191 examples of moping in sentences

What is your life in the muddy Tidewater but a thing of little rivalries and petty wrangles and moping over paper?

But between the dances I had great opportunity of being jealous, and spent the time moping in a corner, where, as I reviewed her talk, the frequency of her mention of Mr. Washington occurred to me, and at the end of five minutes I had conceived a desperate jealousy of him.

As it was, Caroline was pale and thin, with fair hair and neat grey eyes; nobody thought her a beauty in her moping cotton gown, and while her sisters enjoyed their pleasures and tea-parties abroad, it was Carrie's usual fate to remain at home and help the servant in the many duties which were required in Mrs. Gann's establishment.

Kate is fifteen; I go about moping, and sing the old, pathetic ballad I used to like in my youth, "She's sweet fifteen, I'm one year more.

The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.

The moping idiot, and the madman gay.

That's good actin', Pearllet me tell youhow can you do it?" Pearl brushed away the tears, and laughed: "I just hit on the wrong songthat one always makes me cry, I can see them, too, going their own ways and feeling so bad, and moping around instead of cutting out the whole thing the way they should.

"What's the good of moping?" said Tom.

"Welcome, Sally," said Pamela, as the pair came hand in hand towards her, "Betty has been moping ever since you left, and had a desperate fit of industry from sheer loneliness.

and that's no age for mourning, no, nor moping.

moping as usual over your books? Come, it is Saturday morning, and you have worked hard enough for one week; got all good marks; so now just put up that Virgil, and come go out with me.

"Why do I always find you moping around, doing nothing?" Just like that he said it; and when he had just told me "Why, Father!"

In the deserted garden the scent of fresh-mown hay is filling the air, and "The moping owl doth to the moon complain Of such as wander near her secret bower.

2 Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds: 3 Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.

She, however, gives them advice no longer, but sits moping and pondering on the folly of her kind.

I'm a brute to have kept you moping in here all evening.

"Don't be downhearted, Bowles," he said to the moping British agent.

At last, these women grew tired of the moping and ineffectual youth who still remained poor and unsettled, with a father desperately healthy and inexorable, and all hope of the baronetcy very far off indeed; they grew tired of him and went away,the wife, like Lady Byron, refusing to go back to such an aimless, rhapsodizing vagabond.

diedwhen I was quite a childand his ways were so silent and moping, and he used to drop in sometimes, in the dusk, when I was alone in the drawing-room, and I used to fancy there were ghosts about him.

" She was filled with a secret elation and went about the house singing like a lark, until Betty, who had been moping like an owl since her mother went to the hospital, was quite cheered up.

Oh, blast the others, when you do so you're moping, and whether your men can stand it or not, I can't!what?...

However sick I had been, I should have liked it better than being left moping here, without a soul to speak to!" Silence for a moment.

cry I, tartly, venting the crossness born of my desolation on the only person within reach; "if they had, should I be sitting moping here with nobody but Vick to talk to?" "You forget me!

The farmer with whom we were staying had earlier in the summer a flock of sixty young and promising turkeys; of the lot but twenty were left, and one of them was moping about as his forty brothers and sisters had moped before, ready to die.

" "Like poor Anne?" "No, not out of mere moping and want of intellect, like Anne.

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