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- At bed-time, his mind seemed strangely calm, reposed without being resolved, inert after long discord.†
Book 1 *
- The mashed lump of food lay inertly in his mouth.†
Book 4
- Though they lay there inertly, their bases solidly fastened to the dark wood, there puked from them still a suggestion of terrific power, a power that even while they lay motionless made the breast ache as though they were ever imminent, ever charging.†
Book 4
- His hand's quick thrust jarred the inert David.†
Book 4
- He crumpled inertly against the cradling arms.†
Book 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(inert) unmoving, inactive, or unable to move
or:
slow, lethargic, or without interest
or (in chemistry/medicine):
chemically inactive (not having an effect) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)