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languishing
«But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.»
Author: John Gay
(Dramatist, Poet)
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«If a product isn't selling, I want to get it out of there because it's taking up space that can be devoted to another part of my line that moves. Besides, having a product languish on the shelves doesn't do much for our image.»
Author: Norman Melnick
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«There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivac»
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Theologian)
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«The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.»
«EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and rose are languishing for a nibble at his _glutoeus maximus_.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Industry cannot flourish if labor languish»
Author: Calvin Coolidge
(President)
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flourish, languish, languished, languishes, languishing
«As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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admission, admissions, drama, dramas, languish, languished, languishes, languishing, naked, theater
«The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.»
«Life is languished away in the gloom of anxiety, and consumed in collecting resolutions which the next morning dissipates; in forming purposes which we scarcely hope to keep, and reconciling ourselves to our own cowardice by excuses which, while we»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
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