Not seldom in this life, when, on the right side, fortune’s favourites sail close by us, we, though all adroop before, catch somewhat of the rushing breeze, and joyfully feel our bagging sails fill out.
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Adroop
//əˈdɹuːp//
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His friend Lou looked dismal in the rain, hat brim adroop, eyebrows soggy,
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2005, John Banville, The Sea, Leicester: W. F. Howes, Part 2, p. 187, For a second I had that image of myself again, hunched hugely on my chair, pink lower lip adroop and enormous hands lying helplessly before me on the table, a great ape, captive, tranquillised and bleary.
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fair long rows of orchard trees, adroop with rosy fruit
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