downbent

Atlas in strength supreme, who groaning stoops, downbent

Prometheus Bound 2002

Atlas in strength supreme, who groaning stoops, downbent

Prometheus Bound 2002

She broke the flimsy wood, but glanced swiftly at the face downbent as the eyes followed the broken toy into the stove.

The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

Shortly afterward, in a compact bunch, with heads downbent and stiffened tails, the pack, a howling, discordant mass, swept across the narrow, open space.

Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham

Yes, there indeed was his foster brother, mounted on one of the pack mules, with the sunlight falling on his white kirtle and downbent head!

Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton

He gave a nod of acquiescence and, with downbent head, followed his guide diagonally across the temple court, past the wide portico where sparrows and pigeons fought for night-quarters in the carved, open mouths of dragons, along the side of the main building until, to Tatsu's wonder, they stopped before a little gate in the nunnery wall.

The Dragon Painter Mary McNeil Fenollosa

The one girl was triumphant in her beauty and her unassailable position, every flounce out-curved in freshness; the other drooped at brow and hem, her slender neck downbent, her sash-ends pendant as broken tendrils after rain upon her heavily hanging skirts.

The White Riband A Young Female's Folly Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse

She looked at Mr. Marsh from under downbent brows.

The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

For a moment the boy stood speechless, then held out his arms – for the old grey horse had come slowly up to the shanty, and with downbent head was laying his soft, warm muzzle against Jacky's ear.

The Shagganappi 1913

And so, reaching a knife, I began to help Diana in the peeling of potatoes and, though finding it a somewhat trying business, yet contrived ever and anon to steal surreptitious glances at her downbent face and to surprise more than once that new soft and shy-sweet wonder in her glance.

Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915