Three boy's called; Marjorie disappeared with one of them, and Bernice made a listless unsuccessful attempt to entertain the two others--sighed thankfully as she climbed the stairs to her room at half past ten.
At forty, perhaps, he would be a bookkeeper like old Hesse, tired, listless Hesse with a dull routine for his stint and a dull background of boarding-house conversation.
And again his listless gaze was riveted upon the quivering diaphanous wings of a snake-doctor, hovering close at hand, until the grotesque, airy thing would flit away.
My vision like the withered grass Where listless lambs irresolute pass!
Into my listlesssoul I gaze: With clouded eyes I search the past, At all the long-spilt blood aghast Of lambs that died in wintry ways.
The thoughts of a princess who is sick with hunger, The listless mood of a mariner in the desert, And brazen music at the windows Of men who are sick to death!
Tired at getting up, tired at lying down, listless and apathetic always.
She stood listless while her dress was being fastened, her eyes misty and dreamy, fixed on the diamond ring she wore.
She looked at the new-comer with listless indifference, spoke a few words of greeting with cold apathy, and then retreated to another window, and bent her eyes on her book.
These thoughts still preyed upon her mind, and made her listless and depressed.
For a time he remained sunk in a listless dejection, sitting among the ashes of his hopes, his dreams of vast wealth gone, his shining Spanish castles in ruins about him.
Cally, after listless deliberation, took her wealth to her father that afternoon, offering it as a contribution toward mamma's Settlement donation.
They seemed to be a rather listless set in Tolosa, and when I asked them what they were doing to make a livelihood, they said they were waiting.
Having spent a somewhat listless morning, I was invited to accompany them to the house of Mr. Bingley, one of the Glorious Four.
Fretful and imperious when in pain, listless and selfish when at ease, his one aim in life now was to kill time, and any thing that aided him in this was most gratefully welcomed.
I'd thought she'd be too weak and listlessto move.
On first hearing these names, the hitherto listless Murielle started, and turned to Maud Douglas; but feared to ask the question that seemed to burn her tongue.
Thousands that had been sitting on the beach concealed in the deep shade, wood-pigeons and legions of gigantic bats, which had been suddenly frightened out of their listless repose, now flew about directly before the murderous fowling-pieces.
A sort of shiver affects the whole frame, and their gait becomes listless and slow, but they never lose consciousness.
He saw that she grew more listless and frail, day by day, and he sought constantly--poor old man!
The bell rang to bed, and the boy, subsiding at the sound into his usual listless state, crept away as if anxious to avoid notice.
There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
She moved about a listless white-faced shadow, indifferent to life and everything.
Some clerics are listless in religion; but when a question of church politics is raised, alert as a horse at the sound of the trumpet.
The village doctor makes his morning call, And takes my listless hand to feel the pulse.
Sweet revery is like a little boat That idly drifts along a listless stream-- A painted boat, afloat without an oar.
How listless and dead were those limbs, bound with inexorable fetters, while the iron of despair had pierced the hearts of the prisoned maniacs!
He was listless too, preferring others to read to him and dictating nearly all his letters.
I looked at McCord and found him brooding at the animal with a sort of listless malevolence.
But she said nothing and when Matthews turned from the telephone to go back to the tap-room she had resumed her former listless attitude.
There was a listless yet highly-strung look about her that you see in people who habitually take drugs.
I had been hearing Mackay's wild comparison of the Pole with the tree of Eden, and that no doubt was the reason why such a start convulsed me: for my listless eyes had chanced to rest upon some words.
But the piano is shockingly out of tune," remarked Bell, who had immediately commenced a listless kind of assault on that ill-used indispensable of all rooms in which people are expected to wait.
Long lines of jaded cavalry tramped wearily and stiffly, the horses with drooping heads and the riders with listless attitudes and loose seats in their saddles which denoted the very extremity of fatigue and exhaustion.
Even the hideous "horned frog" reclined listless along the earth, sheltering its tuberculated body under the stones.
