Lying there beside her, he was filled with an agreeable languor. From LearnThat.org. [www.ldoceonline.com]
Her eyes, as she raises them, have the hazy, dreamy languor, which is so characteristic of the mixed races. From Wordnik.com. [Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Vol. I] Reference
But his long face had nothing of that languor which is associated with long cuffs and manicuring in the caricatures of our own country. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
She experienced the gentle languor which is its best effect, instead of the fierce unrest and irritation which is its worst. From Wordnik.com. [The Prism] Reference
There are 39 species of animals, including 12 rare species such as languor, Tibetan bear, chamois, Loris, and red-face monkey. From Wordnik.com. Reference
A luxurious languor which is a pleasure in itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
A gentle languor enveloped the warm, sunny garden. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Yet there was no time for languor or sentimental sorrow. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Pain, languor, and burning eyelids deprived him of sleep. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Will the movie makers tolerate that languor and passivity?. From Wordnik.com. [Fine Films From British Books] Reference
She did not suffer, but a sort of languor had come over her. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
For what song can there be where there is languor and fainting?. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
I experienced a dull languor and could distinguish nothing clearly. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Her head felt heavy, and in her whole body she felt a pleasant languor. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Now it is languor, ennui, stomach troubles -- all imagination and humbug!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He spoke again, and the eyes unclosed slowly, and she said, with slow languor. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
You know it well, enchantress, with your soft languor that seems to suspect nothing!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I awake, on the contrary full of languor and poesy; I was like that in my very cradle. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It's a rare straight ballad for Usher, whose thin, high tenor wasn't built for languor. From Wordnik.com. [Album review: Usher, "Versus"] Reference
Dazzled by the light and intoxicated with the perfumes, a sort of languor came over her. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She had grace and gentleness without the languor that often accompanies those qualities. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
Her paroxysms of pain were less frequent, and she suffered most from languor and drowsiness. From Wordnik.com. [Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and her Irish Nurse] Reference
It is an inexplicable physical and moral languor, for which, for this reason, I see no remedy. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
All delusions of an Albania - backed armed rebellion evaporated in the languor of Albania proper. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
My languor and weariness were gone; I was cheerful and glad again, as I had been in my careless girlhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Such was the result when to the languor of the individual was added the national complication of apparatus. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
I warn you that all this hypochondria, paleness, and languor are caprices which are very disagreeable to others. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Then began to follow a decided tendency to languor; after this one was liable to sudden attacks of bowel troubles. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
They are preceded or followed by a state of languor or dreaminess, by a species of depression, and even by stupor. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
"And at the same time such a strange brilliancy beneath that half shadow, an expression of such delicious languor.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
When she regained consciousness she complained of extreme languor, and begged to be left alone that she might rest. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"Perhaps you've heard that old saying," Grace remarked, with her usual languor, "that truth is stranger than fiction?". From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys] Reference
In the weak there is languor, faintness, flaccidity of the breasts, general depression, and pains in the back and loins. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
His aristocratic airs were a bit over the top: the parlor-snake languor; the plummy accent; the lank, slightly too-long hair. From Wordnik.com. [He Knew He Was Right] Reference
Hers was a nature too active, too habituated to the British virtue of self-control to submit to the languor of vain emotions. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Such is his feebleness of body and languor of spirit at noon, that the greatest pleasure of life consists in being entirely at rest. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
Dreading the monotony and languor of the camp, Shaw and I saddled our horses, buckled our holsters in their places, and set out with Henry. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
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