stooped

• “Even McCain stooped that low against Obama with parking violations”

  Corzine campaign calls Christie 'menace to society'

• “Trelawny's Shelley is a little stooped from a life of being doubled over still surfaces; but it's not always possible to know if his Narcissus posture represents an extreme of self-forgetfulness or of ruthless self-absorption.”

  Shelley's Pod People

• “The other diverted the stream to his own lands, and as his cousin stooped over the channel to reopen it, shot him twice from behind.”

  High Albania

• “Mr. Randolph again stooped and kissed her; kissed her two or three times.”

  Melbourne House

• “Mr. Andrew Lang selects a sentence of Macaulay: "Even the wretched phantom who still bore the imperial title stooped to pay this ignominious blackmail.”

  Platform Monologues

• “Once or twice she stooped from the organ-loft to ask me where was Brother Anselmo, who usually met us in the church of evenings, and whom tonight – this last night before the general household moved back to Longfield – we had fully expected.”

  John Halifax, Gentleman

• “Rachela put up her hands palm outwards, as if to shield herself from a blow, and then without another word stooped down and tied the satin sandals on Isabel's restless feet.”

  Remember the Alamo

• “As he was leading me back to Mrs. Sandford, the captain stooped his head to mine.”

  Daisy

• “The while darkness, palpable and rayless, hemmed us round, dissipated only by the lightning; sometimes we beheld thunderbolts, fiery red, fall into the sea, and at intervals vast spouts stooped from the clouds, churning the wild ocean, which rose to meet them; while the fierce gale bore the rack onwards, and they were lost in the chaotic mingling of sky and sea.”

  III.9

• “Lady Delacour again stooped, and leaned her arm upon his shoulder.”

  Belinda

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