In order to get to East Russet you take the Vermont Central as far as Twitchell's Falls and change there for Torpid River Junction..., where a spur line takes you right into Gormley. At Gormley you are met by a buckboard which takes you back to Torpid River Junction again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are several attitudes towards Christmas, Some of which we may disregard:... The social, the torpid, the patently commercial, The rowdy (the pubs being open till midnight), And the childish....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, an...d so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let the torpid Monk seek heaven comfortless and alone--GOD speed him! For my own part, I fear, I should never so find the way: let... me be wise and religious--but let me be MAN: wherever thy Providence places me, or whatever be the road I take to get to thee--give me some companion in my journey, be it only to remark to, How our shadows lengthen as the sun goes down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great ship, Balayne, lay frozen in the sea. The one-foot stars were couriers of its death... To the wild limits of its habitation. These were not tepid stars of torpid places But bravest at midnight and in lonely spaces, They looked back at Hans' look with savage faces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience torpid through virtuous inaction are more to me than corner lots and ...praise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »