"Languorous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... resist her will. Low she bent above me, her dusky hair a cloud that choked me, and through this cloud the glitter of her eyes, red lips that curled back from snapping teeth, fingers clawed to rend and tear; then as I gazed, in horror, these eyes grew soft and languorous, these vivid lips trembled to wistful smile, these cruel hands clasped, soft-clinging, and drew me near and ever nearer towards that smiling, tender mouth, until I waked in a panic to behold the dawn and against the sun's growing ...
— Martin Conisby's Vengeance • Jeffery Farnol
... a true glamor of love-idyll about the Adagio. On more eager pulse rises a languorous strain of horn and ...
— Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies • Philip H. Goepp
... Andes snowy in the distance, and the islands, like great green gems, to seaward, is lovely beyond words. It was filled with glorious houses, carved and scented, and beautiful with costly things. The merchants lived a languorous, luxurious life there, waited on by slaves, whom they could burn or torture at their pleasure. It was "the greatest mart for gold and silver in the whole world." There were pearl fisheries up and down the bay, yielding the finest of pearls; and "golden Potosi"—the ...
— On the Spanish Main - Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. • John Masefield
... furs, in satins and velvet and chiffon, tall girls, most of them, with hair carefully dressed, faces delicately tinted and that curious forward thrust at the waist and slight advancement of one shoulder that gave them an air of languorous indifference. ...
— A Poor Wise Man • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... keen enough on his own house," Gordon answered drowsily from the depths of the hammock, in which he had almost fallen asleep. He felt incapable of thought. For weeks he had looked forward to the match, and now it was so close he felt strangely languorous, tired in ...
— The Loom of Youth • Alec Waugh
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