Adjective : sulky weather. From Dictionary.com.
He was in that state of highly respectful sulkiness which is peculiar to. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
But a kind of sulkiness kept him away from her, so she thought he disliked her. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
He was in that state of highly respectful sulkiness which is peculiar to English servants. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
A kind of sulkiness that often appeared in him, as one of the little symptoms of inward trouble. From Wordnik.com. [The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni] Reference
Perhaps the worst form of ill-temper is sulkiness. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Conduct] Reference
Wintrow tried to keep the sulkiness from his voice. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Magic]
There was no trace of sulkiness in the divine face. From Wordnik.com. [Burton’s First Encounter with Taylor] Reference
Even then she set about the pouring with a wooden sulkiness. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Chaos]
Not the arguments, the sulkiness, and the ever-and-ever fighting. From Wordnik.com. [The Space Merchants]
Shame surged as she recognized the sulkiness of her own thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [Knife of Dreams]
She entered with an air of sulkiness that brought dread to Marjorie's heart. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
It turns me from bright to black, from lightness of spirits to extreme sulkiness. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896] Reference
The girl's eyes flew wider and hotter shame for her sulkiness stained her cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference
If it had been the ship's first display of sulkiness, he might have been surprised. From Wordnik.com. [The Mad Ship]
"I shall have to try, I suppose," he replied, with a trace of his former sulkiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story] Reference
"None of your sulkiness; you d-- white-livered hound, ask the gentleman's pardon like a man.". From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
But her eagerness turned to sulkiness when Zaporavo ordered her to remain aboard until he sent for her. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]
It made its way to the low, shedlike eating-house with a pre-breakfast solemnity bordering on sulkiness. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
"Do you call this simple?" says Frere, who in the general joy had shaken off a portion of his sulkiness. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
At nearly forty he was just learning the drab sulkiness and churlishness and black jealousy of the lover. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mr. Wrenn] Reference
This caused the woman to accuse her of sulkiness, at which the girl looked up with swollen eyes, full of tears. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years with the Outcast] Reference
The weather was execrable -- fog that you might cut with an axe; and the Duke rode out "in a perfect sulkiness.". From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
Willie nodded at Loveday with a trifle less of sulkiness in his manner, took a step forward and relapsed once more. From Wordnik.com. [The White Riband A Young Female's Folly] Reference
'None of your sulkiness; get on your knees, you d---- white-livered hound, and ask the gentleman's pardon like a man.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
A few showed some sulkiness, but it all passed away after the first day, when they found that they were to be used kindly. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861] Reference
Then they either quarrelled desperately about nothing, or they threw themselves on their rugs, pretending to sleep in very sulkiness. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
‘All frien’s ’ere, ‘he murmured huskily, all the sulkiness vanishing from his tone and subservience creeping into his manner. From Wordnik.com. [The White Cottage Mystery]
Jimmy, in the very rapture of sulkiness, refused to express pleasure or gratitude upon the presentation of a “hand” of ripe bananas. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
Long before the train came he lapsed into his natural blue sulkiness, remaining as quiet behind his auger hole as one ready for the grave. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
He bade me farewell with a coldness, and almost sulkiness, quite foreign to his usual demeanour, and infinitely pleasanter to my feelings. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
I know his sulkiness will transpire through Phoebe. From Wordnik.com. [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference
No hint of smarm or swank or sulkiness or self regard. From Wordnik.com. [politicalbetting.com] Reference
He spoke of your unfortunate call, but said you bore the sulkiness very well. From Wordnik.com. [Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis] Reference
I was just as proud as he was ... pride and sulkiness make a very bad combination. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Avonlea] Reference
If he persecuted the Tories, their sulkiness would infallibly be turned into fury. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3] Reference
A mere reprimand would have been ample, and not caused any sulkiness among spirited men. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A.] Reference
The spleen he saw in Roland was misanthropy, without the sulkiness of Timon or the wit of Alceste. From Wordnik.com. [The Companions of Jehu] Reference
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