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Dad is sighing and looking listless
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conversations and listless love making
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Dave leans over the side of the boat staring at the listless sea
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His face hung and his greeting was listless
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Her eyes as listless as a Shal'in Ome, the middle aged woman looked ahead, unaware of the world around her
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she’d been eager, now she was listless and went about
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Despite mutterings and listless gestures, he remained visible – and visibly pitiful
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No matter how many fowl he devoured, bones and all - and it had amounted to a fair few during his lifetime - Mr Pinscher retained the appearance of a frail and listless marionette, that has been abandoned by its master
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She rolled over, listless at my touch, and began whimpering and shuddering in convulsions
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listless and apathetic
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He ran as fast as his listless legs would take him for a couple of kilometres – a safe distance from the compound – before calling the car
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It seemed only an instant later he found himself on the floor, his head fuzzy, in a listless state
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It is often times, however, the result of self-destructive tendencies common to decaying cultures that have grown (morally) listless and (intellectually) indifferent to their (historic) traditions because of their (material) opulence, perhaps
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Still feeling listless, I watched Billy practicing with his lariat
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With a listless attention
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fatigued or listless or find themselves constantly yawning prior to
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staring down at his empty plate, listless, I thought a lot about
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fatigued or listless or find themselves constantly yawning prior to onset
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Henry Jackson, who was tallest could jus see over the heads of the listless prisoners
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Children can become unenthusiastic, depressed, listless, and apathetic, leading to lack of activity and increasing depression
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Even then there was no reaction from my listless lady
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waste far more time by having to deal with students who are bored, listless, lacking in
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It was not like her to feel so listless
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Late that night, Marie was drowsy and still confused, waking from a listless state of dense slumber
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All the while a voice haunted Angela’s mind and Sarah could see the falsehood in her mother’s serious face as trivialness faded over Angela’s listless gaze
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Sam lifted Donna’s listless body and laid her on the table
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The lesson is universal,” she said with a wave of her hand, in a listless illustration of “everywhere
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Rosemary crouched in stasis by the slate driveway, a conifer shivering listless
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She felt listless,
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Kay walked to the window and then just stood there, gazing out, arms listless at her
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Fozzie giggles at her listless resistance, then drags her by the head down a dark alley
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The listless look on their faces had not left them, Monty noted, but they were, at least, interested in what was happening
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symptoms of being lazy, listless and its interest in food has decreased
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In the twenty years of tracking the BSP, I hadn’t seen such a listless campaign by the party
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“If they didn’t have it,” repeated Rendall, listless
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Watching the other cars appear to fly backwards made him feel superior to their mellow, listless drivers
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And sometimes, in moments of more extreme lassitude--for she was, like most unloved women, in most things at bottom listless and half-hearted--she wondered what the Kingdom of Heaven, if one did manage to get there after all the trouble, could possibly be like, crowded up with the battered
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Harvey-Browne, had said yes in the right places, and had only been listless and bored
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He raised one hand in a listless goodbye, his eyes refusing to stray again from the tube
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Sunday morning Nicole was listless and bored as she sat on her bed, flicking through
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I felt oddly listless and distant, as though most of me was far away, connected to the rest of me by a thin tether
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For several weeks she had been pale and listless and had missed some morning classes
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He responses to Rose’s questions were worse than deadpan, worse than listless, worse than unenthusiastic
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and musketeers, their cold shouts slashed through the listless
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He felt tired, listless; it was a great effort
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Raskolnikov really was almost well, as compared with his condition the day before, but he was still pale, listless, and sombre
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The pale, sombre face lighted up for a moment when his mother and sister entered, but this only gave it a look of more intense suffering, in place of its listless dejection
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Up went a handful of soft snow, and the head turned at once, showing a face which lost its listless look in a minute, as the big eyes brightened and the mouth began to smile
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It was gone before she could study it and the listless expression back again
