All 5 Uses of
torpor
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- It was the invigorating breath of a fresh outward atmosphere, after the long torpor and monotonous seclusion of her life.
Chpt 3 *torpor = state of low-energy and inactivity
- X The Pyncheon Garden CLIFFORD, except for Phoebe's More active instigation would ordinarily have yielded to the torpor which had crept through all his modes of being, and which sluggishly counselled him to sit in his morning chair till eventide.†
Chpt 10
- Clifford, too, had long forgotten it; but found it again now, as he slowly revived from the chill torpor of his life.†
Chpt 10
- For the most remarkable aspect of the affair was, that, at the cessation of the music, everybody was petrified at once, from the most extravagant life into a dead torpor.†
Chpt 11
- Indeed, his life seemed to be standing still at a period little in advance of childhood, and to cluster all his reminiscences about that epoch; just as, after the torpor of a heavy blow, the sufferer's reviving consciousness goes back to a moment considerably behind the accident that stupefied him.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
in people: a state of low-energy and inactivity
or less commonly:
in animals: a condition of biological rest or suspended animation -- (could be in the evening, during the cold, or as in a dormant state all winter)
or less commonly:
in animals: a condition of biological rest or suspended animation -- (could be in the evening, during the cold, or as in a dormant state all winter)