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There was indeed a sense of languid repletion in his mind, as if it had been overfed and wanted to lie down for awhile. He contented himself with nodding again, and murmuring reflectively, "Yes, it is all strangely different."
'Nature is indeed a harsh stepmother to you. With your nerves, the pin-prickles of life are so many dagger-thrusts. Do you feel better now? he asked, as Gabriel opened his eyes with a languid sigh. 'Much better and more composed, replied the wan curate, sitting up. 'You have given me a magical drug. 'You may well call it that. This particular preparation of valerian is nepenthe for the nerves.
As the cab rolled over the asphalt of the Avenue, Blaine glanced idly at the stream of carriages returning from the Park, lifting his hat to many of the languid pretty women. He owed his minor fame to his guardianship of fashionable nerves. He could calm hysteria with a pressure of his cool flexible hand or a sudden modulation of his harsh voice. And women dreaded his wrath.
He pushes his way through the crowds, for poor Chancer has been doomed to disappointment in his wish to have this fair woman sing to him alone, for when the now full rich notes, now sweet to intoxication, of her mezzo-soprano voice fell on the air, the languid, sentimental or gay stayed their steps to listen.
Long, light ringlets, pallid complexion, blue eyes. Delicate child, half unfolded. Gentle, but languid and despondent. Does not go much with the other girls, but reads a good deal, especially poetry, underscoring favorite passages. Writes a great many verses, very fast, not very correctly; full of the usual human sentiments, expressed in the accustomed phrases. Under-vitalized.
He had not forgotten his original plan of abandoning the boat and striking across the country on foot, taking advantage of the less-frequented roads and paths that were well known to him. He was relieved, however, to find the flow so languid that it was easy to make headway against it.
The languid youth lifted his nose, which by its natural conformation betrayed an aspiring character, and looked dubiously at his customer. "I can understand as they might be flash uns," he remarked, significantly. Mr. Joseph Wilmot growled out an oath, and made a plunge at the young shopman. "I said as they might be flash," the youth remonstrated, quite meekly; "there's no call to fly at me.
It is a relief to the languid small-talk of society to listen to any one thoroughly in earnest upon turning the world topsy-turvy." "Do you suppose poor Mrs. Morley would seek to do that if she had her rights?" asked Isaura, with her musical laugh. "Not a doubt of it; but perhaps you share her opinions." "I scarcely know what her opinions are, but " "Yes? but "
He talked of Spain, his sunstroke, Val's horses, their father's health. Holly startled him by saying that she thought their father not at all well. She had been twice to Robin Hill for the week-end. He had seemed fearfully languid, sometimes even in pain, but had always refused to talk about himself. "He's awfully dear and unselfish don't you think, Jon?"
It was in a shady corner of the vast garden, where hedges of some fragrant yellow shrub shut in the basin of a fountain, surrounded by a ring of languid nymphs, that Lucy at last found herself face to face with Manisty, and knew that she must submit. 'I do not understand how I have missed Mrs. Burgoyne, she said hastily, looking round for her companion Mrs.
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