The sullen animal rage of battle is nothing to the livor, the burning hatred of the drawing-room.

Captain Mackay, too, holding his commission from the king, claimed to outrank Colonel Washington, and yielded him but a reluctant and sullen obedience.

The records of his infancy betray the temper which he preserved through lifepassionate, sullen, defiant of authority, but singularly amenable to kindness.

But this severity only served to change their open insolence into sullen anger, and emissaries from Octavius were ready to draw them over to the side of their young master.

Thus assailed, and dreading to see his bride torn from him by the officials of the foreign oppressor, Arminius delayed no longer, but bent all his energies to organize and execute a general insurrection of the great mass of his countrymen, who hitherto had submitted in sullen hatred to the Roman dominion.

He glared along the road with eyes and face aglow with a sullen, beast-like hatred.

When she came back, she was reserved and sullen in her replies.

200 Anon, appears a brave, a gorgeous show Of horsemen-shadows moving to and fro; [60] At intervals imperial banners stream, And now the van reflects the solar beam; The rear through iron brown betrays a sullen gleam.

Unheeded night has overcome the vales: On the dark earth the wearied vision fails; The latest lingerer of the forest train, 310 The lone black fir, forsakes the faded plain; Last evening sight, the cottage smoke, no more, Lost in the thickened darkness, glimmers hoar; And, towering from the sullen dark-brown mere, Like a black wall, the mountain-steeps appear.

What marvel then if many a Wanderer sigh, While roars the sullen Arve in anger by, 585 That not for thy reward, unrivall'd Vale!

At such an hour I heaved a pensive sigh, When roared the sullen Arve in anger by, 1820.]

75 Now, as he plodded on, with sullen clang A sound of chains along the desert rang; He looked, and saw upon a gibbet high A human body that in irons swang, Uplifted by the tempest whirling by; 80 And, hovering, round it often did a raven fly.

180 XXI Such tale of this lone mansion she had learned, And, when that shape, with eyes in sleep half drowned, By the moon's sullen lamp she first discerned, Cold stony horror all her senses bound.

The Black is generally of a soft and kind disposition, bears fatigue with patience, and shows a serene and lively temper, totally different in that respect from the Moor, who is taciturn and sullen.

Mahometans do the same, and resign themselves to fate, i.e., make no effort to save themselves; the only difference is, they are less noisy, and more sullen in their spiritless resignation.

A sullen, gloomy silence had fallen over the officers and men.

" Thus saying, he made a sullen gesture of farewell, and spurring his horse, crossed the broken fence at the roadside, and so, at a listless pace, through gaps and by farm-roads, penetrated towards his melancholy and guilty home.

On a sudden, however, this brief agony of suspense was terminated; a change like an awakening consciousness of realities, or rather like the withdrawal of some hideous and visible influence from within, passed over the tense and darkened features of the wretched being; a look of horrified perplexity, doubt, and inquiry, supervened, and he at last said, in a subdued and sullen tone, to Doctor Parkes: "Who are you, sir?

He turned on the slope of the terrace and looked down at the lake, lying dark and sullen under a cloudy sky; and it seemed to him typical of his own life, of his own future, in which there seemed not a streak of light.

His face was sullen, with a bull-dog expression on it.

" Peter had started to his feet with an angry exclamation; but he sat down again, and bent his sullen gaze on the garden path as John continued.

Mrs. Clamp received them with a kind of sullen civility, and, upon hearing the errand, replied, "Certainly, Mrs. Davenport can have her clothes.

Prosperity developed in Solomon a love of magnificence, in Nebuchadnezzar a towering vanity, but in Saul a malignant envy of all extraordinary merit, and a sullen determination to destroy the persons it adorned.

There he stood, Lowering at us in sullen mood, As if he had come into Brittany Just to reform our brotherhood!

But the Nabals are sullen; they are grumblers; they are never done.