You have allowed yourself to sink into a sinful and dangerous lethargy of mind and body in which you have brooded morbidly over your afflictions.
Lashed into action by the high-handed measures of Lord Curzon, the lethargy of the people died away, they tried for the first time to stand upon their own legs and boldly face the world without fear of death.
By holding before our eyes the ideal of an alien culture and civilization, the English have roused us from the stupor, torpidity and lethargy of spirit into which we had gradually come to sink.
But, when awakened from this lethargy of silent grief, she felt all the horrors of a fate she had so much dreaded.
He had protested when Sally, a month before, finding Mrs. Meecher distraught on account of a dreadful lethargy which had seized her pet, had begged him to offer hospitality and country air to the invalid.
Sally forced herself from the lethargy which was gripping her.
The lethargy and dispiritedness, caused by their week of inaction, fell from them like a cloak.
Bobby relapsed into a dull lethargy which took absolutely no account of space or time.
Only when the four ushers tiptoed about with the collection boxes on the end of handles, like exaggerated corn-poppers, did the lethargy into which he had fallen break for a moment.
Then one day Simità awoke from itslethargy in terror, with the spectre of pestilence stalking through her narrow streets.
He roused up from his lethargy and stared at the assemblage.
She is very firm on this point, and ascribes to this her great impunity, in spite of the lethargy before mentioned, which would seem likely to throw her into the hands of her enemies.
The jurymen roused from their lethargyas he turned his white and bony face toward them; the atmosphere was suddenly charged with the sympathy these aged men felt for him.
Yes, Marriott knew that he had lost and he felt himself sinking into the lethargy of despair.
He will no longer pine under the lethargy of ennui, that unconquerable weariness of life, more to be dreaded than death itself.
By five o'clock he knew that the chances were against him, but he felt a real lethargy as to the outcome.
A sort of early summerlethargy had apparently settled on the house.
He feared lethargy of heart, the supine mood, more than he feared excess of passion.
He plays upon the will, summoning it from lethargy to activity.
He added significantly, "I did not like that lethargy of Madam Mina's.
About noon she got into a sort of lethargy which we did not like.
I would have got out to make certain on the point, but some leaden lethargy seemed to chain my limbs and even my will.
I think that the digression of my thoughts must have done me good, for when I got back to bed I found a lethargy creeping over me.
The lethargy grows upon her, and though she seems strong and well, and is getting back some of her colour, Van Helsing and I are not satisfied.
Dixon fought back the ever-increasing lethargy that was benumbing his brain, and groped dazedly for a key to this new riddle.
But he was wrenched sharply from the lethargy that held him at sight of his surroundings, and the memories they recalled.
In the first place, the lethargyof the British government is proverbial.
There may be officials who are uninfluenced by this sheltered position, indeed I know personally many who are, but there is equally no doubt that many succumb to arrogance and lethargy as a consequence.
The latter alternative was chosen by the whalers, and Maldonado and Punta de la Ballena, in consequence, sank back into the lethargy of industrial torpor.
Yet a slight movement in her room told me that in spite of her lethargy she seemed to know that we were there and to recognize who had joined us.
Reginald and Betty stood on the other side of the chair, much encouraged, apparently, at this show of throwing off the lethargy that had seized her.
But for hunger, I might have remained longer in the sort of torpid lethargy into which I had fallen; but nature craved loudly for sustenance.
This lethargy of despair continued upon me for some time--I noted not how long; but I was at length aroused from it by an acute pain, which I felt in the tip of my middle finger.
Georgia started from her lethargy like a lion roused from his lair and prepared for the conflict.
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