| 1. | And with desire to languish without hope. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | And the blue languish of soft Alia's eye. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 3. | Did come to languish and, indeed, my lord. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | But must be- will's free hours languish fo. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | Fade from thy cheek, and languish in thy eye. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 6. | At length, he began to languish for fresh air, and took many occasions of earnestly entreating the old gentleman to allow him to go out to work with his two companions. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 7. | Art, like life, is apt to languish if it gets too far away from primitive conditions. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |
| 8. | Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish they are black unto the ground and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. - from The King James Bible |
| 9. | --A span-breadth from his goal, to languish Verily, ye will have to drag him into his heaven by the hair of his head--this her. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |