Sample sentences for SATURNINE

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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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