Regular meals keep the blood sugar level at a normal high, and prevents the terrible let down feeling that can result in moroseness, negativism, and sometimes even anger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

Their moroseness was a prelude to what was to follow.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Prisoners of the Revolution] Reference

His moroseness fading, he strummed softly on the duar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hour of the Gate]

But his moroseness turned to bitterness as the days passed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cachalot]

But the loss of the money increased (were that possible) his moroseness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference

The natural moroseness of those people's temper, makes them harsh masters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference

What could he employ against a broadside of moroseness, a barrage of doubt?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day of the Dissonance]

It did not amount to moroseness; he was preoccupied, and his mind abstracted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

Knight spoke in an indescribable tone of bitterness that was almost moroseness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference

I had never in my life seen in a man's face so much despondency, gloom, and moroseness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Possessed] Reference

This middle-class moroseness can be explained by the sudden fear people feel for their future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitalism Must Develop More Of A Conscience] Reference

Shall we impute this evil to his own excessive moroseness or to the forwardness of his nephew?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference

Mr. Heathcliff followed, his accidental merriment expiring quickly in his habitual moroseness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wuthering Heights] Reference

There would be two days of gaiety, two days of moroseness — an endless, almost invariable round.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference

He “hates false words, and seeks with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncollected Prose] Reference

But though his temper was puritanic and inclined to moroseness, there was no sourness or cynicism in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times] Reference

"And he must have been delighted to get out of the 55th, " Knowles went on, ignoring Sharpe's moroseness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Escape]

If now I seem myself to fear it, it is not from moroseness, it is not from insensibility to its charm – '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camilla] Reference

Nine-tenths of all loneliness, sensitiveness, despondency, moroseness, are connected with personal interests.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Auld Lang Syne] Reference

The repulsive features, moroseness, avarice, malice, garrulity of his hags are said to be appropriate instruments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference

When it was dark again in the room she added with pedagogical moroseness, "You're all of you good for nothing, anyhow!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference

Under the influence of music antagonisms soften, moroseness disappears, and sociability and good cheer take their place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference

On his head there is a perfect mop of tangled, unkempt hair, which gives him an even more spider-like air of moroseness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Witch, and other stories] Reference

Caroline, when she knew all, acknowledged that Miss Mann was rather to be admired for fortitude than blamed for moroseness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

moroseness and melancholy are very opposite in nature; and melancholy is more nearly related to happiness than to moroseness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays of Schopenhauer] Reference

Where hysteria, melancholia, moroseness and despondency are conspicuous factors, the preparation can be used to great advantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference

In "The Hour," DeVoto repeatedly aims for such poetic flourishes, as when he speaks of "a moroseness of tired and buffeted men.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bernard DeVoto's "The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto," reviewed by Michael Dirda] Reference

Do you know that it is contemptible selfishness in you to shed gloom and sorrow over a whole family by your moroseness and ill-humor '?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference

Cecilia, seemed so studious to make amends for her moroseness, that he checked his too ready indignation, and took his seat at the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cecilia] Reference

The grace and cheerfulness of Athenian life have disappeared; and a spirit of moroseness and religious intolerance has taken their place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laws] Reference

Middle-aged, squat, square, and bleached with the sun, he had faded eyes, flattened-out features, and an expression of restless moroseness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Russia] Reference

He banged on the keyboard to add some anger to the moroseness during "True Loves" (money line: "It's the true loves that make me want to cry").    From Wordnik.com.  [Rufus Wainwright stifles emotion, then lets it burst forth in Strathmore concert] Reference

When his fortune was gone, his pretended friends soon followed; and that occasioned the reserve and moroseness with which you must have observed his temper was tinctured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale] Reference