128 examples of glum in sentences

You seem precious glum to-night.

He looked glum, but he promised.

The Major gossiped with the station agent, the most important individual in town, and gleaned sundry information that made him look rather glum.

Uncle John, whose even disposition was seldom ruffled, ate with a good appetite, while even the Major, glum and scowling, did not disdain the numerous well-prepared dishes.

When the exhibition was concluded and the room again lightened, Le Drieux's face was visibly perturbed and anxious, while his attorneys sat glum and disconcerted.

Even my own patrol didn't say anything to us, and they all looked kind of glum.

So he moved over kind of glum

The men were glum and doubtful of aspect, and the very dogs wandered dubiously about, alarmed in vague ways by the unrest of the camp, and ready to take to the woods on the first outbreak of trouble.

" Some folks git a heap o' pleasure Out o' lookin' glum; Hoard their cares like it was treasure Fear they won't have some.

I have occasionally come upon Narcissus about the twenty-fifth, I suppose, and wondered at my glum reception.

The gent looked pretty glum, for he was to sail the next day, and if I didn't do the job for him he didn't know who would, and he said that he was sorry to see that I was goin' back on him after the recommend I'd had, and I said that I wouldn't go back on him if it wasn't for my conscience.

He had chosen a chair by a distant window and was devoting himself to Molly's grandfather, who accepted this delicate and entirely suitable attention with a rather glum face.

But if I get among the glum, I hold my tongue to tell the truth, And keep my breath to cool my broth.

It is a glum, cold, lowering morning, but the C.'s are going to see the Frenches at West Point, and Miss Lyman at Vassar.

But I wish she would give us something not quite so glum," said uncle Jay-Jay.

On the other hand, were I glum he would think the same, and that I was trying to hide my feelings behind a mask of brusquerie.

Some in real professional beggars' style called down blessings on me; others were morose and glum, while some were impudent and thankless, and said to supply them with food was just what I should do, for the swagmen kept the squattersas, had the squatters not monopolized the land, the swagmen would have had plenty.

Don't look so glum, old fellow; there has been nothing wrong, not a word that all the world might not hear; but there are signs and tokens by which a man, without any vanityand heaven knows I have no justification for thatmay be sure a woman likes him.

That last guest was Frances Maury, escorted by a glum David.

But she looked very glum, and remained motionless.

Is that what keeps you thin and glum?

"You're as glum as an oyster!" said Lettis, when they reached their quarters.

" This withering rebuke was greeted with shouts and clapping of hands from all but the young man, who muttered something about humbug, and looked glum.

Yes, che sarà sarà! Therefore don't you look glum!

Yet one there was who looked but glum; In middle-age, a father he, And this his first experience too: "They shot at my heart when my hands were up This fighting's crazy work, I see" But noon is high; what next do? The woods are mute, and Mosby is the foe.

128 examples of  glum  in sentences