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  • This new feeling crept over me like a sort of distant sleepiness, almost a languor.†   (source)
  • 'Who're you after?' he asked it, languidly removing his orange juice from underneath its beak and leaning forwards to see the recipient's name and address: Harry Potter Great Hall Hogwarts School Frowning, he made to take the letter from the owl, but before he could do so, three, four, five more owls had fluttered down beside it and were jockeying for position, treading in the butter and knocking over the salt as each one attempted to give him their letter first.†   (source)
  • She noticed a drowsy hush overtaking Kabul Traffic became languid, scant, even quiet.†   (source)
  • The lines in her face softened as I watched, and her body became languid again.†   (source)
  • On warm nights Marie-Laure opens her bedroom window and listens to the evening as it settles over the balconies and gables and chimneys, languid and peaceful, until the real neighborhood and the miniature one get mixed up in her mind.†   (source)
  • The tone of his words fell dead center, without a trace of friendliness or unfriendliness, not interested and not bored, not energetic and not languid.†   (source)
  • NOW A LANGUOROUS waiting settled over the hospital.†   (source)
  • House Iral greets us next, led by the lithe, languid movements of Ara, the Panther.†   (source)
  • I have never felt like this—slow-witted and languorous, dreamy, absentminded, forgetful, focused only on each moment as it comes.†   (source)
  • It seemed like I had plenty of time, though, and the languid pace and midday heat sapped my will to do anything more taxing than wander the grounds in dreamy amazement.†   (source)
  • Donald and Astrid are a languidly confident couple, a model, Gogol guesses, for how Moushumi would like their own lives to be.†   (source)
  • They arrived, flushed and breathless, to find Jon seated on the sill, one leg drawn up languidly to his chin.†   (source)
  • "Win wasn't the worst of them," I said, after a languid pause.†   (source)
  • I COME AWAKE slowly, languidly, until I realize what we've done.†   (source)
  • Cold morning light, winterlight, fell languidly through the high windows.†   (source)
  • He tried to adopt a languorous expression.†   (source)
  • Languidly they bring their map to order.†   (source)
  • Several of them watched Kassad with the cartoon-character sares of their pressure-expanded eyes and seemed to beckon him closer with random, languid movements of arms and hands.†   (source)
  • The sensation, as always, was pleasant and induced in him a warm languor, like the feeling he got after sitting too long in front of a hot stove.†   (source)
  • He is chewing gum and his jaw moves languidly.†   (source)
  • He has soaked up the languid pace of the Mekong Delta and is content to sit there and watch his TV sets and fire off a sentence every few minutes.†   (source)
  • The air was a reverie of wistful summer things, the last languorous day, a chance to go barelimbed once more, smell the mown clover.†   (source)
  • Then she thought of Margaret Kochamma and the languid, liquid notes of Handel's music grew shrill and angry.†   (source)
  • Dee's fingers moved in the water, the ripples languid and mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • Valentine's tone was almost languid, but there was fierceness in it, a hungry threat of violence.†   (source)
  • The gentleman in question went on gazing at me for a moment without changing the somewhat languid posture he had adopted in his armchair.†   (source)
  • I knew the way I knew that he wasn't Scott the first time I saw him, when he was nothing but a shadow moving towards herjust an impression of tallness, of loose, languid movement.†   (source)
  • You feel exhausted, languorous, and almost Godlike.†   (source)
  • His natural gallantry and languid manner were immediately charming, but they were also considered suspect virtues in a confirmed bachelor.†   (source)
  • Languidly, controlling his rage with difficulty, the Baron waved his hand toward the young man standing in the arena beside the sprawled body of the slave.†   (source)
  • His tail was wagging languidly, a sign he thought he was alone and getting away with a major food heist.†   (source)
  • After three days they boarded another train and began a languid crawl toward California.†   (source)
  • But he also managed a tired smile, which was encouraging, and when she opened her fist to reveal what was inside, as she had once before done on her rooftop a brief lifetime ago, and he saw the weed, he started to laugh, almost soundlessly, a gentle rumble, and he said, his voice uncoiling like a slow, languid exhalation of marijuana-scented smoke, "Fantastic."†   (source)
  • Harry Carney's languorous bass clarinet performs solo.†   (source)
  • She is a tall, languid young lady with a pallid, oval face and beautiful pale-blue-gray eyes; her hands are extraordinary-long-fingered, flexible, nervously elegant.†   (source)
