There was a certain hardness in her young face, a certain pallor and listlessness in her movements which Borrowdean did not fail to note.
His listlessness was now such that he hardly spoke.
In horriblelistlessness she dragged her weary feet over the tiled floor, responding to commands like the old cab horse which can hardly feel the whip.
Mrs. Langworthy shook off for a little her listlessnessand recounted how she had watched "that girl" riding like a wild Indian toward the Upper End.
Now, as a bit of reaction, the rebellious spirit had grown tender; opposition had been followed by listlessness; and into the mood of tender listlessness there had come a man.
His listlessness had vanished, while his cheeks showed a wholesome warmth of colour.
But along with this increase of stature had come a listlessness and languor which troubled Lady Calmady.
And then listlessness fell upon him before he had time to put his wish into action.
Heywood was a little puzzled at her continued listlessness and depression.
Allowance must be made for their listlessness of mind; for the absolute need of some change in their way of life; of some dream or diversion to relieve their lifelong monotony.
Yawning in imitation, I passed with feignedlistlessness to the terrace, went noiselessly along by the house-wall, and followed the wing to the end of the balustrade.
A kind of listlessness had come over her, which I attributed to exhaustion of spirit after all she had experienced.
The Countess endured the journey fairly well; but her strange, dreamy listlessness had not left her.
The mere effort to become resigned, forbade the listlessness of despair; and even partial success gave some relief from uniformity of anguish.
Oppressed by the listlessness of disease, Juliet could scarcely make this experiment; or rather perhaps her early habits could not give way to a sense of duty, or even of necessity.
A comrade, lying on his back with arms folded over his face, kicked his legs in the air, while he watched the proceedings with a listlessness that denoted he was for evening duty, and would have no share in the result.
He wondered at her preoccupation, contrasting with the attention she had lately shown her present listlessness and apparent indifference to the splendid destiny thus prophesied.
All this apparent failure of health and listlessness had a mental cause, as he had always feared, as he now knew for certain.
A new sullenness was added to the previous listlessness of her demeanour.
The head was bowed and hidden, the whole attitude one oflistlessness and dejection.
A listlessness had come upon me, and I obeyed the pointing finger.
The most salient characteristic of both men and women is the listlessness of attitude as well as of expression.
The Spanish people seem to be imbued with all the listlessness of those of the tropics, though not by the same enervating influence.
If present at the devotional exercises, she finds it difficult to command her attention, even when desirous of so doing, and her deportment at this hour, is accordingly marked with an unbecoming listlessness and abstraction.
I designed to attempt something which would create a change in my wife's nature,--her acquired nature, to substitute some healthful exuberance for the weary listlessness which had become habitual to her.
There was an expression of indifference on her face and of listlessness in her attitude, though a man in black velvet was standing near to her and speaking with an appearance of great energy, and he was M.
The listlessness of Spain, the ambition of the Emperor must bow if once France, England, and Holland came to terms.
The royal matron of thirty-five, with a goodly family growing up around her, executed every step as her dancing master had taught her, and with none of the listlessness that was supposed to be the "correct thing.
I may say without exaggeration that the days on which the instalment of fiction was "crowded out," there was a general air of listlessness about Paris.
This reality was that she was rapidly losing all power of amusing herself, and that when she did occasionally amuse herself she had to pay for what she called this good time by an increase of listlessness and melancholy.
A certain listlessness of manner, a sort of lazy-grace seemed characteristic; but when his pupil came in and laid aside her bonnet, the expression of ennui vanished, and he threw himself on a sofa looking infinitely relieved.
But the period of listlessness and inaction, life-long to some, was nearly ended for this pair.
