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  • Uncomfortably I stood in the stagnant, antique-crowded gloom, not knowing what to say.†   (source)
  • Beneath the algae was stagnant, yellow water.†   (source)
  • There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies.†   (source)
  • It's not hard to see why; the passing game was improving, and the running game was stagnant.†   (source)
  • Ned and Julia had found the park an ugly, desolate place of sandy ridges and half-dead oaks, although Pearl had enjoyed trying to catch tadpoles in its pools of stagnant water.†   (source)
  • Outside it was cooler, a breeze cutting through the stagnant air.†   (source)
  • The adult market is stagnant; selling more soda to kids has become one of the easiest ways to meet sales projections.†   (source)
  • In the abandoned ornamental garden, Rahel, watched by lolling dwarfs and a forsaken cherub, squatted by the stagnant pond and watched toads hop from stone to scummy stone.†   (source)
  • Everything became a blur around me as I pulled in great lungfuls of the damp, stagnant, city air.†   (source)
  • And from that time on theirs was the coolest house under the furious La Manga sun, and it was a delight to take a siesta in the darkened bedrooms and to sit on the portico in the afternoon to watch the heavy, ash-gray freighters from New Orleans pass by, and at dusk to see the wooden paddles of the riverboats with their shining lights, purifying the stagnant garbage heap of the bay with the wake of their music.†   (source)
  • It lay at the outskirts of the town, on low ground, like a rubbish dump, and as I walked up and down the gravel paths, I could smell the stagnant salt marshes in the distance.†   (source)
  • They'd dip their calabash gourds or recycled plastic jugs in the stagnant reservoir, then carry them back up the hill, and of course they'd want to make that water last.†   (source)
  • The stagnant air was sodden with the smells of sweat and wood varnish.†   (source)
  • Mosquitoes swarmed over stagnant ponds in the lowest areas.†   (source)
  • A mass of warm, stagnant air had moved up from the south and was being held in place over New England by hands of high pressure.†   (source)
  • A cooling northerly breeze rolled over the foothills east of Atlanta, displacing the wet, stagnant air of summer.†   (source)
  • His head was a tumult of smells—phlox in bloom, ashes, cow dung, dog, cat, hens, stagnant water.†   (source)
  • It was still stagnant.†   (source)
  • Sadly, no one had considered the hazards that might result from stagnant water in the pipes.†   (source)
  • In it, I could taste the room around me—taste the lovely dust motes, the mix of the stagnant air mingling with the flow of slightly cooler air from the open door.†   (source)
  • Sewage lay stagnant in the gutters along the edges of the buildings; Eragon and Arya used their sleeves to mask their noses and mouths.†   (source)
  • The ridiculous name echoed in the cold, stagnant air.†   (source)
  • Tread a pool of murky water, dreams gone stagnant, or brewing dementia.†   (source)
  • Lurking by a stagnant mere, peering in the water as the dark eve fell, I caught him, Gollum.†   (source)
  • There was nothing inside but a few inches of stagnant rain water.†   (source)
  • But the blood that burst from her body was black, stagnant, dying, and none of us saw a baby in that mess.†   (source)
  • After a long walk and several Y-shaped tunnel splits, the pigeon led us to a disused section of track where the ties had warped and rotted and pools of stagnant water spanned the floor.†   (source)
  • The wind ceased its lapping of stagnant water against the shores of the lake, and there was quiet.†   (source)
  • The smell was of stale tobacco and stagnant air.†   (source)
  • The hole was used for dumping, and after a rain it stank with stagnant water.†   (source)
  • She knew nothing about the speed of decay in cold, stagnant water, but the body seemed to have been in the pool for a long time.†   (source)
  • The reek of burning sea coal and the stench of stagnant water below-decks were dreadful, and contributed to everyone's misery when, after the first full day of "rolling and rocking" at sea, every passenger and half the crew became seasick.†   (source)
  • Theology does not thrive in the world of action and reaction, change: it grows on calm, like the scum on a stagnant pool.†   (source)
  • Some words that will signal a shift from the stagnant state of Washington politics.†   (source)
  • It was too early to hope, but his reports were the only bright points in the stagnant fog of her days in the office.†   (source)
  • Stagnant desert water.†   (source)
  • It is a horrible mixture of stagnant river water, rubbish, and worse.†   (source)
