languished

• From this moment the Union languished, and soon disappeared, leaving a memorable warning against penal colonization and the creation of a caste embittered by ignorance and revenge It was, however, felt by the colonists that no expression of the public will would recall the minister to a sense of justice, or command the effectual protection of parliament. —  The History of Tasmania, Volume I
• Agriculture languished, and the minute subdivision of arable land finally rendered its tillage almost profitless Among a people who are isolated not only as islanders, but also as mountaineers, old institutions are particularly tenacious of life: that of the vendetta, or blood revenge, with the clanship it accompanies, never disappeared from Corsica. —  The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
• Poussin loved not such a life; his free spirit languished, his noble heart was pained; and in 1642, he requested and obtained leave to visit Italy, promising, however, to return The deaths of Louis and Richelieu, which took place within a short period of each other, released Poussin from his pledge. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852
• Conversation languished, and laughter was dead. —  Mushrooms on the Moor
• This practice has been condemned by the whole chorus of historians who fancy that from this cause the domestic agriculture languished, and that a bounty was given upon pauperism. —  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1

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