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sullen as in: a sullen mood
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She changed from a happy, outgoing child to sullen teenager.
sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
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A sullen crowd watched the execution.
sullen = unhappy
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She paused and her face lost its sullenness and grew interested.
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sullenness = appearance of a bad mood
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My father seldom set foot in Grandma-over-in-town's house, and when he did he was sullen and stared at the door.
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sullen = showing a gloomy or bad mood
- When Kugler finally stood up, he walked sullenly to Max Vandenburg and lifted his arm into the air. (source)
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Haymitch says I'm sullen and hostile,
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sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
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I watch Ruby trudge sullenly through the four-o'clock show, and I wonder: What will happen if I fail?
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sullenly = unhappily
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He chose instead to make a secret of his dark knowledge and express his rage obliquely, in silence and sullen withdrawal.
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sullen = unhappy
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He sat down, sullen.
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sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
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"Paris is a theme park," he once announced, after a vacation, "although it's too expensive, and the park employees are unpleasant and sullen."
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sullen = unpleasant or showing a gloomy mood
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I had always pictured murderers as being mopey and sullen.
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sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
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Sullenly he packed a travel kit with his toothbrush, dental floss, razor, shaving cream, and a jumbo bottle of aspirin.
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sullenly = in an unhappy manner
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Bernard was sullen.
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sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
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He crossed the street sullenly then, his hands jammed in his pockets.
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sullenly = in an unhappy and withdrawn manner
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I leaned back next to him sullenly.
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sullenly = showing a gloomy or bad mood
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Peter returned to being sullen, refusing to talk.
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sullen = showing a gloomy or bad mood (often by not interacting with others in a friendly way)
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She scowled down at the ground in sullen fury.
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sullen = unhappy
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They were sullen-looking, sleepy-eyed men who seemed unused to late hours.
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sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
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When the moon rose late in the night, people said it was refusing food, as a sullen husband refuses his wife's food when they have quarrelled.
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sullen = unhappy
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One of the three sat with his head down in sullen disgust.
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sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
- Dussel looked very sullen, didn't speak to me for two days and made sure he occupied the table from five to five-thirty — all very childish, of course. (source)
- He was the least sullen, the least prone to depression, the one who, with his lively, confident attitude, kept everyone's spirits up when there weren't enough crusts to go around, when it was cold and wet and they'd been chased out of too many sheltered doorways to count. (source)
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She sullen, mean, mischievous and too stubborn to live in this world.
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sullen = showing a gloomy or bad mood
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I am of a sullen disposition with a quarrelsome temper…
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sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
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Angel was sullen and quiet;
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sullen = showing a gloomy or bad mood
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She had put her foot down and it had stayed down, in spite of Joe's sullen mutterings and Brett's wounded eyes.
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sullen = gloomy (demonstrating a bad mood)
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"I'll get a job," he said, sullenly, "don't worry about it, I'll get job."
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sullenly = showing a gloomy or bad mood
- As she escorted him to the elevator, I couldn't help but remember the sullen, angry young man who had come into my office just one year earlier. (source)
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(WALTER is silent and sullen) I—I just seen my family falling apart today . . .
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sullen = showing a gloomy mood
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They hid their hatred behind sullen looks and faces blank as slate, yet he could feel it all the same.
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sullen = unhappy
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[His] ...face grew a shade more sullen and...
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sullen = dark (gloomy / unhappy)
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But I stood there sullen and silent with my eyes downcast,
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sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
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But the name of Aragorn had put Gollum into a sullen mood.
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sullen = gloomy or bad
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Willie Streeter came back to the gym, sullen and overweight.
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sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
- In his frame, GRANDFATHER-JACQUES looks sullen and moody in contrast to his air of gaiety at the beginning of the play. (source)
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Blore said sullenly: "I only suggested the doctor had made a mistake."
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sullenly = in an unhappy and withdrawn manner
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He had been prepared to lie, to bluster, to remain sullenly unresponsive; but, reassured by the good-humoured intelligence of the Controller's face, he decided to tell the truth, straightforwardly.
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sullenly = in a withdrawn manner (non-communicative)
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His face looks sullen.
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sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
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Gertrude stood sullenly.
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sullenly = showing a gloomy or bad mood
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The heavy brown eyes stared sullenly back at him.
