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  • I discovered that taking quick trips to the grocery, hardware store, library and ice cream parlor are all much more ennervating by bike.

    What Not to Do For Earth Day 2010

  • I discovered that taking quick trips to the grocery, hardware store, library and ice cream parlor are all much more ennervating by bike.

    John F. Wasik: What Not to Do For Earth Day 2010

  • It's very ennervating and it tends to keep that spirit of adventure in you.

    The thrill of the old fashioned pickup Ms Robinson 2008

  • Now the descendants of Paradise's first settlers would mature and develop their abilities free of the ennervating cocoon a comforting computer network could build for them.

    The I Inside Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

  • The heat emanating from his hard flesh spread quickly through hers, its warmth ennervating.

    Ride the Thunder Janet Dailey 1980

  • The heat emanating from his hard flesh spread quickly through hers, its warmth ennervating.

    Ride the Thunder Janet Dailey 1980

  • The heat emanating from his hard flesh spread quickly through hers, its warmth ennervating.

    Ride the Thunder Janet Dailey 1980

  • The heat emanating from his hard flesh spread quickly through hers, its warmth ennervating.

    Ride the Thunder Janet Dailey 1980

  • On the contrary a general feeling of depression seems to have set in, caused perhaps by the ennervating weather.

    Four Months Besieged The Story of Ladysmith 1874

  • He has probably seen more than one example of young men of high birth, talents, and expectancies, ... sink under the burden of unsubdued tempers, licentious alliances, and ennervating indulgence ....

    The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

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