"Listlessness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... without resource. The young men went off to dine somewhere in the vicinity, not unfrequently taking with them some of Mr. Monson's dancing-girls; the wearied men, and the women generally, were in a sad state of listlessness. Some of them literally went to bed and slept for the rest of the week; others, in very despair of something to do, went to church and fell asleep there. Ashburner took advantage of the lull to fill up his journal, and put down his observations on the society about ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 • Various
... on which she sailed, and milk and blood together had dripped from beeswax. Their images with the forms of gods which the Athenians had placed on their Acropolis were hurled down by thunderbolts into the Theatre. This and the consequent dejection and listlessness of the army began to alarm Cleopatra and she filled Antony with fears. They did not wish, however, to sail out either secretly or openly as fugitives, for fear they should strike terror to the hearts of ...
— Dio's Rome, Vol. III • Cassius Dio
... Joe wound up for the third ball, the listlessness vanished from the Chinaman. A glint came into his eyes and every ...
— Baseball Joe Around the World - Pitching on a Grand Tour • Lester Chadwick
... usually merry eyes have subsided into a gentle languor; over them the white lids droop heavily. No little faintest tinge of color adorns her pale cheeks; upon her lap her hands lie idle, their very listlessness betokening the want of energy ...
— Molly Bawn • Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
... monarch, and followed his example the more because he "did shew no countenance to any that belong to the queen." Her majesty, on the contrary, took her misery to heart, and showed dejection by the sadness of her face and listlessness of her gait. There was universal diversion in all company but hers; sounds of laughter rang all day and far into the night in every apartment of the palace but those appropriated to her use. Charles steadily avoided her, and the attendants who replaced ...
— Royalty Restored - or, London under Charles II. • J. Fitzgerald Molloy
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