| 1. | I waited unseen and always, and slept through the lethargic mist. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | The flies, lethargic with the autumn, were beginning to buzz into the room. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 3. | Too long Jove lull'd us with lethargic charms. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 4. | There seemed none of the unity of purpose between the parts of the body which marks even lethargic sanity. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 5. | She continued either delirious or lethargic and the doctor forbade everything which could painfully excite her. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 6. | It made us all lethargic before we had gone far, and when we had left the Half-way House behind, we habitually dozed and shivered and were silent. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 7. | Long after he had finished eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. - from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
| 8. | "She complains of difficulty breathing satisfactorily at times, and of heavy, lethargic sleep, with dreams that frighten her, but regarding which she can remember nothing. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 9. | It was certainly odd that whenever she got into that lethargic state, with the stertorous breathing, she put the flowers from her, but that when she waked she clutched them close. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |