Perhaps the greatest crowd is to be found upstairs, where the mummy-room is greatly beloved, both of small boys and of honey-mooning couples.
A soft-speaking, mooning man, now; utterly lost in the shadow cast by his wife's importance.
She laid the cloth, and Mrs. Sanker came mooning down in the short white petticoat and buff jacket, darning a sock of Dan's.
He was mooning about, I suppose, taking liberties with people's chins; but there he was, somehow.
He was mooning about the house when I was fetched home in the afternoon--they didn't know where to find me till my sister could be brought round sufficiently to tell them--and then he mooned away.
Such glorious days could not, of course, be wasted in a piffling little sail on the Loch or mooning on the beach, but there was time occasionally for a passing thought of the two who sailed and mooned so contentedly.
He's mooning about over his books like a sitting hen about half the time, when he ought to be mending harness.
Andrew didn't have enough to do without mooning down the road like a tinker, just to write a book about it.
John Jardine went in quest of him, and found him in the dining-room, mooning over his wine.
I believe he is mooning away his time in Herefordshire, with his mother's people.
And Tod I didn't see at all; I suppose he was mooning about amongst his creatures.
To meet a married woman, and be mooning over her because she gave him her eyes and her handwriting when a girl, was enough to rouse an honest fellow's laugh at himself, in the contemplation of his intermediate amorous vagabondage.
After we returned from seeing you off, mamma and I went mooning up to that hill of yours looking toward the south, because you and papa were in that direction.
If, instead of doing his duty by them, he comes mooningafter me here, when he knows it is of no use, I shall lose my respect for him utterly.
Real Literary People don't go round mooning and talking about the ople sea.
If I find any boys mooning around here, I'll--I'll shoot them.
There's been no decided change in the years; we've been honey-mooning along just about the same.
Aunt Sally she stuck to the sick-room all day and all night, and every time I see Uncle Silas mooning around I dodged him.
He went a mooning around, first to one rat-hole and then another, till he'd been to them all.
Mooning over your wonderful likeness to the lovely young sister they--never had!
Not a thing about her that you'd know except just her great solemn eyes mooning out at you through a gob of white cotton, and her red mouth lipping sort of twitchy at the edge of a bandage.
What did Lance mean by it--mooning about the piano like that?
I'm not given to mooningout of doors; but I've spent several evenings here .
During his mooning about he had passed several times a little girl who looked English.
Why, what should I do, mooning for a whole month in a strange place by myself?
Sauntering down that narrow lane by Maythorn Bank, I came upon a tall something mooning along like a walking shadow.
Anybody but an idiot mooning over a book or wasting time prowling the woods would have known you had to pay.
Go to bed, and for any sake don't begin mooning before a mirror, and make a dunce of yourself.
Taking the farmer's wife by the hand as the searchers returned fruitless in their search, he took her up a couple of the stairs and showed her the girl, mooning on the window sill among the morning glories and vines.
And Dick Ashbridge shot and fished in the most disconsolate abandonment, though the girl yet ran past him "like a ghost" when the beetle and bat were abroad, and he was still mooning about the vicarage meadows.
She certainly might have employed the eleven-o'clock interval much more profitably in befriending the new-comer than in mooning round the playground by herself, brooding over her own troubles.
Give young folks plenty of work, say I, and they're much better than mooningabout with naught to do.
Nowt, nobbut mooning up an' down, as if i' search o' somebody.
Martha, tha'rt allus mooning ower thy work like a goose wi' a nicked head.
It's the neglect; and to meet the old fellow mooning around his batteries as I did this very afternoon--I tell you it makes a man sorry.
Do not go mooning in the boat just to amuse yourself, or only for the catching of fish.
