languishment

• “Oh, clouded wilderness of death, into whose embrace we must all fall - you are the very essence of mystery and languishment.”

  Josh Rosenblatt: Notes From These Pajamas: The Diary of a Freelance Writer

• “The first person that addressed them was Captain Aresby, who, with his usual delicate languishment, smiled upon Cecilia, and softly whispering,”

  Cecilia

• “Presently he shifted his hands to her slender waist, when his finger tips sank into the soft folds of her middle, breeding languishment, and he fell a trembling like the”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “By hearts and livers flowing fire for languishment:”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Alexander the Great, turned on one side, with an expression of languishment and anxiety in his countenance.”

  Travels through France and Italy

• “  Shall tune our heart-strings to true languishment.”

  The Rape of Lucrece

• “Narcissa insisted on going home immediately: and, as I led her to the door, her noble admirer, with a look full of languishment, directed to her a profound bow, which stung me to the soul.”

  The Adventures of Roderick Random

• “Thomas Linacre, physician to King Henry VIII., a man learned in the Greek and Latin languages, and particularly skilful in physick, by which he restored many from a state of languishment and despair to life.”

  Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth

• “Without health life is only a languishment and an image of death.”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “Oriental languishment of manner, was every where the theme of admiration.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829

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