All 5 Uses of
languid
in
Arrowsmith
- Now she drew him into the back parlor and "So I'm going off to Washington—and you don't care a bit!" she said, her eyes blurred and languorous and undefended.†
Chpt 23 *
- He could not comprehend that he was really going to a place of palm trees and brown faces and languid Christmas Eves.†
Chpt 32
- She lay on the coverlet of her berth, in the tropic languidness, a slight figure in a frivolous nightgown.†
Chpt 32
- They devoured paw-paws and breadfruit and avocados, bought from coffee-colored natives who came alongside in nervous small boats; they felt the languor of the isles, and panted before they approached Barbados.†
Chpt 33
- He tried to assure her, to assure himself, that he did care with peculiar violence, but languor was over him; between him and her fragrance were the hospital cots, a great weariness, and the still face of Leora.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
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(languid) lacking energy or relaxed or moving slowly