Usually, however, the fever is not preceded by a chill, but after languor and Torpitude have seized him, with excessive heat and throbbing temples, the loin and spinal column ache, and raging thirst soon possesses him.
"How I Found Livingstone"
Sir Henry M. Stanley
The Torpitude of digestion a little passed, she flutters half an hour through the streets, by way of paying visits, and then to the spectacles.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson
The Russians seem not yet thawed from the winter's Torpitude.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson