languour

And yes, I appreciate languour for the way it compliments reading so well.

Life Begins At 40 « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

‘Mid the throng how many fair with languour-kohl’d eyes88

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

As she rocked to and fro she felt the tensity of woe in abandonment, the magnificence of wrath after deception, the languour of sorrow after defeat.

Sister Carrie 2004

The heat was so intense as to throw languour on the garden and croquet-parties, which replaced the winter balls and sleigh drives.

Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

In comparison with the hopeless languour of the preceding days this was dizzy speed.

The Shadow Line 1917

It was a hard, stern life, with its smoke, heat, frosts, and languour; but they loved it profoundly.

Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

As she rocked to and fro she felt the tensity of woe in abandonment, the magnificence of wrath after deception, the languour of sorrow after defeat.

Sister Carrie: a Novel Theodore Dreiser 1908

"She has the languour of the South -- She does not jump from one subject to another, she is frankly only interested in love."

Man and Maid Elinor Glyn 1903

As she rocked to and fro she felt the tensity of woe in abandonment, the magnificence of wrath after deception, the languour of sorrow after defeat.

Sister Carrie 1900

As she rocked to and fro she felt the tensity of woe in abandonment, the magnificence of wrath after deception, the languour of sorrow after defeat.

Sister Carrie 1900