Both Uses of
languish
in
Hard Times
- He bowed himself out; and Mrs. Sparsit, hiding in the window curtain, saw him languishing down the street on the shady side of the way, observed of all the town.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- CHAPTER IV — LOST THE robbery at the Bank had not languished before, and did not cease to occupy a front place in the attention of the principal of that establishment now.†
Chpt 3.4
Definition:
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(languish) to suffer in a bad situation for a long time