Example Sentences

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She stepped to the place at the regent's right hand, with head high and eyes undrooping.

From The Mississippi Bubble by Hough, Emerson

To look life in the eyes With calm, undrooping gaze.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James

Her eye was clear, her skin fresh, her shoulders undrooping.

From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson

A good deed done hath memory's blest perfume,— A day of self-forgetfulness, all given To holy charity, hath perennial bloom That goes, undrooping, up from earth to heaven.

From Poems by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)

The bride, glowing in the happy consciousness of her own beauty, and deified by the great tenderness that enveloped her new estate like a golden mist, said her farewells with steady voice and undrooping eyes.

From The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West by Stead, Robert J. C.