How To Use Drooping In A Sentence
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Good, bad, or meaningless, there it will be: bunchy with fat or sagging from the bone, fading, freckling, wrinkling, and drooping so long as flesh endures.
Beginner’s Grace
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a scarlet "whittle" over all this motley finery; with a "outwork quoyf or ciffer" (New England French for coiffure) with "long wings" at the side, and a silk or tiffany hood on her drooping head, -- Priscilla in this attire were pretty indeed.
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids
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The shoots grow off of longer horizontal or drooping branchlets.
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Around the room, eyelids are drooping and the smiles are serene.
Times, Sunday Times
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This helps prevent them from drooping or even completely bending over and breaking their stalks.
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But man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.
INSIDE OF A DOG
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The buds are heavy, each so full of fragrant petals that they are drooping under the weight of their ampleness.
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There the wounded monk leaned against the door-post, his red sword drooping to the floor.
The Lady of Blossholme
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Meanwhile, aids-de-camp galloped along the lines, announcing the arrival of Grouchy, to reanimate the drooping spirits of the men; for, at last, a doubt of victory was breaking upon the minds of those who never before, in the most adverse hour of fortune, deemed _his_ star could set that led them on to glory.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
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She may also be left with a drooping eyelid.
The Sun
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The flowers commonly have more or less recurved petals, and usually face outward or upward (as opposed to drooping).
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The weeping willow tree can often be spotted drooping into lakes and rivers.
Times, Sunday Times
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I like the slow pace, the remorseless march towards excellence, my own drooping eyelids.
Times, Sunday Times
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A gleaming circle wreathed in holly and drooping with vines end flowers stood out from a dark, in -
Three Girls in a Flat
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a branch hung low, droopingly
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Then white umbels of pignuts contrast with the drooping honey-scented cream plumes of meadowsweet.
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The thick curtain of the green vine that drapes the piazza is hung over its whole surface with the long drooping clusters of its starry flowers that lose all their sweetness upon the air, and show from the garden beneath like an immense airy veil of delicate white lace in the moonlight, -- a wonderful white glory.
An Island Garden
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I looked around the hall and saw eyelids drooping, heads slumped forward, the gentle purr of snoring from some quarters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Keeping incredibly low, we wiggled our way through the trees, passing just below the drooping branches of a large pine tree.
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The leaves are its main feature; with age it becomes rather tall, 6ft. to 9ft. high, having a woody hole or caudex, which is largely concealed by the handsome drooping foliage; a few of the youngest leaves from the middle of the tuft remain erect.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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A large brownish wading bird(Aramus guarauna) of warm, swampy regions of the New World, having long legs, a drooping bill, and a distinctive wailing call.
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His eyes were hollow, bleared, and gummy; his face was shrivelled into a thousand wrinkles, his gums were destitute of teeth, his nose sharp and drooping, his chin peaked and prominent, so that, when he mumped or spoke, they approached one another like a pair of nutcrackers: he supported himself on an ivory-headed cane and his whole figure was
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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Mark stepped off of the train, his eyes slightly drooping, and his black high-tops dragging behind him on the floor.
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When it takes three hours to prepare something dead simple, and leaves you drooping and weary, then a lifetime of critical standards go out of the window.
Times, Sunday Times
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Examination of a patient with Bell's palsy shows impaired facial and platysma muscles causing drooping of the mouth and brow plus difficulty closing the eye or mouth.
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On the other hand: if the muscle-bound dude's tank top looks like it has been through the wash about 50 times, and if it's a bit loose, and sagging or drooping in the wrong places - then yes, maybe.
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That many birds glide with some destabilizing anhedral (wings drooping slightly) suggests that the other stabilizing mechanisms available to them are more than adequate.
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It is a very attractive, narrow evergreen with upsweeping branches and drooping branchlets.
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Behind the drooping eyelids and stubble lies the very faint trace of a smile.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the desk, steam rose from a glass of tea beneath the drooping head of an Anglepoise lamp.
CHAMELEON
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He's wearing a madras hat, plaid women's slacks that go down only as far as his shins, and a plaid jacket with two drooping flowers in his lapel.
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He also does eyebrow and forehead elevations, to eliminate drooping eyebrows and sagging foreheads, for about $2,500.
