People who talked about total abstinence as a sour and mopish thing, should have spent an evening at. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
I regretted that, for she had become a habit, but she was peevish on the journey and too tired and mopish at night to be much fun. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman]
'His generosity was for a motive, his avarice was for a motive; one time he was mopish, and nobody was to speak to him; another, he was for being jocular with everybody. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
He is very loath to do this; both his pride and the traditions of his race stimulate him to run it out, and win by fair superiority of wind and speed; and only a wound or a heavy and mopish tail will drive him to avoid the issue in this manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
Our childhood was by no means dull or mopish, for there were three of us and we got on very well together, but we mixed hardly at all with children of our own age, our interests were not theirs, and their boisterous ways were somewhat repellent to us. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
With kicking back my heel, to mar his mopish face?. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2] Reference
Yea, mother, I see that ye hold with that mopish elf. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2] Reference
He seemed mopish, thoughtful, and somewhat despondent. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Secrets] Reference
"Then what makes you so infernally mopish and melancholy?". From Wordnik.com. [Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 1] Reference
Any one would be welcome, for she was feeling a little mopish. From Wordnik.com. [Good Old Anna] Reference
It makes her so sad and mopish to be always with Miss Haworth. From Wordnik.com. [Good Old Anna] Reference
And yet I have not been very mopish and melancholy; have I, Bell?. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
It drives out instantly from Romeo a sentimental love that had made him mopish and wan. From Wordnik.com. [William Shakespeare] Reference
I need go only in the warm weather, and women always get mopish by staying at home too much. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman's Advocate.] Reference
You were always kind of moody and mopish -- and you needed work that 'd keep you on the jump. From Wordnik.com. [The Turmoil] Reference
"Look here, Phil," he declared, "if you want to be as mopish as a mildewed owl yourself, that is no reason why you should try to make me so too.". From Wordnik.com. [The Puritans] Reference
He noticed with some surprise that, while two of the geese gobbled and grunted, the third was quiet and mopish, and sighed heavily like a human being. From Wordnik.com. [Hauff's Fairy Tales, Translated and Adapted] Reference
English wife, who died when their first child, his daughter, was born, and he was wont to set down all Miss Catherine's mopish languors to a delicacy inherited from her mother, and to lack of a mother's care in childhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance] Reference
"and Alice, they say, has got a beau off south, and that's what makes her so mopish at times.". From Wordnik.com. [Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems] Reference
'twere, likin 'yer face for all that it's thin an' mopish, -- an 'steppin' in wi 'me to the' Trusty Man 'will mebbe give ye a character. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches] Reference
She hath wrought on him spell so potent that he groweth mopish and talketh of her eyes, her hair, her sweet and gentle voice, her little foot, forsooth. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Geste of Duke Jocelyn] Reference
No fresh brawl, I hope, "said Maria Downes to her cousin Eleanor, as they sat, mopish and disquieted enough, in a gloomy chamber of the old hall at Worsley. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference
Times are mopish and nurly I don't mean to be scrumptious about it, Judge, but I do want to be a man, if I am a Breakneck, and havn't so much eddecation as the rest.”. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret] Reference
"'I think he was a strange character: his generosity was for a motive, his avarice for a motive; one time he was mopish, and nobody was to speak to him; another, he was for being jocular with everybody. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1] Reference
The men of mopish lore. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
Was mopish and disconsolate. From Wordnik.com. [A Humorous History of England] Reference
He now commends a mopish single Life. From Wordnik.com. [The Pleasures of a Single Life, Or, The Miseries of Matrimony] Reference
He was mopish, dumpish, unconscionably lazy. From Wordnik.com. [The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers] Reference
Poor mopish Catherine!. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance] Reference
But moody, mopish, and dull melancholy. From Wordnik.com. [Comedy of Errors] Reference
And she wasn't mopish and slatternly like? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Vicar of Bullhampton] Reference
"She is as mopish as an old owl in a hollow tree. From Wordnik.com. [The British Partizan: A Tale of the Olden Time. By a Lady of South Carolina] Reference
"But he thinks that I have been -- have been mopish, and lack-a-daisical, and -- and -- almost untrue. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicar of Bullhampton] Reference
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