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Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm. -- Juvenal
The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey. -- Sarah Fielding
One key element to Hitchcock is the drooping jowl. That was crucial because his silhouette is crucial. There is something about his silhouette that became his brand. -- Toby Jones
I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie. -- Carl Sandburg
And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping. -- Norman MacCaig
I have days where I feel like crap and I look at my body and I'm like, 'I haven't been able to work out as much. I can see my butt drooping a little bit.' And I'm just like, 'Oh well.' -- Stacy Keibler
It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids. -- Tracy Chevalier
One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams. -- John Milton
Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise. -- Abraham Cowley
God is to be recognized in all that exists, all that is charming, suffering, blooming or drooping. -- Sathya Sai Baba
She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands...It was a special embrace saved for special occasions. -- Jean M. Auel
All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers. -- Alexander Pope
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose. -- Bertolt Brecht
O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
She remembered the godswood, drooping branches heavy with moisture, and the sound of her brother's laughter as he chased her through piles of damp leaves. -- George R. R. Martin
As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried. -- Arthur Hugh Clough
With drooping bells of clearest blue Thou didst attract my childish view, Almost resembling The azure butterflies that flew Where on the heath thy blossoms grew So lightly trembling. -- Reginald Heber
So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. -- John Milton
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You must in your music be wavering like the wind; sometimes wanton, sometimes drooping, sometimes grave and staid, otherwhile effeminate; and the more variety you show, the better shall you please. -- Thomas Morley
You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs.All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping. -- Cindy Crawford
Cars are like rolling diaries, metal and plastic and paint tableaux of the last ten years of their drivers' lives ... every dent, every drooping slice of chrome, has a story behind it. -- Jim Atkinson
Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master. -- Charles Darwin
Mr. Pappadakis smells like Just for Men peroxide dye and eucalyptus foot unguents. He has a face like a catcher's mitt. The whole thing puckers inward, drooping with the memory of some dropped fly ball." -- Karen Russell

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