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sullenly = in a gloomy manner; or showing a bad mood
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The retreat was orderly, wet and sullen. In the night, going slowly along the crowded roads we...
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sullen = unhappy (or possibly gloomy or sluggish)
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Whereupon he lay down sullenly and allowed the crate to be lifted into a wagon.
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sullenly = in an unhappy and withdrawn manner
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sullenly willing to be disappointed all at the same time.
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sullenly = with a gloomy (or bad) mood
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His manner is sullen, his face set in gloom.
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sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
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Not a word more would he say, but sat in his implacable sullenness as indifferent to me as though I had not been in the room at all.
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sullenness = state of unhappiness and withdrawal
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"I did not know these things," said Mowgli sullenly, and he frowned under his heavy black eyebrows.
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sullenly = unhappily
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"Yes'm," said Mrs. Morgan sullenly.
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sullenly = showing a gloomy or bad mood
- Pete came along slowly, with a sullen dropping of the under lip. (source)
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She was the living spirit of love to soften and attract; I might have become sullen in my study, rought through the ardour of my nature, but that she was there to subdue me to a semblance of her own gentleness.
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sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
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Connie's eyes were sullen.
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sullen = showing a gloomy or bad mood
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Curly scowled at the sullen lump in the backseat.
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sullen = unhappy
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Grace Marks was … a pretty girl, and very smart about her work, but of a silent, sullen temper.
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sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
- There were other boys near him, tired-looking boys, sullen, the ones least valued. (source)
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Meg looked up at her mother, half in loving admiration, half in sullen resentment.
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sullen = unhappy
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After three days of sullen looks and stubborn silence, everything was back to normal.
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sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
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He looked down shamefully at the sullen sight of Liesel's socks.
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sullen = causing unhappiness
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If only I was his size, I could get away with sullen and hostile and it would be just fine!
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sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
- The six men remained sullen and silent and the Commissioner left them for a while. (source)
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"Don't need to bootleg," he said sullenly.
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sullenly = in an unhappy and withdrawn manner
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The chickens were fidgety, the cows were skittish, and the pigs were sullen and glum.
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sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
- Finally he headed back to camp and worked the rest of the day in a sullen mood. (source)
- She indicated the sullen-faced boys on the nearby bunks. (source)
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Cole purposely isolated himself in his room, sitting sullenly.
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sullenly = in an unhappy and withdrawn manner
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The moon must be preparing to rise, its sullenness over.
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sullenness = being unhappy and withdrawn
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She was as crotchety and sullen as a three-legged mule, and I was not quite sure why.
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sullen = unhappy
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Whereas when you open your mouth, you come across more as sullen and hostile.
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sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
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It was Curly, the sullen construction foreman.
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sullen = unpleasant
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COLE STARED SULLENLY into the fire, then let his gaze wander.
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sullenly = in an unhappy and withdrawn manner
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The looks the sparrows gave her were dull, sullen, hostile.
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sullen = unpleasant or gloomy
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It was better than her usual sullen silence.
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sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
- Edmure's anger had always been a sulky, sullen thing. (source)
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All it did was make him sullen with her.
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sullen = unhappy
- Joff gave him a sullen glance, shifted his feet, and helped Ser Garlan Tyrell to rise. (source)
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The killings stopped after Farlen's death, but even so his men continued sullen and anxious.
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sullen = showing a gloomy or bad mood
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The Lannisters moved through a sea of ragged men and hungry women, breasting a tide of sullen eyes.
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sullen = unhappy
- He led the girl away aft, while her father watched them go in sullen silence. (source)
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If I still had Needle, she wouldn't dare hit me, she thought sullenly.
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sullenly = unhappily
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They followed sullenly, but they followed.
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sullenly = in an unhappy manner
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Mack grew sullen.
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sullen = unhappy
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Gone was the terror in my mind of stale whiskey and barnyard smells, of sleepy-eyed sullen men, of a husky voice calling in the night,
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sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
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So when they want her to do problems the long way around at school she gets sullen and stubborn and sets up a fine mental block for herself.
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sullen = unhappy
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Cole walked sullenly around the room.
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sullenly = in an unhappy and withdrawn manner
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The princeling was in a sullen mood, angry that he had been forced to remain on the Shy Maid instead of going ashore with Yandry and Ysilla.
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sullen = unhappy
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Tyrion tried to speak of other things, but he met a wall of sullen courtesy as icy and unyielding as the Wall he'd once walked in the north.
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sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
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"No," the king muttered sullenly.
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sullenly = in an unhappy manner
- "Bran," he said sullenly. (source)
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Atop his courser, Little Walder gave Luwin a sullen glare, as if to say, You are only a maester, who are you to reproach a Frey of the Crossing?
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sullen = unhappy
- Stannis, my lord, my sad sullen boy, son I never had, you must not do this, don't you know how I have cared for you, lived for you, loved you despite all? (source)
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Smallwood took a sullen leave.
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sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
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Sullenly, she set to plucking a chicken while Yoren sat on the end of the bench sharpening the edge of his dirk with a whetstone.
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sullenly = in an unhappy and withdrawn manner
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"I can do it," he said sullenly.
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sullenly = in an unhappy manner
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Sullenly, Arya did as he said.
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sullenly = in an unhappy and withdrawn manner
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"I know," Arya muttered sullenly.
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sullenly = in an unhappy manner
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Their limbs were already stiffening, so they seemed to resist sullenly as he fumbled at them with hall-frozen fingers, tugging up breeches and knotting laces, yanking fur-trimmed boots over hard unbending feet, buckling a studded leather belt around a waist no bigger than the span of his hands.
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sullenly = in an unhappy and withdrawn manner
- Arya chewed her lip sullenly. (source)
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We sat and drank it, and the girl looked sullen.
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sullen = showing a gloomy or bad mood
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Candy repeated sullenly, "Got it caught in a machine."
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sullenly = in an unhappy manner
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Her feeling was evidently reciprocated; the very back of the man, as he walked along before them, was hostile, sullenly contemptuous.
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sullenly = in an unhappy and withdrawn manner
- He looked sullenly up at her. (source)
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"My head is ringing like a bee tree," said a sullen little voice over their heads,
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sullen = showing a bad mood
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sullen as in: a sullen sky
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The town looked more depressing than normal under the sullen sky.
sullen = darkened by clouds
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- She rode off under a sullen sky.
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Beyond the edge of the fields the sullen haze hung over earth and sky alike.
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sullen = gloomy (dark and unpleasant looking)
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A slight wind picked up and made the trees that grew in sullen clusters along the ridge sway menacingly.
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sullen = dark (gloomy)
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She remembered Nan telling how the stone had melted and flowed like candlewax down the steps and in the windows, glowing a sullen searing red as it sought out Harren where he hid.
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sullen = dark and unpleasant
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They were dark things, black things: silhouettes of children on a gray field; black slow river; black tilting houses; black scratches of birds in a sullen sky.
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sullen = dark (gloomy)
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...and rivers that poured out of echoing gorges to plunge sullenly into black depths.
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sullenly = in a gloomy manner (darkly)
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I see it as a night scene by El Greco: a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lustreless moon.
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sullen = dark & cloudy
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A tall gantry crane against the sullen sky.
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sullen = gloomy (without much sunshine)
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The open sky beyond where in the distance the sullen sea lagged and shifted.
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sullen = darkened by clouds
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They stood watching the pale gray flakes sift down out of the sullen murk.
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sullen = gloomy (with little sunlight)
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His rounded helm gleamed a sullen red, and a pale pink cloak streamed from his shoulders.
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sullen = dark or gloomy
- Ahead, the night was a sullen red. (source)
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She looked up at a sullen sky.
sullen = darkened by clouds
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And, like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glittering o'er my fault,
Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off. (source)sullen = dark (gloomy)
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sullen as in: sullen heat
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She slept poorly in the sullen heat.
sullen = unpleasant
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- The sullen humidity saps my energy.
- The walls rang with the sound of hammers, and burly men in leather aprons stood sweating in the sullen heat as they bent over bellows and anvils. (source)
- Thomas, Archbishop, leave us, leave us, leave sullen Dover, and set sail for France, Thomas our Archbishop still our Archbishop even in France. (source)
- The water-plug being left in solitude, its overflowings sullenly congealed, and turned to misanthropic ice. (source)
- The sullen wet heat of Volantis sapped his strength and left him feeling dirty. (source)
- The big iron brazier was glowing red, filling the room with a sullen suffocating heat. (source)
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Another poked at a sullen fire that was giving off more smoke than heat.
