torpid
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Torpid delegates broke into a roar of delight.
From Time Magazine Archive
Does a bookseller misdirect a parcel, he exclaims, 'My malison on all Blockheadisms and Torpid Infidelities of which this world is full.'
From Obiter Dicta by Birrell, Augustine
Torpid or frantic, they dwell in my conscience.
From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Flaubert, Gustave
The Potman filled their tankards With the liquor each preferred, Torpid and somnolent they sat, And spake not one rude word.
From Verse and Worse by Graham, Harry
The stroke of the 'Varsity eight told me that the best man in our Torpid was Jack and I believed him very easily.
From Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate by Turley, Charles
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