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Sirocco is damp and most enervating, and south-east in its direction.— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
So enervating were the conditions that none of us cared to make the slightest unnecessary movement; yet the steady decline of the mercury was a warning that I dared not ignore.— The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn
But it is very enervating, and I remember how the boys were in the habit of climbing the hill above the village to have a glimpse of the great mountains in the distance, and to be stimulated and freshened by the breezes which came from the hilltops, and by the great spectacle of their grandeur.— New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?
At any rate I can think of two The first was some years ago, in Yorkshire, on one of those sultry and stifling days of August which in winter, or even in such a March as we have been suffering, one can view as something more desirable than rubies, but which in actual fact are depressing, enervating, and the mother of moodiness and fatigue.— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917
The atmosphere of the home in which one has been guarded and pampered as a priceless possession was--must be--enervating, and to one who was screwing up her powers to their highest pitch for a great effort like this, it would be poisonous--malarial!— Mary Wollaston
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