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sullen = unpleasant; or slow-burning
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Ahead loomed the Great Sept of Baelor, with its magnificent dome and seven shining towers, but between her and the marble steps lay a sullen sea of humanity, brown and ragged and unwashed.
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sullen = unpleasant
- Was it Mormont she was angry with, or this city with its sullen heat, its stinks and sweats and crumbling bricks? (source)
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Go venture shipwreck on the sullen coasts
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Down in the west the setting sun had left a streak of fiery red, which glared upon the desolation for an instant, like a sullen eye, and frowning lower, lower, lower yet, was lost in the thick gloom of darkest night.
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sullen = unpleasant
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- Even in this sullen setting, Patti Love, dressed in the finest black silks, seemed preoccupied with her own appearance and importance.† (source)
- I kept my head down to avoid making eye contact with the stream of sullen university students filing past me.† (source)
- No doubt she thought I was sullen, or unforthcoming: I had no small talk, I was so ignorant, so rural.† (source)
- To thrust out the lips, as in sullenness, contempt, or displeasure; hence, to look sullen; to swell out, as the lips; to be prominent.† (source)
- When he regained consciousness, he was as strong as ever, but sullen; on occasion he failed to recognize his friends; and without the slightest provocation he could explode in anger toward his own sisters—as if he'd been put to bed one man and had risen from bed another.† (source)
- Before you know it, that cute little four-year-old is a sullen teenager who won't even acknowledge your presence in the room.† (source)
- I looked around at the campers' faces, some sullen and suspicious, some grinning stupidly, some eyeing me as if they were waiting for a chance to pick my pockets.† (source)
- At times the zebra made noises about the predator just behind it, but mostly it lay in hopeless and sullen silence.† (source)
- When she wasn't agitated, the girl was a sullen pair of eyes staring from under the blanket, breathing out short little answers to Mariam and Rasheed's questions.† (source)
- Newt and Winston finally let go of Minho; all three of them sullenly walked to their chairs and sat down.† (source)
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- There were only three other students, two extremely nervous-looking first years and a sullen-faced Slytherin fifth year.† (source)
- Scrawny, sullen, bearded, filthy.† (source)
- CUT TO: EXTERIOR: MS of a sullen BOBO handcuffed and being led to police van.† (source)
- She becomes unreachable, sullen.† (source)
- They had friendly faces or unfriendly, helpful or sullen, open or secretive, brutish or sensitive.† (source)
- His mood had turned sullen.† (source)
- The gray, sullen hue that had hung over everything was replaced by a light that seemed brilliant by comparison to what had gone before.† (source)
- For years the strangers among us had passed sullenly in the hallways; now we looked, we nodded, we smiled.† (source)
- Secretly, I was amazed, too, and maybe a bit jealous, so handsome was Pete, the image of James Dean, but smiling and ebullient, never rebellious or sullen.† (source)
- But overnight, he'd turned hunch-shouldered and sullen, like a husk that used to contain the whole of him.† (source)
- It was not just that she was the baby, it was her temperament—she was never angry or sullen, she was not given to tantrums or to self-pity.† (source)
- She was sullen, cut out for nobler ventures.† (source)
- The sullen daze when he has to carry my coat with Elizabeth's, fetch me a drink too.† (source)
- He stared at her sullenly.† (source)
- He shrugged sullenly.† (source)
- Fires blazed in the twin hearths at either end of the bedchamber, filling the room with a sullen red glare.† (source)
- A quick glance around the room tells me the court has turned sullen.† (source)
- And sure enough, I turned around and a sullen woman was now squatting in front of the bucket of fish.† (source)
- Reynie looked at Constance, whose face was even more sullen than usual, and fearful as well.† (source)
- The launch of Rainbow Amo had been a triumph, but only after various distribution catastrophes which had now been set right; the advertising campaign had offended some elderly bishops so another was devised; then came the problems of success itself, unbelievable sales, I new production quotas, and disputes about overtime rates, and the search for a site for a second factory about which the four unions involved had been generally sullen and had needed to be charmed and coaxed like children; and now, when all had been brought to fruition, there loomed the greater challenge yet of Army Amo, the khaki bar with the Pass the Amo!† (source)
