Two or three times, in the torpor by which her mind and limbs were conquered, she tossed about and then sat up in bed, only to fall again without having heard or seen anything.
A torpor held her on the rumpled bed, a desire to know, to hear, to see nothing.
At sunrise the turbulent delirium was over, to give place to the torpor that precedes death.
The whole day passed without her shaking off the torpor that belonged at once to sleep and to death.
No accident will happen to precious human freight through his brain kept free from digestive torpor while on duty.
Digestive, indigestive torpor is alsotorpor of the sense of responsibility.
Then the village became quite dull again; but it was roused from its torpor by the annual fête.
It is like a quirk of gluttony just rousing from the torpor of satisfaction.
He made his horse turn round, but, at the animal's first steps, he sunk again into a state of torpor and anguish.
For some time, seeing the profound torpor in which their master was plunged, they did not dare to rouse him, and satisfied themselves with exchanging their conjectures in a low, disturbed voice.
The king had already passed one of his arms round her body, and D'Artagnan assisted him in raising the poor girl, whom the torpor of death seemed already to have taken possession of.
It had pierced, as with a fiery sword, the torpor which had unwrapped his love with its protecting armour and that love had awaked to agonised consciousness, vivified and intensified.
Craig, swaying now on suddenly numb and uncertain feet, would have shouted too, but his tongue seemed tied and a heavy torpor was clutching all his limbs.
In the absence of symptoms of indigestion, or special diseases implicating the intestinal canal, torpor of the bowels must be attributed to deficient innervation.
Revulsives do good, as they excite the nervous system and awaken the torpor of the weakened blood vessels, which aid in the reestablishment of the functions.
When her husband asked her what she was thinking of, she would rouse herself from her torporand smile and say that she was thinking of nothing.
They had no link with the life of the time save the newspaper, which in the torpor of their little town and their drowsy life brought them the tardy echo of the voice of the world.
For more than ten months the outer air is never admitted into the house, and foreigners are affected in consequence with an uneasy sense of oppression and a sort of torpor that almost incapacitates them for thinking.
And Louis the more easily infected me with the sort of torpor in which deep contemplation leaves the body, because I was younger and more impressionable than he.
The heavens became darker; the heat arrived at its last degree of intensity; everything combined to increase the torpor of the sleeper, and so favor the Strangler's designs.
Torpor fell upon him till he was like a frost-nipped plant with the sap congealed, the leaves shrivelled and gray.
A feeling of weariness stopped him, a kind of torpor benumbed him for long minutes, during which he did not give a single stroke with the brush.
She was very tired, and a kind of torpor numbed her; still she would not give way, feeling anxious at leaving him awake.
The two churches slept the sleep of torpor through the eighteenth century; so much of the fact is acknowledged by their own members.
It soon falls asleep again, dulled into torporby the fumes of its own intolerant smugness.
If the distraction of the city hurts the man she is not less injured by the torpor of the suburb.
They prefer the comfortable torpor of the fireside.
At the beginning of June the general torpor appeared slightly to relax its hold upon its victims.
Then seemed to creep over everyone a kind of moral torpor as well as physical lassitude, which Servadac, the count, and the lieutenant did their best not only to combat in themselves, but to counteract in the general community.
The gray light of dawn was already beginning to streak the horizon and to illumine the faint outlines of the housetops when Janina awoke from her torpor and gazed about the room.
For a long time she sat in a senseless torpor and wept without being able to restrain herself, for after partly regaining her consciousness the memory of all her sufferings and disappointments came back to her again.
A feeling of passive submission andtorpor overcame her.
To me torpor and immobility are death itself, yes, worse than death, for, unfortunately, one must be conscious of this apathy of mind and body.
I wanted to speak to him and tried to do so, but the torpor against which I was struggling prevented me for some minutes.
The strength of my system enabled me to survive the effect of the poison; but during the torpor that numbed me, my Arabs, alarmed, gave no chase to my quarry.
I beheld a fair-sized room superbly furnished, and flooded with amber sunlight suggestive in itself of warmth and luxury, the vision of which heightened the delicioustorpor that held me in thrall.
Gothard, who possessed all the craft of a woman, the candor of a child, and the ceaseless observation of a conspirator, hid every one of these admirable qualities beneath the torpor and dull ignorance of a country lad.
She lay back in the carriage in the torpor which overtakes a criminal on the eve of his execution.
