| 单词 | surliness |
| 例句 | “He-e-e-re’s lunch!” he announced at cell after cell, undaunted by silence and surliness. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I look gloomy even when I’m happy, which comes across as surliness. Aidan Gillen: ‘My best kiss? Up against a caravan in County Sligo as a teenager’ 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z And the shadow cast by these narratives—one that valorizes existential curiosity, adventure, individuality, and surliness—does not fall over women. Where are the women Kerouacs? 2013-03-13T22:28:00Z In a strange way, Bonds' surliness may be turning public opinion against the government, and in his favor. Barry Bonds Trial: Why the Government Should Get Over It 2011-03-25T09:50:00Z There’s none of the amplitude, the imaginative energy of his best work or even the interesting surliness of his more mediocre efforts. A Novelist’s Requiem for the Male Libido 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z If you took Ikona Pop's cheeky surliness and spliced it with Savages at their most savage, i.e. as they sound on Husbands, you might end up with something like Vulkano. New band of the day (Vulkano 1,556) 2013-07-18T13:53:00Z But when Kavanaugh followed, he “came straight out of the gates weird” and his mix of tears, anger and surliness concerned Oliver. John Oliver on Brett Kavanaugh: 'We should never forget what he represents' 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z That perspective, combined with a voice that veered between street-smart surliness and wounded yearning, established her as a major new voice in pop music. Winehouse leaves behind unfulfilled promise 2011-07-23T18:55:00Z TV viewers became familiar with Smith's profile, his lower jaw jutting forward in bulldog surliness, as the two men discussed many subjects, though rarely with insight. Mel Smith 2013-07-21T16:12:44Z You are going to see an increased surliness, increased manipulation and an increase in her pulling away from you as she nears her tween years. Why is my otherwise polite 8-year-old so rude at home? 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Here, Burnham comes across as a scowling adolescent – albeit one in remarkable control of his surliness, which is wielded as the sharpest weapon in Burnham's comic arsenal. Bo Burnham 2010-08-11T20:30:00Z It is the surliness of those who resent the predictable consequence of the political culture that the resentful embrace, paternalist statism. Opinion | A tantrum by infantilized French populists could elect Marine Le Pen 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z They also mention that Mr. Statham was a no-show for the session, which might have contributed to their surliness, but his presence certainly would have made the track more fun. Home theater movie reviews: ‘Wrath of Man’ (Blu-ray) and ‘Snatch’ (4K Ultra HD) 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Yet criticisms of his supposed surliness could not be wider of the mark. The unapologetic feminism that turned Andy Murray into a global icon | Jacob Steinberg 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Trump’s surliness and Pelosi’s unease aside, the participation of public servants in public discussions about public affairs does seem healthy. Trump, Pelosi, and Schumer’s Oval Office Spat Is an Argument for More Public Debate 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z The little 5-year-old’s behavior problems, surliness, school issues and learning issues all disappeared when they finally accepted one doctor’s simple prescription: “Let him live like a boy.” Perspective | Transgender at 11: ‘I. Am. A. Boy. That’s it.’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Still, Pederson is a coaching neophyte compared with Belichick, whose surliness and visible disdain for answering questions is as much of a trademark of his mystique as his dogged pursuit of excellence. Playoff newbie vs. Hall of Famer? Doug Pederson’s Eagles are right where he wants ’em. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Mr Xi may have worried that Chinese surliness might push Mr Moon, who feted Donald Trump in Seoul this week, even further into the American camp. South Korea is making up with China, but a sour taste remains 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Thanks for reminding me to be empathetic, and to not get shut down by my daughter's sudden surliness. When Teenagers Bristle at ‘How Was School?’ 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z He's a Sheffield lad, and there's a good-natured surliness to the way he turns his vowels — just think about Bean as Ned Stark in Game of Thrones, gently mocking Mark Addy's Robert Baratheon. Sean Bean's dulcet tones are going to be the perfect guide for Civilization VI 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The fact that Sock broke a finger in a fall during the match, which he revealed in a Twitter message on Wednesday, might explain some of his surliness. Invigorating or Infuriating, and Definitely Indiscreet 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z I felt just now that I had allowed myself to be dominated by the atmosphere of misery or surliness, that I had agreed somehow to be shut in or bottled up. Saul Bellow’s Revenge 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z This remoteness, which sometimes shaded into surliness, was part of what made Tiger so intimidating, and it