Are you to sulk, to withhold yourself from further exertion on the plea of a vocabulary-builder's eight-hour day?

Barbara did not sulk; when one tried to baffle her she fought.

THE WORLD'S MUSIC The world's a very happy place, Where every child should dance and sing, And always have a smiling face, And never sulk for anything.

The world is such a happy place That children, whether big or small, Should always have a smiling face, And never, never sulk at all. * *

That was my natur', and mother see it, and fought ag'inst it like a real Bunker-Hiller; but natur' is hard to root up, and there was always times when I wanted to sulk away into a corner and think nobody wanted me, and that I was poor and humbly, and had to work for my living.

But it would rather sulk.

A child on board a slave-ship, of about ten months old, took sulk and would not eat.

mope, brood over; fret; sulk; pine, pine away; yearn; repine &c (regret) 833; despair &c 859.

lose one's temper &c (resentment) 900; sulk &c 901.1; frown, scowl, glower, pout; snap, snarl, growl. render rude &c adj.; brutalize, brutify^. Adj.

V. be sullen &c adj.; sulk; frown, scowl, lower, glower, gloam^, pout, have a hangdog look,

Let us leave him to sigh and sulk, and return to the gridiron.

He showed a strange inclination to "mulp"a portmanteau word that Jumbo coined out of "mope" and "sulk.

He felt hardly sure of his ground yet, or he might have begun to sulk in earnest.

No wish had he to sulk or blame, Nor did he need to understand, But simply loved me just the same, In silence licking face and hand.

Uncle Reginald will sulk; sit at dinner without speaking to us; and keep out of our way as much as he can.

He began to sulk and ran away from home.

"I suppose my wife will be in bed and sulk all day because I vetoed the Graydown Races.

"Oh, all right," he said, "if you prefer to sulk!" He swung upon his heel.

As a child, Rafael had known his mother to frown and sulk after some mischievous prank of his.

You let Lizzy stay, if she wants to; 'twon't hurt her; when folks want to sulk, I generally let 'em.

The female snarl and the male sulk; A garble with an utter in its claws; The male wedlock cautiously approaching a clump of devil-may-care, the female.

The female snarl and the male sulk; A garble with an utter in its claws; The male wedlock cautiously approaching a clump of devil-may-care, the female.

I don't think Lord Ralles gained anything by staying behind in a sulk, for it was a very jolly ride, or at least that was what it was to me.

"At the first word the Regent spoke to him, he received nothing but bows, and the marshal went home to sulk; caresses, excuses, reasons, it was all of no use; Huxelles declared to the Marquis of Effiat, who had been despatched to him, that he would have his hand cut off rather than sign.

This was not like Sally, who, though she possessed plenty of spirit, was seldom known to sulk.

These men had been malingering all winter in order to skulk out of danger; so he treated them with extreme leniency in only putting them on duty as a 'company of Invalids.'

I can skulk amid the tufts of Purple Wood-Grass on the borders of the "Great Fields."

Why not take more elevated and broader views, walk in the great garden, not skulk in a little "debauched" nook of it? consider the beauty of the forest, and not merely of a few impounded herbs? Let your walks now be a little more adventurous; ascend the hills.

I know what the manly course would have been, but I preferred to skulk.

"In Europe we fight on open ground, where the best man wins; we do not skulk behind the trees and through the underbrush.

MARMADUKE Clifford never Would stoop to skulk about a Cottage door It could not be.

A law, therefore, sir, to restrain them in time of war from such exorbitant demands; to deprive them of those prospects which have often no other effect than to lull them in idleness, while they skulk about in expectation of higher wages; and to hinder them from deceiving themselves, embarrassing the merchants, and neglecting the general interest of their country, is undoubtedly just.

I want you to go on board 'The King Cotton,' take the captain aside, and tell him, from me, to remove them forthwith from Castle Island, keep them under strong guard, and skulk round with them in the best hiding-places he can find, until a ship passes that will take them to New Orleans.

Or seek his old abodes, Or herd among the deer, and skulk in woods? Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails.

My Reader tells me the word is still in use among printers, with the pronunciation mike, and the meaning to skulk or idle.]

The wild animals in the jungle which skirted the road, and which, in general, skulk in silence and secresy in their haunts, rent the air with their howlings.

I must forever be on guard Against the doubts that skulk along; I get ahead by fighting hard, But fighting keeps my spirit strong.

Don't skulk!" He laughed again and walked on; and the heap in the fireplace put out his head tortoise fashion and listened in horror to the retreating footsteps.

We'll let him do the open hunting an' we'll skulk.

The men were terrified at this bold act of their leader; and many with dismay at the thought of resistance, began to skulk behind fences and old buildings, when he opened the door and requested every slave to leave who felt unwilling to fight.

When they are drunk, they neither yell, nor shout, nor stagger, but skulk along like beaten hounds.

'Ocra,' said the overseer, one evening, to the driver, 'if any pretend to be sick, send me wordallow no lazy wench or fellow to skulk in the negro house.'

'Ocra,' said the overseer, one evening, to the driver, 'if any pretend to be sick, send me wordallow no lazy wench or fellow to skulk in the negro house.'

"You can't skulk behind Saccharissy.

We naturally decided not to go up that road in the car, but to skulk through a wood and meet the car in a place of safety.

What have I done so heinous that I must Skulk here in hiding, like a murderer?

The colonels and commanding officers of regiments are to see their supernumerary officers so posted as to keep their men to their duty; and it may not be amiss for the troops to know, that, if any infamous rascal shall attempt to skulk, hide himself, or retreat from the enemy without the orders of his commanding officers, he will instantly be shot down as an example of cowardice.

The deer of the neighboring forest skulk and hide and lie still in dense cover to avoid being seen.

Doubtless, some pagan of the twilight day Has often pointed to a cavern-mouth, Obnoxious to beholders, hard by Rome, And said,nor he a bad man, no, nor fool, Only a man, so, blind like all his mates, 'Here skulk in safety, lurk, defying law, The devotees to execrable creed, Adoringwith what culture ...

But still they were infinitely mischievous, considered as pretences under which Northern men could skulk from their duties, and as sophistries to lull into a sleepy acquiescence the consciences of those political adventurers who are always seeking occasions for being tempted and reasons for being rogues.