2. Verb. (past of droop) ¹
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Definition of Drooped
1. droop [v] - See also: droop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drooped
Literary usage of Drooped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Parliamentary Debatesby Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1824)
"the whole of Coventry smiled ; when it drooped its whole population were reduced
to a distress, so general, as to throw upwards of ten thousand persons upon ..."
2. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"... where not a broken bough drooped with its withered leaves, ungracious sign
hung, A virgin scene !—A little while I stood, Breathing with such ..."
3. Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott (1827)
"flutter of the belted-plaid, that drooped in graceful folds behind him, and the
plume that, placed in the bonnet, showed rank and gentle birth. ..."
4. A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land: Comprising Recollections, Sketches, and by Alphonse de Lamartine (1838)
"... From the drooped willow cut I the fresh bough, And wanned with gentle breath
the tender sap, Then from the wood I pulled th' unbroken bark ; I blew ..."
5. Physical Expression, Its Modes and Principles by Francis Warner (1886)
"... normal—Application of the principles of analysis—Straight extended hand with
the thumb drooped—The nervous hand, seen in art— Energetic hand the ..."
6. Therapeutic Gazette (1891)
"In more advanced cases the head drooped, there was loss of muscular tone, the
heart-beats were feeble and infrequent, the umbilical vessels nearly empty, ..."
7. Blind Alley: Being the Picture of a Very Gallant Gentleman; the Adventures by Walter Lionel George (1919)
"... his eyelids slowly drooped over the moist gold of his eyes. His eyes closed.
Kallikrates was no longer a citizen of a warring world. ..."
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