Drooped

Examples

• She noiselessly paced to and fro the carpeted floor, her head drooped, her hands folded. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Bella's eyes followed him to the door, lighted on Mr Boffin complacently thrown back in his easy chair, and drooped over her book. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• All drooped low in the saddles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The reflection brought back the yielding of her face and form as she had drooped under his gaze. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mrs. Corney drooped her head, when the beadle said this; the beadle drooped his, to get a view of Mrs. Corney's face. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Her words were smothered in her throat, and her head drooped down. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• My flagging spirits asked for something to speak to the affections; and not finding it, I drooped. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I felt its whole weight now; and I drooped beneath it, and I said in my heart that it could never be lightened. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I was alone with her, when her forlorn young head drooped gently on one side, and all her earthly wrongs and sorrows ended. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Ginevra lived her full life in a ball-room; elsewhere she drooped dispirited. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• After that, Mr Lammle did exactly the same thing, and drooped HIS eyes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• After this, Mrs Lammle looked disdainfully at the skeleton--but without carrying the look on to Mr Lammle--and drooped her eyes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Clym, I am unhappy at what I hear, she said in a low voice; and her eyes drooped, and she turned away. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• For which reason Bella's eyes drooped more engrossedly over her book, and she turned the page with an air of profound absorption in it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Louisa stood looking at the pretty modest head, as it drooped abashed before her, until it was raised again to glance at her face. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Then the lids drooped with a faint motion of satiric contempt. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But she looked forward--a very little way now--to the help that was to come to her, and never drooped. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• So, crying out in a wild way that she could not bear this, Bella drooped her head on Mrs Boffin's ready breast. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I cried inwardly, as the night lingered and lingered--as my bleeding patient drooped, moaned, sickened: and neither day nor aid arrived. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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