All 8 Uses of
languid
in
Mansfield Park
- When he had told of his horse, he took a newspaper from the table, and looking over it, said in a languid way, "If you want to dance, Fanny, I will stand up with you."†
Chpt 12 *
- Her tone of calm languor, for she never took the trouble of raising her voice, was always heard and attended to; and Sir Thomas came back.†
Chpt 23
- "Bertram," said Crawford, some time afterwards, taking the opportunity of a little languor in the game, "I have never told you what happened to me yesterday in my ride home."†
Chpt 25
- …much reason to suppose, was at the Parsonage; and left alone to bear the worrying of Mrs. Norris, who was cross because the housekeeper would have her own way with the supper, and whom she could not avoid though the housekeeper might, Fanny was worn down at last to think everything an evil belonging to the ball, and when sent off with a parting worry to dress, moved as languidly towards her own room, and felt as incapable of happiness as if she had been allowed no share in it.†
Chpt 27
- Half an hour followed that would have been at least languid under any other circumstances, but Fanny's happiness still prevailed.†
Chpt 28
- And these were her longest speeches and clearest communications: the rest was only a languid "Yes, yes; very well; did you? did he?†
Chpt 29
- Now it was languor, and all but solitude.†
Chpt 29
- If Lady Bertram, with all her incompetency and languor, could feel this, the inference of what her niece, alive and enlightened as she was, must feel, was elevating.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(languid) lacking energy or relaxed or moving slowly