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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

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

"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

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)