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Niassia worked for the global coffee industry, and used to earn £70 a year collecting the red berries from the hundreds of drooping coffee bushes on her hillside shamba (field used to grow crops).
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Several of these half-starved creatures had their heads thrust out over the low pound wall, as if to solicit the interference of passengers, while others, resigned to their fate, stood in drooping postures in the centre of the enclosure, quite chop-fallen.
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dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears
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The rumbling of wheels heard through the drooping festoonery of the trees, proclaimed that a second carriage was approaching along the Shell Road.
The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley
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She sagged against me, using my supernatural strength as a wall against her drooping form.
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_Flower-heads_ -- Bright yellow, 1 to 2 in. across, numerous, borne on long peduncles in corymb-like clusters; the rays 3 to 5 cleft, and drooping around the yellow or yellowish-brown disk.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
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I like the slow pace, the remorseless march towards excellence, my own drooping eyelids.
Times, Sunday Times
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I looked around the hall and saw eyelids drooping, heads slumped forward, the gentle purr of snoring from some quarters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pin oaks produce drooping wind-pollinated male flowers called catkins; the female flowers come in groups of one to three just as the leaves begin to unfold.
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He felt that the hot breath floating across his cheek was heavy with contagion; he knew that fever raged and burned in the blue veins that swelled over those drooping arms and the unstockinged feet, but, he neither shrank nor trembled at the danger.
The Old Homestead
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Most of all, I wanted to lift my drooping eyelids.
The Sun
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Its clouds of white lace cap flowers in summer and its purple foliage with drooping clusters of berries in autumn make it a winter garden staple.
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It has beautiful drooping bells, with a chequered pattern of purples and pinks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her own eyelids were drooping, but old habits died hard.
SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
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Her black-velvet hat, with its dejected white plume drooping rakishly over one of her slanting eyes, her imitation-ponyskin coat with its imitation-ermine collar, her cheap black-serge skirt with its undulations half revealing the daintiness of her surprisingly excellent boots -- all struck the watcher anew with their pitiable striving after the prevailing mode in the dress of Occidental women.
Undesirables
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As the tree ages and loses its military bearing, the silhouette becomes looser and more drooping.
A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
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To a man, they are all grimly grimy, stringy filthy hair on their heads and drooping from the bloody, flyblown scalps tied to their saddles, matted beards, funny hats and all.
Michael Jones: Cowboys and Aliens
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And he took the observation that with the food poisoning called botulism, one of the first symptoms was crossed eyes, or drooping of the lids.
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In the spring, the male attracts females by gobbling, puffing his feathers, spreading his tail, swelling his face wattles, and drooping his wings.
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Her eyelids were drooping and she was shivering.
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Its downward-curving bill was mimicked in her drooping nose, the fleshy point suspended like a globule of cold sap.
Raven Speak
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A spiderweb of long vines covered the mouth of the cave, drooping down into the water, but Jonah passed between the vines easily and darkness fell around him.
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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'.
Archive 2007-12-01
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From this vegetable root hung the mournful _bromelia_, sometimes drooping down to the very surface of the water, so as to sweep our faces and shoulders as we passed under it.
The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
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In Caravaggio's supremely moving work, Ecce Homo (Palazzo Bianco, Genoa), Christ, drooping over His corded hands, submits to cruel ribaldry.
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Her own eyelids were drooping, but old habits died hard.
SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
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Some of them were pale and emaciated, and one that was palest and most worn went by with drooping head and hands that inlaced her rosary.
A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time
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With some of the trees drooping over the stone embanked, tiny rivulet - they cast kaleidoscopic reflections in its waters.
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His greatest worry was that the egret feather Bapa had given him two days ago—to plume in the pearl aigrette on his turban—would be in a sad state of drooping.
Shadow Princess
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On one occasion in early September, I witnessed drooping of the leaves when a sudden summer shower with gusty winds and a brief, but heavy downpour occurred.
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But beyond the baize door there were shadows, there was dust, windows draped in cobwebs, before which hung curtains tattered and faded, drooping from their poles like the old banners that, slowly rotting in great cathedrals, sway in the quiet air where no wind is – stirred, perhaps, by the breath of Fame's invisible trumpet to the air of old splendours and glories.
