Word: droppingly
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...memory I sadly drop A tear...
...victim of such a fellow once. He would drop in after breakfast, just to take a smoke, and as a matter of course read the morning paper first. Thinking possession as good as ownership, he appropriated my books without asking leave, and if in consequence of this appropriation I "deaded" or "fizzled," he expressed the liveliest sympathy for my mishap, and would offer the consoling advice that I ought to study harder. There was something strange about the fact that the day after I received a check he would invariably want to borrow a little money...