To which Ingeborg, absorbed in the failure of her effort to find help and comfort, answered droopingly "No." Outside the sun had just dropped behind the forest line, and she would have to walk fast if she wanted to be home before dark.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
She leaned a little toward him, droopingly, a poor, feeble, timid child in need of some strong man to shield her from the rough world.
"Under the Skylights"
Henry Blake Fuller
The girl became quieter and more brooding, falling at times into strange, idle reveries, with her hands clasped over her knee and her big eyes fixed unseeingly on space; or she would creep away for solitary rambles in the beech wood, going away droopingly and returning with dusky glowing cheeks and a nameless radiance, as of some newly discovered power, shining through every muscle and motion.
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906"
Lucy Maud Montgomery