drooping

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 Edith 1909

The long, graceful catkins are drooping from the birches, and the more slender clusters are also in flower on the oaks.

Rural Hours 1887

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 1887

Dalbert sprang back, with his thumb still in his mouth, and his sword drooping, scowling darkly at the new-comer.

The Refugees Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

There the wounded monk leaned against the door-post, his red sword drooping to the floor.

The Lady of Blossholme Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Paula called drooping, and even excited alarm in her, lest Flapsy should be going into a decline.

Modern Broods Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

To wake, to warblej and to woo No Linnet calls his drooping love:

Ode to the Honourable William Pitt .. 1782

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 Glyn Davies 2007

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'.

No drooping at the Roberts' this Xmas Glyn Davies 2007

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 1920