“The intensity of sentiment in these faces is like a disease, sharpening the lineaments and discoloring the blood, and putting all the suffering languidness of fever into the eyes.”
“Such preeminence, and such languidness and inactivity, are things which could evidently not coexist.”
“We meet in Soho, in a tall, skinny office just large enough to accommodate his 6ft 2ins of long-limbed languidness.”
“My languors were suspended by the urgencies of this occasion.”
“Tired of pale languors and the painted smile, His Majesty the Son of Heaven, long time A slave of beauty, ardently desired The glance that brings an Empire's overthrow.”