The jaws fell, the ears drooped more limply.

And her head drooped, the long dusky lashes covering her eyes and reposing on her cheek.

And then the long lashes drooped still more with the heavy drops which weighed them down; the cheeks were covered with a deeper crimson; the slender frame became still more agitated.

The kind, mild eyes were fixed upon the sunset sadly, and their blue depths seemed to hold more than one dew-drop, ready to pass the barrier of the long dusky lashes, which closed gradually as the pure white forehead drooped upon her hand.

Verty's face drooped upon his hand, and with the other hand, which held the letter, hanging down at the side of his chair, he sighed profoundly.

As he finished, his head again drooped, and his sorrowful eyes were fixed on vacancy.

We may say, however, that it consisted mainly of a pair of slippers and a nightcap, from the summit of which latter article of clothing drooped a lengthy tassel.

" "Ohand he comes to see youandMiss Sallianna; she said" Verty's head drooped, and a shadow passed over his ingenuous face.

The streams ran merrily in the rich lightthe oriole swayed upon the gorgeous boughs and sang away his soulover all drooped the diaphanous haze of October, like an enchanting dream.

But overcome with nerves, and the revulsion produced by this change in affairs, the beautiful Sallianna's head drooped upon one shoulder, her eyes were closed, and her arms were extended towards Mr. Jinks.

Poor Verty's head drooped, and he sighed so deeply that Fanny, who communicated this intelligence, felt an emotion of great pity.

Her eyes, which a moment before had looked so longingly into his, drooped for a moment.

Poetry declined and drooped in the times of tumult and suffering; and the chambers of rhetoric, to which its cultivation had been chiefly due, gradually lost their influence, and finally ceased to exist.

Then the conversation drooped.

She drooped into an intoxication.

Variety was perhaps even a necessary aliment of his active mind, which without it might have drooped and languished.

Mere poverty, and the absence of bribery from Rome, whilst all popular competition for offices drooped, can alone explain this remarkable revolution of dress.]

However, she questioned him with her head drooped forward, her brows raised; and as this gave him the full effect of her eyes, Mr. Woods became quite certain that there was, at least, one thing she might be expected to rob him of, and wisely declined to mention it.

His head drooped; his legs sprawled with every step; his eyes were glazed.

Then looking at the draggled little figure with head drooped moodily and smarting hands locked tightly at the sides, the white mother added, "You have had a cold, hard time this morning in the hall, I know.

Mrs. Draper, observing from under her down-drooped lids this silent passage between the two, murmured amusedly to herself, "Ah, now you're shouting, my children!" CHAPTER XVI PLAYING WITH MATCHES

As the man bent forward over her, clasping her to him, her flexible spine bent and her head drooped backward, her face with its flush all gone, gleaming white in the dusk.

Poor Phoebe drooped, "pinched were her looks, as one who pined for bread," and in want and sickness she sank into an early tomb.

" Her color came and went and her eyes drooped before him.

His eyelids had always drooped, but now one could hardly see the glint of his eyes from beneath them.