... He reflected that his life, which until lately had been of a stagnant, contemplative quality, had suddenly become excessively active...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...Up on the high veld our rivers are apt to be strings of pools linked by muddytrickles—the most stagnant kind of watercourse you would look for in aday’s journey...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...The soil is fertile, but the village, being in a state of ruin, and having several pools of stagnant water, is very unhealthy...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...—Over the same kind of country, where the waterwas stagnant, to camp in the forest...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...Where water yardsare provided this should not be on stagnant waterbut there should be some circulation of the waterso as to keep it clean and fresh...
Harry M. Lamon 「Ducks and Geese」
...A day's march from Taveta brought me tothe banks of an almost stagnant brook, where Imade camp...
Various 「Hunting in Many Lands」
...Pritchard says this animal, whose name is Trachelius
ovum, is an inhabitant of stagnant bog water, and hasbeen found encysted...
Henry J. Slack 「Marvels of Pond-life」
...Bleedfreely; and to effect this, immersion in a tub of hot water may benecessary, in consequence of the stagnant state of the blood...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
...Hence fieldscontaining stagnant pools may be the source of infection...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...At this season they seek the low grounds in the prairies where there is a little stagnant water lying amongst the grass, and the ground underneath, being saturated, is soft...
R.M. Ballantyne 「The Dog Crusoe and his Master」
...At one point there was a deep, nearly stagnant pool, separated from the stream by a strip of wet, rushy ground, its still dark surface covered with water-lilies, not yet in bloom...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
...But marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by riversor ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand,emitting heavy, unhealthy vapours...
Vitruvius 「Ten Books on Architecture」
..."Four Miles Within" was a good story, but I am unable tounderstand why they did not find a lot of stagnant air...
Various 「Astounding Stories, July, 1931」
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