Jane Eyre vocabulary

The tone of her dark dress (Anna immediately observed and appreciated the fact) was in perfect harmony with her style of beauty. Liza was as soft and enervated as Sappho was smart and abrupt.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)

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meetings with villiage chiefs turned into tea-drinking sessions, filled with smiles and enervating chats that conceiled increasingly unreasonable requests and complaints

Melania G. Mazzucco. Limbo (Virginia Jewiss translation), p.191 (2014)

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She raised her head to look round, and then let it sink back: she was fatigued, enervated; she desired only solitude and calm; she had no care, no anxiety, no responsibility

Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)