Near Rio de Janeiro, I was at first surprised to observe, that, a few days after some little depressions had been filled with water, they were peopled by numerous full-grown shells and beetles, which must have been lying
dormant. Humboldt has related the strange accident of a hovel having been erected over a spot where a young crocodile lay buried in the hardened mud.
Overcome by a flood of unusual and extraordinary sensations, and stimulated by tender and long
dormant recollections, strangely and unexpectedly revived, the old man had just self-command enough to add, in a voice that was hollow and unnatural, through the efforts he made to command it--
This roused me from my nearly
dormant state, and I ate some berries which I found hanging on the trees or lying on the ground.
And yet- -like us all, when we swoon--like us all, every day of our lives when we wake--he is instinctively unwilling to be restored to the consciousness of this existence, and would be left
dormant, if he could.
The sight of the civilized girl and the dapper, khaki clad Englishman had aroused in Korak memories long
dormant.
The small grey eyes blinked, the lips moved, with greed; greed was the ruling passion; and though there was some good nature, some genuine kindliness, a true human touch, in the old toper, his greed was now so set afire by hope, that all other traits of character lay
dormant. He sat there a monument of gluttonous desire.
It is only while crowded into bales, or thrust into drawers for the vulgar purposes of trade, that this instinct is
dormant, a beneficent nature scorning to exercise her benevolence for any but legitimate objects.
One day the soft airs of spring seemed to be stealing along the valley, and, in unison with an invigorating sun, attempting covertly to rouse the
dormant powers of the vegetable world, while, on the next, the surly blasts from the north would sweep across the lake and erase every impression left by their gentle adversaries.
Rushworth arrived, escorting his mother, who came to be civil and to shew her civility especially, in urging the execution of the plan for visiting Sotherton, which had been started a fortnight before, and which, in consequence of her subsequent absence from home, had since lain
dormant. Mrs.
For a time he liked to have bested me; but presently the latent possibilities that must have been lying
dormant within me for a lifetime came to the fore, and I fought as I had never dreamed a human being could fight.
This stream was entirely free from dangerous reptiles, because, as I later discovered, they became immediately
dormant when subjected to a much lower temperature than 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
What was the attraction that drew us so closely one to the other, at an age when the sexual sympathies lay
dormant in her and in me?
