They have insulted him with rudeness, and with menaces, which were never excited by the gloomy sullenness of William, even when half the nation denied him their allegiance; nor by the dangerous bigotry of James, unless, when he was finally driven from his palace; and with which scarcely the open hostilities of rebellion ventured to vilify the unhappy Charles, even in the remarks on the cabinet of Naseby.

There is a good deal of sullenness in his nature" "And they're not the best qualities in a man who is being trained to command!" broke in a midshipman at the rear of the room.

The outlaw's curiosity overcame his sullenness at last.

Yet, when a member of this class is smouldering in his own wrath, it is proposed to meet his sullenness by casting him out of our friendship.

Wine inflames the general malignity, and changes sullenness to petulance, till at last none can bear any longer the presence of the rest.

" There was no sullenness about him now, only steadfast purpose.

The silence that followed, and the sullenness with which Perdosa readdressed himself to his work, was significant enough of Captain Selover's past relations with the men.

The warm and cold seasons of India have no charms like those of England, but yet people who are guiltless of what Milton so finely calls "a sullenness against nature," and who are willing, in a spirit of true philosophy and piety, to extract good from every thing, may save themselves from wretchedness even in this land of exile.