Sullen

Examples

• Tom shuddered at these frightful words, spoken with a sullen, impassioned earnestness. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Twenty mile and odd--call it five-and-twenty mile and odd, if you like--up stream,' was the sullen reply. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She sat with Gerald drinking some sweetish liqueur, and staring with black, sullen looks at the various groups of people at the tables. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Now, in the South we have our poor, but there is not that terrible expression in their countenances of a sullen sense of injustice which I see here. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• In the workhouse of this town,' was the sullen reply. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Your manners have been of that silent and sullen and hangdog kind, that, upon my life and soul, I have been ashamed of you, Sydney! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Miss Miller was now the only teacher in the room: a group of great girls standing about her spoke with serious and sullen gestures. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• This troubled state yielded by degrees, to sullen animosity, and depression of spirits. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She answered in a low tone, with a sullen submission of manner which was quite new in my experience of her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• A sullen, passionate girl! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Primitivo was still sullen. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• And some few, among whom were Front-de-Boeuf and the Templar, in sullen disdain suffered their goblets to stand untasted before them. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Being no longer sullen or furious, he grew, after his fashion, constrained and embarrassed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The whole consciousness of my life lorn, my love lost, my hope quenched, my faith death-struck, swayed full and mighty above me in one sullen mass. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The other apes turned now upon me, and as I stood facing them a sullen roar from the audience answered the wild cheers from the cages. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He is often overcome by gloom, and then he sits by himself, and tries to overcome all that is sullen or unsocial in his humour. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Forgetting politeness in his sullen rage, Malone pushed into the parlour before Miss Keeldar. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This endless breaking of slow, sullen waves of fate held her life a possession, whilst she lay with dark, wide eyes looking into the darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• However, I remained silent and sullen; I was ready to faint at the very smell of him and his men. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The man's face set in sullen defiance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The fires, whose lurid, sullen light had been visible for miles, blazed fiercely up, in the great works and factories of the town. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The natural result of this treatment, continued, I suppose, for some six months or more, was to make me sullen, dull, and dogged. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• They had both gotten sullen as he talked. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The great Juggernaut, in his great chariot, drew on loftyloud, and sullen. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Prue had a peculiar scowling expression of countenance, and a sullen, grumbling voice. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And the indignant swineherd resumed his sullen silence, which no efforts of the Jester could again induce him to break. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Adversity might set against him her most sullen front: he was the man to beat her down with smiles. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The sea no longer broke with fury; but a swell setting in steadily for shore, with long sweep and sullen burst replaced the roar of the breakers. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It seemed indeed as if the sullen and malignant eye of Front-de-Boeuf possessed some portion of that supposed power over his unfortunate prisoner. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He saw, with subtle recognition, her sullen passion of cruelty. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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