The House of Arden
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Behind the drooping eyelids and stubble lies the very faint trace of a smile.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was extremely tall, but he couldn't have weighed more than a hundred pounds beneath all the dirt, a shambling scarecrow of drooping skin and rags.
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To wake, to warblej and to woo No Linnet calls his drooping love:
Ode to the Honourable William Pitt ..
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Lower branches are pendulous or drooping downward, middle branches stick out horizontally, and upper ones are quite upright.
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Dalbert sprang back, with his thumb still in his mouth, and his sword drooping, scowling darkly at the new-comer.
The Refugees
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As the tree ages and loses its military bearing, the silhouette becomes looser and more drooping.
A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
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Then, his shoulders visibly drooping, he gets out his phone to call his wife.
Times, Sunday Times
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She may also be left with a drooping eyelid.
The Sun
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There were large nimbi and small nimbi about their drooping heads, but the face was always the same.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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It was the men, some of them wearing Chesterfield coats and homburgs, who lined up at the soup kitchens with drooping shoulders and eyes that never looked up from the sidewalk.
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The large beaked nose framed by drooping shaggy eyebrows emphasizes his ethnicity.
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In vases of delicate murra huge bunches of blood-red roses hung their drooping heads, and beneath the feet carpets of heavy silk hid the exquisite beauty of mosaics of lapis-lazuli and chrysoprase.
"Unto Caesar"
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I see the droplets soak into the stale, brown grass, and I watch it pound the drooping daylilies and roses.
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I have tried to broider it with gold, I have tried to hang silver-bells upon the drooping corners thereof.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862
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Neither horse looked tired even though they were both drooping their heads.
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But instead of the usual drooping eyelids, the atmosphere is electric.
Times, Sunday Times
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But instead of the usual drooping eyelids, the atmosphere is electric.
Times, Sunday Times
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Frequently, he pauses to alight and hang beneath the drooping stem of a bluebell to sip nectar, his pale sulphurous wings contrasting splendidly with the deep blue flowers.
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The weeping willow tree can often be spotted drooping into lakes and rivers.
Times, Sunday Times
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From him, there are no fits of pique or drooping shoulders when the course takes its toll.
Times, Sunday Times
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A white-haired waiter with a drooping moustache confided that the marinade was a speciality of the chef.
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Through the darkness I could make out a modest, tan coloured house with an overgrown garden and grubby looking shudders drooping from the windows.
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Beyond the pane, a duller gleaming, drooping green acanthus leaves, symbol once, in Christian art, of heaven, before that, classic curlicue of Greek and Roman art and architecture.
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In her close-clinging habit, with her black braids securely pinned, a handful of lilies drooping at her waist, and the whole of her fair young figure invested with a sort of stately maidenliness, she formed a sufficient contrast to Rose, who, perched defiantly upon her wicked little steed, looked every inch a rogue.
An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada
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Around the room, eyelids are drooping and the smiles are serene.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was 1898, Edinburgh, a dreadful hotchpotch of thistles, tartan hatching, drooping highlanders, wounded stags.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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He pulled a sticky brown bud from a drooping chestnut and peeled it naked.
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Hugh, face uppermost, his long hair drooping like some wild weed upon his wooden pillow, and his huge chest heaving with the sounds which so unwontedly disturbed the place and hour.
Barnaby Rudge
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I imagined the streams they now swam in, overhung with drooping vines or seeping from glacial meltwater.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mark stepped off of the train, his eyes slightly drooping, and his black high-tops dragging behind him on the floor.
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The great heavy drooping firs stretched their arms, clothed in festoons of dark green drapery, over the sheeted earth.
Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
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As most of these trees tend to be in backyards, traverse the alleyways to discover that rambling apple tree with branches drooping heavy with fruit over the yard fence.
Untapped Abundance: Three Steps to Adopting a Neighbor’s Fruit Tree
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The first sign frequently presents as ocular muscle weakness resulting in diploplia (double vision) and/or ptosis (drooping eyelid).
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But the tail, drooping down the side of the shrine, is long and straight; and club-shaped at the tip, more like the brush of a fox than the curved tail of a dog, which is normally carried in an upright position rather than low down like that of a jackal, wolf, or fox.
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Good, bad, or meaningless, there it will be: bunchy with fat or sagging from the bone, fading, freckling, wrinkling, and drooping so long as flesh endures.
