Both Uses of
languid
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine.†
Chpt 1 *languorous = slow, relaxed, or with little energy
- Immediately he began to descend from the upland to the fat alluvial soil below, the atmosphere grew heavier; the languid perfume of the summer fruits, the mists, the hay, the flowers, formed therein a vast pool of odour which at this hour seemed to make the animals, the very bees and butterflies drowsy.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
lacking energy or relaxed or moving slowly