All 8 Uses
languid
in
The Light of Western Stars
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- Her usual languid manner vanished at a touch of the cold water.†
Chpt 4 *
- A heavy languor, like a blanket, began to steal upon her.†
Chpt 11
- I hope, Stevens, that you will not give them reason to think we are altogether steeped in the slow, dreamy manana languor of the Southwest.†
Chpt 12
- A dreamy languor possessed her, and, lying under a pine with her head against Florence, she went to sleep.†
Chpt 16
- Castleton said it was a jolly fine view; Dorothy voiced her usual languid enthusiasm; Helen was on fire with pleasure and wonder; Mrs. Beck appealed to Bobby to see how he liked it before she ventured, and she then reiterated his praise; and Edith Wayne, like Madeline and Florence, was silent.†
Chpt 16
- This languorous spell disappeared presently, and then the days were full of life and action.†
Chpt 16languorous = slow, relaxed, or with little energy
- His men gradually began to manifest a restlessness, noticeable in the absence of former languor and slow puffing of cigarette smoke.†
Chpt 19
- In the morning she was pale and languid, but in a mental condition that promised composure.†
Chpt 22
Definitions:
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(1)
(languid) lacking energy or relaxed or moving slowly
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)