No philosopher was he-- just a plain, commonplace person gifted, for the time being, with a pathological indifference: the organ that he feared consequences with was
torpid. So, with no particular apprehension for his immediate future, he fell asleep and all was peace with Henry Armstrong.
He had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature's requirements like a
torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom.
Though the artillery of the left wing of the Russians kept up a steady fire on this mass,--visible like a stain now black, now flaming, in the midst of the trackless snow,--this shot and shell seemed to the
torpid creatures only one inconvenience the more.
Not with such fervor prays the
torpid recluse, looking forward to the cold, sunless, stagnant calm of a day that is to be like innumerable yesterdays.