  • Timelessness--in the sense of time never ending, never beginning--is a stagnant nothing.†   (source)
  • He had not gone far when he came upon a man of the cloth sitting upon a high rock overlooking stagnant water.†   (source)
  • Satisfied, he knelt down by a large, stagnant pool of blood and moved his index finger through it.†   (source)
  • One hot summer day I was meandering aimlessly beside a little local creek when I came upon a stagnant pool.†   (source)
  • He could smell the foaming flood water, stagnant and ripe with the rotting debris it carried past each village, sucking up their sewage, their waste, the dead animals.†   (source)
  • I gave my best friend a whistle and he ambled over, looking like a wet buffalo, fat and rolling, and covered with that summer green algae that grow in half-empty streams and stagnant ponds.†   (source)
  • No wonder the whole thing is so stagnant!†   (source)
  • Taking their place in the camp, now Judenrein, would be the Aryans, tattooed for identification—slaves dying by stagnant slow degrees their other kind of death.†   (source)
  • They had hoped the source of the stream would be a cool, refreshing trickle filtering out of the rock; instead it turned out to be a brackish, stagnant pool, its surface filmed by the oil of decomposing leaves.†   (source)
  • But now, being with them in the Domain, which in every way was their resort, and being admitted so easily to their life, their world of bungalows and air conditioners and holiday ease, catching in their educated talk the names of famous cities, I swung the other way and began to see how shut in and shabby and stagnant we in the town would have seemed to them.†   (source)
  • The stagnant, unabsorbed water on the ground responded by opening the windows of its pools and puddles, shimmering with the same brilliance.†   (source)
  • Always now like something he had put off, the thought of her was like a wave that hit him when he was tired, rising impossibly out of stagnancy and deprecation while he sat in the park, towering over his head, pounding, falling, going back and leaving nothing behind it.†   (source)
  • Somewhere on the farm there must be, he said, a tree trunk filled with stagnant water, in a warm enough spot for mosquitoes to breed; or perhaps an old rusting tin in a shady place where the sun could not reach the water to evaporate it.†   (source)
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  • Around me the air is stagnant, despite the little current, the breath coming in past the curtains.†   (source)
  • They reeked of smoke, grease, and stagnant alley water.†   (source)
  • Even at night the air inside Geyer's train was stagnant and moist.†   (source)
  • Stagnant, musty water, but water all the same.†   (source)
  • It was a routine conversation which was not going to bring about any break in the stagnant war.†   (source)
  • I chugged it down, though it tasted funny from sitting stagnant all night.†   (source)
  • Here the air was still, stagnant, heavy, and sound fell dead.†   (source)
  • Another time Adams stressed the need for "commotion" in life, to keep it from going stagnant.†   (source)
  • It was green and stagnant, thrust out like a slimy arm towards the enclosing hills.†   (source)
  • But half the fountains were dry, half the pools cracked and stagnant.†   (source)
  • …a large and exceedingly noxious cesspool underlying every part of the cellars, in some places the consistency of a strong infusion of black tea, and in others like viscid soft soap, which was undrained due to the failure of the builders to connect the drains to the main sewer; in addition to which, the water supply for both drinking and washing was drawn through an intake pipe from the lake, in a stagnant bay, close by the pipe through which the main sewer discharged its putrid flow.†   (source)
  • Ranchers currently face a host of economic problems: rising land prices, stagnant beef prices, oversupplies of cattle, increased shipments of live cattle from Canada and Mexico, development pressures, inheritance taxes, health scares about beef.†   (source)
  • Werner looks at the blue of the walls and thinks of Birds of America, yellow-crowned heron, Kentucky warbler, scarlet tanager, bird after glorious bird, and Frederick's gaze remains stuck in some terrible middle ground, each eye a stagnant pool into which Werner cannot bear to look.†   (source)
  • They lived in marshes and stagnant pools, sucked blood from man and horse alike, and laid their eggs in the dead and dying.†   (source)
  • Quick as a flash he was on top of me: all sharp bones and clammy flesh, reeking of sweat and sick and something else, raw and dirty, like stagnant pond water.†   (source)
  • As I moved about through the stagnant silences, the pools of shadow and deep sun, the old floors creaked underfoot like the deck of a ship, the wash of traffic out on Sixth Avenue breaking just audibly against the ear.†   (source)
