Sample Sentences forsaturnine (auto-selected)
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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.† (source)
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That stormy night when the knocker hammered on the door with such hurried urgency, she stood on the landing, clutching her wrapper to her and, looking down into the hall below, had one glimpse of Tony's swarthy saturnine face before he leaned forward and blew out the candle in Frank's hand.† (source)
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It was not, however, so saturnine a pride!† (source)
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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.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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He had a dark complexion and a small, wise, saturnine face with mournful pouches under both eyes.† (source)
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Convocations of the honor court on the top floor of Durrell Hall were always conducted with an inflexible and saturnine efficiency.† (source)
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As for the rest ... Hugh Hungerford was slim and saturnine, long-legged, long-faced, clad in faded finery.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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The face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips seemed to be twisted with disdain.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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He memorized these hoary locutions, tossed them left-handed into conversation: wheelwright lodestone, saturnine, adamant.† (source)
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His instructor was a tall shaven man, with a yellow saturnine face.† (source)
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A mediaeval doctor would have called him saturnine.† (source)
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He pictured the saturnine Gottlieb not at all enjoying the triumph but, with locked door, abusing the papers for their exaggerative reports of his work; and as the picture became sharp Martin was like a subaltern stationed in a desert isle when he learns that his old regiment is going off to an agreeable Border war.† (source)
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Having made up his mind on that point, he strode along without swerving, contracting some rather saturnine sternness, as a young man is likely to do who has a premature call upon him for self-reliance.† (source)
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