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"Aunt Dilsey," he ventured, speaking over his shoulder, with his face averted from her, "mebbe you been noticin' yere lately I seemed kind of downcasted an' shiftless, lak ez ef I had a mood on me?" "Has I noticed it?" she repeated "huh!" The punctuating grunt was non-committal. It might mean nothing; it might mean anything. He cleared his throat and went on,
He looked real downcasted and sad, some as if he'd never thought on't in that light before. He didn't really promise me, but I presoom to say that he won't never make another drop. But his face looked dretful deprested. I see that he felt it deeply to think I had found fault with him. But to resoom.
Or else Headquarters issues a general alarm, giving names, dates, personal description, size of reward and place where last seen. This time it's a general alarm. From what I could gather, a downcasted Issy Wisenheimer has been up to the front parlor beefing about his vanishing bankroll and his disappearing breast-pin.
It was not alone the olive tint of the skin, the mass of wavy dark hair tossed back from a high forehead, the sombre eyes, and the sad mouth, a mouth that had never grown into laughing curves through telling Yankee jokes, it was not these that gave him what the boys called a "kind of a downcasted look."