"Mopes" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is so pitiful to see her!—and I got so frightened; the whole room seemed filled with ghosts. Christmas seems her loneliest time. She won't have but one candle lighted, and she sits and mopes in the dark. Oh, it's dreadful! I tried to cheer her up, but she says she likes to sit in the dark, because then all the dead people she loves can come to her. Can't we do something to make her happy? She is so lovely, and she is so little, ...
— The Little Gray Lady - 1909 • F. Hopkinson Smith
... and despises parties, but his mother makes him go to them, and he always stands over by the musicians and mopes just as he is doing ...
— Phyllis - A Twin • Dorothy Whitehill |
