Antonia was too dear to me, I might say too holy, for me to go and play the part of the languishing lover and stand gazing up at her window, or to fill the role of the lovesick adventurer.
She was in an affectionate humour; she embraced her husband, overwhelmed him with sweet and languishing glances, and rested her pretty head on his shoulder.
He from that time laid aside his studies, to fix his thoughts and heart entirely on eternity, and to aspire with the greatest ardor and most languishing desires to the enjoyment of God in perfect love.
Milena's presence haunted him day and night; it overflowed his heart in a way that made him feel as if he were suffering from some slow, languishing fever.
Like a wily spider, she daily caught some silly man to linger and gaze upon her large, languishing black eyes with long silken lashes, like natural khol, or to look on the dark moles on her alabaster skin.
Can't you just see the poor princess who won't marry the lover her father has commanded her to marry, languishingup there?
She forgot the languishing princess she had consigned to the prison above in her joy of the bright sunshine, the inviting slopes of Highacres, velvety green, and the new friend at her side.
He sat like a prince, with his sphinx-like imperviousness to bores, courteous and concentrated on the languishing conversation.
You must not, will not quit a languishing parent; and I am obliged to approve your determination, though I cannot but regret the consequence.
To restore a languishing body is held to be a precious art; but to give health to the mind, to restore declining genius to its true rank, is an art infinitely more inestimable.
When you raise your eyebrows that way your eyes can't help a languishing expression.
Meantime, the air of the country did not restore my health; I was languishing and became more so; I could not endure milk, and was obliged to discontinue the use of it.
Miss Sellars' languishing eyes were fixed upon me; Miss Sellars' red lips pouted and twitched; Miss Sellars' white bosom rose and fell.
That her languishing glances irritated rather than maddened me, that the occasional covert pressure of her hot, thick hand left me cold, I felt a reproach to my manhood.
Mademoiselle de Scuderi has perverted history still more than Calprenède, and changed her Romans into languishing Parisians.
And the sow looked at him with little languishing eyes, and licked his fingers; she ended by screaming abominably when he went away.
She supported her chin in a languishing way against her other hand, which rested on his right shoulder.
A powerful scent arose from the earth in the warm, languishing summer night.
As late as 1623 a colonist wrote that "these slow supplies, which hardly rebuild every year the decays of the former, retain us only in a languishing state and curb us from the carrying of enterprise of moment.
That the promotion of health did play a part in the selection of sites for settlement is borne out by the re-location of the seat of government from the languishing village of Jamestown to Middle Plantation or Williamsburg.
Quicken my languid and languishing affections by the omnipotent agency of Thy Holy Spirit.
The establishment of the two great mendicant orders of St Dominic and St. Francis, it is observed by Machiavel, revived, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the languishing faith and devotion of the catholic church.
She told him she still saw the man but that his devotion had lapsed, giving evidence of a languishing interest.
Then, the strength regained by exercise and air, the few dollars made by fruit picking, gave a fillip to his languishing spirit and an objective point rose on his vision.
Illustration: When the dames cast languishing glances at his handsome form, he glared at them like an infuriated turtle.
When the dames cast languishing glances at his handsome form, he glared at them like an infuriated turtle.
I tell you, royalties are languishing to see her, or soon will be.
The poor nuns, who were never to have any babies of their own, and were languishing for some amusement, perfectly doated on this prospect of a wee pet.
Yet, upon this occasion, one half of their vivacity was eclipsed by a languishing air of melancholy concern; which, while it in a manner sheathed the edge of her beauty, added a most engaging sweetness to her looks.
Long languishing in double malady Of my harts wound and of my bodies griefe, There came to me a leach, that would apply Fit medcines for my bodies best reliefe.
We look in vain for one single vigorously-branching root, for a speck of fertile and healthy soil: there is dust, sand, torpidness and languishing everywhere!
Now suppose I had a charming little wife--a paragon of a wife, with blue eyes and golden curls, and a sweet languishing air, to chat with in the long days and gloomy evenings!
Belle-bouche had never looked more beautiful, and the tender simplicity of her languishing eyes almost made the poetical Sir Asinus imagine himself in love.
This was Belle-bouche, as we have said; and the tenderlanguishing face of the little beauty was full of joy at the bright scene.
See," he said, "what that languishing little beauty dropped in passing to her carriage.
A company of young people from among them ventured to attack Badajoz, whence they had fled, for the purpose of rescuing some Marrano women languishing in the Inquisition dungeons.
Many are they whom she has rescued from death, and lifted up from the abasement of a worthless life, when they werelanguishing in a dungeon, and were given over to death.
Those languishing in the dungeons of the Inquisition were to be set free, the banished allowed to return, and those robbed of their goods to have them restored.
