They do not in sullenness deny him an answer, nor stand mute; but they tell him that they are in no care about it. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
What was then called sullenness now took the name of resignation, and stupidity was quiet contempt. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
She was frightened and ashamed, and the sullenness which is the refuge of most young people descended upon her like a darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Mary, Mary] Reference
"ill-will" he describes as "an anger that endures and grows old," and this the Philosopher ascribes to "sullenness"; while he describes. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Some of the sullenness left Manulito's expression. From Wordnik.com. [The Defiant Agents] Reference
At Fort Caroline a spirit of sullenness was growing. From Wordnik.com. [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference
Egwene hoped her angry mutter sounded like sullenness. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
Lenny's eye followed him with the sullenness of despair. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
I laughed aloud, and with that laugh fled my sullenness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference
"True, I did," replied Jaspar, with a whining sullenness. From Wordnik.com. [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference
Reach the point where neither wrath nor sullenness remain. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
I have seen thee in thy gladness, thy sullenness and wrath. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference
A challenging sullenness in her voice made Stephanie look up. From Wordnik.com. [Devil's Waltz]
'I'm not being saucy,' he pleaded, relapsing into sullenness. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
Donald, of his sullenness, his anger, and his muttered threat. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Polly's Playmates] Reference
She had seen, I thought, that her son might lose by her sullenness. From Wordnik.com. [The Bull From The Sea]
Her face lost its sullenness; aspiration began to kindle in her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
Lenny's sullenness melted in an instant: the reminiscence of tracts Nos. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
It was not angry now, there was hardly even a trace of sullenness on it. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas] Reference
In many cases sullenness is an inherited disposition intensified by example. From Wordnik.com. [Study of Child Life] Reference
In the ranks of the enemies of poise sullenness most certainly finds a place. From Wordnik.com. [Poise: How to Attain It] Reference
My sullenness gave way before my bitter disappointment and my offended pride. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference
Gradually the sullenness gave way, and they began to ask questions and to chat. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
With all his sullenness there was in his tone a marked respect for the older man. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
The woman assumes a sullenness, and it is some time before she can be got to proceed. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
In some, sullenness had succeeded to reckless daring, and exultation to alarm in others. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages] Reference
So, doubtless, would his men, and the memory of their sullenness only depressed him more. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
Oddly enough, it was the sullenness and not the curtsey that took Mr. Constantine's fancy. From Wordnik.com. [The White Riband A Young Female's Folly] Reference
But there was that terrible anger on her face, a sullenness unlike Modred's nerveless quiet. From Wordnik.com. [Port Eternity]
We travelled by rail to Prescott, keeping our peace in contemplative sullenness all the while. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
No sullenness is to remain, no sulky temper which so easily gives birth to thunder and lightning. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Casting his eyes upon me now for the first time, the man scowled with dogged sullenness, and said. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Visitors] Reference
Lots of grimacing and shouting about 'restoring honor' but I swear I have never seen such sullenness. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Secours: God Interview II: Sarah Palin Gets Equal Time With God and Explains Tea Party] Reference
Certainly a grim sullenness and fierceness have been the leading traits of the Rebellion for Slavery; while. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
Ronador seemed about to speak, thought better of it and closed his lips in a tense white line of sullenness. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
Swayed by fiery gusts of passion, of remorse, of sullenness and jealousy, he rode on, a prey to sinister resolution. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
He was silent, and sat looking in front of him with an air of vacuous sullenness which ill-became his cast of countenance. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
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