languishment
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Origin of languishment
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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
Bann'd be those musty mews, where we have spent Our youthful days in paled languishment!
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
Who is more happy, when, with hearts content, Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair And gentle tale of love and languishment?
From Poems 1817 by Keats, John
Who will lament, In fruitless tears, that she the dear one died, And thy surviving heart, in languishment, Soon sought the grave and withered at her side?
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor
Notice his embroidered silken coat, his splendid lace cravat, the languishment of his large foolish eyes, the indubitable touch of Spanish red on those smooth cheeks.
From Gossip in a Library by Gosse, Edmund
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