hebetude

The hebetude of her tone betrayed the difficulty of staying alert.

Only his eyes contradicted the hebetude of his mien.

Both, however, began to feel the oncreeping of a sleepy hebetude which, under the circumstances, was most undesirable.

"Mhoram was right," he said out of the dry, lonely hebetude of his heart.

In the doorway Stevie, calmed, seemed sunk in hebetude.

"Nevertheless," Gibbon began quietly, then lost his hebetude in a strident yell, "you will depart!"

He sat upon a low chair, his long legs, his violet-circled eyes staring out with a look of hebetude and overwhelming fatigue.

I am set up by a beneficent providence at the corner of the road, to warn you to flee from the hebetude that is to follow.

From that solitude, full of despair and terror, he was torn out brutally, with kicks and blows, passive, sunk in hebetude.

The na-Mhoram's hebetude seemed impervious to offense.

The leaden weight of an irremediable idleness descended upon General Feraud, who having no resources within himself sank into a state of awe-inspiring hebetude.

A cold mist of hebetude and despair filled his head, and he was, glad for the blood which clogged his eyes; it preserved him from seeing the Waynhim.

Dysaesthesia aethiopica, "called by overseers 'rascality'," was characterized by partial insensitivity of the skin and "so great a hebetude of the intellectual faculties, as to be like a person half asleep."

At one time it much affected his temper, taking from him all mastery of himself; at another made him so dull and stupid, that he resented nothing except any attempt to rouse him from his hebetude.

In fact, he seemed absent, but every now and then his eyes brightened as if in the vacuum of his mind a new idea had kindled; then he would plunge once more into that singular and active hebetude of his.

But the intelligence (that more precious heirloom) was degenerate; the treasure of ancestral memory ran low; and it had required the potent, plebeian crossing of a muleteer or mountain contrabandista to raise, what approached hebetude in the mother, into the active oddity of the son.