Languour

And yes, I appreciate languour for the way it compliments reading so well. ❋ Unknown (2009)

‘Mid the throng how many fair with languour-kohl’d eyes88 ❋ Unknown (2006)

As she rocked to and fro she felt the tensity of woe in abandonment, the magnificence of wrath after deception, the languour of sorrow after defeat. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The heat was so intense as to throw languour on the garden and croquet-parties, which replaced the winter balls and sleigh drives. ❋ Mrs. George Croft Huddleston (N/A)

In comparison with the hopeless languour of the preceding days this was dizzy speed. ❋ Unknown (1917)

It was a hard, stern life, with its smoke, heat, frosts, and languour; but they loved it profoundly. ❋ Boris Pilniak (1915)

"She has the languour of the South -- She does not jump from one subject to another, she is frankly only interested in love." ❋ Elinor Glyn (1903)

Burden not the soul so as to cause exhaustion and languour, but rather refresh it that thus it may soar on the wings of Revelation to the ❋ Unknown (1899)

Light though her step, there was a languour there; ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

I advanced -- a pleasing languour seized my senses & when I recovered I found my self by the Elysian fountain near Diotima -- The beautiful female who [m] I had left on the point of narrating her earthly history seemed to have waited for my return and as soon as I appeared she spoke thus -- [100] ❋ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1824)

But when languour was required - as in the slow movement - Gardiner was happy to relax a little. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Then with some cordialls seeke first to appease, the inward languour of my wounded hart, and then my body shall haue shortly ease: but such sweet cordialls passe Physitions art. ❋ Unknown (1594)

When we are young we busy ourselves in forming schemes for succeeding time, and miss the gratifications that are before us; when we are old we amuse the languour of age with the recollection of youthful pleasures or performances; so that our life, of which no part is filled with the business of the present time, resembles our dreams after dinner, when the events of the morning are mingled with the designs of the evening. ❋ Unknown (2004)