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• Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth.
• I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
• I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish.
• I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage.
• Like to a withered vine / That droops his sapless branches to the ground.
• when day drooped
• He walked with a discouraged droop.