  • In the plans he had produced for the commissioners, he envisioned transforming Jackson Park from a desert of sand and stagnant pools into a park unlike any other in the nation, focused on water and boating, with canals, lagoons, and shady coves.†   (source)
  • Dany sent outriders ranging ahead of the column, but they found neither wells nor springs, only bitter pools, shallow and stagnant, shrinking in the hot sun.†   (source)
  • There was running water at the bottom: it was in fact the bed of one of the many small rivers that trickled down from the hills to feed the stagnant pools and mires beyond.†   (source)
  • A thousand years later, the canals were choked with reeds and mud, and pools of stagnant water gave birth to swarms of flies.†   (source)
  • Leather snaps against my skin, and I remain still as stagnant water, afraid I might not play by his rules.†   (source)
  • She lowers the plank, and I wade through the few inches of stagnant water to the side of the cave, where something has washed up.†   (source)
  • I was glad the water was not stagnant–it would be upsetting to sully it, filthy as I was, if that were the case.†   (source)
  • Colonel Aureliano Buendia had the impression that the phosphorescence of her bones was showing through her skin and that she moved in an atmosphere of Saint Elmo's fire, in a stagnant air where one could still note a hidden smell of gunpowder.†   (source)
  • Once, they had been a promise, and from the midst of the stagnant sloth around her she had looked to them for proof that another kind of men existed.†   (source)
  • "Where I come from," the snake girl said, "the punishment for treason is being covered in honey, bound to an open boat, and floated out into a stagnant pond.†   (source)
  • And then they ran as fast as they could away from that place, both hoping and praying that there was just one wish left in that pile of old brick and stagnant water.†   (source)
  • She missed her boys more than she could express, and worried more than ever once shelearned of the move to Holland, "a country so damp, abounding in stagnant water, the air of which is said to be very unfriendly to foreigners."†   (source)
  • At the day's end they came to a stream that wandered down from the hills to lose itself in the stagnant marshland, and they went up along its banks while the light lasted.†   (source)
  • The fens grew more wet, opening into wide stagnant meres, among which it grew more and more difficult to find the firmer places where feet could tread without sinking into gurgling mud.†   (source)
  • This was stagnant–Imoved intoit.†   (source)
  • Hanging strands of moss and clots of waxy foliage made the thick vegetation look as if it were drooling; the too many draperies, hanging in the stagnant air of a small room, had the same look.†   (source)
  • Like headache, fatigue, chills, and hot flashes, a subsequent depression or "melancholia" is also characteristic of the disease, which was thought then to emanate from stagnant water or foul air, "miasma," but, in fact, as would be learned a century later, is transmitted by mosquitoes.†   (source)
  • Dagny noticed the first flicker of feeling in Lillian's lifeless eyes: it resembled pleasure, but so distantly that it looked like sunlight reflected from the dead surface of the moon to the stagnant water of a swamp; it flickered for an instant and went.†   (source)
  • …proud," Dr. Robert Stadler read-into the microphone and into the attentive silence of a nation, "that my years of work in the service of science have brought me the honor of placing into the hands of our great leader, Mr. Thompson, a new instrument with an incalculable potential for a civilizing and liberating influence upon the mind of man…… " The sky had the stagnant breath of a furnace and the streets of New York were like pipes running, not with air and light, but with melted dust.†   (source)
  • My friends were so good as to send me an excellent physician and surgeon whose skill and faithful attention, with the blessing of Heaven, saved my life…… I am, however, still weak, and whether I shall be able to recover my health among the pestilential vapors from these stagnant waters, I know not.†   (source)
  • She could renounce the railroad, she thought; she could find contentment here, in this forest; but she would build the path, then reach the road below, then rebuild the road-and then she would reach the storekeeper of Woodstock and that would be the end, and the empty white face staring at the universe in stagnant apathy would be the limit placed on her effort.†   (source)
