am languishing
- present progressive of languish (1st person singular).
Example Sentences
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And 'I am languishing for the pressure of your ivory arms about my neck and the sweep of your silken hair against my cheek!'
From A Man of Means by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Beholding thy body, O most valiant of men, bathed in blood, like a hill overrun with water from its springs, I am languishing with grief even as the lotus in the rainy season.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan
Why the stern brow deceitful move, When I am languishing with love?
From The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas by White, Henry Kirk
Meanwhile I am languishing for Catriona—and the weeks follow and I must live without you.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry
"I am languishing for that moment," he wrote six months before to Heinsius.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 by Black, Robert
