Lexicographical Neighbors of Torpefied
Literary usage of Torpefied
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1810)
"... and that the common eel, when equally frozen and torpefied, is capable of
being conveyed a thousand miles np the country, as from St. Petersburgh, ..."
2. The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn (1922)
"She is not done with you yet: she has only torpefied your energies a little.
Of your willingness to obey her, she takes no cognizance; — she ignores human ..."
3. Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn (1890)
"She is not done with you yet: she has only torpefied your energies a little.
Of your willingness to obey her, ..."
4. Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn (1890)
"She is not done with you yet: she has only torpefied your energies a little.
Of your willingness to obey her, ..."
5. The study of medicine by John Mason Good, Samuel Cooper (1829)
"The fact is, that the nervous system in every part, and every ramification,
becomes gradually torpefied by excess of action ; and as the eyes grow blind and ..."
6. Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen by Walter Savage Landor (1829)
"Let us not speculate on either of these curses, which may not be felt as such
when they come upon us, for we shall be stunned and torpefied by the greatness ..."
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