  • From the rites of the jungle witch-doctors, which distorted reality into grotesque absurdities, stunted the minds of their victims and kept them in terror of the supernatural for stagnant stretches of centuriesto the supernatural doctrines of the Middle Ages, which kept men huddling on the mud floors of their hovels, in terror that the devil might steal the soup they had worked eighteen hours to earn-to the seedy little smiling professor who assures you that your brain has no capacity…†   (source)
  • …matter and spirit, a soul that seeks above all else to achieve its own moral perfection, valuing nothing higher than itself-and that the proof of an achieved self-esteem is your soul's shudder of contempt and rebellion against the role of a sacrificial animal, against the vile impertinence of any creed that proposes to immolate the irreplaceable value which is your consciousness and the incomparable glory which is your existence to the blind evasions and the stagnant decay of others.†   (source)
  • …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, then claim it…†   (source)
  • The squad car swung into the alley, fenders slipping past the gray-black bricks on either side as smoothly as the walls of a boat in a dark, narrow channel, and after a moment they came out in the dead-white brightness of the parking lot like a stagnant sea.†   (source)
  • He remembered the clammy ominousness he felt; his apprehension seemed to be a part of the unseasonable and oppressive heat, close as a boiler room, which even in the approaching twilight remained stagnant on the breezeless air, drenching him in sweat.†   (source)
  • The Maple Court was large, and on the seedy side, with the faint pervasive odor of stagnant water, but the three of us were attracted there on especially sultry summer nights by the refrigerated air and by the fact that we had grown rather to like its down-at-the-heel easygoingness.†   (source)
  • For the descriptive adjective "unchanged" we have substituted the emotional adjective "stagnant".†   (source)
  • We rented one half of a double corner house in front of which ran a stagnant ditch carrying sewage.†   (source)
  • His ambition was chained, held back" a pool of stagnant water.†   (source)
  • A trumpet call, clear and beautiful, floated into the stagnant air.†   (source)
  • The dull, flat dank of excrement, stagnant water, decay.†   (source)
  • The room was warm; the stagnant air had lulled even the most restive.†   (source)
  • Stagnancy, "First pull over a chair," she said, "and light the gas up there.†   (source)
  • Farther on, the highway goes through a stretch of sodden marshland, thick with slim, green rushes and stagnant with green-scummed pools.†   (source)
  • It was as if the water floated off and set sailing thoughts which had grown stagnant on dry land, and gave to their bodies even some sort of physical relief.†   (source)
  • There the heat was thick; it collected stagnant in the rocks, which were soft and eaten by rain acids into grottos and Cambodian shapes.†   (source)
  • And since I am, in one respect, deluded, since the person is always changing, though not the desire, and I do not know in the morning by whom I shall sit at night, I am never stagnant; I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change.†   (source)
  • Here we have often sat—how long ago it is—; we have passed over this bridge and breathed the cool, acid smell of the stagnant water; we have leaned over the still water on this side of the lock, where the green creepers and weeds hang from the piles of the bridge;—and on hot days we rejoiced in the spouting foam on the other side of the lock and told tales about our school-teachers.†   (source)
  • He entered-thrust of warmth of the gaslit hallway, stagnant air suffused with the dusty, torpid odor of carpets.†   (source)
  • Electric fans buzzed near the ceiling, churning up the stagnant, overheated air above two long rows of gray beds.†   (source)
  • The air in the little square chamber above the bells was hot and stagnant, and smelt overpoweringly of pigeon dung.†   (source)
  • But it was whistling softly in the stagnant air of the sickroom, and this it was that Rieux had been hearing since the long vigil began.†   (source)
  • On the green Sound, stagnant in the heat, one small sail crawled slowly toward the fresher sea.†   (source)
  • The mar ket's stagnant, there are no buyers.'†   (source)
  • Yet his absorption in her was not stagnant.†   (source)
  • She felt her stagnant blood enliven to the call made upon it.†   (source)
  • The air of the place, so fresh in the spring and early summer, was stagnant and enervating now.†   (source)
  • To me, who can do nothing, it has been like living under stagnant water.†   (source)
  • In spite of its cafes chantants and its omnibuses, Moscow was yet a stagnant bog.†   (source)
  • A stagnant, sickening oil with some natural repulsion in it that makes them both shudder.†   (source)
