lie torpid
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They sleep, perhaps—like the creatures that hide themselves in the ground and lie torpid all the winter—but with one breath of the past they flame into life again.'
From Milly Darrell and Other Tales by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
After feeding-time they would lie torpid in a heavenly frowst reading Wisden's Annual or sixpenny magazines.
From Years of Plenty by Brown, Ivor
Professor Smawl ate heavily and retired to her tent to lie torpid until evening.
From In Search of the Unknown by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
The beautiful star-fish, with its five points, as equally, and regularly arranged, as though it had been done by the rule of the mathematician, with great worm-like molluscs, lie torpid on the white sand.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
Do they change into anything, lie torpid, and then change again into something else, with wings?
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
