Word: droop
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...face known to all followers of U.S. sport peered over a fence in Lexington, Ky., with a certain wistfulness apparent in the droop of the long-veined nose, the expression of the black-circled eyes. It is true that the owner* of this countenance has for some time been leading a life of considerable luxury, but it was in no way responsible for the melancholy that saddened his visage. His regret was caused by the fact that his father and mother were at that moment being sold at auction in a meadow three miles away. No one was so heartless...
Ever and anon a case dustily tagged U. S. v. Jones & Co. is odorous of destiny. The Justices, sniffing the issue, settle deeper into their chairs, droop lower their traditionally half-closed eyelids, put more innocently their occasional question to distinguished counsel standing below the rail...
...allowed rapid shifts in mood and attire. Her laryngeal versatility is given scope by screaming in childbirth, yearning in bed and scrubbing her child in its bath tub. Her makeup, modeled after the Divine Sarah's, seems authentic. Sartorially it is striking, but dramatically its fine feathers droop...
...rock and lived within it. Clothing and architecture developed together like concentric cortices of a springing rod. Architecture is the outer whorl; its fashions make their impress on clothes, the inner. Tailors snip and snip, masons slap on their lime; steeples and toppers affront the sky, eaves overhang, tails droop decorously down. Ingeniously, out of a wide scholarship, Author Heard traces the homologous development of caps and cathedrals, mitres and mosques-15,000 years in a book of 150 pages that scholars will find an interesting tour-de-force, men of letters a most scholarly little tract...
...looks of the undergraduates, by the pensive droop of their heads, by their strife to be polite to visitors despite the calamity, by the dim lights of the club, by the English tea, by the yearning of the club members fingers toward the breast pocket where the pencil lay, I realized that a great blow had been struck that day for the furtherance of Yale letters...