- He recites and makes us remember, They went forth to battle, but they always fell, Their eyes were fixed above the sullen shields.† (source)
- "Maybe," Rameck replied sullenly.† (source)
- Pedro, as the man of the house, sullenly gave his approval.† (source)
- "It'd be helpful if there was only one point on the map," Radar 'said sullenly.† (source)
- Or perhaps sullen or resigned.† (source)
- And the dull, sullen sound of the boatmen's bamboo poles as they thudded against the dark, oiled boatwood.† (source)
- And so the system broke down, the Empire collapsed, and a long sullen silence settled over a billion hungry worlds, disturbed only by the pen scratchings of scholars as they labored into the night over smug little treatises on the value of a planned political economy.† (source)
- 'Yes, sir,' came the reply, sullen for once.† (source)
- Hour after hour, they trudged by, their heads down, their expressions sullen.† (source)
- "You should have told me you had two bags," he said, sullenly, in the silence (welcome to me) that followed her helpful remark.† (source)
- "Everyone knows I have a scar here," I say sullenly.† (source)
- "We have customers," Jed says sullenly.† (source)
- "Okay," I said sullenly.† (source)
- Sam is standing sullenly by himself in the corner.† (source)
- Eragon glared at him sullenly.† (source)
- Vaguely, he was aware of how quiet the day was, the sullen paddies, yet he could not bring himself to worry about matters of security.† (source)
- The guard nodded sullenly.† (source)
- "I fell," she said sullenly.† (source)
- Otherwise Beloved gets private and dreamy, or quiet and sullen, and Denver's chances of being looked at by her go down to nothing.† (source)
- Its brilliance reminded me of a torchship I once had watched while it created its own plasma nova against the dark limb of a sullen gas giant...The city was a five-tiered honeycomb of white buildings, all illuminated by warmly glowing lanterns from within and by countless torches from without.† (source)
- The voices and the laughter and the music breathe life into the sullen walls.† (source)
- At the breakfast table they gazed sullenly at me, the father who had betrayed them.† (source)
- His grey shirt hung in loose tatters except where it was stuck to his body, stained a dark, sullen red.† (source)
- There's nothing wrong with me," I assured him sullenly.† (source)
- He imagines her in a bed in the corner, sullen, emaciated, a cloud of smoke over her head.† (source)
- He treats us to "a singularly dreary tract of country," to "a few rank sedges" and "white trunks of decayed trees," to "the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn," so that we're ready for the "bleak walls" of the house with its "vacant eye-like windows" and its "barely perceptible fissure" zigzagging its way down the wall right down to "the sullen waters of the tarn."† (source)
- She remembers the years of anguish following the change that occurred in his teens, his behavior alternately manic and sullen.† (source)
- I expected her to sit where she was, sullen, until at the very least hunger drove her to prepare her own meal.† (source)
- The windows were draped with the same material, hanging sullenly over the black plantation shutters.† (source)
- Their daughter, Pearl, became commensurately more difficult to manage, her behavior marked by periods of sullen withdrawal and eruptions of anger.† (source)
- Day had broken, a sullen gray sky spitting snow.† (source)
- Tom started to bluster and Jack had said something else to him, too quietly for Wendy to hear, and Tom had only shaken his head sullenly and walked away.† (source)
- Then the smile died on her lips, and they became at once sullen and sensual as her eyes narrowed and she breathed the word, 'Drink.'† (source)
- Alec looked sullen as usual.† (source)
- Monique was worried, and Jordan, sullen and angry-looking, made her nervous and unable to sit still.† (source)
- Trueba had forgotten all about Pancha Garcia and the fact that he had had a child with her, much less the sullen little grandson who despised him but watched him from afar to imitate his gestures and his speech.† (source)
- There was a kind of sullen look to them, as if they were sick to death of having the American military around them.† (source)
- And now that she was cut off, they saw their once outgoing friend grow sullen and seem suddenly lost.† (source)
- The dentist was tall, sullen, and dirty, with speckles of blood on his lab coat and a pubic mstache.† (source)
- That was why she ended up in the situation where the teachers ignored her and allowed her to sit in sullen silence.† (source)
