saggingly

Updated: May 6, 2025

Of course the sign was not accurate, for at half- past three, almost four, the chicken dinner had long ago been all eaten and in place of the diners was a group of weary women moving languidly about or standing saggingly by a great table piled with dirty dishes. Betsy paused here, meditated a moment, and went in rapidly so that her courage would not evaporate.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher - Understood Betsy