  • Whoever danced would dance more languorously, holding tight.†   (source)
  • Catherine sees me looking and slides one knee over the other, smoothing her skirt with languorous fingers.†   (source)
  • My sleep was dreamless and deep, and I rise languidly, stretching as I meet the Snake's eyes.†   (source)
  • She lay there, languid, as a line of light formed where sky and ocean met.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, from under the bridge, with a languid movement of its flat tail, swam a gravel-colored fish as long as a rabbit.†   (source)
  • Gordon is a striking woman, with a languid wit, who lives in a right-angled, shag-rugged, white-stuccoed modernist masterpiece in the Hollywood Hills, midway between Madonna's old house and Aldous Huxley's old house.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XVII A VICTIM In the spinning room at the Victory Mill, with its tall frames and endlessly turning bobbins, where the languid thread ran from hank to spool and the tired little feet must walk the narrow aisles between the jennies, watching if perchance a filament had broken, a knot caught, or other mischance occurred, and right it, Deanie plodded for what seemed to her many years.†   (source)
  • A languid smile spread over his face.†   (source)
  • No one is supposed to touch you in prison, so the intimacy of a languorous foot rub, intended to please, almost sent me into ecstatic tears the first time.†   (source)
  • A sonorous rumbling led him to kneel underneath the truckbed, where three figures lay suspended in hammocks, two snoring in languid concert.†   (source)
  • It was strange, the languorous, limp hand coming to rest at her side while her breathing was coming so quick and fast.†   (source)
  • The green blob of his head advances toward me, weaving through the trees, and now I can see the glint of a rifle through the languid snow.†   (source)
  • The bathroom is steaming and I am languid as I am hoisted out, my body limp and capable of no objections.†   (source)
  • The music was soft and languorous, and as much as I tried to deny it, part of me just yearned to be held.†   (source)
  • My gesture appeared slow and somewhat languid to me.†   (source)
  • Besides, he was beginning to like Blanca, now that she was more robust and had acquired that languor that was smoothing away her rough, peasanty edges.†   (source)
  • He swam languorously out to the raft, held on a moment, and swam languorously back to where he could stand on the sand bar.†   (source)
  • Though I appreciate the hospitality and generosity that you have shown today," she said, emphasizing the meagerness of our home with a languid movement of her hand, "fate—in the form of your daughter—has brought you an opportunity.†   (source)
  • During languid second and third cups of coffee and tea, David Korb tells everyone a raucous tale of a Spanish emigre friend-Juanito, who once attended Thanksgiving here-and how he got lost in New York, "running uptown and downtown in his yellow shorts, yellow T-shirt, camera strapped around his neck dripping with sweat … yelling to himself, 'Where am I, how did I get here?'†   (source)
  • He was standing there, chin pointing at me, one arm languidly set against the wall.†   (source)
  • They stood by the window and watched the languid prelunch traffic around the square and waited.†   (source)
  • It was a dream fall, my body languid and fastidious as to where to land, until the floor became impatient and smashed up to meet me.†   (source)
  • "Oh, hi, Lou," came the floating, but hesitant, languorous tones from an expensive apartment in Greenwich Village.†   (source)
  • There was too much weakness and languor in his nature.†   (source)
  • Time turned into a rope that unraveled as a languid spiral.†   (source)
  • It was of that heavy, languid kind and gone within the day, but Annie feared it might have withered the buds already forming on Robert's six small cherry trees.†   (source)
  • The sea's languid retreat into the horizon and the terrible silence of its absence.†   (source)
  • They lazily oiled themselves with tanning lotion, took turns greasing each other's back, touching with languorous pleasure, as if they were in the opening scene of an adult video, drawing the interest of every heterosexual male on the beach.†   (source)
  • Jeb asked, his voice almost languid.†   (source)
  • "Y'all stop that now," she called out languidly.†   (source)
  • She laid a languid hand in his.†   (source)
  • He stands in the bathroom doorway, steam drifting languidly around him, wearing nothing but a towel draped loosely around his hips.†   (source)
  • For several dizzying moments his body seemed to slide, limp and languid, down the beast's gullet and into the soft, spongy bed of its belly.†   (source)
  • Before he left, Alexander shot me a languid, supercilious look.†   (source)
  • I don't know any of his songs, but it's the same register my mother used to hum while doing the housework, a languorous baritone, the most Korean range, low enough for our gut of sadness, high for the wonder of chance, good luck.†   (source)
  • They dropped languidly south into the Mediterranean between Sicily and Africa, lost in the blue.†   (source)
  • His swiftly moving figure was in strange contrast to the languorous slow motion of his hands just a few minutes before.†   (source)
  • "Really," Merrick said, and she drew her sharp purple fingernails languidly across the top of Heidi's head.†   (source)
  • Full-bearded, to hide a weak chin, but a lovely boy, carefree, mud-spattered, obviously tired, languid, cheery, confident.†   (source)
  • I woke up with people leaning over me, passed out again, woke up second time in hospital bed, flat on back with heavy feeling in chest—was heavy and weak all over—but not ill, just tired, bruised, hungry, thirsty, languid.†   (source)
  • We'll take the leading lady first, who, I believe, would prefer to be briefly described as a languid, sophisticated type.†   (source)
  • Old Chao had turned into a languorous man.†   (source)
  • Two-Tone sat on the screened porch, rocking languidly and lifting a can of beer to his lips.†   (source)
  • So began, for Oedipa, the languid, sinister blooming of The Tristero.†   (source)
  • Earlier,' Nathan had mentioned getting me a girl at Coney Island, a "hot dish" he knew named Leslie; it was a consolation to be looked forward to, I supposed in the stoic mood of the perpetual runner-up, decorously concealing by means of a languidly arranged hand the gabardine bulge in my, lap.†   (source)
  • "I am, more or less, if you know what I mean," said a languid and rather dandified young person without any armour at all.†   (source)
  • In spite of my languid sales pitch I was back home in fifteen minutes with every paper sold and a pocket full of coins.†   (source)
  • He was languid, bored.†   (source)
  • Yeah, it's a nice day," she said languidly.†   (source)
  • "We ran away," said Phoebe languidly.†   (source)
  • a languid wave of the hand
  • The two men sauntered languidly to the table   (source)
    languidly = moving slowly
  • Louisa awoke from a torpor, and her eyes languidly opened on her old bed at home, and her old room.   (source)
    languidly = slowly and in a relaxing, non-energetic manner
  • A gradual warmth, a languorous weariness passed over him descending along his spine from his closely cowled head.   (source)
    languorous = slow, relaxed, or with little energy
  • She looked up at him languidly, as though her lids were weighted with sleep and it cost her an effort to raise them.   (source)
    languidly = slowly and without much energy
  • Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips, the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch, open toward the sunset, where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind.   (source)
    languidly = moving slowly in a relaxed manner
  • The werecat shook his rough mane and yawned languorously, displaying his long fangs.†   (source)
  • She said languidly, "This is my sister, Briony, Mrs. Jarvis.†   (source)
  • She stretched, languorously, like a cat.†   (source)
  • He paced forward slowly, almost languidly.†   (source)
  • He gestured languidly toward his gigantic map of Italy.†   (source)
  • Some of them seemed to have gone limp and sat languidly in the seats, as if in a daze.†   (source)
  • Using a pointer, he pokes languidly at the twisted intestines of a dead salt-and-pepper milk goat.†   (source)
  • The languorous, sensual music of Duke Ellington.†   (source)
  • "Press their heads," Jinny said languidly, over her shoulder.†   (source)
  • Sweet voice, sweet lips, soft hand, and softer breast, Warm breath, light whisper, tender semi-tone, Bright eyes, accomplished shape, and languorous waist. t Faded the flower and all its budded charms, Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes, Faded the shape of beauty from my arms, Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradisem Vanished unseasonably at shut of eve, When the dusk holiday-or holinight-Of fragrant-curtained love begins to weave The woof of darkness thick, for hid delight;…†   (source)
  • Such melting and languorous glances!†   (source)
  • In the Free Cities of the west, towers and manses and hovels and bridges and shops and halls all crowded in on one another, but Vaes Dothrak sprawled languorously, baking in the warm sun, ancient, arrogant, and empty.†   (source)
  • Many of them sat languidly along the benches or milled in the aisles discussing the trial in hushed and speculative tones.†   (source)
  • The other boys were all moving around the field in that deliberately languorous way they have when they're warming up, but Tommy, in his excitement, seemed already to be going full pelt.†   (source)
  • A man could run his hands through such a fog, separating it into tendrils and streamers that gathered themselves languidly once more into the whole and disappeared seamlessly, without a trace.†   (source)
