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For the students from the Child School, who have varying forms of learning or social disabilities, the daring river exertion seemed to relieve them of whatever physical lethargies they had.

From New York Times • May 21, 2011

My lethargies have not dulled my delight in good books.

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas

Thus in my journey during those long hours I found it—agonies subsiding into lethargies, and these breaking again into frenzy.

From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Instances of parturition or delivery during sleep, lethargies, trances, and similar conditions are by no means uncommon.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

For my part, when I behold a fashionable table, set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with innumerable distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes.”

From Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew by Berens, Edward