torpors

Ennui never came to shed its torpors over these reunions, of which the Academy furnished the most distinguished guests, in company with grands seigneurs eager to show themselves as worthy by intelligence as by rank to play a role in these gatherings of the intellectual elite.

The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

In international relations diplomacy has been a boyishly lawless affair of family intrigues, commercial and territorial brigandage, torpors of pseudo-goodnature produced by laziness and spasms of ferocious activity produced by terror.

Heartbreak House George Bernard Shaw 1903

In literature no less than in politics the discovery meant the final breaking up of the old world, and the slow birth of a new one through alternate torpors and agonies.

Latin Literature 1902

\Te sounds in Parliamentyrtww thee: rhrough my whole frame such torpors creep;

The works of Peter Pindar 1812

I,522) and did not find the coveted peace; whether the expressed apprehensions of his father that the "call from heaven" to the monastic life might be a "satanic delusion" stirred up thoughts of doubt; whether his sudden, violent resolve was the result of one of those "sporadic overmastering torpors which interrupt the circulatory system or indicate arterial convulsion" (Hausrath, "Luthers Leben",

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913