Crossword-Solution: LASSITUDES 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Letters and notes of all kinds; impetuous messages asking him when he would return; letters apologising for her selfishness--he had better remain with Mount Rorke until his consent had been obtained; resolutions and irresolutions, ardours, lassitudes, forgetfulness followed fast in strange and incomprehensible contradiction.

What a bore it must be to have to touch up like Madame Boleski! But what was the meaning of all the imputations she had read of in those interesting French novels in Paris?--the languors and lassitudes and tremors of breakfasting love! There was just such a scene as this in one she had devoured on the boat.

Why should Marlowe enchant me? why should he delight and awake enthusiasm in me, while Shakespeare leaves me cold? The mind that can understand one can understand the other, but there are affinities in literature corresponding to, and very analogous to, sexual affinities--the same unreasoned attractions, the same pleasures, the same lassitudes.

But an earthy, sensual, and weak despondency is the attribute of the lowest mental and bodily disease; and the imbecilities and lassitudes which follow crime, both in nations and individuals, can only find a last stimulus to their own dying sensation in the fascinated contemplation of completer death.

The first fatigues and lassitudes, the shrinking from cold water, the ache of muscular effort, gave place to a tougher and tougher endurance; skin seemed to have lost half its capacity for pain without losing a tithe of its discrimination, muscles attained a steely resilience; they were getting seasoned.