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For a long while I sat there stagnantly dwelling on this knowledge which had come to me in the blackness.

From The Dweller on the Threshold by Hichens, Robert Smythe

Glooms, stagnantly subsiding, Whose lustrous heart away was prest Into the argent stars!

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Formerly water for domestic use was stored in cisterns, tanks, tubs, jars, and so forth, and, after rain, water stood stagnantly in a thousand ruts and holes in the unpaved squares, streets, and lanes.

From The Panama Canal and its Makers by Cornish, Vaughan

There is, it is said, a tendency in Plutocracies either to become unprogressive, unenterprising and stagnantly autocratic, or to develop states of stress and discontent, and so drift towards Cæsarism.

From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Thus the torch of life is passed briskly, with picturesque and stimulating effect, along the manifold race of running ages, instead of smouldering stagnantly forever in the moveless grasp of one.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville