Would he, too, become one day like Anstey, Stagnating out his life in a dead grey level, without a thought or interest beyond the exigencies of the hour?
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
He was either travelling through space at a thundering speed or Stagnating in a vacuum.
"A Son of the Hills"
Harriet T. Comstock
Newspapers never reached them; and whether from having so much occupation at head-quarters, or that the difficulty of sending letters prevented, their friends never wrote a line; and thus they jogged on, a very vegetable existence, till thought at last was Stagnating in their brains, and O'Flaherty half envied his companion's resource in the spirit flask.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)