Both Uses of
languid
in
Moby Dick
- The tranced ship indolently rolls; the drowsy trade winds blow; everything resolves you into languor.†
Chpt 34-36 *
- Slowly wading through the meadows of brit, the Pequod still held on her way north-eastward towards the island of Java; a gentle air impelling her keel, so that in the surrounding serenity her three tall tapering masts mildly waved to that languid breeze, as three mild palms on a plain.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(languid) lacking energy or relaxed or moving slowly