  • The taste of it was languorous and heady on the tongue, the color a purple so dark that it looked almost black in the dim-lit cellar.†   (source)
  • "Kiss me," she pleaded, and he did, hot languorous slow kisses that sped up as his heartbeat did, as the movement of their bodies quickened against each other.†   (source)
  • Littlefinger gestured languidly.†   (source)
  • Helen's fingers tightened around the neck of the waterskin, restricting the flow to a languorous trickle.†   (source)
  • He tilted his head up, her mouth came down over his, and they were kissing again, but it was fierce instead of languorous, a hot and fast-burning fire.†   (source)
  • He moved with a subtle rhythm, languidly, the walk of an athlete although he hated all sports and had nothing but contempt for athletes.†   (source)
  • Two figures languidly wrestled within the lair; I called to them, but again could hardly hear my own voice.†   (source)
  • Her movements were slow and languorous, without guile or stratagems, and as her large hands reached out to me I remembered how I had learned that there could be an immensely poignant beauty in the awkwardness of human beings from watching Abigail set a table or open a book or simply brush the hair from her eyes.†   (source)
  • I was reminded of the women who sat on stools outside certain alley shops of my native seaside town, their faces painted the colors of crimson and ash, languorous popular songs filtering out beneath the lanterned eaves of their tiny "houses."†   (source)
  • Languorous traffic on the canal broke the silver carpet that the moon had laid down, and rolled across it in barely audible swells.†   (source)
  • Her movements were slow at first, almost languorous, but soon her pace increased until she matched the frenzied beat of the music.†   (source)
  • Now his eyes moved languidly over Claudia with no tribute whatsoever to the human habit of disguising the stare.†   (source)
  • A few fat bees, enervated by the August heat that was unable to penetrate Joe's chill, forsook their usual darting urgency and traveled languidly across the meadow from wildflower to wildflower, as though flying in their sleep and acting out a shared dream about collecting nectar.†   (source)
  • Their talk was idle, languorous, conversations that bloomed over their dinners together or while they lay together in the dusk, glasses of wine on the bedside tables, the moon a pale disk in the window above the trees.†   (source)
  • He nuzzled his face against mine until he found my lips, then he kissed me, slow and gentle, the flow of molten rock swelling languidly in the dark at the center of the earth, until my shaking slowed.†   (source)
  • League after league of trees sailed by underneath them, with little variation save for clusters of deciduous trees—oaks and elms and birch and aspen and languorous willows—which often lined the waterways below.†   (source)
  • Propagandizing among the troops, the socialists and anarchists had made the barracks into a war of religion, and among the exhausted prisoners theological debates raged at a languorous pace.†   (source)
  • He pointed languidly toward the wall.†   (source)
  • And when I was done I felt the enveloping warmth of a fever, its languorous cocoon, though when I gazed at her shoulder and back there was nothing but stillness, her posture unchanged, her skin cool and colorless, and she lay as if she were the sculpture of a recumbent girl and not a real girl at all.†   (source)
  • A lissome, blond, sinuous girl with lovely legs and honey-colored skin laid herself out contentedly on the arm of the old man's chair and began molesting his angular, pale, dissolute face languidly and coquettishly.†   (source)
  • The girl smiled with contentment when she opened her eyes and saw him, and then, stretching her long legs languorously beneath the rustling sheets, beckoned him into bed beside her with that look of simpering idiocy of a woman in heat.†   (source)
  • They sat in silence, listening to rain gnaw languidly at the windows and skylights, confronted all at once by the marvelous possibility.†   (source)
  • The young wife, leaning back and letting her eyes fall a little while on the child, gave him dim, languorous looks, not quite shaking her head at him.†   (source)
  • As she sat down again she drew that fan, black and covered over with a shower of forget-me-nots, languidly across her bosom.†   (source)
  • Gabriella stayed as she was, caught in an element as languorous as it was strange, like a mermaid who has been netted into a fisherman's boat, only to find that the fisherman is dreaming.†   (source)
  • A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon.†   (source)
  • Then she saw me, and smiled, and held out a languid, welcoming hand.†   (source)
  • The moment he entered, Edgar's mother's movements grew slower, more languid.†   (source)
  • Illyrio waved a languid hand in the air, rings glittering on his fat fingers.†   (source)
  • "Yes," she says, in a voice that is slow and languid, but clearly audible.†   (source)
