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showing a brooding ill humor- Convocations of the honor court on the top floor of Durrell Hall were always conducted with an inflexible and saturnine efficiency.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
- His countenance, by daylight, had a sort of amiably saturnine cast; he had a very large thin nose, and looked like a Spanish picture.Henry James -- The American
- The face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips seemed to be twisted with disdain.Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- He looked the car over slowly, critically, a long cigar clamped in the corner of his saturnine mouth, drawing his gauntlets off deliberately.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- Hugh Hungerford was slim and saturnine, long-legged, long-faced, clad in faded finery.George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
- Beneath, his face was lined and saturnine, with thin arched brows above large eyes as black and shiny as pools of coal oil.George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
- A mediaeval doctor would have called him saturnine.James Joyce -- Dubliners
- Mallinson shouted; and Barnard, who had also been flung out of his seat, responded with a saturnine: "If he's lucky.James Hilton -- Lost Horizon
- With Mr. Heathcliff, grim and saturnine, on the one hand, and Hareton, absolutely dumb, on the other, I made a somewhat cheerless meal, and bade adieu early.Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
- Somehow his words and his look did not seem to accord, or else it was that his cast of face made his smile look malignant and saturnine.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- He had a dark complexion and a small, wise, saturnine face with mournful pouches under both eyes.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- With black hair and dark eyes, her looks reflected her saturnine personality growing up.Nicholas Sparks -- The Wedding
- With us, after a long fast, some mouthfuls of bread and meat, a little moldy biscuit and salt beef triumphed over all our previous gloomy and saturnine thoughts.Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
- It was not, however, so saturnine a pride! she laughed continually; her laugh was satirical, and so was the habitual expression of her arched and haughty lip.Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
- "Somebody strike a light, my thumb's out of joint," said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish's boat, in which Harrison was puller.Jack London -- Sea Wolf
- He twisted his heavy mouth into a faint smile—he was one of those saturnine people who smile with the corners of the mouth down,—and bowed his acknowledgment of my complaisance.H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau
- The Artful, meantime, who was of a rather saturnine disposition, and seldom gave way to merriment when it interfered with business, rifled Oliver's pockets with steady assiduity.Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist
- She was backed in a doorway with her gin and lime, being addressed by a saturnine spritely old gentleman with a hard red face and a hard clear voice and a puff of gray hair over each ear.Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
- An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
- An angular, towering man, sad-faced and saturnine, wearing heavy-framed glasses, awkward in movement and sparing of speech, he stepped into the hallway, not bothering to glance at Graf.Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
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