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Tag Name "Drooping" (16)

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Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.
Juvenal
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
Abraham Cowley
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
Bertolt Brecht
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Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. Jasper, knowing something was wrong, as dogs always do. Trunks being packed. Cars being brought to the door. Dogs standing with drooping tails, dejected eyes. Wandering back to their baskets in the hall when the sound of the car dies away.
Daphne du Maurier
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She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands...It was a special embrace saved for special occasions.
Jean M. Auel
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So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.
John Milton
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And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.
Norman MacCaig
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The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
Sarah Fielding
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One key element to Hitchcock is the drooping jowl. That was crucial because his silhouette is crucial. There is something about his silhouette that became his brand.
Toby Jones
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
Alexander Pope
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You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs.All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping.
Cindy Crawford
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What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, Anger, discontent and drooping hopes? Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong for you— It takes life to love Life.
Edgar Lee Masters
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Cars are like rolling diaries, metal and plastic and paint tableaux of the last ten years of their drivers' lives ... every dent, every drooping slice of chrome, has a story behind it.
Jim Atkinson
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With drooping bells of clearest blue Thou didst attract my childish view, Almost resembling The azure butterflies that flew Where on the heath thy blossoms grew So lightly trembling.
Reginald Heber
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You must in your music be wavering like the wind sometimes wanton, sometimes drooping, sometimes grave and staid, otherwhile effeminate and the more variety you show, the better shall you please.
Thomas Morley
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It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
Tracy Chevalier