Beginner’s Grace
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Knee-deep in the water, with drooping head and half-shut eyes, drowsed a red-coated, many-antlered buck.
All Gold Cañon
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Then, his shoulders visibly drooping, he gets out his phone to call his wife.
Times, Sunday Times
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Other symptoms such as cataplexy (sudden loss of muscle tone) with bucking of the knee and fall or drooping of the neck - which may be provoked by emotions like laughter, amusement or anger - can occur.
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Liz, I think what 2T and I referred to about her schnozz was the drooping "wattle.
BlondeSense
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He had even seen them: affectless men and women with a deathlike pallor, high nasal voices, and the characteristic drooping at the chin.
Zombie, Attorneys at Law
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Some children are born with a weakened muscle of the eyelid called a ptosis that results in a drooping of the eyelid.
EzineArticles
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I looked around the hall and saw eyelids drooping, heads slumped forward, the gentle purr of snoring from some quarters.
Times, Sunday Times
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When it takes three hours to prepare something dead simple, and leaves you drooping and weary, then a lifetime of critical standards go out of the window.
Times, Sunday Times
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Birth flower, May, lily of the valley, stemless convallariaceous herb, Convallaria majalis, with a raceme of drooping, bell-shaped fragrant white flowers.
The Memory Palace
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An injection of Botox in the correct forehead muscles makes them pull up drooping brows and eyelids.
Times, Sunday Times
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I looked around the hall and saw eyelids drooping, heads slumped forward, the gentle purr of snoring from some quarters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Polygonatum having paired drooping yellowish-green flowers and a thick rootstock with scars shaped like Solomon's seal.
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Her black head kerchief was old and worn, and her clumsily-fitting, coarse cloth "sacque" stood out below her waist as if it were of sheet iron, while her spare skirts fell below it like a drooping flower-bell from its open calyx above.
Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories
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My mind is foggy, my head achy and my eyelids drooping.
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A few feet away, his knees bent and his feet drooping off the edge of a bench, Devin was waking as well.
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David turned away wearily, shoulders drooping.
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When the wattle-blooms are drooping in the sombre she-oak glade,
The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
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Bert closed his eyes, his thin shoulders drooping.
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But instead of the usual drooping eyelids, the atmosphere is electric.
Times, Sunday Times
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Next in order had been wrought Cytherea with drooping tresses, wielding the swift shield of Ares; and from her shoulder to her left arm the fastening of her tunic was loosed beneath her breast; and opposite in the shield of bronze her image appeared clear to view as she stood.
The Argonautica
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On the desk, steam rose from a glass of tea beneath the drooping head of an Anglepoise lamp.
CHAMELEON
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The flowers were drooping in the heat.
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Some of the apple trees had drooping limbs; some grew straight and stiff.
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A-drooping.] [Footnote 6: A carcanet is a necklace, diminutive from old French
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Hadria carried still the drooping yellow heartsease that the little girl had given her.
The Daughters of Danaus
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The dew of the Spirit, which God and God only, can give, can freshen our worn and drooping souls, can give joy in sorrow, can keep us from being touched by surrounding evils, and from being parched by surrounding drought, can silently 'distil' its supplies of strength according to our need into our else dry hearts.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
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The long, graceful catkins are drooping from the birches, and the more slender clusters are also in flower on the oaks.
Rural Hours
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Warm temperatures cause stem drooping and a short flowering season.
The Sun
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-- A tree, 4-6 meters high, with drooping limbs; leaves long, very narrow, abruptly pinnate; many caducous leaflets, linear, elliptical.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
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This was all too easy, he thought, as he gathered her up in his arms, her feet over one and her neck drooping dreamily downwards over the other.
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Ten days later he noticed drooping of his left eyelid and double vision.
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Behind the drooping eyelids and stubble lies the very faint trace of a smile.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are drooping shanties, skinny dogs and an old man bent over his plants.
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I'm drooping in the oppressive heat, but Binoche is fresh-faced and crisply unaffected, her impossibly glamorous shoes tucked neatly beneath her, perky and upright as we sprawl stickily in the leather seats.
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Behind the drooping eyelids and stubble lies the very faint trace of a smile.
Times, Sunday Times
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The best hope lay in wearying out the besiegers; and there seemed to be more chance of this since the Gauls often could be seen from the heights, burying the corpses of their dead; their tall, bony forms looked gaunt and drooping, and, here and there, unburied carcasses lay amongst the ruins.
