Return deferred, of hope bereft, All mourn and mope.

Yet daily do I mope and pine, and pine and mopeO tall brother, a most accursed thing is this loveand dearer than my life, heigho!" "Nay, pluck up thy heart, thou'rt a man, Giles.

Being a lover I sleep little and pine much, and this is a fair good place and solitary, so will I pine awhile and likewise mope and languish, alack!"

People are foolish to mope!" Pearl spoke sternly.

And when the other boys are chasing you and pulling off your hair ribbons, he mopes off in a corner of the school yard, though he looks as if he'd like to shoot down all the other boys in cold blood.

I remember well how she used to mope along at my side, until one morning she could not raise her head from her pillow.

[Fr.]; croaker, pessimist; mope, mopus^.

mope, brood over; fret; sulk; pine, pine away; yearn; repine &c (regret) 833; despair &c 859.

I determined to make him do something, anything, rather than mope and whine, even if I had to threaten him with his own pistol, which I had taken from him without so much as asking him for it.

He partakes more of the wild beast's sulkiness, which, sick or wounded, retires to mope in a corner by itself; whereas a woman, as indeed seems only becoming to her less firmly-moulded character, shows in a struggle all the qualities of valour except that one additional atom of final endurance which wins the fight at last.

"Here are smiling manly faces, And the maiden's step is gay; Nor sad by thinking, nor mad by drinking, Nor mopes, nor fools are they.

"An' so your ma just had to mope it out alone.

There is none of your mopes about the Wallingfords, and I believe you to be of the true stock.

I think he would mope and mope all by himself.

"I am sure the boys will get on best together; Roy will have a better chance of growing strong if he is with Dudley than if he is to mope by himself here.

No time now to mope in the chimney-corner!

He says she is too slow, and would give us both the mopes.

And then if she saw a lump of heather or bracken, or any common stuff of that sort, she would mope over it, as if it had struck her sick, and cry, "How sweet!

He was not the good boy we used to read about in the Sunday-school books, who mopes around, forever preaching a sermon whenever he opens his lips, and finding a "lesson" in everything, even the leap of a grasshopper.

He asks whether, "when a poor, disconsolated, drooping creature is terrified from all enjoyment, prays without ceasing till his imagination is heated, fasts and mortifies and mopes till his body is in as bad a plight as his mind, it is a wonder that the mechanical disturbances and conflicts of an empty belly, interpreted by an empty head, should be mistook for workings of a different kind from what they are?"

You are well aware that nothing can justify a healthy, middle-aged manI may say, a young onein retiring from active life and society, and becoming a great lazy mope.

"Poor little beggar!" said John Mortimer to his father, as they all walked to the inn together; "those two women will mope that boy into his grave if they don't look out.

On other lands has dawned immortal day, And Superstition's clouds have rolled away; O'er Gallia's mounts and on Iona's shore The Runic altars roll their smoke no more; Fled is the Druid from his ancient oak, His harp is mutehis magic circle broke; And Desolation mopes in Odin's cells Where spirit-voices called to join the feast of shells.

"The boy mopes.

As I stood by that window I got homesick, and at last I could stand it no longer, and I said to Jone, who was smoking and reading a paper: "Let's put on our hats and go out for a walk, for I can't mope here another minute.