didn’t change after he ran into marital, health, and swing problems. The 2015 Masters: The “New Tiger” Avoids Embarrassment 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Studies indicate that people are more attentive observers when wearing a lab coat; a taxi-driver’s surliness arouses a mirroring anger in ourselves. An Artist with Amnesia 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z The flashes of giddiness on the Silver Line’s first weekday — and there was giddiness, along with surliness, confusion and apathy — stemmed from just how fresh and functional it is. On the Silver Line, the scent of a freshly forged commute Modern Americans, used to the indifference or even surliness of many of the salaried government officials with whom we must deal will understand that “estrangement.” How We Pay Government Workers Has Changed Greatly Over Time -- And Why That Matters 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Teens surliness may actually be due to chronic sleep deprivation. Good Parenting Skills: 7 Research-Backed Ways to Raise Kids Right 2014-05-10T11:00:38Z His swearing, his club tossing, his at-times surliness and reluctance to sign autographs have been pointed out by many for a long time. Sirak: Tiger Woods Has Nowhere To Hide 2013-10-19T04:00:00Z His surliness toward the press, long endured by local reporters, was exposed under the bright Stanley Cup spotlight to hockey audiences across the United States and Canada. Olympic Job May Elude Tortorella 2013-06-28T17:24:12Z And so Old Trafford was treated to a masterclass in surliness from the Portuguese's first entrance into a crammed press room. Why José Mourinho was wise to play down the return of Cristiano Ronaldo 2013-03-04T21:53:10Z But we were fast learning that this silence is not the stupidity or surliness which the stranger in the islands is apt to think it. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Despite his occasional surliness, Mr. Ruzzamenti said he felt driven to help others when possible. Lives Forever Linked Through Kidney Transplant Chain 124 2012-02-19T01:23:17Z An indescribable relief was expressed by the other, but he spoke with surliness. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z Here is a note of more human character interspersed with Borrow’s diatribes upon the surliness of the Scots. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z All the gruff surliness and cringing hatred of the expression with which he regarded the Evil One on the raft had disappeared, and he smiled with benign content on his domestic surroundings. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z "You folks been up all night?" he asked, with a drowsy surliness. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Her smile, when she spoke, was so contagious, that I would have defied the surliest man alive to have maintained his surliness when he found himself in front of it. Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z Mr Baker displayed something more than surliness in his reply. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z The surliness left his face, his figure straightened from the lurching walk, and he even looked a shade cleaner. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z “If thee pleases,” answered Peggy, ill at ease at so much surliness. Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls 2011-07-17T02:00:32.837Z There was a surliness, a resentment underlying his tone. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z The mood of mocking insolence seemed deserting Franz, and a wrathful surliness manifested itself in the tone with which he addressed Papa. Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z She did not know the uncompromising surliness that made him so difficult of approach to many people, especially any who showed their own feeling of superiority, as most of them did, to a squaw man. Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z At sight of the glistening gems a sudden change had come over the features of the trooper, their expression of surliness being displaced by that of intense cupidity. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z Only now and then did he break out into sudden spasms of rage which, in the opinion of his household, were most excusable and infinitely preferable to his former continual surliness. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z Like to surliness is the boorishness of those who from cynicism or laziness despise refinement, or from greed neglect proper manners at table. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z "That's best known to myself," the stranger returned, with a surliness in his tone that he had not exhibited before. The Childerbridge Mystery 2011-02-16T03:00:38.127Z "Will you stop the coach, or not?" cried Pierre, now incensed at his surliness in continuing to drive on. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z Once on a day early in December, the colonel, as if to spite his customary surliness, appeared at dinner in high feather. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Staff at Eastlands are not certain whether his attitude stems from surliness or shyness – or maybe a bit of both. Mario Balotelli regrets Manchester City move and yearns for home 2010-12-28T00:06:01Z But entirely different from surliness is that dignity which can be reserved without being distant or hard of approach, and that seriousness which can be grave or silent without being ungracious. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z And there were also flashes of Woods's surliness that can hint at a lack of enjoyment of life on the fairway. Tiger Woods bonds with Steve Stricker and discovers Ryder Cup ethic 2010-10-02T18:39:00Z And even the old man, who was both the oldest and the worst of the three, talked with gentleness to myself, reserving his surliness—for all the rest of the world. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 Things which ordinarily would have provoked no notice, or a laugh at most, now caused hot words and surliness. The Orphan And what is worse, no soul to appeal to but merciless creatures, who answer but in laughter, surliness, contradiction, and too often stripes? Augusta Triumphans Or, the Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe He rubbed his hands in anticipation, much of his surliness gone, now that he was about to deal with something he understood. Collector's Item Spencer attributed his surliness to its true cause. The Silent Barrier Turk was usually restless; Grim slept away his life in surliness. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 The extra work was hard enough in itself to cause his anger to rise and to create sensitiveness and surliness on the part of his men, but it was only one factor of his discontent. The Orphan He has the face and surliness of a mastiff, which has often saved him from being treated like a cur, till some more sagacious than ordinary found his nature, and used him accordingly. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors There was a furtive look in his restless, wild-animal eyes, smoky like the rest of him, and a surliness about his long, high-ridged nose which came down over his mustache like a beak. The Rustler of Wind River Is it body or spirit that rules him—his fear, lust, vanity, gluttony, surliness, or sloth? his humility, generosity, piety, sense of justice, sense of duty? The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 The surliness of the repulse made it quite effective, and the four Iroquois sat for several minutes as if undecided what they ought to do after such an interview. The Wilderness Fugitives It was said that surliness then existed among certain negroes and the police wanted to be able to cope with any situation that might arise. Negro Migration during the War Brock's brother was so often deprived of his legitimate spoils, that, while his surliness was increased, his bodily growth was checked. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain "She could let him put his arm round her waist yesterday," said Herr Müller, with a return of his morning's surliness. The Grey Woman and other Tales He asked Mitya to get into the cart with somewhat excessive surliness. The Brothers Karamazov His acuteness, his wit, his logic, and his surliness, form, altogether, a curious portraiture of an English politician. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. I have learnt by this time that absence of manners in an American is intended to signify not surliness but independence, so I asked to be allowed to enter. Appearances Being Notes of Travel From the joyful way he pocketed the coin I gave him, it was evident he had not counted on payment, which perhaps explained the surliness of his manners. My Sword's My Fortune A Story of Old France That is, he will first complain of the man having the surliness of an independent man, and then accuse him of having the servility of a dependent one. What I Saw in America Best of all, his disposition had altered to a very considerable extent, and this improvement on his old surliness was of the greatest assistance to us on the occasion I must now narrate. Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty A non-cooperative attitude may involve nothing more than creating an unpleasant situation among one's fellow workers, engaging in bickerings, or displaying surliness and stupidity. Simple Sabotage Field Manual I tried also to talk to the captain of the band after I reached the camp, but he repelled my friendly advances with something like surliness. Duffels And she wept a little therewith; so he repented his surliness and set to comfort her, till she laughed and he also, and they were merrier together. The Sundering Flood And the men who saw him groping about helplessly in broad daylight forgave him his surliness, and ceased to wonder at his despondency. Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France Sulkiness, one of the characteristics of the girls and boys, develops into surliness in men and billingsgate in women. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia But then, old Jacob Patterson was noted as much for his surliness as for his miserliness. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 Mayo followed, but the master came down a few steps into the companionway and intercepted the volunteer, showing a final smolder of his surliness. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 And in his modest and most interesting book he mentions the man's surliness and says he was glad to get rid of him at Circle. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska But if these fail to be developed, dishonesty or superficiality, slovenliness in dress and speech, and surliness in manner, may and do become equally habitual. Human Traits and their Social Significance Suspense and his own powerlessness turned him sullen; he went about his tasks under Hito's eye with a dogged surliness at which his fellow-slaves laughed in private and dared not challenge him in good-natured raillery. