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All the stiffness and sluggishness contracted at the week-end has vanished now.
LIFE IN A RAILWAY FACTORYALFRED WILLIAMS
This sluggishness fostered my repugnance to your conception of religion, and my tendency towards another conception.
THE PATRIOTANTONIO FOGAZZARO
Under Gregorys earnest impulsion the sluggishness of the bishops was somewhat stimulated.
A HISTORY OF THE INQUISITION OF THE MIDDLE AGES; VOLUME IIHENRY CHARLES LEA
When the minister is weak, be the more watchful against prejudice and sluggishness of heart, lest you lose all.
A CHRISTIAN DIRECTORYBAXTER RICHARD
So saying, he leaped from bed, for he hated his sluggishness now.
THE MERRY ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOODHOWARD PYLE
The sluggishness of fulness comes apace; the dulness of a mind that knows all things.
COBWEBS FROM A LIBRARY CORNERJOHN KENDRICK BANGS
Nevertheless, I could not persuade myself that this sluggishness was altogether due to the water she had taken in.
THE FROZEN PIRATEW. CLARK RUSSELL
The tail moved; he stamped upon the head with almost frenzied violence, out of keeping with his sluggishness.
NORTHERN LIGHTSGILBERT PARKER
Lengthening the pause without increasing the touch suggests tameness, sluggishness, or dullness of thought.
BROWNING AND THE DRAMATIC MONOLOGUES. S. CURRY
Something should come before them, to awaken this sluggishness with regard to uplift among their own.
THE FORGED NOTEOSCAR MICHEAUX

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