Example Sentences

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They would have been drooping by the time we got them down to the town, and they'd only last about an hour in people's buttonholes.

From The School by the Sea by Brazil, Angela

Had it been otherwise, the head would have been drooping?

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne