Yet even the former comparatively low mortality, of which the counsel speaks with so much satisfaction, as a proof of the kind and compassionate treatment of the slaves, even this indolent and lethargic destruction gives to the march of death seventeen times its usual speed. "The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Vol. I" by Thomas Clarkson

People who have become lethargic in their self- indulgence, or who are blinded through some bad habit, will find relief at this chapel. "Ex Voto" by Samuel Butler

France was no longer a lethargic mass, dominated solely by the eager brain of Paris. "The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)" by John Holland Rose