languor
Example Sentences
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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 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 Graded Memory Selections by Hughes, Charles C.
Swinburne often meant very little, and in his heart of hearts Ferguson thought Languor was, on the whole, more melodious than Dolores.
From The Loom of Youth by Waugh, Alec
Languor of desire will diminish the sum and enfeeble the energy of the powers that work in us.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Maclaren, Alexander
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