languor
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The long sobs / Of the violins / Of autumn / Wound my heart / With a monotonous / Languor.
From Forbes • Sep. 5, 2013
Languor is not in your heart, Weakness is not in your word, 195Weariness not on your brow.
From Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems by Arnold, Matthew
This State of Languor disposes them to be inactive; a little Exercise soon fatigues them, whence they take none at all.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
Languor and sadness, and unwillingness to eat or to move, were at last my perpetual attendants!
From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
With thy clear keen joyance Languor cannot be: Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee: Thou lovest, but ne'er knew love's sad satiety.
From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert
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