He fitted in with the languorous island existence, but he had come for business, and he lost not much time.
Warm, still, languorous days would come, but that first feeling of unreality would remain permanent.
His valet had already got his bath in readiness and in a few minutes the tired huntsman was forgetting weariness and the consciousness of outside things in the languorous abandonment that steam and hot water induce.
For a while he would feverishly clamp his attention to his work, while outside the sky continued serenely blue, and the breeze that drifted through his window was languorous and soft.
All the languorous glamour of the night had passed.
It had shut off the prospect of a languorous evening.
It was a warm languorous October day, a day when all nature seemed at a standstill.
One softlanguorous September evening, the loneliness promised to be unbearable, and she determined to go alone for a walk.
Sit here beside me," directed Madame, and she slightly changed her position with that languorous and lithe grace suggestive of a creature of the jungle.
Zahara tilted her head on to her shoulder and cast a languorousglance into the shadows masking the watchful Spaniard.
The sputtering blue flame lit her white, languorous face, her fallen hair, her heaving breast.
In the slow, languorous movement their obi of gold and fans of silver caught the cherry-shaded lights and tossed them back in gleams of mother-of-pearl.
Languorous days of autumn by the Inland Sea, when the dying summer's breath lingers like the perfume of incense, and the mirroring lilac water deepens to bishop's-purple.
To be brawled in the beginning with a snapping explosiveness, ending in a languorous chant.
How can the languorous Dancers know The red dreams come # To be read or chanted slowly and softly in the manner of lustful insinuating music.
This section beginning sonorously, ending in a languorous whisper.
Zoraida had flung herself with languorous abandon upon her divan, with her hand pressed to her bejewelled forehead.
As she stood before me in her dainty silks and flashing gems, she had no appearance of a wild freebooter and desert-wanderer, but rather that of an Oriental child of Fortune into whose languorous life the demon ennui had entered.
Reclining with languorous grace upon a pile of silken cushions, her hand outstretched in glad welcome, the jewels she wore flashed and gleamed under the antique Moorish hanging lamp with an effect that was bewildering.
Yesterday had been warm and languorous and the day before had been hot.
The glow of fever through his drowsiness was rather a grateful warmth, blunted of all responsible thinking, than a recognized affliction, and the realization of the presence near him enveloped him with a languorous contentment.
Her face looked rosy in the reflection from the hearth; a comforting sense of warmth crept over her as she lay in front of the blaze; her eyes were languorous with the luxury of the heat after a chilling ride.
It is curious that Robinson, usually so careful, has confused them together.
The notes of triumph ceased, and there came instead a strain of languorous music which set all the curate's pulses throbbing.
The instant the words were spoken the tumult died away, there was the languorous strain again.
Her passionate, tumultuous soul seemed to fall into a languorous enervation under the fragrance of the orange blossoms.
The portrait of the languorous beauty fell to her lap and then slipped to the floor, face down.
One was beautiful, languorous, carnal; the other was neither languorous nor carnal despite her wonderful body, and she was certainly not beautiful.
Languorous Aphrodite of the cities of the world, Rio de Janeiro lay naked beyond that line, and gloried.
A languorous fascination gleamed With glint of lapis lazuli; And from its silken surface streamed The scent of musk from Araby.
It was such a languorous afternoon in January that a furniture van, accompanied by certain nondescript persons known as United States Police, pulled up at the curb in front of Mr. Carvel's house.
Whereupon he set out with great strides, in marked contrast to his former languorous gait, and after a while they came to a sort of gorge, where the street ran between high banks of clay.
Her voice was very sweet, and I felt a delicious and languorousthrill which I identified not only with love, but also with a reviving spirituality.
He could not see her of course, or the rose lights, but he sensed her sitting there in her long chair, looking languorous and subtle, with colours and flowers and books about her.
Her painful brooding was broken by the sound of a soft and languorous voice.
But within half an hour the languorous voice was whispering once more from the shadow of the doorway.
The handsome man fanned Diana with a large palm leaf, and she looked at him with languorous eyes.
Her deep languorousvoice seemed to stroke its hearers like a velvety hand, yet had in it some deadly quality.
There was a spring softness in the fleecy white of the clouds, in the flowing gold of the sunset, in the languorous kiss of the breeze, in the gentle rippling waves of the dust on the pavement.
In the street, beyond the narrow yard, where the grass lay like a veil, there was a curious deadening of sounds, as if the traffic had become suddenly muffled in the languorous softness of spring.