  • There was a touch of stagnant oblivion in that street.†   (source)
  • Consider the China pride and stagnant self-complacency of mankind.†   (source)
  • She had the mobile face frequent in those whose sight has decayed by stages, has been laboriously striven after, and reluctantly let go, rather than the stagnant mien apparent in persons long sightless or born blind.†   (source)
  • Up at the dipping-hole, at the other end of the meadow, Mrs. Morel could see the naked forms of boys flashing round the deep yellow water, or an occasional bright figure dart glittering over the blackish stagnant meadow.†   (source)
  • A log fence ran along the edge of open ground and a mud dam held back a pool of stagnant water, slimy and green.†   (source)
  • In the stagnant flow of the mass, identities were hardly distinguishable; but Lily presently saw Mrs. Bry cleaving her determined way through the doors, and, in the broad wake she left, the light figure of Mrs. Fisher bobbing after her like a row-boat at the stern of a tug.†   (source)
  • It was as if a sweet clear spring had begun to rise in a stagnant pool and had risen and risen until at last it swept the dark water away.†   (source)
  • He did nothing, however, for some long stagnant time to advance his new desire, occupying himself with little local jobs in putting up and lettering headstones about the neighbouring villages, and submitting to be regarded as a social failure, a returned purchase, by the half-dozen or so of farmers and other country-people who condescended to nod to him.†   (source)
  • None of the others had met the Count at all at close quarters, and when I had seen him he was either in the fasting stage of his existence in his rooms or, when he was bloated with fresh blood, in a ruined building open to the air, but here the place was small and close, and the long disuse had made the air stagnant and foul.†   (source)
  • And under the sinister splendour of that sky the sea, blue and profound, remained still, without a stir, without a ripple, without a wrinkle—viscous, stagnant, dead.†   (source)
  • I sat down again; sat for a time in a kind of stagnant mood, so weary, emotionally, mentally, and physically, that I could not think beyond the point at which he had left me.†   (source)
  • She called Raoul to come quite close to her and they walked side by side along the zinc streets, in the leaden avenues; they looked at their twin shapes in the huge tanks, full of stagnant water, where, in the hot weather, the little boys of the ballet, a score or so, learn to swim and dive.†   (source)
  • And also he owned the other hole near by, where the stagnant water was; and it was he who cut the ice and sold it; and what was more, if the men told truth, he had not had to pay any taxes for the water, and he had built the icehouse out of city lumber, and had not had to pay anything for that.†   (source)
  • A peculiar stagnant smell hung over the anchorage—a smell of sodden leaves and rotting tree trunks.†   (source)
  • 'For a time my brain went stagnant.†   (source)
  • It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line of fine shops and stately business premises that they really abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square which we had just quitted.†   (source)
  • I was about to ask him what he meant, when a sort of preparatory tremor passed over his whole person, as a faint ripple may be seen upon stagnant water even before the wind is felt.†   (source)
  • The dull sky soon began to tell its meaning by sending down herald-drops of rain, and the stagnant air of the day changed into a fitful breeze which played about their faces.†   (source)
  • The boat fairly flew; we sweltered side by side in the stagnant superheated air; the smell of mud, of mush, the primeval smell of fecund earth, seemed to sting our faces; till suddenly at a bend it was as if a great hand far away had lifted a heavy curtain, had flung open un immense portal.†   (source)
  • They were talking no secrets, and the clear unconcerned voice of the young woman, in response to the warmer accents of the man, spread into the chilly air as the one soothing thing within the dusky horizon, full of a stagnant obscurity upon which nothing else intruded.†   (source)
  • The kennel was stagnant and filthy.†   (source)
  • There were crowds of people in the street; workmen and business people were making their way home; other people had come out for a walk; there was a smell of mortar, dust and stagnant water.†   (source)
  • The adjacent low-lying ground for half a mile in breadth is a stagnant river with melancholy trees for islands in it and a surface punctured all over, all day long, with falling rain.†   (source)