  • A languid young man stepped from the gatehouse, a swordbelt buckled at his waist.†   (source)
  • The selkie's carriage was proud, and it cruised about the languid waters like a pleasure yacht.†   (source)
  • In a languid motion, Amanda draped her ponytail over one shoulder, the movement almost sensual.†   (source)
  • And clasped at the hollow of her neck was a velvet cloak that fell to the ground in languid folds.†   (source)
  • Forty There was a languid feel to the night air the following evening.†   (source)
  • Angela looked up from the sock, her expression languid and insolent.†   (source)
  • Ser Amory raised a languid fist, and a spear came hurtling from the fire-bright shadows behind.†   (source)
  • Vivaldo closed his eyes, feeling an anticipatory languor and lewdness.†   (source)
  • She had a Moorish, languid, and abundant air about her, which induced repose and trust.†   (source)
  • "I had to come," said Xaro in a languid tone.†   (source)
  • He looked up at Longstreet, waved a languid hello.†   (source)
  • He was ruddy and languid with a startled look and weak lips.†   (source)
  • Jose Arcadio felt his bones filling up with foam, a languid fear, and a terrible desire to weep.†   (source)
  • Nymeria, languid, elegant, olive-skinned, her long black braid bound up in red-gold wire.†   (source)
  • Jaqen H'ghar closed his eyes again, floating languid, half-asleep.†   (source)
  • She was languid, her nakedness forgotten, those lids fluttering, a sigh escaping her moist lips.†   (source)
  • The little town took a languor and a kind of beauty from the treatment of time and place.†   (source)
  • I watched when she pushed up her sunglasses to rub her eyes, or when she removed the elastic band from her hair and threw back her head to let the dark lustrous curls fall loose, and I watched when she sat with her chin resting on her knees, staring into the yard, taking languid drags of her cigarette, or when she crossed her legs and bobbed one foot up and down, a gesture that suggested to me boredom or restlessness or perhaps heedless mischief barely held in check.†   (source)
  • If someone mentions the Cottages today, I think of easy-going days drifting in and out of each other's rooms, the languid way the afternoon would fold into evening then into night.†   (source)
  • He ap-proached Harry himself, came so close that Harry could see the usually languid, pale face in sharp detail even through his swollen eyes.†   (source)
  • He's tall, with long legs and arms, but not what the Governor's daughters would call handsome; they incline to the languid ones in the magazines, very elegant and butter wouldn't melt in their mouths, with narrow feet in pointed boots.†   (source)
  • This feeling was similar, except it was my intellect that was weary and expanded, languid and latently powerful.†   (source)
  • It was not the voice that Fermina Daza had expected from him: it was sharp and clear, with a control that had nothing to do with his languid manner.†   (source)
  • His face wore the same soft languor that Louie had seen on the face of the Quack after he beat Harris at Ofuna.†   (source)
  • "A lady," she would say in her most languid, multisyllabic drawl, "expects a gentleman to take what belongs to him!"†   (source)
  • Moving slowly in the druglike languor of fugue hangover, the Consul bathed as best he could with only basin and pump, dressed in loose cotton trousers, an old canvas shirt, and foam-soled walking shoes, and found his way to the mid-deck.†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza grew accustomed to seeing him with other eyes, and in the end she did not connect him to the languid adolescent who would sit and sigh for her under the gusts of yellow leaves in the Park of the Evangels.†   (source)
  • Erie Street was languid with tourists, middle-aged for the most part, poking their noses into the souvenir shops, finicking around in the bookstore, at loose ends before driving off after lunch to the nearby summer theatre festival for a few relaxing hours of treachery, sadism, adultery and murder.†   (source)
  • Ambition's mausoleum, I think of it now It isn't a particularly elegant house, but it was once thought imposing in its way — a merchant's palace, with a curved driveway leading to it, a stumpy Gothic turret, and a wide semi-circular spooled verandah overlooking the two rivers, where tea was served to ladies in flowered hats during the languid summer afternoons at the century's turn.†   (source)
  • It was an easy, sleepy kind of languid fever, and so long as he did not try to move too much or exert himself unnecessarily he could live this way indefinitely.†   (source)
  • He spoke to her of Paris, of love in Paris, of the lovers in Paris who kissed on the street, on the omnibus, on the flowering terraces of the cafes opened to the burning winds and languid accordions of summer, who made love standing up on the quays of the Seine without anyone disturbing them.†   (source)
