Lexicographical Neighbors of Torpefy
Literary usage of Torpefy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters from America by John Robert Godley (1844)
"... stiffen and torpefy, or delivered over to be dealt with by a parliament, at
best utterly incompetent to manage ecclesiastical affairs, and which may now ..."
2. Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen by Walter Savage Landor (1829)
"M. Canning, by our advice, has assumed the tone and air of a liberal, in order
to make the liberals of England keep the peace, and to torpefy and paralyze ..."
3. Rob of the Bowl: A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John Pendleton Kennedy (1860)
"... which fill up and torpefy de pipes of de nerves. And your ladyship shall
observe dat, as Nature has supplied and adapted particular plants and herps to ..."
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