Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth in it shall languish with the heat of the field, and with the fowls of the air: yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be gathered together.
Stay me up with flowers, compass me about with apples: because I languish with love.
The fishers also shall mourn, and all that cast a hook into the river shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish away.
Still these sufferings are such that even the great and strong must languish and wither beneath them were it not for the comfort God bestows.
They must languish in dust and ashes; yea, must lie despondent and desperate in the anguish and torments of hell, if he touch them but a little with the terrors of his anger.
Scholars and statesmen, who contemptuously abandoned the crowd of romances to Miss Lydia Languish and Miss Sukey Saunter, were not ashamed to own that they could not tear themselves away from Evelina.
Nay, let her languish A drop of blood a day and, being aged, Die of this folly.
What thou seest when thou dost wake, Do it for thy true-love take; Love and languish for his sake.
So early as 1781 he wrote to Alison Begbie--"Once you are convinced I am sincere, I am perfectly certain you have too much goodness and humanity to allow an honest man to languish in suspense only because he loves you too well.
The cause would soon languish were it not for just such support.
Sally and I both have learned to languish and glide at the new academy in Third Street.
Some die, some fly, some languish on the Continent, Because the times have hardly left them one tenant.
He could not endure the thought of suffering these beloved objects to languish in despair on his account; and he determined to trust to his disguise, and immediately pay a visit to Lancashire.
Wit may devise a sportive glee, But Love should languish and complain.
Bid that heart stay, and it will stay To honour thy decree; Or bid it languish quite away, And't shall do so for thee.
Take then tribute of my tears; So long as I have fears To prompt me, I shall ever Languishand look, but thy return see never.
Or is it perhaps in consequence of the blessings emanating from Rome, that a portion, and not a small one, of our people, languish in the most abject poverty?
Strephon and Chloe languish apart; join in a rapture: and presently you hear that Chloe is crying, and Strephon has broken his crook across her back.
I languish for your welfare, and will never be a moment careless more.
Every one should be familiar with Miss Languish and Mrs. Malaprop.
Quaere," he says to Walsh, "if languish be a proper word?
And must I languish then, she said, and die, 730 Yet view the lovely fruit before my eye?
Forrest might love and languish all he liked, if it was fun for Flo.
With us great undertakings do not languish for want of public interest and assistance.
They languish after strong emotions; they yearn for something which will make their flesh creep.
Many popes of the sixteenth century acted on this policy; and it is in consequence of its neglect by those of the fifteenth and seventeenth, that the temporal power of the Roman church seems henceforth doomed to languish and become extinct.
