On the brown harvest tree
Droops the red cherry.

Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack [funnel, chimney] had become a fierce freight-engine bark, as she resolutely dragged at her enormous load.

a. 1992, quote attributed to Sylvester Stallone
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.

The Grapes that on it hung were black, and all
The Vines supported and from drooping staid
With silver Props, that down they could not fall […]

Others who conscientiously attended the Technical College at night often drooped over their desks in a doze, and one does not wonder at it.

His head had drooped with his hair across his face.

She was trying to hang in, but her chin was drooping onto her chest.

Amidst the peaceful Triumphs of his Reign,
What wonder if the kindly beams he shed
Reviv’d the drooping Arts again […]

1892, Arthur Christopher Benson, “Knapweed” in Le Cahier Jaune: Poems, Eton: privately printed, p. 62,
Down in the mire he droops his head;
Forgotten, not forgiven.

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