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He looked and then he smiled, as he could not well help doing, for it was capitally done, the long, lazy figure on the grass, with listless face, half-shut eyes, and one hand holding a cigar, from which came the little wreath of smoke that encircled the dreamer's head
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But, you see, Jo wasn't a heroine, she was only a struggling human girl like hundreds of others, and she just acted out her nature, being sad, cross, listless, or energetic, as the mood suggested
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Listless and pale, the man rose to greet the other, clinging to his chair as he held out his hand
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Her pretty face was wan and listless; her hair uncurled: some locks hanging lankly down, and some carelessly twisted round her head
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The pettishness that might be caressed into fondness, had yielded to a listless apathy; there was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed moroseness of a confirmed invalid, repelling consolation, and ready to regard the good-humoured mirth of others as an insult
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But the thought of being with any other man besides Perry filled her with a heavy, listless sensation
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They all had a listless and dreary air of waiting somebody's pleasure, and the most talkative of the ladies had to speak quite rigidly to repress a yawn
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Gaunt cattle, their ribs protruding and their heads hanging low, stood listless at the bottoms of dried-up stock ponds where the mud had dried and cracked into mosaics of tiles as hard as stone
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Very anxious in mind, the Mole left him for a time and busied himself with household matters; and it was getting dark when he returned to the parlour and found the Rat where he had left him, wide awake indeed, but listless, silent, and dejected
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After a time he lowered his head and rubbed his nose on his forepaws in a listless manner
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In celebration of his eighty years, Dad had brought out the foldaway gazebo we had used for Thomas’s christening, which flapped, mossy and listless, at the end of the garden where, through the open door that led to the back alley, a succession of neighbours popped in and out, bringing cake or good wishes
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Charles Gould had his place next to a foreign envoy, who, in a listless undertone, had been talking to him fitfully of hunting and shooting
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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
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Shattered walls, smashed buildings, burned-out ruins, and listless, weary plumes of smoke stretched out in every direction
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They were almost listless looking, as if they were wilting under the mid-morning sun’s heat, which was pretty much par for the course, now that he thought about it
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Fontaine admitted that he was puzzled, after his tonic of sulphur, molasses made Scarlett so irritable and listless by turns
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His year of anarchy had filled a deep, interior need of his, the escape from reality, and as he found himself increasingly hemmed in, where he once felt himself free, he became at times listless and morose, even with me
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He was paler, thinner, pouchy under the eyes, drooping in, the corners of his mouth, and he showed the scars of a boil on the side of his chin; his voice seemed flatter and his movements alternately listless and jumpy; he looked down-at-heel, too, with clothes and hair, which formerly had been happily negligent now unkempt; worst of all there was a wariness in his eye which I had surprised there at Easter, and which now seemed habitual to him
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He had a great career before him but had grown listless in his loneliness; she was not sure he was not in danger of falling into the hands of an unscrupulous foreign adventuress; he needed a new infusion of young life to carry him to the Embassy at Paris
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At last, however, her listless walk brought her up alongside him, and still he said nothing
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She watched till the postman passed by, ran out to him with her epistle, and then again took her listless place inside the window-
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Another old adage was ‘sell in May and go away until St Leger’s Day’ on the assumption that everybody went away for the summer and returned for the popular horse race that marked the end of the summer lull – hence in the absence of trade, activity was listless and random
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Her face was averted, but she looked as gray and listless and afraid as I had ever seen her
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She moved in a kind of listless trance
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But now this head was swaying helplessly with the uneven movements of the bearers, and the cold listless gaze fixed itself upon nothing
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The troops meanwhile stood growing listless and dispirited
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Black robber bees are swiftly and stealthily prowling about the combs, and the short home bees, shriveled and listless as if they were old, creep slowly about without trying to hinder the robbers, having lost all motive and all sense of life
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In place of the former close dark circles formed by thousands of bees sitting back to back and guarding the high mystery of generation, he sees hundreds of dull, listless, and sleepy shells of bees
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When the news of Petya’s death had come she had been a fresh and vigorous woman of fifty, but a month later she left her room a listless old woman taking no interest in life
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apathetic and listless look: he seems to have more length
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They were listless and apathetic, but they came to the voice of authority
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They were listless and stale
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A grey and listless dawn had come
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The crowd poured into the road, and it was no longer loose and listless
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The boys lay on their beds, listless and ruined