DOWN among the grass and fragrant clover lay little Eva by the brook-side, watching the bright waves, as they went singing by under the
drooping flowers that grew on its banks.
Thus, the foreground is all raging commotion; but behind, in admirable artistic contrast, is the glassy level of a sea becalmed, the
drooping unstarched sails of the powerless ship, and the inert mass of a dead whale, a conquered fortress, with the flag of capture lazily hanging from the whale-pole inserted into his spout-hole.
Then, with four attendants, came the novice, her
drooping head wreathed with white blossoms, and, behind, the abbess and her council of older nuns, who were already counting in their minds whether their own bailiff could manage the farms of Twynham, or whether a reeve would be needed beneath him, to draw the utmost from these new possessions which this young novice was about to bring them.
Her cool, level-looking eyes were no longer level-looking nor cool, but warmly
drooping and just unable to meet his, as she came toward him and nestled in the circle of his arms, saying softly, almost in a whisper, -
They gather lilies down the stream, A net of willows
drooping low Hides boat from boat; and to and fro Sweet whispered confidences seem
But Porthos stands in his bath
drooping abjectly like a shamed figure cut out of some limp material.
The bed was draped in white; and there, beneath the
drooping angel-figure, lay a little sleeping form,--sleeping never to waken!
They moved on hand in hand, and never spoke a word, the
drooping of their heads being that of Giotto's "Two Apostles".
Concurrently, Wegg perceives a pretty little dead bird lying on the counter, with its head
drooping on one side against the rim of Mr Venus's saucer, and a long stiff wire piercing its breast.
The haughty
drooping glance struck crushingly the carpet at the Assistant Commissioner's feet.
Without further talk, and always with the same best intentions, this highly benevolent and common-sensible individual led the little white damsel--drooping,
drooping,
drooping, more and more out of the frosty air, and into his comfortable parlor.
Before him stretched the gardens - Italian in design, brilliant with flowers, with here and there a dark cedar-tree
drooping low upon the lawn.