"Drooping" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... went into the den he was stretched on the davenport with his face buried in the cushions. He looked absolutely wilted, and every line of him was drooping. ...
— When a Man Marries • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... Uncle George's eyelids were drooping slowly and William's sudden statuesque calm would have ...
— More William • Richmal Crompton
... see him again that very night! Forgetting that his last words required an answer, she leaned back in her chair and again folded her hands before her. Her eyes were half closed and from beneath the drooping lids she gazed through the gathering gloom at ...
— A Tale of a Lonely Parish • F. Marion Crawford
... on the ground lie slain, The number of his vessels; then again He seeks the crews, and gives a deer to each, Then opes the casks, which good Acestes, fain At parting, filled on the Trinacrian beach, And shares the wine, and soothes their drooping ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil
... the fate of John Keith. Since then the change in her has alarmed me, Conniston. I don't understand. She has betrayed nothing. But I have seen her dying by inches under my eyes. She is only a pale and drooping flower compared with what she was. I am positive it is not a sickness—unless it is mental. I have a suspicion. It is almost too terrible to put into words. You will be going up there tonight—you will ...
— The River's End • James Oliver Curwood
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