He sat upon a low chair, his long legs, his violet-circled eyes staring out with a look of hebetude and overwhelming fatigue.
"The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel"
Baroness Orczy
Summer alone could bring them together again-the one from the dry gloom of the barn, the other from the cold seclusion of its wintry hebetude.
"Alec Forbes of Howglen"
George MacDonald
It would be a supposition attended with very little probability to believe that a complete and full formed spirit existed in every infant, but that it was clogged and impeded in its operations during the first twenty years of life by the weakness, or hebetude, of the organs in which it was enclosed.
"An Essay on the Principle of Population"
Thomas Malthus