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And then a spasm constricted her mouth for an instant: as it passed away she turned and left the room, and so did I. Neither of us had dropt a tear.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

So, finding his young auditors unanimous in their petition, the good old gentleman took up the narrative of the historic chair, at the point where he had dropt it.

From True Stories of History and Biography by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

When in 1874 the most sanguine prophecies were fulfilled, the Dukes could not have been more surprised if Moses and the Prophets had dropt from the clouds to chide their unbelief.

From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various

And then a spasm constricted her mouth for an instant: as it passed away she turned and left the room, and so did I.  Neither of us had dropt a tear.

From Jane Eyre by Townsend, F. H.

My soul had met Some fearful doom; and there had dropt a threat,— A curse belike,—from lips of Atropos.

From A Lover's Litanies by Mackay, Eric