It would be, I then fancy, that stimulation which my capricious, languid, and languescent study needs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.] Reference

He confesses that he sometimes craves 'that stimulation which every capricious, languid, and languescent study needs.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson] Reference

July Monday, scarcely has the signal-cannon boomed; scarcely have the languescent mercenary Fifteen Thousand laid down their tools, and the eyes of onlookers turned sorrowfully of the still high Sun; when this and the other Patriot, fire in his eye, snatches barrow and mattock, and himself begins indignantly wheeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference

The foles, languescent, pend from arid rames.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference

Non tamen ante mihi languescent lumina morte.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference