1 He moped into the schoolyard wishing she were a boy, and imagining how he would trounce her if she were.
2 One rainy afternoon when Bonnie was barely past her first birthday, Wade moped about the sitting room, occasionally going to the window and flattening his nose on the dripping pane.
3 He moped after her departure from Holdernesse Hall, and it was for this reason that the Duke desired to send him to my establishment.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 4 I say, David, to the young this is a world for action, and not for moping and droning in.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR 5 Mrs. Gummidge, no longer moping in her especial corner, was busy preparing breakfast.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY 6 Through several succeeding days he saw her at different times from the window of his room moping disconsolately about the garden.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 6: 3 The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin 7 "I've been moping in the house all day since Watson went off in the morning," said the baronet.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets 8 In the afternoon Becky Thatcher found herself moping about the deserted schoolhouse yard, and feeling very melancholy.
9 She has abandoned her Tuesdays at home, has thrown over all her acquaintances, and goes tramping about by herself, moping in the street-cars, getting in after dark.
10 Atlanta was more interesting than Savannah or Charleston or Tara and it offered so many strange war-time occupations she had little time to think or mope.
11 After that he began to mope by himself, talking to no one and wandering about by himself.