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lacking energy
- She continued either delirious or lethargic; and the doctor forbade everything which could painfully excite her.Chapter 21 (61% in)
- She generally lies in a kind of lethargy all the afternoon, and wakes up about six or seven.Chapter 21 (30% in)
- I found the sick-room unwatched, as I had expected: no nurse was there; the patient lay still, and seemingly lethargic; her livid face sunk in the pillows: the fire was dying in the grate.Chapter 21 (84% in)
- Mr. St. John came but once: he looked at me, and said my state of lethargy was the result of reaction from excessive and protracted fatigue.Chapter 29 (8% in)
There are no more uses of "lethargic" in Jane Eyre.
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