Don't you see how she mopes about?"
"A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories"
William D. Howells
The peasants are starving, the taxes are increasing, the virtuous landlords are ruining themselves in farming on scientific principles, the tradespeople are grumbling because the nobility do not spend their money in Paris, the court is dull, the clergy are furious, the Queen mopes, the King is frightened, and the whole French people are yawning themselves to death from Normandy to Provence."
"The Valley of Decision"
Edith Wharton
An' don't get sore on him if he mopes fer me, jes' at fust.
"His Dog"
Albert Payson Terhune