A solo for Daniel Proietto, the eerie work recalled languorous images of Nijinsky (it was inspired by his drawings and paintings). From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
They went on like that for long, languorous moments. From Wordnik.com. [One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze]
Zorar blinked at her, in her kindly, languorous way. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
There is the vain and languorous pity of aestheticism. From Wordnik.com. [The Threshold Grace] Reference
"I mean -- with her languorous," was the murmured reply. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
Autumn was gone -- though the languorous hours belied it. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference
She wore a black slip and wore her soot long and languorous. From Wordnik.com. [Magic X] Reference
Opal was held spell-bound by the subtle charm of his languorous eyes. From Wordnik.com. [One Day A sequel to 'Three Weeks'] Reference
She could almost feel the heat rising from him in thick, languorous waves. From Wordnik.com. [The Seduction Of Sara]
No. His would be a sweet and gentle passage, a mere languorous forgetting. From Wordnik.com. [Fasting to a Comfortable Death] Reference
Her painful brooding was broken by the sound of a soft and languorous voice. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
He was in a pleasant, languorous state, not sleepy, but not wanting to move. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
"You come see me die, missis?" she questioned, in her soft, languorous voice. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
Again she turned on that languorous smile, wetting her lips for better effect. From Wordnik.com. [The Luxembourg Run]
The House of the Spy had a fine garden, hot and buzzing in the languorous heat. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
There was no movement, save the even, languorous swing of the crimson blossoms. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool There Was] Reference
In a land languorous with tropical inertia, an enthusiastic toiler is not common. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Through the hot, languorous summertime the Dream grew within the brain of Big Ivan. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Love-sick maidens are usually soft-brained, and their languorous swains, lascivious. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference
There had been one sound, only one: the slow outrush of air, like a languorous sigh. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
Her voice still had that languorous note, but she was pleading with me, wanting rescue. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
The gesture was languorous on his behalf, for they had made love but a short while since. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Who'd remember Garbo's immortal "" Camille '' without her exquisitely languorous last gasp?. From Wordnik.com. [Death Takes A Hike] Reference
A languorous, redolent air just stirred the waving grain, on which rested a glossy shimmer. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
The skaters 'strides are languorous and repetitive, like a metronome tick-tocking back and forth. From Wordnik.com. [Hedrick vs. Davis] Reference
The handsome man fanned Diana with a large palm leaf, and she looked at him with languorous eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
Armed with these three books, you're ready for the languorous slog of post-baccalaureate education. From Wordnik.com. [Three Books For Surviving Graduate School] Reference
They sing and dance, but their songs and dances are nothing more dangerous than a languorous drone. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference
But within half an hour the languorous voice was whispering once more from the shadow of the doorway. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
Philistines in languorous boredom, read, duplicitous lips surrounding his best words, then lisping on. From Wordnik.com. [Death of the Poet] Reference
It starts with slow, languorous chanting from men seated around a small porch at the front of the mosque. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Sufism] Reference
The air was full of the promises of spring, keen, bracing, yet with an undercurrent of languorous warmth. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
There was the perfume of flowers, heavy and languorous, and snatches of laughter, and the gleaming of jewels. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Cross] Reference
Her deep languorous voice seemed to stroke its hearers like a velvety hand, yet had in it some deadly quality. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
As she drew near the Roman general's camp the languorous music of flutes and harps breathed forth a strain of invitation. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
Fittingly, Julia Whitty's "Deep Blue Home" is a dream of a book, vivid yet languorous, rich in detail, richer still in emotional impact. From Wordnik.com. [Endangered sea: Julia Whitty's 'Deep Blue Home' and Paul Greenberg's 'Four Fish'] Reference
The languorous atmosphere, the beauty of the heavens, the inviting shores, produced in me a feeling of contentment not easily described. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
Crowning the pillar is the figure of a maid, her drooping wings and languorous pose denoting relaxation, a suspension of the day's toil. From Wordnik.com. [The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition] Reference
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