languor

• "The young man of business had dropped his drawl or his languor, and was speaking quite unaffectedly, good-naturedly, and selfishly. —  Thackeray
• It causes a sense of heat and a constriction of the secretory organs; but perspiration, languor, and torpor soon follow. —  The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
• She shut the book with a little weary sigh, and looked irresolutely at her sleeping aunt, then at the chair by the north window Lucina felt none of the languor which is sometimes caused by extreme heat. —  Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel
• He was apparently of the type of those Moslems who are ready to rush upon cold steel in order to attain a sensual Paradise Her languor, her dreaming mood in the bright silence of this garden of oranges on the edge of the Nile--they were leaving her now. —  Bella Donna A Novel
• The whole of the dramatic music of the eighteenth century must naturally have appeared cold and languid to men whose minds were profoundly moved with troubles and wars; and even at the present day the word languor best expresses that which no longer touches us in the operas of the last century, without even excepting those of Mozart himself. —  Great Italian and French Composers

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