A Book of Golden Deeds
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At the other end of the bench sat a man in a kurta and shawl: he had a turban and a drooping white moustache.
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Soon the leaves die, turning a dark, blighted gray and drooping limply from the branches like hung corpses.
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Broad-leaved oarweed covered it like giant hair, and hung drooping into the deep black pool beneath.
A Poor Man's House
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Most of all, I wanted to lift my drooping eyelids.
The Sun
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Everyone loves the drooping fragrant lilac tassels of Wisteria, but it is not a plant for a small garden, particularly as your neighbour may not relish a Wisteria invasion.
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Branches are capillary, stiff and spreading, horizontally verticillate or subverticillate, the lowest whorl consisting of five to sixteen or seventeen branches and the others from three to nine, shining, swollen at the point of insertion and provided with a glandular scar a little above the point of insertion; branchlets are very close, appressed to the rachis of the branch never drooping or spreading, each bearing two to five spikelets.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Few insects can compare with it in beauty, as it hovers over the flowers of the heliotrope, which furnish the favourite food of the perfect fly, although the caterpillar feeds on the aristolochia and the _betel leaf_, and suspends its chrysalis from its drooping tendrils.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
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Staminate flowers in long, drooping catkins, provided with three or more stamens and occasionally with an irregular-lobed perianth adnate to the bractlet and a rudimentary ovary.
The Pecan and its Culture
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Man's penis, when quiet and unstimulated, is soft, small and drooping.
Married Love: or, Love in Marriage
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His foot was seemingly lame, eyes hollow, face drooping with age.
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The _spikelets_ are about 1/16 inch long, ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate dark or pale green, sometimes purplish, solitary or two to four on long slender pedicels, drooping, never appressed, and with glandular streaks.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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The musty, moth-eaten curtains, once a grand crimson, were now dull brown and drooping listlessly.
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An injection of Botox in the correct forehead muscles makes them pull up drooping brows and eyelids.
Times, Sunday Times
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The weeping willow tree can often be spotted drooping into lakes and rivers.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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But instead of the usual drooping eyelids, the atmosphere is electric.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was peeling, and long pieces of paint hung down like the drooping leaves of a spiderwort.
As Husbands Go
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Finally, be sure to deadhead faded or drooping blossoms and leaves.
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Her own eyelids were drooping, but old habits died hard.
SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
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Faults: Abdomen ( belly ) too tucked up ( as in a greyhound ) or drooping ( voluminous ).
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Drain the water and set the spears on a plate, and cut them to size so they can fit on top of the muffins without drooping over the sides too much.
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The patient was a 6-year-old right-handed girl who presented with a slowly progressive drooping of the left side of her mouth of 9 months' duration.
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Quarry is eaten on the ground or on a stump, the hawk standing with both feet on its victim, drooping wings to form a tent and spreading its tail as if to give support.
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They are committed bottom-grubbers, with drooping shoulders, dour expressions, and unfortunate barbels, or chin whiskers.
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It looks like a slightly small-sized cross between a bee and a wasp, but with a longer drooping tail.
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I like the slow pace, the remorseless march towards excellence, my own drooping eyelids.
Times, Sunday Times
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Martin glanced at her and verified her statement in her general slovenly appearance, in the unhealthy fat, in the drooping shoulders, the tired face with the sagging lines, and in the heavy fall of her feet, without elasticity — a very caricature of the walk that belongs to a free and happy body.
Chapter 31
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Flowers generally on an umbrel – at other times single – in colour they are pure white, with drooping nodding heads.
Flower Stories
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She may also be left with a drooping eyelid.
The Sun
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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
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The Chinooks are closest and I can see the moonlight glancing off their huge, drooping 30 ft rotor blades.
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She may also be left with a drooping eyelid.
The Sun
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I don't mean the crazy shattered glass style tattooage plastered across her back, drooping over her shoulders.
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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
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An injection of Botox in the correct forehead muscles makes them pull up drooping brows and eyelids.
Times, Sunday Times
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And while Martin told him, he was busy studying Brissenden, ranging from a long, lean, aristocratic face and drooping shoulders to the overcoat on a neighboring chair, its pockets sagged and bulged by the freightage of many books.