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain Very different from the dogged surliness of an Englishman, or the who-cares-for-you manner of our own countrymen, is the air of conscious self-respect of certain classes of French tradesmen. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 He was mild, but he preserved a little touch of surliness in order that she might not conclude that her victory was won. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 I cannot believe that coarse manners, boisterous conversation, slovenly negligence, filthy customs, surliness, indecency, are to descend by necessity from generation to generation in any portion of the community. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American His condition was outwardly manifested in the form of additional surliness. The Young Trawler The earl was so fretted at his superiority and surliness, that he dismissed him without any reward. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Mark, with a kind of surliness, an unusual mood for him, denied it somewhat sharply. Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset They have nothing of the surliness of the Englishman. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 His relief expressed itself in a superficial surliness; but Edwin was not deceived. Clayhanger This, however, was only rumour, and was not to be reckoned among Bob’s known transgressions, which were general stupidity, surliness, unsteadiness, and an inveterate distaste for veracity. The Cock-House at Fellsgarth But then, repenting of my surliness, I added, "And none so perilous that you need fear, Mistress Barbara." Simon Dale In addition to this, there was an indescribable, but ludicrous salvo to his dignity, in the way of surliness. Recollections of Europe Here is a note of more human character interspersed with Borrow's diatribes upon the surliness of the Scots. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends In confinement these rats are not engaging pets; they show a considerable amount of surliness and ferocity. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon A feeling of doubt, almost of despair, seized upon him and he called in that impatient surliness which springs from tense anxiety, asking an old man how far it was to Dieppe. Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer What struck us from the beginning was the surliness of the men and the industry of the women; and I am persuaded that the Swiss Government is really carried on by the house-keeping sex. A Little Swiss Sojourn Miss Tranter was not inquisitive, but she had rather a liking for Tom, and his melancholy surliness was not lost upon her. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Nowhere have I seen unformed sheepish boys, nowhere the surliness, awkwardness, ungraciousness, and uneasy proud bashfulness, I have seen in the best companies in England. The Diary of an Ennuyée The West-country men lay big and stolid in an invulnerable surliness. The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle The man saluted respectfully, but with a dogged surliness that revealed no loyalty. The Title Market Even in her dreams Annie did not picture Archelaus pouring out his gold upon her or as being anything but of a splendid masculine surliness. Secret Bread Somehow, notwithstanding his surliness, she had not the faintest desire to quarrel with him. The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories Old Man Bright received them with considerable surliness. The Killer As for Mab, she was too eagerly interested in various matters to give more than a passing thought to the fact that the man she called Big Bear had laid aside his surliness. The Odds And Other Stories He stayed as long as he had the least excuse for doing so, and then arose to take his leave, half smiling at Hannah's inhospitable surliness and his own perseverance under difficulties. Ishmael Or, In the Depths It was the surliness of his tone, rather than the words themselves, that startled her. The Real Adventure Hearing this, I was less inclined to resent the undeniable reserve and even surliness with which they met my advances. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 The merest trifle would give rise to these noisy outbursts of gaiety in the very midst of his wonted surliness. Abbe Mouret's Transgression But he felt neither weariness nor impatience, neither regret nor surliness. The Odds And Other Stories As for the common people, they are serious, shrewd, and industrious; but often seem rude and uncourtly to strangers, for they wish to show their independance by an annoying surliness of behaviour. The World's Fair His love of solitude was probably sincere, his surliness was his breeding, and he extracted from his painful, unsocial habitudes the peculiar poetry which suits with hardship. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 An idiot smile, a ridiculous surliness, an affected bravado, disgraces the bloated countenance. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Whether from shyness or surliness, he had held consistently aloof from such frivolous pastimes. The Tidal Wave and Other Stories But the hero-worship is not undiscriminating; conceit, selfishness, surliness will go far to nullify the influence of physical strength and skill. Cambridge Essays on Education He called gruffly into the silence of the house, and his speech held the surliness of his attitude. Pardners The next virtue is Good-breeding in society, a balance between surliness on the one hand, and weak assent or interested flattery on the other. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics Well, when he joined, his outstanding feature was a sort of surly independence, the surliness being largely based upon the fear of losing the independence. The First Hundred Thousand There was a reticence about him which almost all took for surliness, but which was in reality merely a somewhat unattractive mixture of awkwardness and laziness. The Tidal Wave and Other Stories He started other topics, racing, polo, politics, airily ignoring his guest's undeniable surliness, till at last Grange's uneasiness began to wear away. The Way of an Eagle “Well, I suppose I’ll have to assume responsibility for him and his acts,” I remarked, piqued by the fellow’s surliness. The House of a Thousand Candles Here, for the first time in my experience with Orthodox convents, lodgings were refused me by the old hegumenos, and I instantly ordered the horses to be loaded again, without attempting to soften his surliness. The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II As soon as Coquenil reached the prison he was shown into the director's private room, and he noticed that M. Dedet received him with a strange mixture of surliness and suspicion. Through the Wall I did not mind his surliness; tomorrow when I woke up, I would begin my dreams. The Ghost Ship The newsmonger is of the number, but his manner is not quite hearty—there is something of surliness in his compliments. The Old Curiosity Shop With my best effort at surliness I asked what we had done. Greenmantle But indeed he longed to know the deed, and fretted him because of Simon's surliness and closeness. Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair Yes, but surliness might have provoked a point-blank question. The Secret Sharer However, she frankly described her adventure, Daunt's surliness, and Winnington's appearance. Delia Blanchflower How shall I stand the questions of some, the set surliness of others, the returning love of one or two? Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 Otherwise her mistress nowise mishandled or threatened her, though she had gone back to the surliness and railing which was her wont. The Water of the Wondrous Isles "Yours isn't the voice to talk down a trumpet," said Leo Ulford, with a sudden air of surliness. The Woman with the Fan The figure stopped and answered me without surliness or anger. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker Yet he never seems to have given the impression of surliness; he was not surly, he was silent. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century "What have you been doing?" the doctor inquired, without noticing her surliness. The Web of Life Where all had been resistance and defiant surliness before, now all had become obedience and worship. Darkness and Dawn The Squire seemed to regard his guest's surliness with as little attention as Verty had displayed. The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier Besides I had a notion it would rather amuse McMurtrie, whose more artistic mind must have been frequently distressed by his colleague's blustering surliness. A Rogue by Compulsion When a bear begins to act in this way or to show surliness it is sometimes necessary to shoot it. American Big Game in Its Haunts And Albert's face was somewhat dismal, and his eye inclined to something like an aggrieved surliness, as he joined the new-comers and answered their first question. The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation "Yours," answered the Sergeant without hesitation and with his habitual surliness. The Secret of the Tower Even Percy Darrow saw the surliness of the men's attitudes, and with his usual good sense divined the cause. The Mystery What he said was kindly; there was nothing like surliness in his manner; but he seemed to be without the faculty of drawing other people out and putting himself in easy accord with them. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 And yet, this utter lack of sociability could scarcely have arisen from positive surliness or unkindness of disposition. The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales In a word, the surliness of Isabella's guardian is a circumstance sufficiently favourable for you. The School for Husbands He stood unshrinking, partly encouraged by the consciousness of personal strength, and partly by a rugged surliness of temper, which is often mistaken among persons of this kind for real courage. Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Poor man! because, when he was twenty a girl had jilted him, he was still, at over forty, defending a sensitive heart by an armor of surliness. The Iron Woman He went far out of his way and lost much time, all on account of his surliness. Fifty Famous People He seemed more than ever determined to remain in his glum mood, and the pleasant badinage of his friend during their run out to Lincoln Park Boulevard rather increased than lessened his surliness. Out of the Primitive Oh! papa, when my forehead aches with surliness, it does feel so unblest, so uncrossed!' and she put her hand over it, 'and all the books and hymns seem not to belong to me. The Young Step-Mother His surliness, too, was subdued into puzzled humility, as though he had seen the failure of a potent charm in a supreme moment. Lord Jim "No," said the woman with an almost masculine surliness of tone. The Prodigal Judge "I don't suppose it makes much difference to the excluded whether it is done out of mere surliness, or for the sake of the preserves." Magnum Bonum Next, his anger could not subdue itself beyond surliness on her appearing, and the surliness lasted through the first part of breakfast. