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• Listlessness Your child is not active and seems to have no energy for movement.
Baby Bites Bridget Swinney 2007
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• Listlessness Your child is not active and seems to have no energy for movement.
Baby Bites Bridget Swinney 2007
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Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart.
David Copperfield 2007
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Listlessness, with her lax fibre and undirected eye, sat quietly down beside him in his arm-chair. —
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Listlessness, with her lax fibre and undirected eye, sat quietly down beside him in his arm-chair. —
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An habit of Indolence, and Listlessness is growing very fast upon me.
John Adams diary 3, includes commonplace book entries, spring and summer 1759 1961
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Listlessness in prayer is the result of a lack of interest; no one is listless about things he is vitally interested in.
Adventures in the Land of Canaan Robert Lee Berry
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Listlessness gave her an added dignity, a new charm.
Long Live the King! Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart.
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917
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Listlessness and carelessness have characterized his term's work, so that when the examinations came he was wholly unprepared.
Chapter VII 1902
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