  • Pancks steamed out of his little dock at a quarter before six, and bore straight down for the Patriarch, who happened to be then driving, in an inane manner, through a stagnant account of Bleeding Heart Yard.†   (source)
  • Mr. Farebrother contended on theory for the desirability of all games, and said that Englishmen's wit was stagnant for want of them; but Lydgate felt certain that he would have played very much less but for the money.†   (source)
  • Stagnant or rapid, it was never slow.†   (source)
  • But one transparent blue morning, when a stillness almost preternatural spread over the sea, however unattended with any stagnant calm; when the long burnished sun-glade on the waters seemed a golden finger laid across them, enjoining some secrecy; when the slippered waves whispered together as they softly ran on; in this profound hush of the visible sphere a strange spectre was seen by Daggoo from the main-mast-head.†   (source)
  • Tumultuous and stagnant gulf.†   (source)
  • There started up, from the gate, or from the rushes, or from the ooze (which was quite in his stagnant way), Old Orlick.†   (source)
  • Hence the rapid and innumerable transformations of that architecture which owns but three centuries, so striking after the stagnant immobility of the Romanesque architecture, which owns six or seven.†   (source)
  • The stagnant pools were all like amber.†   (source)
  • The temperature of the Boiling Spring the same day was 45x, or the warmest of any water tried, though it is the coldest that I know of in summer, when, beside, shallow and stagnant surface water is not mingled with it.†   (source)
  • In this manner, pools and ponds, and even the great fresh-water lakes, may be stagnant, as you and I both know they are, having seen them; but when you come to spread water over a great tract, like the sea, where the earth is round, how in reason can the water be quiet?†   (source)
  • …and squashing in her shoes whenever she moved; with a rash of rain upon her classical visage; with a bonnet like an over-ripe fig; with all her clothes spoiled; with damp impressions of every button, string, and hook-and-eye she wore, printed off upon her highly connected back; with a stagnant verdure on her general exterior, such as accumulates on an old park fence in a mouldy lane; Mrs. Sparsit had no resource but to burst into tears of bitterness and say, 'I have lost her!'†   (source)
  • With this object in view, the party proceeded in profound silence, the old man having admonished them of the necessity of caution, as they entered the clouds of smoke, which were rolling like masses of fog along the plain, more particularly over those spots where the fire had encountered occasional pools of stagnant water.†   (source)
  • The very gold and silver fish, set forth among these choice fruits in a bowl, though members of a dull and stagnant-blooded race, appeared to know that there was something going on; and, to a fish, went gasping round and round their little world in slow and passionless excitement.†   (source)
  • Not with such fervor prays the torpid recluse, looking forward to the cold, sunless, stagnant calm of a day that is to be like innumerable yesterdays.†   (source)
  • The sight of her would set his stagnant blood leaping; the sight of her— But it was a disappointment.†   (source)
  • It was full of pits and quagmires, partly covered with weeds and mosses, where the green surface often betrayed the traveller into a gulf of black, smothering mud; there were also dark and stagnant pools, the abodes of the tadpole, the bull-frog, and the water-snake, where the trunks of pines and hemlocks lay half-drowned, half-rotting, looking like alligators sleeping in the mire.†   (source)
  • The absence of this new species of confederation has been the cause which has brought all Unions to Civil War, to subjection, or to a stagnant apathy, and the peoples which formed these leagues have been either too dull to discern, or too pusillanimous to apply this great remedy.†   (source)
  • When I came to myself I explained to them the danger of approaching any cavern or other place where the air has for a long time been stagnant.†   (source)
  • Distinct upon the stagnant air came the sounds of a trotting horse passing up Longpuddle Lane—just beyond the gipsies' encampment in Weatherbury Bottom.†   (source)
  • It was a stagnant, warm, and misty night, full of all the heavy perfumes of new vegetation not yet dried by hot sun, and among these particularly the scent of the fern.†   (source)
  • And, beneath the show of a marble palace, that pool of stagnant water, foul with many impurities, and, perhaps, tinged with blood,—that secret abomination, above which, possibly, he may say his prayers, without remembering it,—is this man's miserable soul!†   (source)