  • Those scenes were always skilfully lit, the gestures — his included — languid and graceful, with a kind of luxurious quivering, as in the death scenes at the ballet.†   (source)
  • Along the rough cobbled streets that had served so well in surprise attacks and buccaneer landings, weeds hung from the balconies and opened cracks in the whitewashed walls of even the best-kept mansions, and the only signs of life at two o'clock in the afternoon were languid piano exercises played in the dim light of siesta.†   (source)
  • The tug-of-war, sack hop, and three-legged races were over, and a languidness had inevitably crept over things, so that here and there grown men slept in the grass with newspapers over their faces.†   (source)
  • I felt a warmth and a drowsy languor stealing over me, and urging me to yield, and surrender myself; as to do so would be far easier than to resist.†   (source)
  • In Paris, strolling arm in arm with a casual sweetheart through a late autumn, it seemed impossible to imagine a purer happiness than those golden afternoons, with the woody odor of chestnuts on the braziers, the languid accordions, the insatiable lovers kissing on the open terraces, and still he had told himself with his hand on his heart that he was not prepared to exchange all that for a single instant of his Caribbean in April.†   (source)
  • But when he demanded her answer with an authority that was so different from his languor, she managed to overcome her fear and tried to dodge the issue with the truth: she did not know how to answer him.†   (source)
  • Then the poolside exchange with close-ups and pauses, the people a bit detached from their own dialogue, and a sense throughout of morning languor in the standard birdsong, in the rhyth mic motion of men with hedge clippers and the shimmer of perfect turquoise in the background.†   (source)
  • He turned, looked, and felt a kind of dreamy terror wash over him, a feeling both languid and re-pellent, like sex in the water-one drowning within another.†   (source)
  • She was neither depressed nor happy, neither excited nor languid, neither interested nor bored by anything around her.†   (source)
  • As the music played in the background, Elizabeth leaned into him so close that he could feel each of her slow, languid breaths.†   (source)
  • They talk all at once, in a languid, amused way, and groan when it's their turn to clear the table, while Mummie says "Now girls," but without conviction.†   (source)
  • Except for this moment, Smith, and Hickock too, affected a courtroom attitude that was simultaneously uninterested and disinterested; they chewed gum and tapped their feet with languid impatience as the state summoned its first witness.†   (source)
  • The bald head with its little fringe of grizzled curls, bent close to the dark, slant-browed, lustrous-eyed, mutinous countenance; Pap whispered hoarsely for some time, Laurella replying at first in a sort of languid tolerance, but presently with little ejaculations of wonder and dismay.†   (source)
  • Music blared from speakers mounted on the light poles, and bubbling beneath the music was the sound of a thousand conversations, like an undercurrent, and the flow of the crowd was like a river, too, eddying and swirling, swift here, languid there.†   (source)
  • I moved with the crowd, the sweat pouring off me, listening to the grinding roar of traffic, the growing sound of a record shop loudspeaker blaring a languid blues.†   (source)
  • The guns crisscrossed over the wings of his hips hung at the perfect angle for his hands, the worn sandalwood handles looking dull and sleepy in this languid indoor light "The head cook," his father said softly.†   (source)
  • Nasuada kept a close eye on him throughout the process, and she saw how his fingers became white and bloodless, and the skin at his temples sank into his skull like the eardrums of a frog, and he acquired the languid appearance of a person swimming deep underwater.†   (source)
  • The horse under him tensed as his rider drew the reins tight, but before horse or rider could move, Attolia raised her hand and directed his attention with a languid finger to where Teleus lay on his stomach in the long grass on the ridge behind them, the crossbow in his hands cranked and aimed toward the Mede.†   (source)
  • She could sense the nonhuman-ness of the others in the room, the vampires with their pallor and their swift and languid grace, the werewolves fierce and fast.†   (source)
  • They came out in the spring and stayed until October, hanging around, calling taunts to passersby occasionally but most of the time quiet, languid and peaceful.†   (source)
  • This state of dreamlike languor continued even as the carriage was pulled up toward the looming palace, whose walls and spires were aglow with torches and spectral lights.†   (source)
  • They moved with languid grace and, when they touched their hands to their lips in the traditional greeting, Eragon saw that their fingers were joined by translucent webbing.†   (source)
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