lie torpid
Example Sentences
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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)
In winter they lie torpid, and in spring deposit their eggs about two inches beneath the earth's surface.
From Charley's Museum A Story for Young People by Unknown
This time he had no energy to attack himself with adjurations and sarcasms; body and soul were oppressed with uttermost fatigue, and for a time must lie torpid.
From The Emancipated by Gissing, George
All the exquisite nerves that bear to your soul these tidings of heaven in me lie torpid or dead.
From Gala-days by Hamilton, Gail
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)