- Their faces were sullen.† (source)
- They have gone over the top with the dramatic, barren redlands; the shabby little houses; the few sullen, hard, sad-looking actors walking around the dangerous, almost-empty streets.† (source)
- Piter spoke in a low, sullen tone: "Did you call me in here to impair my efficiency with criticism, Baron?"† (source)
- My jaw wasn't doing nothing," I said sullenly.† (source)
- The poverty—the unwashed children pointing sullenly at his new shoes, the familias slouching in hovels—was familiar and stifling.† (source)
- Jules came across sullen, brooding, and completely disinterested in Vee's company or anyone else's.† (source)
- I see Mabel turning into a sullen girl, all too aware of the ways she has been burdened, ill-treated, abandoned to this sorry lot.† (source)
- Looking sullen, he sat beside me in the snow, awaiting the arrival of Lopsang, and the ropes were left unfixed.† (source)
- Buck hurried after her, whining, but Ed stopped him, said a few words, and I watched as the huge boy trudged sullenly back to a bench and slumped down.† (source)
- "Sit on the porch," Phoebe said, sullen now.† (source)
- Your child suddenly becomes sullen and withdrawn, and/or loses interest in activities they previously enjoyed.† (source)
- In fact the times when she became extremely cheerful for days on end — and for no observable reason — were almost as disturbing to me as her sudden, often prolonged sullen spells.† (source)
- Heinrich was not sullen, I was not bored.† (source)
- In gusts they beetlescurry, creep, thread, filter, motion, make all moons sullen, and surely cloud all clear-run waters.† (source)
- When the stall was ready, Eric, the older and more sullen of the two, backed the trailer up to it.† (source)
- It was filled with shapeless, filthy women with whom Jane drank, apparently, sometimes, during the day; and pale, untidy, sullen men, who worked on the docks, and resented seeing him there.† (source)
- Slowly, sullenly, Carla wrapped herself around the kitchen door, only her head poking out and into the hallway.† (source)
- "Most of the patients showed a sullen, slightly aggressive, or negativistic behavior," according to the book.† (source)
- Life was so much more complicated than she ever imagined as a sullen teenager in New York.† (source)
- The other man pushed sullenly past Ghosh and left without a word.† (source)
- For a long time Ambiades answered each one; then Sophos began answering, and Ambiades's comments became more and more sullen.† (source)
- Basil looked exactly like his father, but the clean, naturally curved lines of Butch's mouth seemed transformed into a mild sullenness when placed on Basil's face.† (source)
- Dick's eyes and sullen expression and Perry's strange, prolonged sojourn in the lavatory disturbed him.† (source)
- After his successful journey into the realm of work and money, I had hoped that his sullen attitude would have improved; however, upon entering the conference room, I rapidly discovered this was not the case.† (source)
- At curtain, there is a sullen light of gloom in the living room, gray light not unlike that which began the first scene of Act One.† (source)
- That was even before another dressing down in front of a patron, this time from Bethany, who felt compelled to point out-twice-that, to her trained ear, I'd mispronounced Albert Camus' name while directing a sullen summer school student to the French literature section.† (source)
- The teacher has personally invested in Cedric's future since the student appeared in his tenth grade chemistry class-back then, Cedric was a sullen ninth grader who had just been thrown out of biology for talking back to the teacher and needed somewhere to go.† (source)
- The younger two, Ed and Roy, were sullen and restless, always watching the doors to see who might be coming in.† (source)
- It was the open admiration of young Stoddard which had roused the sullen resentment he was now spending on her.† (source)
- He was usually silent and sullen and came alive only when there was driving to be done.† (source)
- He is silent and sullen and strangely nervous, this guy who effortlessly conned me into believing him and in him.† (source)
- "That wasn't a bug," the guy said sullenly, scratching at it with his fingernail, "that was a bird."† (source)
- I stare sullenly at the ground.† (source)
- St. Clair turns sullen, and it dawns on me that I have no idea why he's even here.† (source)
- My mother picked through the bone pile, sullen.† (source)
- The lock was stiff and for a moment Tirian began to be afraid that he would not be able to turn it: but at last he did and the door swung open with a sullen creak.† (source)
- When I refused to be the child they knew and accepted me to be, I was called impudent and my muteness sullenness.† (source)
