There's not a bit of moping about her," said Miss Sophia.
She did not like this at all; it was a kind of work she had no love for; yet no doubt it was a good exchange for the miserable moping life she had lately led.
The shy, nervous, moping boy from Field Place had not been a week at Eton before he was found guilty of 'general queerness.
You'd much better have come out with me instead of moping indoors, on this lovely afternoon, over that wretched music.
If I find you sewing and moping here all the time, I shall feel hurt and despondent.
He found Belle moping the evening after her father's departure, and he gave her a swift drive in his buggy, which little attention completely disarmed the warm-hearted girl and became the basis of a fast-ripening friendship.
Catch me moping after such a dim outline of a man!
But only the sea-swallows circled widely above, along the black wet skerries the gulls wailed, and the silly moping guillemots sat in rows upon the rocks of Lianacraig.
Maisie sat down with her sewing close to where Wat stoodmoping and bending his brows, and, noting his brow of constraint and gloom, she set herself lovingly to cheer him.
Aren't you ashamed of yourself to sit moping out here, when there are so many pretty young ladies around?
And (most unlike the nature of things young) That still to earth thy moping head is hung?
Why do you let people say you are moping about Chris?
So they think I'm moping and hiding because--How interesting!
The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her solitary reign.
The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bower, her ancient, solitary reign.
Lad, nowadays, used to leave half his dinner uneaten, and he took to moping in a way that is not good for dog or man.
Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient, solitary reign.
The moping mason, from yon tavern led, In mystic words doth to the moon complain That unsound port distracts his aching head, And o'er the waiter waves his clouded cane.
Instead of moping Jean might be golfing, and Elma and Betty having tea at Miss Annie's; with nobody at all being nice to your poor old mother.
So much so that Mrs. Leighton remarked to her husband as each list of acceptances came from home, and no word of Mr. Symington, "I believe that child is moping because he does not answer.
The moping herons are no longer stupid; the blinking owls are all activity.
Land sakes, that child ismoping again," she groaned.
Lands sakes," she called to Helen, "Virginia is moping away in the hammock trying to make herself homesick.
I danced the soles off my shoes trying to get in here yesterday, and I hear you were moping all the time, and paid me no more attention than I had been a dog scratching at the door.
What were you about, mopingoff alone, with a party in your honour, sir?
But, for that mopingson of idleness, Why can he tarry yonder?
Thy remarkably grave deportment, moping abstraction, and disregard for all that's worth seeing.
