All round, the black tops of the pines cut the sky; the water was dark and sullen in the gloom.

You mutter in sleep; you are sullen at times; and then you break out in this dreadful way.

He's pleased enough to be sergeant, though he don't quite know how it came about; and he's that sullen with brooding over it, that for sixpence he'd give me the strap to ease his feelings.

The skeleton of the Elevated Railway structure straddling almost its entire length, Sixth Avenue, sullen as a clayey stream, flows in gloom and crash.

But the point thus so much against her will carried, I doubt thou will see in her more of a sullen than of an obliging charmer: for, when Miss Partington was withdrawn, 'What was Miss Partington to her?

Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud, They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd, Nor tell to various people various things, But show to subjects what they show to kings.

The atmosphere has changed from dark and sullen to hopeful, and I am sure your Lordships will allow me to be equally confident that nothing will be done at Westminster to overcloud that promising sky.

He threw the reins to a groom and, savagely sullen of face, went slowly up the terrace-like steps.

Too sullen for speech, Lord Maulevrier sat back in his corner, with his sable cloak drawn up to his chin, his travelling cap covering head and ears, his eyes contemplating the whitening world with a weary anger.

What discontent hath stopped the crimson current Which ran so cheerefully within that brow, And makes it sullen like a standing poole?

There was something sinister and sullen about it.

" "Good night to you, ma'am; good night, young lady; be friends, won't you?" Edith's hand was given, but it was not pleasant to be conquered, and she was a little sullen on the way home.

The head and the dangling goblet were slowly pulled in, just before the moonlight, soft and sullen through the brown haze of the heat, stole down the wall and spread upon the tiles.

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.