languishing

• “The whole interior of the Southern States was languishing, and its inhabitants emigrating, for want of some object to engage their attention and employ their industry.” The cultivation of cotton was not profitable for the reason that there was no machine for separating the seed from the fibre. —  The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
• This languishing issue, whcih Council President has done little to confront, is simply a current symptom of a much larger ethics & accountability vacuum in City hall. —  Artvoice - Buffalo's #1 Newsweekly
• For example one of her first bills languishing is the Bill to allow Medicare prescription drug negotiation. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
• Thousands of them have suffered in rebel dungeons, where many are still languishing--thousands are wounded, disabled for life, or filling a soldier's grave Thus has the immigrant proved himself worthy to participate with our native sons in the homestead privilege. —  The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
• Trade was languishing, the manufactures founded by Colbert were dropping away one after another; the revocation of the edict of Nantes and the emigration of Protestants had drained France of the most industrious and most skilful workmen; many of the Reformers had carried away a great deal of capital; the roads, everywhere neglected, were becoming impracticable. —  A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5

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