| 1. | The heaviness and languor of her manner were very marked. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 2. | I was struck by the fire of his eyes and the composed languor of his expression. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 3. | My heart's deep languor and my soul's sad tears. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | They retired and I turned towards my friend, but he was sunk in languor and almost deprived of life. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 5. | in a tone of languor that contrasted, very remarkably, with the extreme haste and violence of this actio. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | This has ever been the fate of energy in security it takes to art and to eroticism, and then come languor and decay. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 7. | Bennet at conversation, and by so doing threw a languor over the whole party, which was very little relieved by the long speeches of Mr. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 8. | Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly that I felt the palpitation of every artery at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 9. | He was still a pale young gentleman, and had a certain conquered languor about him in the midst of his spirits and briskness, that did not seem indicative of natural strength. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |