Dropping

Examples

• He made that brief reply warmly, dropping his hand on the table while he spoke, and turning towards us again. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Well, then, he said, I yield; if not to your earnestness, to your perseverance: as stone is worn by continual dropping. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Talking of mysteries, by-the-bye, says Mr. Franklin, dropping his voice, I have another word to say to you before you go to the stables. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Suppose the thief had got away by dropping from one of the upper windows, how had he escaped the dogs? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She paused, and went on, dropping her glance from Lily's: He wouldn't stay with her ten minutes if he KNEW---- Knew----? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It was spacious, and I dare say had once been handsome, but every discernible thing in it was covered with dust and mould, and dropping to pieces. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• A task too strong for wizard spells This squire had brought about; 'T is easy dropping stones in wells, But who shall get them out? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A love-child,' returned Betty Higden, dropping her voice; 'parents never known; found in the street. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• As they came up, still deep in the shadow of the pines, after dropping down from the high meadow into the wooden valley and climbing up it on a trail that paralleled the stream and then left it to gain, steeply, the top of a rim-rock formation, a man with a carbine stepped out from behind a tree. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Meg is the turtledove, and Amy is like the lark she writes about, trying to get up among the clouds, but always dropping down into its nest again. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• She made no immediate motion to do so, however, but dropping into a chair looked wearily about her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• By the time they reached the camp it was snowing and the flakes were dropping diagonally through the pines. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He did not put it up, however, and she thought that he was dropping off to sleep. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In 1868, Glasgow and Wood patented a process of dropping the shot through a column of glycerine or oil. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• This is how it stands, he said, dropping down again to business. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In like manner a heavy rain-storm cleaned the tracks from the accumulations due chiefly to the droppings of the horses, which otherwise served largely to increase the conductivity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

Editor: Sweeney