Chapter 31
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Frequently, he pauses to alight and hang beneath the drooping stem of a bluebell to sip nectar, his pale sulphurous wings contrasting splendidly with the deep blue flowers.
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Then, his shoulders visibly drooping, he gets out his phone to call his wife.
Times, Sunday Times
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Branches are effuse, fine, capillary (more so than in S. coromandelianus), obliquely ascending, never stiff and horizontal, verticillate or irregularly subverticillate, the lowest whorl of five to twelve and the others three to seven branches; the rachis of the branches is obscurely scaberulous, slightly swollen at the point of insertion; branchlets are never appressed to the branch, always drooping and spreading on all sides, and bearing two to four spikelets.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Most of all, I wanted to lift my drooping eyelids.
The Sun
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America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the topstone of that temple of freedom which our fathers left unfinished shall be brought forth with shoutings and cries of grace unto it, when our now drooping -
The Complete Works of Whittier
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Skin is lifted and tightened to help visibly diminish sagging and drooping.
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Paula called drooping, and even excited alarm in her, lest Flapsy should be going into a decline.
Modern Broods
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Around the room, eyelids are drooping and the smiles are serene.
Times, Sunday Times
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He slowly followed the road away from the town, past the olives, under which purple anemones were drooping in the chill of dawn, and rich-green herbage was pressing thick.
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From him, there are no fits of pique or drooping shoulders when the course takes its toll.
Times, Sunday Times
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They mowed and gibbered in the moonlight, under crowns of drooping, golden blossoms.
Koolau the Leper
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Continue westwards and you'll come to graceful willows drooping over a moat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Within the room, the dagger was drooping downward.
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His inky fingers become large, manly hands, his drooping scholastic back stiffens, his elbows go out, his etiolated complexion corrugates and darkens, his moustaches increase and grow and spread, and curl up horribly; a large, red scar, a sabre cut, grows lurid over one eye.
Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books.
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lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers
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Around the room, eyelids are drooping and the smiles are serene.
Times, Sunday Times
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I added a 'Charles Grimaldi' brugmansia (angel's trumpet - it'll have huge drooping yellow-orange flowers later in the summer), 'Prince' pennisetum (should make dark swords to 5 '), and a few trailing lavender lantanas.
Planting Time « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
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Ten actors dressed in black wear white masks with drooping, sad eyes and sagging, wide, miserable frowns.
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Here we have the smooth-stalked meadow grass, and here is the hedge wood-melic grass, with its slightly drooping panicle, and spikelets on long slender footstalks.
Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
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Branches are capillary, stiff and spreading, horizontally verticillate or subverticillate, the lowest whorl consisting of five to sixteen or seventeen branches and the others from three to nine, shining, swollen at the point of insertion and provided with a glandular scar a little above the point of insertion; branchlets are very close, appressed to the rachis of the branch never drooping or spreading, each bearing two to five spikelets.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Sallys, the latent vapour in the earth, the drooping leaves and flowers, the birds and beasts and creeping things, the gardeners to sweep the dewy turf and unfold emerald velvet where the roller passes, the smoke of the great kitchen fire wreathing itself straight and high into the lightsome air.
Bleak House
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Belianis, Bevis, or his own Guy of Warwick, had ever been subjected to — Captain Coxe, we repeat, did alone, after two such mischances, rush again into the heat of conflict, his bases and the footcloth of his hobby-horse dropping water, and twice reanimated by voice and example the drooping spirits of the English; so that at last their victory over the
Kenilworth
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Mary's cloche hat was drooping over her face with her reddish blond curls weighed heavily almost to the base of her neck.
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Knee-deep in the water, with drooping head and half-shut eyes, drowsed a red-coated, many-antlered buck.
All Gold Canon
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Her own eyelids were drooping, but old habits died hard.
SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
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When it takes three hours to prepare something dead simple, and leaves you drooping and weary, then a lifetime of critical standards go out of the window.
Times, Sunday Times
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There sat my mother, her black hair a mass of curls drooping over her shoulders, a wide smile curving her mouth and stars sparkling in her dark blue eyes.
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It has beautiful drooping bells, with a chequered pattern of purples and pinks.
Times, Sunday Times
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His personal trademark are the signs of an existential fatigue: drooping shoulders, round backs, knees that are bent inward, lowered heads.