All along the tall stockades apes sat sad and listless, and on the roof-ridges storks were dying.
In the daytime he slept, played backgammon with his aunt, or sat listless and inactive, apparently waiting for his furlough to be over.
Even the buzzards atop the water tower sat morose and listless.
They sat listless on that stained and smelly old mattress we'd pulled close to the windows.
My poor husband would sit pale and listless, listening to the endless raving upon politics and upon social questions which made up or visitor's conversation.
Red sat listless staring at the empty beer bottle.
The corporal unloaded the gun and put the magazines away; the wireless operator sat listless at his little desk.
And in a high building on the hill, a dying woman dreamed of childhood strife as she sat listless at her window.
Alix busied herself with the Eskimo woman about the stove; after a time she noticed the pilot, sitting inert and listless on his bed.
The hungry, adults and children alike, wandered about or sat listless where they could.