All 7 Uses of
sullen
in
The Aeneid
- Just in the gate and in the jaws of hell, Revengeful Cares and sullen Sorrows dwell, And pale Diseases, and repining Age, Want, Fear, and Famine's unresisted rage; Here Toils, and Death, and Death's half-brother, Sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep; With anxious Pleasures of a guilty mind, Deep Frauds before, and open Force behind; The Furies' iron beds; and Strife, that shakes Her hissing tresses and unfolds her snakes.†
Book 6
- The Trojan fix'd his view, And scarcely thro' the gloom the sullen shadow knew.†
Book 6 *
- Not far from these Phoenician Dido stood, Fresh from her wound, her bosom bath'd in blood; Whom when the Trojan hero hardly knew, Obscure in shades, and with a doubtful view, (Doubtful as he who sees, thro' dusky night, Or thinks he sees, the moon's uncertain light,) With tears he first approach'd the sullen shade; And, as his love inspir'd him, thus he said: "Unhappy queen! then is the common breath Of rumor true, in your reported death, And I, alas! the cause?†
Book 6
- Saturnia said: The sullen fiend her sounding wings display'd, Unwilling left the light, and sought the nether shade.†
Book 7
- The charming Lausus, full of youthful fire, Rode in the rank, and next his sullen sire; To Turnus only second in the grace Of manly mien, and features of the face.†
Book 7
- Stripp'd of his trappings, with a sullen pace He walks; and the big tears run rolling down his face.†
Book 11
- Wildly they stare, distracted with amaze: The fields are lighten'd with a fiery blaze, That cast a sullen splendor on their friends, The marching troop which their dead prince attends.†
Book 11
Definition:
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(sullen as in: a sullen mood) being unhappy (and often withdrawn)