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Also, he was perishing for water, and panted, dry-tongued, dry-mouthed, in the stagnant heat.† (source)
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A peculiar stagnant smell hung over the anchorage--a smell of sodden leaves and rotting tree trunks.† (source)
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There was not a breath of wind, and the superheated, stagnant air was heavy with pestilence.† (source)
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The cellar had two feet of stagnant water in it, and was bottomed with six inches of soft mud.† (source)
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The market's stagnant, there are no buyers.† (source)
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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.† (source)
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For a time my brain went stagnant.† (source)
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His way now led towards the river-side regions, and a cleansing whiff of tar was to be detected in the stagnant autumn air.† (source)
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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)
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Stagnancy, "First pull over a chair," she said, "and light the gas up there.† (source)
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Inside, the air was stagnant and thick with the smell of body odor.† (source)
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I can't overcome the notion that my body smells like cat food, despite whatever stagnant scent I sprayed on myself this morning — Tosca, was it, or Ma Grille, or perhaps Je Reviens?† (source)
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A stagnant bilge along the lower bulkhead filled with wet papers and trash.† (source)
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A bloodred flamingo holds its black-tipped beak over stagnant water.† (source)
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The water is stagnant and foul-smelling.† (source)
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Uncomfortably I stood in the stagnant, antique-crowded gloom, not knowing what to say.† (source)
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