- No one in the sullen, cowering crowd seemed to care enough about the stunned and beaten boy to interfere.† (source)
- I said, sullen, trapped.† (source)
- A sullen-looking young man lurking in the corner by a marble pillar says, "I didn't know Craighad any friends."† (source)
- He ran past his teammates, who tried to congratulate him, making directly for Alex, sullen and scowling as Max approached.† (source)
- But when he sat home in Alpena day after day with nothing to do, growing increasingly sullen, he felt like a failure.† (source)
- "Show us your"—here the parrot muttered to itself, then went on, rather sullenly—"underthings."† (source)
- Pippa lets out a petulant sigh and stands sullenly in front of me, throwing a glance to Felicity, who shrugs.† (source)
- "Seven years," I replied sullenly.† (source)
- Photographers flashed cameras blindly, reporters surged for a glimpse of the sullen, shaken bestselling writer.† (source)
- His sullen face grew a shade more sullen and that was all I got from Baptiste.† (source)
- Here Strider turned aside, and soon they were lost in a sombre country of dark trees winding among the feet of sullen hills.† (source)
- She's Celedriel," Ceridwen said, gesturing at the second witch, "and she," she continued, pointing at the sullen third witch, "is called Cul."† (source)
- I looked around for Aphra but did not find her, and I wondered if she had been too cowed to come among these angry, sullen men.† (source)
- Now he looked, at times, downright sullen.† (source)
- Henry cleared his throat, his mood suddenly sullen.† (source)
- After giving enough one-word answers, Wells had gotten Octavia to stop asking about Clarke, but now she was walking along sullenly, and he felt guilty.† (source)
- Thomas s sullen mood had smothered the group.† (source)
- They stared at me with sullen, mean eyes, like I was a strange animal.† (source)
- The man who moved out of the shadow and looked at me sullenly was small, wiry and very natty in his dirty overalls.† (source)
- That's not illogical," said the well-dressed attorney, once again uncrossing and crossing his legs as the resentful capo sullenly returned to the couch.† (source)
- Felicia is sullen and envious and barely speaks to her sister.† (source)
- First he identified each manall the River Guard except one, a soldier from Milan whom they remembered for being sullen and depressed.† (source)
- I don't see why you should choose to take such a defeatist view of the situation," said Mouch sullenly.† (source)
- Although he still could not control the trembling that ran in waves beneath his skin, his terror had given way to a sullen anger.† (source)
- He was a quiet kid, but it wasn't a brooding or sullen quiet.† (source)
- How is it that Miri, who longed for a daughter after two sons, has wound up with an angry, sullen child like Eliza?† (source)
- Sullenness isn't going to help you.† (source)
- But then he was aware of the sullen looks his peers had cast upon him, and he conceded a bit to their realism.† (source)
- So I got sullen and told him to put his orders in writing — with a certified copy so that I could keep the original and endorse the copy over to the team commander.† (source)
- A fierce mouser is Darby, so we put up with his sullen moods.† (source)
- Rather than a uniformed attendant with a name tag and a welcoming smile, a sullen young man, about nineteen, watched over the ungated entrance from a folding chair under a dirty café umbrella emblazoned with the Cinzano logo.† (source)
- Even so, I doubt taking in a sullen, bitter, teenage girl is at the center of the vision board for a single woman in her early thirties.† (source)
- "Whatever," said Dickie sullenly.† (source)
- I liked him immensely, his sullenness, his corpselike color, except when he was lodged in a good mood, when he became overbearing and megalomaniacal.† (source)
- Lalo was sullen when anyone asked, and he said it was his wife who had rented her the rooms above the bar.† (source)
- But hungover, dehydrated, and sullen, this is not the lighthearted crowd of the night before.† (source)
- And he gazed lingeringly at a laughing young Abby hanging on to the arm of a sullen boy smoking a cigarette.† (source)
- —Surprise, the old one, Yousef said sullenly.† (source)
- Dusk was approaching, early because of the sullen lowering clouds; when I took up the sack, not full today, the stones rattled loosely inside.† (source)
- I won't touch it," he said sullenly.† (source)
- He glowered at me in the darkness, an impotent sullenness to his anger.† (source)
- They fell silent, sullen, suspicious.† (source)
- Ashe made tea and they drank it, Leamas sullen, like a man not used to comfort.† (source)
