All 4 Uses of
sullen
in
Hard Times
- There was an air of jaded sullenness in them both, and particularly in the girl: yet, struggling through the dissatisfaction of her face, there was a light with nothing to rest upon, a fire with nothing to burn, a starved imagination keeping life in itself somehow, which brightened its expression.†
Chpt 1.3
- There was little enough in him to brighten her face, for he was a sullen young fellow, and ungracious in his manner even to her.†
Chpt 2.2 *
- 'At all events, Mr. Harthouse,' said Tom, softening in his admiration of his patron, but shaking his head sullenly too, 'you can't tell her that I ever praised her for being mercenary.†
Chpt 2.7
- Yielding at length, if any concession so sullenly made can be called yielding, to the entreaties of Sissy — for Louisa he disowned altogether — he came down, bench by bench, until he stood in the sawdust, on the verge of the circle, as far as possible, within its limits from where his father sat.†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(sullen as in: a sullen mood) being unhappy (and often withdrawn)