slumps

Updated: June 7, 2025

Only, as I landed her back at her hotel, along about 2:30 a.m., she slumps into a big chair in the Egyptian room and lets her chin sag. "It's no use, Torchy," says she. "I I couldn't." "Eh?" says I. "End my days to jazz time," says she. "No. I shall go back to my quiet hills and my calm-eyed Holsteins. And I shall go entirely contented.

Sewell Ford - Torchy and Vee

Shaw," says I, "you've heard all I got to say on the subject. I'm more or less busy too, and " "How impolite!" she breaks in. "And me a lady too! Heavings! how faint I feel!" With that she sidles towards my desk chair and slumps into it. "Very distressin' symptoms," says I. "But I got a quick cure for attacks like that. It's fresh air, taken outside."

Sewell Ford - Shorty McCabe on the Job

The second thought, which is what one would hope for from a General, even a Postmaster General, is that one resents it in oneself, that in an important opening for a man like being called foolish, one stops all one's thinking-works, and slumps ingloriously, automatically and without a quaver into self-defense.

Gerald Stanley Lee - The Ghost in the White House : Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want