I no longer cared, gripped by a strange, almost delicious languor.

The music seemed a natural expression of her feelings,suited to the heart "steeped in golden languors," in the "tranced summer calm."

His extreme languor in moving was, perhaps, what displeased her the most.

Her fine blue eyes lost their lustre, her cheek its freshness, and her frame was seized with universal languor.

Kennedy had often been seduced by whim and pleasure from his studies, but his mind was an incisive one, capable of long and concentrated efforts which ended in sharp reactions of sensuous languor.

It is women who have taken upon themselves to dissipate these mortal languors by the vivacious gayety they inject into their society; by the charms they know so well how to lavish where they will prove effectual.

A feverish languor, however, of which she neglected to complain or to ask medical advice for, was making inroads on her health.

He knew well, by every change of her countenance, by her movements, by every varying curve of her graceful figure, the transitions from passion to repose, from fierce excitement to the dull languor which often succeeded her threatening paroxysms.

Well might a writer in the 'Quarterly Review' remark that our most useful lessons in reading Walpole's Letters are not only derived from his sound sense, but from 'considering this man of the world, full of information and sparkling with vivacity, stretched on a sick bed, and apprehending all the tedious languor of helpless decrepitude and deserted solitude.'

He listened with heightening color and tense nerves; the delirious languor of amatory music, and the delirium he had felt while under the spell of Marcia's beauty, passed away.

She was tall and willowy, and stretched her neck like a swan, and returned you your change with disdainful languor; to call such a haughty beauty Dolly was one of the minor triumphs for man, and Dolly they all called her, except the only one who could have given an artistic justification for it.

A dreamy languor lay upon her.

For him, the unspoken agony of loss suffered when she married; for her, the memories of her marriage, of the dreary languor into which its wreck had plunged her, and of the gradual revival in her of the old intellectual pleasures, the old joys of the spirit, under the influence of Arthur's life and Arthur's companionship.

There are heads that can't wear hats; there are necks that can't fit cravats; there are jaws that can't fill out collars(Willis touched this last point in one of his earlier ambrotypes, if I remember rightly); there are tournures nothing can humanize, and movements nothing can subdue to the gracious suavity or elegant languor or stately serenity which belong to different styles of dandyism.

He felt an exquisite languor, as if he would die there and then!

Flaming aloof, it stirred the sleep of the luminous maples With warm summer-dreams, and faint, luxurious languor.

And so he came forward faintly embarrassed to meet a small pale man, whom he judged to be seventy or thereabouts, coming forward nimbly, bent a little, with a long, thin arm and bony hand extended in a formal languor of welcome.

And in the next minute Lesbia had recovered her self-command, and resumed that graceful languor which was one of her charms.

" Now any ordinary mortal might have manifested just a little surprise to behold his master walk suddenly in, dusty and dishevelled of person, his habitual languor entirely laid aside, and to thus demand pen and ink, forthwith.

Then his thoughts began to obsess him less; his suffering disappeared and to the exhaustion he had felt throughout his members was grafted a certain indescribable languor.

He settled back into the easy-chair with invalid languor, and began to tell me good-naturedly about his old velocipede, describing its construction, and the feats he had been able to perform on it, clumsy though it was.

Then with some cordialls seeke for to appease The inward languor of my wounded hart, And then my body shall have shortly ease.

Rafael felt a slackening of his powers of endurance, as if an irresistible languor were stealing over him.

Verty always stopped for a moment on his way to and from Winchester, to bid the inmates good morning; and these hours had come to be the bright sunny spots in days otherwise full of no little languor.

But, with plumage sleek, yet shady, perched above my study door, Perched upon a bust of GLADSTONE placed above my study door, Perched, and croaked "Obstructive Bore!" Then this mocking bird beguiling my tried temper into smiling By the lank lopsided languor of the countenance it wore.