Even then it was but little that was said, some civil words of routine, but the gentle pensive droop in word and look, distilled like heavenly dew over some acrid waste.
You must consider as you gather them the height and slenderness of the stems, the droop and degree of curve, the shape and colour of the panicle, the dusting of the pollen, the motion and sway in the wind.
Also, I think I must be almost hidden by thedroop of the curtains.
There is a very small soft wind, that comes in honeyed puffs and little sighs, that wags the lilac-heads, and the long droop of the laburnum-blooms.
Speak, whimp'ring younglings, and make known The reason why Ye droop and weep; Is it for want of sleep, Or childish lullaby?
At first upright, a little later the gorgeous bells droop downward and fall to the ground unwithered, being poetically called Cupid's tears.
The vegetation is both attractive and characteristic, consisting of palms, laurels, and flowering shrubs, mingled with which are some exotics from the North, which droop with a homesick aspect.
She would not permit the gardens to be neglected, nor the very flowers in the cottage lattices to droop from want of care.
The Vicomte seemed by the droop of his shoulders to admit the plea; perhaps because the other's eyes strayed involuntarily to the shabby furniture.
The temptation was so strong that her form seemed to droop and sway as if a physical charm drew her in the direction of the man she loved, the man to whom, in spite of his faults, or by reason of them, she clung in the face of defection.
She had been very pretty in her youth, and much of her girlhood's beauty lingered yet in the faint pink of her cheeks and the droop of her long lashes.
The droop of their shoulders, the heaviness of their steps, the silence in which they went, trumpeted misery.
Somehow the droop of a fair moustache subscribed to the suggestion of laziness which the eyes had put forward.
Her white linen was simple and fresh, and she was daintily neat; but there were blue shadows under the melting eyes, and a sad droop of the mouth which spoke of dejection.
With a sigh of utter fatigue, she let her head droop against the hard, uncompromising cushion of the old-fashioned sofa and listened.
Neale tried to see Marise's face, but it was hidden by the broad-brimmed droop of her hat.
The visitor grinned with a sourdroop to his mouth, a droop which Johnny knew of old.
And Bland, seeing ready money just ahead, overlooked Johnny's blunt distrust of him, and pulled the corners of his mouth out of their habitual whining droop and whistled to himself while he tinkered with the motor.
She talked no more, and by-and-by I felt her head droop against my shoulder.
The winds are laid, and the restless leaves droop and are quiet.
Either a song was well sung, he told himself, or it was not well sung, and the gentleman who was singing Droop not, young lover certainly had a voice that sounded well in that great hall.
Something in its pathetic droop and distress called him once again to her side, and with fond, clasping arms he drew the sobbing girl to his heart and pressed kiss after kiss upon the upturned, tear-wet little face.
The time had come when other women must be bidden, if need be, to droop and die.
On reaching a turn of the road at the brow of an eminence the mule stopped, and, letting its head droop till almost as pendent as its tail, silently expressed a desire for repose.
Lily's head seemed to droop as naturally towards his shoulder as a flower towards the sun.
His big frame had a certain droop that suggested humility and even contrition.
Methinks the immaculate lilies should droop low For very shame at this coarse obloquy.
This basket was heavy; one could tell that from the relaxed droop of her shoulders relieved from its weight for the moment, as its end rested on a fallen block on the other side of the wall.