- His range was pock-marked with prairie dog towns and when he was not napping or sitting in sullen silence beside his tent he hunted prairie dogs with a single-shot .22 rifle.† (source)
- Meanwhile we had untied the chain, and while Ootek dragged the sullenly reluctant Kooa off toward home, I covered the rear with the rifle.† (source)
- He lay on the brass bed and went back in time over his sullen and miserable childhood and his fretful and vicious growing up.† (source)
- Well, what're you so sullen about?" he said.† (source)
- The boy's sullen expression vanished, to be replaced by one of uneasiness.† (source)
- I eased my face down against the sand, and thinking of Hart Crane, felt myself shiver to a gull's cry, the rhythmic wash and heave of sullen waves.† (source)
- Finally, leaning back, she slumps down in her chair, in a sullen biding.† (source)
- There was not a breath of wind, and even the perpetual muttering beyond the reef had sunk to a sullen undertone.† (source)
- ALAN [sullenly.† (source)
- Gordon had been all right in the days when he was given to gloomy thoughts and expressed them sullenly and clumsily.† (source)
- He felt a kind of sullen stirring among the others, and he felt that he was not believed, or that they did not think very well of his father for being killed so easily.† (source)
- He only looked sullen but when she had gone in the house, he said, "Big Belly act like she know everything."† (source)
- But the soldiers were sullen with cold, and very grave or angry, and Old Man McCaleb was there with his beard flying and his finger pointing prophetically in the direction of upstream.† (source)
- Had it been any other man than the man whom I wish to regard as the first character in the world, I would have said with sullen dignity.† (source)
- Church asked sullenly.† (source)
- And she saw in his eyes that sullen resentment, and—what put the finishing touch to it—amused contempt.† (source)
- Later that week, McDermott came into the kitchen for the midday dinner with a long and sullen face.† (source)
- "I am a faithful servant," said Wormtail, the merest trace of sullenness in his voice.† (source)
- Donna, who missed New York badly, was by turns sullen, petulant, and just plain scared.† (source)
- * Friday dawned sullen and sodden as the rest of the week.† (source)
- "Billy Nolan," Chris Hargensen said sullenly.† (source)
- With a sullen expression, Caius turned his back on Irina.† (source)
- Resentment, a gray, sullen wave of it, pushed up his throat.† (source)
- She's still alive," said Basta sullenly.† (source)
- I lie there looking up into the low gray sky at the flakes of snow sifting sullenly down upon us.† (source)
- I looked again at these sullen Afghan farmers.† (source)
- "He was hoping to find India," I pointed out sullenly.† (source)
- The girls continued to dress sullenly, not looking at her.† (source)
- Tattered and sullen standards were raised in the monsters' midst.† (source)
- Pearl's sullen, accusing presence had become especially unappealing.† (source)
- Finethankyou," Estha's voice was sullen.† (source)
- Vanger gave him a sullen look until he started laughing.† (source)
- A joke, a sneer, a jostle, a sullen leer.† (source)
- The flames had dimmed, and in most places had subsided to sullen coals.† (source)
- The young man returned to Cleveland more sullen, more broken and yet more grown-up, it seemed.† (source)
- She preferred this cocky mood over the sullen one.† (source)
- In Mariam's lap, she sucked her thumb cheerlessly and watched Rasheed in a sullen, pensive way.† (source)
- Behind them, Rhunon was no more than a black figure bowed over the sullen glow of her forge.† (source)
- The man gave her a quick, sullen glance.† (source)
- 'I just hadn't got around to it yet,' Annie said sullenly.† (source)
- The sullen-faced youth stirred in his chair, smoothed a wrinkle in the black leotards he wore.† (source)
- With many bitter sidelong looks and some sullen muttering, the class opened their books.† (source)
- We were seventeen; we had a sullen summer.† (source)
- In the windless dusk, sullen heaps of smoke pump upward through the trees.† (source)
- He was the quintessential back-country Yankee, grunting instead of talking, sullen-faced.† (source)
- A young priest sat behind the now-half-empty baskets of flowers, bored and sullen.† (source)
- Her head down, she marched angrily to a corner of the field, the Fugees following behind sullenly.† (source)
- The liquid in the glass beaker on the kitchen stove was a muddy, sullen black.† (source)
- He'd always been so quiet, so sullen, radiating a complete lack of interest in everyone around him.† (source)
- She agreed to go—sullenly—but her attitude was "Go 'head.† (source)
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He remembered the sullen orange glow of the coals in the iron dragon's mouth.
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