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Presently even these ceased or passed from view, and then succeeded what Janice thought a very "mopish" two hours, terminated at last by the arrival of the aide with his invitation, which sent her to her room for a little extra prinking. ❋ Paul Leicester Ford (1883)
Still it made him tired, unaccountably so, weary of travel and botched plans, filled with a mopish longing for the journey to end, not just in Urumchi, but the entire expedition back to Hong Kong, back to Taipei, and then the long transpacific flight back to the United States and his inevitable return to Red Bud, Illinois. ❋ John Dalton (2004)
And yet I have not been very mopish and melancholy; have I, Bell? ❋ Unknown (2004)
And in indie rock, the Postal Service got much press for ditching a traditional band format in favor of the pulse and whir of gadgets, though the songs were still cloying and mopish, and made me want to dig out my old Howard Jones LPs. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I regretted that, for she had become a habit, but she was peevish on the journey and too tired and mopish at night to be much fun. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1969)
People who talked about total abstinence as a sour and mopish thing, should have spent an evening at ❋ T.P. Wilson (N/A)
The hunter often collected a company of mopish owls to the trees about his camp, and amused himself with their hoarse screaming; his howl would raise and obtain responses from a pack of wolves, so as to inform him of their neighborhood, as well as guard him against their depredations. ❋ Cecil B. Hartley (N/A)
He is very loath to do this; both his pride and the traditions of his race stimulate him to run it out, and win by fair superiority of wind and speed; and only a wound or a heavy and mopish tail will drive him to avoid the issue in this manner. ❋ Various (N/A)
Our childhood was by no means dull or mopish, for there were three of us and we got on very well together, but we mixed hardly at all with children of our own age, our interests were not theirs, and their boisterous ways were somewhat repellent to us. ❋ Isabel Meredith (N/A)
'His generosity was for a motive, his avarice was for a motive; one time he was mopish, and nobody was to speak to him; another, he was for being jocular with everybody .... ❋ George Paston (N/A)
It drives out instantly from Romeo a sentimental love that had made him mopish and wan. ❋ John Masefield (1922)
Because the object was not simple addition, whereby another Adam would merely have meant two Adams, both mopish, dumpish, unconscionably lazy; the object was multiplication by stimulation, whereby, by combining Eve with Adam, Adam, as all subsequent history shows, was raised to the nth power. ❋ Unknown (1918)
You were always kind of moody and mopish -- and you needed work that 'd keep you on the jump. ❋ Unknown (1915)
[MERRICK has been sunk in thought during this, but VINE seems to brighten at his notion, and speaks quite cheerfully to HUFF, who now comes in, looking mopish, and sits down.] ❋ Edward Howard Marsh (1912)
Any one would be welcome, for she was feeling a little mopish. ❋ Marie Belloc Lowndes (1907)
