"Limper" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of form and face and dress, And picturesque in every way— A figure that from day to day Drooped with a limper laziness; A figure such as artists lean, In pictures where distress is seen, Against low hovels where we guess ...
— Green Fields and Running Brooks, and Other Poems • James Whitcomb Riley
... the trees, and was presently contemplating the dead aeronaut again. The kitten he held companionably against his neck. The body was horrible, but not nearly so horrible as it had been at twilight, and now the limbs were limper and the gun had slipped to the ground and lay half hidden in ...
— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells
... old man," the deep voice persuaded. "Come, now; let go.... There, hang limper.... You're heavier ...
— Tess of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
... the victuals, and the clerk called in a second witness who wouldn't be likely to gossip about it, and soon the knot was tied, and the bride looked smiling and calm forthwith, and Andrey limper than ever. ...
— Life's Little Ironies - A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters • Thomas Hardy
... "Old King Cole," as the boys derisively called him, an inoffensive little man, with a weak, limp woman for a wife, and three or four weaker and limper children, had for many years vegetated on one corner of an hundred-and-sixty acres of woods, having made but a small clearing, and managed in some unknown way to live on it. His feeble condition exposed him to imposition, and he was the butt for the unthinking, and victim ...
— Bart Ridgeley - A Story of Northern Ohio • A. G. Riddle |