  • In chuckling over the vexations he could inflict by the rigid clutch of his dead hand, he inevitably mingled his consciousness with that livid stagnant presence, and so far as he was preoccupied with a future life, it was with one of gratification inside his coffin.†   (source)
  • That merry scamp's face whose beaming had so often restored serenity to the priest's sombre physiognomy, was now powerless to melt the gloom which grew more dense every day over that corrupted, mephitic, and stagnant soul.†   (source)
  • In a big town and an active market we should have brought a good price; but this place was utterly stagnant and so we sold at a figure which makes me ashamed, every time I think of it.†   (source)
  • He was basking in the love of relatives and friends whom he had not seen for fifty years; and about him and caressing him were also descendants of his own body whom he had never seen at all till now; but to him these were all strangers, his memory was gone, his mind was stagnant.†   (source)
  • On the banks of the stagnant channel of mud which is the main street of Tom-all-Alone's, nothing is to be seen but the crazy houses, shut up and silent.†   (source)
  • When he got on to dry ground he sat down, pulled off his boot and emptied it, then walked to the marsh, drank some stagnant-tasting water, moistened his burning hot gun, and washed his face and hands.†   (source)
  • Ah! but in some low and obscure nook,—some narrow closet on the ground-floor, shut, locked and bolted, and the key flung away,—or beneath the marble pavement, in a stagnant water-puddle, with the richest pattern of mosaic-work above,—may lie a corpse, half decayed, and still decaying, and diffusing its death-scent all through the palace!†   (source)
  • He is stagnant but deep.†   (source)
  • I was glad when we came to the brickmaker's house, though it was one of a cluster of wretched hovels in a brick-field, with pigsties close to the broken windows and miserable little gardens before the doors growing nothing but stagnant pools.†   (source)
  • …perspiration, stuck to his body; his left boot full of water weighed heavily on his leg and squeaked at every step; the sweat ran in drops down his powder-grimed face, his mouth was full of the bitter taste, his nose of the smell of powder and stagnant water, his ears were ringing with the incessant whir of the snipe; he could not touch the stock of his gun, it was so hot; his heart beat with short, rapid throbs; his hands shook with excitement, and his weary legs stumbled and…†   (source)
  • It is a street of perishing blind houses, with their eyes stoned out, without a pane of glass, without so much as a window-frame, with the bare blank shutters tumbling from their hinges and falling asunder, the iron rails peeling away in flakes of rust, the chimneys sinking in, the stone steps to every door (and every door might be death's door) turning stagnant green, the very crutches on which the ruins are propped decaying.†   (source)
  • …touched her not warm not cool just still her clothes a little damp stilldo you love him now not breathing except slow like faraway breathingCaddy do you love him now I dont know outside the gray light the shadowsof things like dead things in stagnant water I wish you were deaddo you you coming in now are you thinkingabout him now I dont knowtell me what youre thinking abouttell mestop stop Quentinyou shut upyou shutup you hear me you shut upare you going to shut up all right I will…†   (source)
  • Nor in the stagnant bay of Marsh's library where you read the fading prophecies of Joachim Abbas.†   (source)
  • One is a pure and limpid stream; the other is a stagnant pool, swarming with bacilli.†   (source)
  • Sumptuous and stagnant exaggeration of murder.†   (source)
  • From drains, clefts, cesspools, middens arise on all sides stagnant fumes.†   (source)
  • …scutchmills: its utility in canals, rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level to level: its submarine fauna and flora (anacoustic, photophobe), numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the globe: its ubiquity as constituting 90 percent of the human body: the noxiousness of its effluvia in lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon.†   (source)
  • The lewd suggestions of some faded beauty may console him for a consort neglected and debauched but this new exponent of morals and healer of ills is at his best an exotic tree which, when rooted in its native orient, throve and flourished and was abundant in balm but, transplanted to a clime more temperate, its roots have lost their quondam vigour while the stuff that comes away from it is stagnant, acid and inoperative.†   (source)
  • Aught, aught of mightiest, best I see, conceive, or know, (To break the stagnant tie—thee, thee to free, O soul,) Be thou my God.†   (source)
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