languishment
Example Sentences
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Based on Stewart’s recent cookbook of the same title, the show represents a fresh attempt at the genre after the languishment of a baking program in the kitschy backwoods of the Hallmark Channel.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2012
The King hath the name Fisherman, and lieth in languishment on account of two knights that have been at his castle and made not good demand.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian
Once she had been indifferent To languishment or guile, But when I argued with intent To hold her by a smile, Upon my eyes her own were bent For quite a little while.
From The Book of Gud by Hersey, Harold
Without health life is only a languishment and an image of death.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
And into sudden languishment Both Gwendolyn and Gladys went.
From Grimm Tales Made Gay by Levering, Albert
