling to grasp what was missing from his happiness, struggling down the brittle scaffold of a lie over the abyss of the discovery that he was not the man she loved, but only a resented substitute, half-charity-patient, half-crutch, his perceptiveness becoming his danger and only his surrender to lethargic stupidity protecting the shoddy structure of his joy, struggling and giving up and settling into the dreary routine of the conviction that fulfillment is impossible to man-the three of them, who had had all the gifts of existence spread out before them, ending up as embittered hulks, who cry in despair that life is frustration-the frustration o†   (source)
  • From across the street, Chick Morrison, the Morale Conditioneron his way to a conference on the fifty-ninth floor-noted that the rare, lethargic passers-by were not taking the trouble to glance at the guards, as they did not take the trouble to glance at the soggy headlines of a pile of unsold newspapers on the stand of a ragged, shivering vendor: "John Galt Promises Prosperity."†   (source)
  • There were districts that rose in blind rebellion, arrested the local officials, expelled the agents of Washington, killed the tax collectors-then, announcing their secession from the country, went on to the final extreme of the very evil that had destroyed them, as if fighting murder with suicide: went on to seize all property within their reach, to declare community bondage of all to all, and to perish within a week, their meager loot consumed, in the bloody hatred of all for all, in the chaos of no rule save that of the gun, to perish under the lethargic thrust of a few worn soldiers sent out from Washington to bring order to the ruins.†   (source)
  • They were nervously blank; they showed nothing but the sagging weight of lethargy and the staleness of a chronic fear.†   (source)
  • They pulled Taggart to his feet; he did not resist, he obeyed lethargically, and he moved his feet when pushed.†   (source)
  • "Well, the Plan is a full success," said Taggart lethargically, "except for the not fully controllable element of time.†   (source)
  • But even to go back took an act of intelligence-she thought, feeling the paradox of her own position, as she looked at the lethargy of the faces around her.†   (source)
  • But as she sat in the candlelight of the dining room, she felt certain that she had no chance; she felt restlessly unable to accept that certainty, since she could not grasp its reason, yet lethargically reluctant to pursue any inquiry.†   (source)
  • It was during the introspective, wood-burning days of winter, when a kind of malcontented lethargy gripped us, that I found the letter that would provide the means to the grandest, most improbable voyage of all.†   (source)
  • While the rest of us sprawled blissfully in the sun, or grazed lethargically amongst the lichens, George began to wander restlessly back and forth along the top of the ridge.†   (source)
  • Long after sunrise he was still sitting beside the dying fire, too lethargic apparently to think of breakfast.†   (source)
  • Anthony Blanche's set broke up and became a bare dozen lethargic, adolescent Englishmen.†   (source)
  • When I am alone I fall into lethargy, and say to myself dismally as I poke the cinders through the bars of the grate, Mrs Moffat will come.†   (source)
  • The sight of him drew Gant instantly from his lethargy: he remembered the dissolved partnership; the familiar attitude of Will Pentland, as he stood before the fire, evoked all the markings he so heartily loathed in the clan—its pert complacency, its incessant punning, its success.†   (source)
  • The two sisters stooped, broad, lethargic; stooping, they presented an incredible expanse of pale cloth and a flutter of tawdry ribbons.†   (source)
  • His hands clasped themselves over his capacious paunch, his eyes blinked, as if he would have liked to reply kindly to these blandishments (she was seductive but a little nervous) but could not, sunk as he was in a grey-green somnolence which embraced them all, without need of words, in a vast and benevolent lethargy of well-wishing; all the house; all the world; all the people in it, for he had slipped into his glass at lunch a few drops of something, which accounted, the children thought, for the vivid streak of canary-yellow in moustache and beard that were otherwise milk white.†   (source)
  • Richard Sanborn, aged twenty-four, who had been a brilliant student in college and was now slowly drinking himself to death, startled his family by emerging from his usual lethargy and declaring that the house was magnificent.†   (source)
  • should have torn me free, I waited not for light but for that doom which we call female victory which it endure and then endure, without rhyme or reason or hope of reward—and then endure; I like that blind subterranean fish, that insulated spark whose origin the fish no longer remembers, which pulses and beats at its crepuscular and lethargic tenement with the old unsleeping itch which has no words to speak with other than 'This was called light; that 'smell; that 'touch; that other something which has bequeathed not even name for sound of bee or bird or flower's scent or light or sun or love; —yes, not even growing and developing, beloved by and loving light, but equipped only wit†   (source)
  • While seated in the park he had felt nothing but a lethargy, a dull vacancy, hollow as it was leaden.†   (source)
  • From the woodpile through the rest of the afternoon the boy watched them, the rug spread flat in the dust beside the bubbling wash-pot, the two sisters stooping over it with that profound and lethargic reluctance, while the father stood over them in turn, implacable and grim, driving them though never raising his voice again.†   (source)
  • For a moment it held them in suspense; then they sank back into their lethargy, the prison door had closed on them once again.†   (source)
  • No. He found himself resenting the thorny brightness of Leo's voice-a brightness that kept pricking him always out of a passionate yet monstrous lethargy.†   (source)
  • It was a period of sheer lethargy.†   (source)
  • It was true: demoralization, lethargy, and stupor were rampant.†   (source)
  • It served to make him rebellious and hence lethargic at times.†   (source)
  • Some unusual noise roused Hare out of his lethargy.†   (source)
  • He was in an eddy again, a deep, lethargic gulf, without desire to work or write, love or dissipate.†   (source)
  • Silvermane stumbled, jolting Hare out of his stupid lethargy.†   (source)
  • The flies, lethargic with the autumn, were beginning to buzz into the room.†   (source)
  • But the curate was lethargic, unreasonable.†   (source)
  • About noon she got into a sort of lethargy which we did not like.†   (source)
  • He added significantly, "I did not like that lethargy of Madam Mina's.†   (source)
  • 'Has he fallen into a lethargy, or is he dead?'†   (source)
  • 'A lethargy that comes by right some few score years later.†   (source)
  • She generally lies in a kind of lethargy all the afternoon, and wakes up about six or seven.†   (source)
  • The hideous potion of absinthe-porter and alcohol had thrown him into a lethargy.†   (source)
  • The latter did not appear to arouse from his lethargy; in fact, he did not notice the offered hand.†   (source)
  • splendid lethargy of the real overwhelmed by the ideal.†   (source)
  • Life had thrown up this wreckage; shop windows full of coloured paste, and one stood stark with the lethargy of the old, stiff with the rigidity of the old, looking in.†   (source)
  • They were very quiet and lethargic at certain hours and then they exploded into sudden quarrels and breakdowns and seductions.†   (source)
  • To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires; to flout their striving idly is to welcome a harvest of brutish crime and shameless lethargy in our very laps.†   (source)
  • The first intimation that he had of her being aroused from sleep or lethargy was a low call for water.†   (source)
  • Yet for the first few days he wandered about the gardens and along the shore in a state of superloneliness, finding a lethargic content in smoking "Bull" at the garage with one of the chauffeurs.†   (source)
  • She had a sense of acquiescing in this plan with the passiveness of a sufferer resigned to the surgeon's touch; and this feeling of almost lethargic helplessness continued when, after the departure of the guests, Mrs. Fisher followed her upstairs.†   (source)
  • He left the house with his geometry conspicuously under his arm, and the moment he got out of Cordelia Street and boarded a downtown car, he shook off the lethargy of two deadening days and began to live again.†   (source)
  • For Swann's affection for Odette still preserved the form which had been imposed on it, from the beginning, by his ignorance of the occupations in which she passed her days, as well as by the mental lethargy which prevented him from supplementing that ignorance by imagination.†   (source)
  • And although it was warm—the air lifeless and lethargic—he walked fast, thinking, and perspiring as he did so, as though he were seeking to outwalk and outthink or divert some inner self that preferred to be still and think.†   (source)
  • And as a single spider's thread after wavering here and there attaches itself to the point of a leaf, so Richard's mind, recovering from its lethargy, set now on his wife, Clarissa, whom Peter Walsh had loved so passionately; and Richard had had a sudden vision of her there at luncheon; of himself and Clarissa; of their life together; and he drew the tray of old jewels towards him, and taking up first this brooch then that ring, "How much is that?" he asked, but doubted his own taste.†   (source)
  • He could not explore the idea further, for a sudden access of that mental lethargy which was, with him, congenital, intermittent and providential, happened, at that moment, to extinguish every particle of light in his brain, as instantaneously as, at a later period, when electric lighting had been everywhere installed, it became possible, merely by fingering a switch, to cut off all the supply of light from a house.†   (source)
  • And the habit of years—the religious passion of her life—leaped from lethargy, and the long months of gradual drifting to doubt were as if they had never been.†   (source)
  • Everyone had brown lips, and the most delicious productions of the Berghof kitchens were greeted by lethargic, carping gourmets, who had already stuffed and ruined their stomachs with Milka nougats, chocolat a la creme d'amandes, Marquis napolitains, and little "cat's tongues" sprinkled with gold.†   (source)
  • At the time that this presentation begins, about two-thirty in the afternoon, he was lethargically turning the leaves of a mail-order catalogue for which his wife had asked him to write.†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp again waited awhile before answering, but then at last he said with a certain lethargy, "I've felt feverish for a long time now, my friend—almost the whole time.†   (source)
  • And this, while not producing a happy reaction in her, had the unsatisfactory result of inducing in Clyde a lethargy based more than anything else on the ever-haunting fear of inability to cope with this situation as well as the certainty of social exposure in case he did not which caused him, instead of struggling all the more desperately, to defer further immediate action.†   (source)
  • There seemed none of the unity of purpose between the parts of the body which marks even lethargic sanity.†   (source)
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