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Example sentences for "languor"

Lexicographically close words:
languished; languishes; languishing; languishingly; languishment; languorous; languorously; languors; langwidge; lani
  1. She felt that he was a little angry, but she was in no mood to discuss money matters and she was filled with a blissful languor as she lay on his breast.

  2. Little by little the subtle intoxication of the weed was permeating my whole being; a gentle languor was stealing over me, and as a result my brain had never before seemed so bright or my capacity of enjoyment so keen as it did then.

  3. Once more the same gentle languor I had felt at the dinner-table began to steal over me and again my senses became abnormally acute.

  4. The way to Deepdene, Red Oxenford's stronghold, led through the forest, and the green drive was a pleasant place on this brightest of May mornings, there being the languor of coming summer in the fitful breeze.

  5. Yet there was no hint of perturbation in the affected languor of his voice; he bowed slightly and spoke: "What a sorry marksman!

  6. He feels the increasing languor of the time as well as the languor of advancing years, and seeks to encourage younger men to take up the role of lyrical poetry, while he devotes himself to the contemplation of the true art of living.

  7. Its execution was the work of a life prolonged through the languor and dissolution following so soon upon the promise of the new era, during which time the past became glorified by contrast with the disheartening aspect of the present.

  8. Languor is not in your heart, Weakness is not in your word, Weariness not on your brow.

  9. He had a dreamy expression, a languor of speech, and an air of aristocratic weariness, which was contradicted by the indefatigable energy of his temperament.

  10. Probably this languor proceeded from the fact that he scarcely ever slept.

  11. A melancholy, sweet and soft, composed partly of the effect of the view, and partly of the languor of the Indian-summer weather, diffused itself over her.

  12. He looked quite well, and had lost his air of languor and preoccupation; but his manner was serious, though now he looked in her face and smiled.

  13. Violante's daily-increasing languor and listlessness made this only too probable.

  14. On the 24th the legs were much swelled again; she complained of languor and a degree of nausea.

  15. The consequence was great sickness, languor continuing for several days, and almost a total stop to the secretion of urine, from the time the sickness commenced.

  16. He was a tall and strongly-built man, with nothing peculiar in his appearance except a certain languor and heaviness of the eyes.

  17. But you must admit that the gayety of the one is at least as irritating as the languor of the other!

  18. Dazzled by the light and intoxicated with the perfumes, a sort of languor came over her.

  19. She did not suffer, but a sort of languor had come over her.

  20. But Tristan, too deeply steeped in the languor of night and dreams, replies with a sigh: "Let me die!

  21. He presses a long kiss upon each of her eyes, and the first languor of sleep falling at once upon her, she leans, without strength, against him.

  22. For since yesterday, the languor which had held him was gone.

  23. The pain of a head which ached throbbingly and of a body bruised and sore was beginning to give place to a feeling merely of lassitude--a languor which revisited incoherence upon him when he tried to think.

  24. Go fetch the Jew," she said, the languor of her manner combatted by the fire in her eyes.

  25. Marsyas sprang up, the last of the languor gone from his face.

  26. When spoken to she had to exert considerable effort to shake off her languor before she could reply.

  27. Languor was stealing over him as the questioner asked: "How do you feel?

  28. She would often dine abroad and always go to bed very late, only to rise again on the morrow with the same languor as before and to begin another day, differing in nothing from its predecessor.

  29. An increasing sense of languor had left Muffat without any power of resistance, and after looking round for the Marquis de Chouard, who had disappeared, he ended by following the journalist.

  30. Shall it breathe odor and languor from the orient, or chivalry from the occident?

  31. We say the patient, for this mental languor may be considered entirely as a disease.

  32. Every body must have observed, that languor of mind succeeds to the intoxication of vanity; if we can avoid the intoxication, we shall avoid the languor.

  33. They have accustomed themselves to such violent stimulus, that they cannot endure the languor to which they are subject in the intervals of delirium.

  34. MY DEAR SIR,--My sister still continues better: she has less languor and weakness; her spirits are improved.

  35. She has passed nights of sleeplessness and pain, and days of depression and languor which nothing could cheer--but still, with the return of genial weather she revives.

  36. Remember, I have warned you," she said, retiring as abruptly into the feline languor of her pose.

  37. She had raised herself to a sitting position out of the languor which was not the indolence of the Oriental, but rather the volcanic slumbering of the Slav, always ready to break forth into sudden tremendous exertion.

  38. I feel their strains Diffuse delicious languor through my veins.

  39. The sentimental speculation engendered a dreamy languor which was suddenly interrupted by a sense of acute disquiet.

  40. The next symptom of the ailment from which she was suffering was a dreamy languor (frequently punctuated by sighs), which disposed her to offer passionate resentment to all forms of physical and mental effort.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "languor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.