Example Sentences

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My poor girl has been drooping ever since I told her it could not be.”

From A Chosen Few Short Stories by Stockton, Frank Richard

How creditable, Mr. Editor, would it be to the dissenters to revive this cause, which of late has been drooping!

From The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, 1835 by Various