When he is upon the water he is fair company; when he comes ashore he mutinies, and, contrary to all other trades, is most surly to gentlemen when they tender payment.

He was surly by nature, but he bowed low to the man whose power was so great in California, and whose generosity had sent him many a bullock.

The engineer is a good deal more free, more loquacious and less surly than his companions, and I wonder what position he occupies on the schooner.

His voice was surly with truculence.