He saw himself stagnating in Angouleme like a frog under a stone in a marsh.
The accumulations of stagnant or stagnating water originating in bogs are distinguished into Trask, stagna, and Tjernar or Tjarnar (sing.
When it has formed for itself a new mouth, it deserts its former course, which it leaves as a stagnating canal.
But wind and wave and alluvium working together choke these communications, and directly the mouth seawards of a lagoon is closed it is converted into a stagnating marsh that exhales malaria.
The prodigy, mentioned by Livy, of a stagnating piece of water at Mantua appearing as of blood, was no doubt owing to the appearance of great numbers of the Pulices arborescentes in it.
I am stagnating in this miserable place--I must, and will, have change.
I amstagnating in this place," he went on, seeing that I noticed the change in him.
Europe is ageing and stagnating and can be reinvigorated only by embracing youthful, dynamic, driven immigrants, most of whom are bound to be Muslim.
Growing Muslim presence in stagnatingjob markets within recessionary economies inevitably generated a backlash, often cloaked in terms of Samuel Huntington's 1993 essay in Foreign Affairs, "Clash of Civilizations".
Slow; stagnating along, like shoreless Lake, yet with a noise like Niagara, like Babel and Bedlam.
Poor Louis is not without insight, nor even without the elements of will; some sharpness of temper, spurting at times from a stagnating character.
As to your future motions, I am very well pleased with them, and greatly prefer your intended stay at Verona to Venice, whose almost stagnating waters must, at this time of the year, corrupt the air.
The stagnating contents of the stomach readily ferment, and the irritating products of fermentation induce a chronic {592} catarrhal gastritis, which further impairs the functions of the mucous and muscular coats of the stomach.
The Netherlands successfully addressed the issue of public finances and stagnatingjob growth long before its European partners.
The Vessel for thestagnating Mercury, into which the said Cane is immersed, is about two Inches wide.
And I marvelled greatly at the lordly, river-like roll of the narrative, sometimes widening out into lakes and shallowing meres, but never stagnating in fen or marshlands.
And it is observed to be always most frequent and most fatal where a Country is covered with Wood, or is marshy; and where there are frequent Fogs, and much stagnating Water, which corrupts by the Heat of Summer.
But in stagnatingtimes both sympathy with man sleeps, and the disclosure of man sleeps.
Tranquil, stagnating times, produce the imitative; times that rouse in man self-consciousnesses, produce the real.
The Waves on the Surface of stagnating Water, passing by the sides of a broad Obstacle which stops part of them, bend afterwards and dilate themselves gradually into the quiet Water behind the Obstacle.