One moment I thought him clever, the next an utter ass; now I found him frank, open, a good companion, eager to please,and then a droop of his blond eyelashes, a lazy, impertinent drawl of his voice, a hint of half-bored condescension in his manner, convinced me that he was shy and affected.

The young trees have slender simple branches down to the ground, put on with strict regularity, sharply aspiring at the top, horizontal about half-way down, and drooping in handsome curves at the base.

All her movements were languid and faint; her eyelids drooped over her eyes.

The large flag you see drooping from the roof is commemorative of the siege of Antwerp, being the one used by General Chassé on that occasion, the various groups of smaller ones being reminiscences of the eighty years' Spanish war and of Indian foes.

The branches swoop outward and downward in bold curves, excepting the younger ones near the top, which aspire, while the lowest droop to the ground, and all spread out in flat, ferny plumes, beautifully fronded, and imbricated upon one another.

No wonder thou shouldst droop with woe, Of such a child bereft; But now thy tears must doubly flow, For, ah!

The pines lie with branches wilted and drooping like weeds.

Its cylindrical racemes of berries of various hues, from green to dark purple, six or seven inches long, are gracefully drooping on all sides, offering repasts to the birds; and even the sepals from which the birds have picked the berries are a brilliant lake-red, with crimson flame-like reflections, equal to anything of the kind,all on fire with ripeness.

The star-whorled, fan-spread branches droop under the soft wreathsdroop and press flatly to the trunk; presently the point of overloading is reached, there is a soft sough and muffled dropping, the boughs recover, and the weighting goes on until the drifts have reached the midmost whorls and covered up the branches.

Then, with a deep labouring breath, she looked me in the eye again, with the simple question: "'And where is he?'" Carmel's head had drooped at this, but she raised it almost instantly.

And besides these there are many variable arching forms, alone or in groups, with innumerable tassels drooping beneath the arches or radiant above them, and many lowly giants of no particular form that have braved the storms of a thousand years.

The chief looked at me long and calmly as I drooped before him, for there was no power in my legs.

He sees them droop for want of more; Yet when they reached the destin'd shore, With pride th' heroic gardener sees A living sap still in his trees.

The gargoyles had been transformed into great false noses, drooping toward the point.

I never caught them sitting except near night, but at midday they stood, or drooped above it, half fainting with pitifully parted bills, between their treasure and the sun.

[Four lines lacking in the MS.] Yesterday the sullen year Saw the snowy whirlwind fly; Mute was the music of the air, The herd stood drooping by: Their raptures now that wildly flow No yesterday nor morrow know; 'Tis man alone that joy descries With forward and reverted eyes.

Certainly, this river is a perfect feature of that gentle picturesqueness in which England is so rich, sleeping, as it does, beneath a margin of willows that droop into its bosom, and other trees, of deeper verdure than our own country can boast, inclining lovingly over it.

Now it chanced that as Beltane stood apart with head a-droop as one in thought, there came to him Sir Fidelis and touched him with gentle hand.

What envious eyes, reflecting nought but rage, What barbarous heart, refresh'd with nought but blood, That rends not to behold the senseless trees In doly season drooping without leaves?

His hand drooped across the chair arm.

And he sank down, and let his hands droop between his knees.

[Droops towards the PIPER; falters and sinks down on the bank beside the well, in a swoon.

My spirit drooped within his hated walls?

"I don't know, John," she replied, "he's always missing appointments nowadays," and there was a pathetic droop about the childish mouth.

But the slight figure in its boyish garb drooped against him; Gloria's head moved the slightest bit in sidewise negation; her pale lips stirred soundlessly.