mopeing

Updated: May 10, 2025

A. Because they are continually plunging their necks into decayed flesh and bloody carcasses. Q. How do vultures sit? A. In a dull, mopeing manner. Q. Where do they generally sit? A. On tall dead trees. Q. Do they continue thus long? A. Yes, for several hours. Q. What is the cause of their thus sitting so dull and inactive? A. The great quantity of food they have eaten.

Samuel Wilderspin - The Infant System: For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age

I do not agree with that poet, A. J. Ryan, date forgoten, who observed: Better a day of strife Than a Century of sleep. Although naturaly no one wishes to sleep for a Century, or even approxamately. There was Strife in the house. The first way I noticed it, aside from Hannah's anonamous remark, was by observing that Leila was mopeing.

Mary Roberts Rinehart - Bab: a Sub-Deb