The light that fired his features had chased from them their habitual expression of lethargic calm.
When he touched her she shrank into silence, when he spoke she met his words with lethargic calm.
I, whose activity was boundless, whose mind never slumbered, am now plunged into a lethargic stupor, so that it requires an effort even to raise my eyelids.
In old days the good were good in a quiescent and lethargic way.
After this repast he went back into Court (where he never allowed a window to be opened) and administered what he called justice through the long and lethargic afternoon.
At this moment Marius slowly opened his eyes, and his glance, still veiled by lethargic surprise, settled on M.
It was certainly odd that whenever she got into that lethargic state, with the stertorous breathing, she put the flowers from her; but that when she waked she clutched them close.
When I went to move him, it became at once apparent that he had received some terrible injuries; there seemed none of that unity of purpose between the parts of the body which marks even lethargic sanity.
She complains of difficulty in breathing satisfactorily at times, and of heavy, lethargic sleep, with dreams that frighten her, but regarding which she can remember nothing.
When we entered we saw with amazement that he had spread out his sugar as of old; the flies, lethargic with the autumn, were beginning to buzz into the room.
His disinclination to physical effort is too strong and his nature is altogether too lethargic for violent exertion.
Next the Emperor sat the Crown Prince, a man slightly over thirty years of age, overgrown and heavy, apathetic, and lethargic in all his movements.
Perhaps, in his capacity of soldier, Yuan-chi-kai also hoped that the Japanese might impart some of their military enthusiasm to the lethargic youths of his country.
He was physically tired and his brain was dull, but he was conscious of lethargic satisfaction.
It was a thriving place, as the black dots of steamers in the roadstead showed, for of late years American enterprise had broken in upon its lethargic calm.
He had sunk into a dejected, lethargic mood, from which he had not the vigor to rouse himself.
His nature was timid, lethargic and melancholy, and his court was not marked by the scandals which had been seen under Henry IV.
From their extremely slow movements and lethargic habits in the daytime these weird little creatures are commonly called sloths by Anglo-Indians.
The fact is I have been insuperably dull and lethargic for many weeks, and cannot rise to the vigour of a Letter, much less an Essay.
I awoke, as I had done of old, after one of my lethargic seizures, from a deep, unrefreshing slumber, with a lingering sense about me of drowsiness and even fatigue.
Even his attentions to her had been paid with a blindfolded, lethargic unwillingness, as if he offered them against the dictates of his conscience and closed his eyes to a crisis he would not, dared not face.
She would awaken in dull and lethargic brains a new sense, the new sense of pleasure; she would give them a craving for things of which as yet they knew nothing.
The political world is almost lulled to sleep by the lethargic state of the Dutch negotiation, which will probably end in peace.
The lethargic character of their ambassador here, gives a very unhopeful aspect to a treaty on this ground.
Mr. Edwards remarks that the habit of becoming lethargic is of great service to a digoneutic species in a mountain region where it is exposed to sharp changes of temperature.
By nature he was lethargic and placid; by habit he was precise, methodical, and commonplace.
It was seized with spasms, and, after a few wild paroxysms, lapsed into a lethargic state.
Case of lethargic stupor or trance, extending continuously over more than twenty-three weeks, etc.
In that instance, despite all that medical skill could suggest or unremitting attention could do, it was found impossible to arouse the patient from the apparently hysterical lethargic sleep in which she ultimately sank and died.
The tired body could be forced on for a while yet, obeying the lethargic impulses of an equally tired brain, but the break would come.
The majority of the gasteropods are lethargic and slow in movement, but others will be found to be exceedingly lively and able to creep up the sides of the jar and make their escape in a surprisingly short time.
Our goal is to produce a stable, happy people by eliminating the lethargic personality below and the excitable types above.
The lethargic types are very apt to forget, or to dismiss the medication or the therapy as too much trouble.
So we actually are grateful for the lethargic types.
Lethargic layers of mist bulged low, like the roof of a marquee, and cloaked every outline that could yield us information.
Hickey, with the lethargic and pessimistic humour of his type.
Instead of the torment of suggestiveness which other drinks inspire, how gloriously lethargic are all thy influences, how mind-quelling, and how muddling!
The world is waking up now rapidly from the lethargic sleep of ages.
