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  • Aprs l'avnement de la rvolution d'Aot 1983, la mdecine traditionnelle burkinab sort de sa lethargie.

    Chapter 7 1991

  • Il a ses periodes de fievre ou d'atonie, de surexcitation ou de lethargie; il a ses soubresauts et ses haltes, mais il avance toujours.

    Lectures on Modern history John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

  • Quand le corps est paresseux l'esprit souffre cruellement; je ne connaitrais pas cette lethargie, si je pouvais ecrire.

    Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • He must, however, have had some indication that such a word would come into the language because lethargie, which would have come just before lexicographer, is defined as "a drowsie and forgetfull disease," and leuell, meaning

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1 1985

  • Quand le corps est paresseux l’esprit souffre cruellement; je ne connaitrais pas cette lethargie, si je pouvais ecrire.

    The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

  • “Il n’y a rien que je crains comme le desoeuvrement, l’inertie, la lethargie des facultes.

    The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

  • "Il n'y a rien que je crains comme le desoeuvrement, l'inertie, la lethargie des facultes.

    Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

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