languishings

As he listened to all this Don Quixote was in a state of breathless amazement, for immediately the countless adventures like this, with windows, gratings, gardens, serenades, lovemakings, and languishings, that he had read of in his trashy books of chivalry, came to his mind.

Don Quixote 2002

Finally, these vehement transports and exhausting languishings of divine love were succeeded by a profound and permanent calm.

The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation A Religious of the Ursuline Community

To indulge the former is to be “Shandian,” that is to say, coarse and carnal; to devote oneself to the latter, or, in other words, to spend one's days in semi-erotic languishings over the whole female sex indiscriminately, is to show spirituality and taste.

Sterne Traill, H D 1882

Finally, these vehement transports and exhausting languishings of divine love were succeeded by a profound and permanent calm.

The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation Anonymous 1880

I have borne long and sore languishings, and oppressive and painful maladies without relief.

Autobiography of Madame Guyon Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte, 1648-1717 1880

And where do we read such strange risings and fallings, now the faintings and languishings, now the terrors and astonishments of despair venting themselves in such high, amazing strains, as in the 77th Psalm?

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

Herod pour'd out his whole soul to her in the warmest protestations of love and constancy; when, amidst all his sighs and languishings, she asked him, whether the private orders he left with his uncle Joseph were an instance of such an enflamed affection?

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

Those that seek perishing gods shall perish with them (v. 5), but those that seek the living God shall live with him: You shall be delivered from the killing judgments which you are threatened with; your nation shall live, shall recover from its present languishings; your souls shall live; you shall be sanctified and comforted, and made for ever blessed.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

I have borne long and sore languishings, and oppressive and painful maladies without relief.

The Autobiography of Madame Guyon Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon 1682

As he listened to all this Don Quixote was in a state of breathless amazement, for immediately the countless adventures like this, with windows, gratings, gardens, serenades, lovemakings, and languishings, that he had read of in his trashy books of chivalry, came to his mind.

The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581