The soldier was shocked, and turned away in sullen silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story] Reference
During all this work the sealers stood about in sullen groups. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Poacher] Reference
Paolo followed her into the room, his expression sullen and inimical. From Wordnik.com. [The Count's Blackmail Bargain]
Simon watched all this from a couple of yards away, his expression sullen or possibly jealous. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
Her expression sullen, Janis whirled around without replying and walked back into the dressing room. From Wordnik.com. [Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin]
Charlton walked up and down the room for a little while in sullen silence; and then brought up before Fleda. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
The court people petted their nervous horses, and beside the gallows a black-robed man looked about in sullen restlessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Apple Tree] Reference
When Mauki kept silent, he was struck and called a sullen brute. From Wordnik.com. [South Sea Tales] Reference
He looked at her with a kind of sullen satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll] Reference
Somberly, in a kind of sullen grief, the parties looked at one another. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
'Yes, my dear,' her father answered with a kind of sullen sadness; 'I'm talking about Phil. From Wordnik.com. [Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
For observing, say they, that the Orators were heard with a kind of sullen attention, while the. From Wordnik.com. [Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.] Reference
Reply Obj. 2: Both "sullen" and "ill-tempered" people have a long-lasting anger, but for different reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
According to him, a person is said to be "sullen" whose anger "is appeased with difficulty and endures a long time.". From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
I scowl in sullen guise –. From Wordnik.com. [The Watchman and Other Poems] Reference
While dark, in sullen majesty below. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini] Reference
Oft snapping at revenge in sullen mood. From Wordnik.com. [Romantic Anger and Byron] Reference
The crowd watched them in sullen silence. From Wordnik.com. [Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest] Reference
The boys now trudged on in sullen despair. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Miles Up the Nile] Reference
He appears to have given it a kind of sullen acquiescence. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02] Reference
The palate is kind of sullen but tight and grippy with more heat. From Wordnik.com. [CellarTracker Tasting Notes (all notes)] Reference
At first she protested, then she sank into a kind of sullen silence. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Quebec] Reference
At best, there is a kind of sullen acceptance of a particular index. From Wordnik.com. [LewRockwell.com] Reference
Denzil stood still and regarded her with a kind of sullen shame and remorse. From Wordnik.com. [Ziska] Reference
Beyond them, line upon line, in a kind of sullen majesty, lay the Battleships. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Trick] Reference
All the pair could point to were suggestions Frances looked "sullen" at parties. From Wordnik.com. [Anorak News] Reference
His shabby subordinate stopped short, with a kind of sullen admiration, to look at him. From Wordnik.com. [The Perpetual Curate] Reference
Egil uttered the kind of sullen grunt with which he always prefaced a disagreeable remark. From Wordnik.com. [The Thrall of Leif the Lucky] Reference
The Mussulmans have been beaten into a kind of sullen civility very comfortable to voyagers. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2] Reference
"Gyppy" recounted his adventures with a kind of sullen humor that Archie found highly diverting. From Wordnik.com. [Blacksheep! Blacksheep!] Reference
In the past two years I've become kind of sullen, hypersensitive, and obsessed with all of this. From Wordnik.com. [Boston.com Top Stories] Reference
He had expected a mob but there was a kind of sullen discipline about the procession when at last it arrived. From Wordnik.com. [The World Set Free] Reference
She called him "sullen" and was angry with him, complaining to Hugh at supper that "Petey" had been "a bear" to her. From Wordnik.com. [Snow-Blind] Reference
The men was tall, lank fellows, with kind of sullen faces, and sly, shifty eyes; the woman was dirty and generally mussed up. From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Nights] Reference
Kirk Bohls found a "sullen" T.J. Ford in San Antonio as the former Longhorn hopes to get healthy and rekindle the fire in his game. From Wordnik.com. [Indy Cornrows] Reference
At other times he just seemed sullen and insincere. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Look Now] Reference
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