drooping

• “Miles and miles and miles of them, and not a green thing to be seen except the cabbages in the greengrocers 'shops, and here and there some poor trails of creeping-jenny drooping from a dirty window-sill.”

  Harding's Luck

• “The long, graceful catkins are drooping from the birches, and the more slender clusters are also in flower on the oaks.”

  Rural Hours

• “White blossoms are opening in drooping clusters, also, on the naked branches of the Juneberry; this is a tree which adds very much to the gayety of our spring; it is found in every wood, and always covered with long, pendulous bunches of flowers, whether a small shrub or a large tree.”

  Rural Hours

• “Dalbert sprang back, with his thumb still in his mouth, and his sword drooping, scowling darkly at the new-comer.”

  The Refugees

• “There the wounded monk leaned against the door-post, his red sword drooping to the floor.”

  The Lady of Blossholme

• “Paula called drooping, and even excited alarm in her, lest Flapsy should be going into a decline.”

  Modern Broods

• “To wake, to warblej and to woo No Linnet calls his drooping love:”

  Internet Archive: Ode to the Honourable William Pitt ..

• “She reports that a 45 year old hypnotherapist from Wales named Ray Roberts has been feeding Viagra to the family Xmas tree to prevent it 'drooping'.”

  No drooping at the Roberts' this Xmas

• “Mrs. Archer had been born a Newland, and mother and daughter, who were as like as sisters, were both, as people said, ` ` true Newlands ''; tall, pale, and slightly round-shouldered, with long noses, sweet smiles and a kind of drooping distinction like that in certain faded Reynolds portraits.”

  The Age of Innocence

• “Mrs. Archer had been born a Newland, and mother and daughter, who were as like as sisters, were both, as people said, “true Newlands”; tall, pale, and slightly round-shouldered, with long noses, sweet smiles and a kind of drooping distinction like that in certain faded Reynolds portraits.”

  V. Book I

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