He languished at her feet, despairing, full of worship and a desire to die for her; as the pages of olden times had loved their queens, so he revelled in this hopeless passion.
The roses languished on their stems; the lazy, slime-covered carps sunned themselves on the surface of the pond.
In the middle of it was the old majolica vase with open dragons' jaws, where a bunch of gloire de Dijon roses languished exhausted from the heat of the day.
There was not one in this bevy of girls who had not languished for him since she was twelve years old, who had not felt a romantic thrill at the story of the fatal duel, and the flight from his fatherland of the much-admired murderer.
He knew why he languished in the presence of his beautiful sister; he could tell why the dark splendour of Amra's eyes pierced his soul like the winged flames shot into a besieged city.
See how he lies at random, carelessly diffused, With languished head unpropt, As one past hope, abandoned.
Thus many years she lived as a Sister of Mercy; frequenting Lonely and wretched roofs in the crowded lanes of the city, Where disease and sorrow in garrets languished neglected.
Have they not rather acted as the Deus è machinâ, carrying on the drama, which has languished or stopped, since the time when they ceased to animate it?
Hereupon the Major bowed a trifle awkwardly since Lady Betty still had him in leash, while her aunt, rising, sank into a curtsey that was a wonder to behold and thereafter sighed and languished like the faded beauty she was.
She knew--for sometimes she took entrancing walks with him--that his temper was becoming soured and his spirit chafed, in that Tom languished on in prison without trial.
Tom Emmett and Neilson were kept in prison, where they languished without trial.
Decrepit foreigners who smelt of pomatum, and dyed their moustaches purple, were the only men who languished at her now.
Learning languished in the calamitous decades which followed.
How finely has the Poet told us that the sick Persons languished under lingering and incurable Distempers, by an apt and judicious use of such Imaginary Beings as those I mentioned in my last Saturday's Paper.
There is a Story in the 'Arabian Nights Tales' [1] of a King who had long languished under an ill Habit of Body, and had taken abundance of Remedies to no purpose.
Damon, said he with a deep Sigh, I have long languished for that Miracle of Beauty Gloriana, and if you will be very stedfastly my Rival, I shall certainly obtain her.
When I married him, I could have had any one of several Men of Sense who languished for me; but my Case is just.
Brunetta languished at the Sight, and could by no means come up to the Bravery of her Antagonist.
But, in the eighteenth century, it was a fearful fact, and many languished in prison for life, for most trifling sums.
Such was the terror with which she inspired the Bonapartists, that, when the rebellion was put down, Napoleon specially exempted Langevin from pardon, and she languished in prison until the Restoration.
The chat languished until reopened by Ike on other lines.
The conversation languished as they ate their dessert, but Obadiah's pride of accomplishment had not departed.
After this double chastisement, the Lombards languished about twenty years in a state of languor and decay.
The many others, too, who had long languished in confinement, and whom they had used to mock and deride—where were they?
These negotiations had languished through all the tedium of diplomacy; the amusing promises of the courtly Gondomar were sure, on return of the courier, to bring sudden difficulties from the subtle Olivarez.
It languished for want of support, though several talented performers were attached to it.
He had been accused of trafficking with sorcerers and with vendors of poison, had languished long in a dungeon, and had at length regained his liberty without entirely regaining his honour.
That he died of a wound inflicted by his own hand, and that he languished long, are undisputed facts.
And I havelanguished in prison so long that my spirit is broken.
For I have languished so long in prison that I am weak.
Even then his well-organized party was so deeply rooted, that for several years longer it maintained an ascendancy in the cabinet, while the duke languished in disgrace.
The effect was eminently disastrous; for while the Castilian universities languished for want of patronage, the student who went abroad was pretty sure to return with ideas not the best suited to his own country.
Yet still she languished under her new confinement.
After this, it never resumed its former splendour, but, like a flower transplanted into a foreign clime, languished by degrees, and at length sunk into nothing.
And Liudmilla languished and stirred at his feet, going pale from impossible desires, now growing cold.
She languished and sighed, looking at his smooth face, at his bluish-black eyelashes and at his night-dark eyes.
Nor long did the soul of the stranger remain Unblest by the smile he had languished to meet; Though scarce did he hope it would soothe him again, Till the threshold of home had been pressed by his feet.
The murmuring billows of the deep Have languished into silent sleep; And mark!
It was noon, and on flowers that languished around In silence reposed the voluptuous bee; Every leaf was at rest, and I heard not a sound But the woodpecker tapping the hollow beech-tree.
Arblay is now making a last effort with respect to his retraite,(205) which has languished in adjournment above a year.
Arblay again ventured to esquire me to the rails round the lodge, whence I showed him my ci-devant apartment, which he languished to view nearer.
Useless, far from his wife and daughter, he languished and died.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "languished" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
