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Still, if that had been all, Gilks would scarcely have been moping up at Willoughby among the virtuous few that afternoon, while the rest of the school were running mad down in Shellport.

From The Willoughby Captains by Reed, Talbot Baines

Sylvia blessed the persistency with which she had worried Clara on the subject of racing; otherwise, bisexual and solitary, she might have been moping in Lillie Road.

From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton

Saxon, 'tis well done, whilst I have been moping and irresolute how to act, you have planned and executed.

From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John

I have been moping at home, day after day, in wretched solitude.

From In the Year of Jubilee by Gissing, George

I was writing hard all the morning, and this afternoon was so horrid, I thought I wouldn't go out; so I have been moping rather.

From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie