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  • 'Torpid' is not the chap to encourage either mental or physical effort in his associates.

    Under the Great Bear Kirk Munroe 1890

  • The idea of coupling 'Torpid' Walling's name with anything that savors of work.

    Under the Great Bear Kirk Munroe 1890

  • Torpid indifference” is a great phrase for something that many of us have faced (and possibly also experienced) too often.

    Do Readers Want ‘A Tragedy With a Happy Ending’? « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • Torpid men perch on fenders of gutted taxis or upended fruit crates or beneath ragged tarps.

    Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

  • Torpid men perch on fenders of gutted taxis or upended fruit crates or beneath ragged tarps.

    Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

  • Torpid minds and flagging spirits require more active recreation, they require a spur, a fillip, an increase of vitality, and to meet these ends there cannot be any more desirable solution than the ones offered by the governors of Bedlamnamely, a billiard room for the men, and a ballroom for patients of either sex.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Torpid minds and flagging spirits require more active recreation, they require a spur, a fillip, an increase of vitality, and to meet these ends there cannot be any more desirable solution than the ones offered by the governors of Bedlamnamely, a billiard room for the men, and a ballroom for patients of either sex.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Torpid minds and flagging spirits require more active recreation, they require a spur, a fillip, an increase of vitality, and to meet these ends there cannot be any more desirable solution than the ones offered by the governors of Bedlamnamely, a billiard room for the men, and a ballroom for patients of either sex.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Torpid with comfort and impressed by the sight of the ocean covered with vessels rushing to and fro like wild beasts about their den, they sat speechless, somewhat awed by the soothing and gorgeous sunset.

    Pierre And Jean 2003

  • Torpid Weaver children were trying to keep their eyes open.

    The Ringworld Throne Niven, Larry 1996

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