Example Sentences

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It is almost his last summer service; soon, like the thrashers, he will be drooping and silent.

From Some Summer Days in Iowa by Lazell, Frederick John

Trade conditions are largely a matter of the condition of the spirit, and ours will be drooping and drab when the tumult and the shouting have died and the reign of reason has come back.

From The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder by McClung, Nellie L.