Примери за torpid

• Recent writers continue to undermine the stereotype of a torpid, unduly worldly establishment.

• He suggested that the animals lived at or near the entrances to the fissures and that night-time storms could catch the torpid animals unaware.

• It remains there quiescent, dormant and torpid in the hope that some day the waters will return.

• Local authorities must stipulate, as they are often far too torpid to do now, such conditions in granting licences.

• Rule by kindness without efficiency is torpid and doomed.

• Here is a case of a rather torpid patient.

• For a week at a time every man and woman and not a few of the children are drunk, some in a torpid and some in a raving condition.

• And it is not only the stability—because there can be such a thing as a torpid stability—but the vitality of our society at which we aim.

• Has this patient, who is ex concessis rather confused and torpid, said that he is not willing to go, or has he not said it?

• In cold weather, it becomes torpid and looks and feels dead, but wakes at night.

• Young nesting swifts are able to survive for a few days without food by dropping their body temperature and metabolic rate, entering a torpid state.

• In the morning, while they are still torpid, they move from the rock-crevices to basking sites exposed to the sun.

• This effect has been observed in other torpid metabolic states, like diving.

• The animals are often torpid in the heat of the day, hiding in concealed locations such as hollow logs or holes.

• After awaking from a torpid state, these marsupials actively seek out areas in which they can bask in the sun to aid in this process.