Lexicographical Neighbors of Torpors
Literary usage of Torpors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. God's Psychology: A Sufi Explanation by M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (2007)
"That representative can control all the energies, the torpors, and the qualities
of the ... He can control the torpors, the energies, and the miracles. ..."
2. Among the Goths and Vandals by John Blaikie (1870)
"We have no class to correspond with " torpors." If their condition is superior
to that of serfs, it is chiefly from the voluntary nature of the service. ..."
3. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1896)
"... Adamantius as yet could only reply, that he had no power to treat while
Theodoric remained in Epirus. But let him abstain 1 Tovs iv rjj ®paial torpors ..."
4. European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and by Barrett Harper Clark (1918)
"He had his sluggish moods, his torpors — but they were the halting-stones and
resting-place of his tragedy — politic sav- ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... violent resolve was the result of one of those " sporadic overmastering torpors
which interrupt the circulatory system or indicate arterial convulsion" ..."