Bruce suffered from it when ascending the Nile, he and his company becoming so enervated as to be incapable of pitching their tents, oppressed as well by an intolerable headache.
The man in full possession of his mental qualities and corporeal strength is, in most cases, very different from that unfortunate being whose mind is, enervated by sufferings and whose body is weakened by wants.
Educated in slavish dependence, and enervated by luxury and sloth, where shall we find men who will stand forth to assert the rights of man; or claim the privilege of moral beings, who should have but one road to excellence?
And what resource hast thou in an enervated mind to raise a sinking heart?
His education had been such as would have enervated even a vigorous intellect, and perverted even a generous disposition.
He was perfectly well acquainted with the weak side of Carthage, and knew that he could meet with little opposition from a people who were strangers to the use of arms, and enervated by a life of ease and plenty.
The contagious influence of that bane to publick virtue and liberty, corrupted our manners, enervated our bodies, and debased our minds, whilst our military spirit subsided, in proportion as the love of pleasure increased.
The extensive and opulent empire of Persia fell an easy conquest to Alexander and a handful of Macedonians; and the Macedonian empire, when enervated by the luxury of Asia, was compelled to receive the yoke of the victorious Romans.
The greater part of men are much too exhausted and enervated by their struggle with want to be able to engage in a new and severe contest with error.
All a man's nature must be on the alert, and this is not the case with those divided by abstraction, narrowed by formulas, enervated by application.
It enervated him to contemplate the object of his attachment; however, he shook off this feeling.
And now he felt as if something that was inexhaustible were rising up from the very depths of his being, an afflux of tenderness that enervated him, like the motion of the waves under his eyes.
Isabella was one of these exhausted, enervated creatures, and hence her pleasure at the sight of the mangled rider.
A wearied, enervated nature, nerves blunted by the enjoyment of all kinds of pleasures, are frequently all that remains of womanly nature.
In the same manner the barbarous government of the Turks has enervated the Egyptians and the Greeks, without having been able to destroy the original character or temper of their minds.
He enervated himself dangerously, Ramuntcho, in these prolonged contacts which she did not prohibit.
She had never been one of those who are enervated for long, or at least, let it appear.
It was this concept that also led Purney to his unusual theory of enervated diction.
And he has trulyenervated his Language in four several Lines.
But 'twould be still better enervated if Mr. Philips had used only such Words as have very few Consonants in them.
But, though enervated by long years of luxury, and so greatly demoralised by defeats, the Britons had yet some force left.
In both it was an age in which a vigorous race reached the first flourishing stage of civilisation, when the national energy began to be devoted to aesthetic pursuits, but was nevertheless not yet enervated by over-enlightenment.
In thus presenting a united front to the last in adversity, the kernel of the Taira family, though much enervated by their court life, proved themselves true sons of the chivalrous warriors of old Japan.
An enervated and stunted manhood, a badly developed physique, a marked absence of manly and womanly strength and beauty, are painfully common everywhere.
It overwhelmed his enervated will at once, and now that morphine could be obtained he would have it at any and every cost.
Look at the enervated and stunted fathers, the nervous and sickly mothers, the puny and weak children, the poorly developed babies and dwarfed minds, the crowded reformatories, penitentiaries and asylums.
Look at the enervated and stunted fathers; the nervous and sickly mothers; the puny and weakly children; the poorly developed bodies and dwarfed minds.
That enervatedand over-civilized population looked with disgust on the unruly mass.
The brutal, half-clothed savage of an early age conveyed his tastes as well as his conquests to the enervated voluptuary of the empire.
If we try to catch any hope of the future, we must turn from the oppressed and enervated populations of France and Italy to the wild wanderers from the North.
When Frank came to me that night he was somewhat surprised at the state of my rather enervated champion, which he with great glee contrasted with the vigorous condition of his own.
Upon my word, when I think of the strong people of a past age and compare them with the enervated race of to-day, I feel not only pity, but shame, for the visible degeneration of mankind.
Their contact with the Mussalmans has neither relaxed nor enervated that condition.
In ancient times the inhabitants, divided into tribes, led a simple, rustic life, superior in all respects to their neighbours the Medes, already enervated by civilisation.
