All 5 Uses of
sullen
in
My Antonia
- 'I was sure glad,' Otto concluded, 'that he didn't take his hard feeling out on that poor woman; but he had a sullen eye for me, all right!†
Book 1
- Presently Ambrosch said sullenly in English: 'You take them ox tomorrow and try the sod plough.†
Book 1
- I wouldn't like to be her; Nick's awful sullen, and he'll take it out on her.†
Book 2 *
- After the long winter evenings on the prairie, with Ambrosch's sullen silences and her mother's complaints, the Harlings' house seemed, as she said, 'like Heaven' to her.†
Book 2
- VII WINTER LIES TOO LONG in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.†
Book 2
Definition:
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(sullen as in: a sullen mood) being unhappy (and often withdrawn)