1 She was no longer the listless creature who had lived at his side in a state of sullen self-absorption, but a mysterious alien presence, an evil energy secreted from the long years of silent brooding.
2 He told Ellen privately that it was a broken heart that made Scarlett so irritable and listless by turns.
3 Here was, after all, something that her charming listless hands could really do; she had no doubt of their capacity for knotting a ribbon or placing a flower to advantage.
4 For weeks past she had been too listless and indifferent to set her possessions in order, but now she began to examine systematically the contents of her drawers and cupboard.
5 In Vida's demands Carol felt a compulsion, but she was too listless to obey.
6 Ten times a night they talked of going out to soak themselves with the hose and wade through the dew, but they were too listless to take the trouble.
7 Carol felt her arm tremble, though she was tearless, listless, plodding.
8 The girls sat listless, leaning against each other.
9 He appeared somewhat reassured, on beholding her in the same listless attitude from which he had first roused her.
10 When she reached the corner of the enclosure, where the steps were formed for mounting the boundary bank, she sprang up with a lightness which seemed strange after her listless movement towards the well.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama 11 "No," said Charley, in the same listless tone.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His 12 Holmes sat silently, with his head thrown back and his eyes closed, in an attitude which might seem listless to a stranger, but which I knew betokened the most intense self-absorption.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty 13 He had lost his listless expression, and again I saw an alert light of interest in his keen, deep-set eyes.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE 14 All the demoniacal force of the man masked behind that listless manner burst out in a paroxysm of energy.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN 15 The next day brought death and judgement, stirring his soul slowly from its listless despair.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3