"Mope" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Fanny did mope, and Grey Abbey was triste [43] indeed. Griffiths in my lady's boudoir rolled and unrolled those huge white bundles of mysterious fleecy hosiery with more than usually slow and unbroken perseverance. My lady herself bewailed the fermentation among the ...
— The Kellys and the O'Kellys • Anthony Trollope
... down I run and frisk, With my bushy tail to whisk All who mope in the old beech-trees. How droll to see the owl As I make him wink and growl, While his sleepy, sleepy head I tease! And I waken up the bat, Who flies off with a scream, For he thinks that I'm the cat Pouncing ...
— Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 • Edward William Cole
... spite of Durham's fetes and balls, We'll pine and mourn and mope Our long, long winter season through, As ...
— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine
... no intention of taking refuge in tears. Nor would she stay at home and mope. Her friends were out of town. She made up her mind to go for a walk, although she hardly knew where to go. Between mud and dust and hills, walking was not popular in San Francisco. However, there might be some ...
— Sleeping Fires • Gertrude Atherton
... his mother to come and sing him to sleep,—the happy young mother who had petted and humored him in her own fond American fashion. They could not understand his speech; more than that, they could not understand him. Why should he mope alone in the garden with that beseeching look of a lost dog in his big, mournful eyes? Why should he not play and be happy, like the neighbor's children or the kittens or any other young thing that had ...
— The Gate of the Giant Scissors • Annie Fellows Johnston
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