"Mope" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a wretched and peevish fellow is this King of England, to mope with his fat-brain'd followers so far out ...
— The Life of King Henry V • William Shakespeare [Tudor edition]
... think he's very happy himself. I wonder, are birds ever seasick, really? I've heard they often mope and die on shipboard, but is ...
— All Aboard - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry
... said Burtis, exultantly, "this is no day to mope in the house. If you will trust yourself to me and Thunder, you shall skim the river there as swiftly as you can next ...
— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe
... of those women who seem to find nothing in self-communion. Hers was a nature destined for light and gaiety and happiness. To sit in a splendid palace and mope over what had happened was among the last ...
— The Harbor of Doubt • Frank Williams
... affront he suffered. From that day he was treated as lie deserved, being always at liberty in the room, and enjoying the distinguished consideration of a houseful of people and birds. Before he came to understand that his life had changed, however, I feared he would die. He did not mope, he simply cared for nothing. For more than twenty-four hours he crouched on the floor of his cage, utterly indifferent even to a comfortable position; food he would not look at. I talked to him; I screened him from noisy neighbors; I made his cage attractive; I spared no effort to win ...
— Upon The Tree-Tops • Olive Thorne Miller
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