Thesaurus / languish
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If one could languish through life in the shell of a mere beauty that life would be a good deal simpler proposition than it is.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONIf a man be poor who wishes to have everything, then an ambitious and a miserly man languish in extreme poverty.
THE 'CHARACTERS' OF JEAN DE LA BRUYREJEAN DE LA BRUYREYou who will not wish to see her languish—suffer—go mad—Thomas, I am not the raving being you take me for.
THE CIRCULAR STUDYANNA KATHARINE GREENTheir kings are without power and without glory; their subjects languish in indigence and wretchedness.
LETTERS TO EUGENIAPAUL HENRI THIRY HOLBACHShe would be left to languish and die in some awful Moorish prison.
FIFTY-TWO STORIES FOR GIRLSVARIOUSIt did not die at once, but it speedily began to languish, and two centuries later was practically extinct.
THE CORNWALL COASTARTHUR L. SALMONHere I languish while some of the Macys swim in the surf and others of them hold up a hand at whist.
MARJORIE DEAN COLLEGE FRESHMANPAULINE LESTERI languish, I own,' cried she, 'to see that frozen youth worked up into a little sensibility.
CAMILLAFANNY BURNEYThe Indians sometimes bring down troupiales to Stabroek, but in a few months they languish and die in a cage.
WANDERINGS IN SOUTH AMERICACHARLES WATERTONOverbury is aware that he has been betrayed and entrapped, and is left by his treacherous patron to languish in a dungeon.
BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY, VOLUME IIVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO LANGUISH
- ached
- agonized
- anguished
- be brokenhearted
- bemoaned
- bewailed
- bled
- blubbered
- carried on
- complained
- cried
- deplored
- fretted
- grieved
- hurt
- keened
- lamented
- languished
- long for
- missed
- moaned
- pined
- regretted
- repined
- rued
- sighed
- sobbed
- sorrowed
- suffered
- took it hard
- wailed
- was sad
- wept
- wore black
- wrung hands
- yearned
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