Example Sentences

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I should be expressing more gratitude for the lack of logic in the universe, but I am drooping and losing my élan.

From Washington Post

Seek not to detain me, Leander," she said; "for, goddess as I am, I am drooping under this persistent obduracy.

From The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance by Partridge, Bernard

I am drooping, am with'ring, am blighted; But the wreck of life shattered you see.

From The Anglican Friar and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook by Novice, A.