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel So, to remove the false impression his surliness might produce on so benevolent a mind, I entered into conversation with the polite stranger. An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay They were broad-shouldered, large-limbed men, distinguished only by a peculiar surliness of countenance; perhaps their expression was the result of their suspecting me; for I observed them narrowly watching every movement during Wuzu and prayers. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 "Anybody can have my job that wants it," Honey volunteered with a touch of surliness unusual with him. Angel Island But it will give the reader an idea of the dogged obstinacy and surliness of the lad's character, when I mention one trait regarding him. Barry Lyndon But the abrupt surliness completed the recognition, and, seizing his hand, Louis cried, 'Tom! how are you?' Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 The surliness with which the woodchopper speaks of his woods, handling them as indifferently as his axe, is better than the mealy-mouthed enthusiasm of the lover of nature. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Yet his inveterate surliness the rascal could not wholly conquer. The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro "No such purpose had I," the Jotun said with a touch of surliness. The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest It was in a state of half imbecility; the most wonderful characteristic being, that all its self-will, its surliness had gone. East Lynne There was a surliness in his manner, as he spoke, that made it probable he would not have satisfied her enquiries, even if he could have done so. The Mysteries of Udolpho Neither the surliness of porters nor the impertinence of footmen could keep me back. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners "Perforce," said I ungraciously, perceiving surliness to be the key to the respect of such a creature; "a king might thank Heaven for a kennel on such a night as this." The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro She discovered her betrothed—he whom La Boulaye had called her lover—standing with his back to the fire, his hands clasped behind him, the very picture of surliness. The Trampling of the Lilies But he followed her, albeit still embarrassedly, and with that new sense of respect which had checked his former surliness. A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories He looked inquiringly at his captive—with the same wondering surliness. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's I knew," said Bill, with a surliness that ill concealed his evident admiration of the calm figure before him—"I knew the partikler style of d—n fool that you was, and expected no better. Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories No doubt she accounted me a clown, whose nature inclined to surliness, and so she turned away, telling Giacopo that as soon as the horses were breathed they might push on. The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro The two gentlemen were big Yorkshiremen, heavy-browed, and their native shrewdness packed far away behind a bumpkin stolidity and surliness that barely allowed them to show respect to the King. The Caged Lion The boatman thought his secretiveness and reticence only the surliness of his nation, and cared little for a man who never asked for the news, and to whom he brought no letters. Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation She arranged a seat for him on the sofa, which he took with a certain brusque boyish surliness, the last vestige of his youth. From Sand Hill to Pine She offered to read to him, entreated him to let her do something with him, but he repelled her every advance with contempt and surliness, which now and then broke into rage and vituperation. Sir Gibbie The surliness of Moliere's hero is copied and caricatured. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 This, added to his surliness of manner and expression, strengthened a growing suspicion in the mind of the party that he was a fugitive from justice—a forger, a derelict banker, or possibly a murderer. Maruja "Ay, ay, and is it so?" said his wife, who, knowing him well, knew that his surliness proceeded from some repressed sympathy. Mary Barton Bostil thought this strange and put it down to the surliness of the fellow, who had lost on the races. Wildfire Even Paw's surliness lightened a bit by the time he had speared his tenth cake and walloped it in the bacon grease before sprinkling it thick with sugar and settling the eleventh cake on top. The Trail of the White Mule The chill of the morning and the surliness of the postman gradually infected the student. The Witch and other stories When anger is not frank, but manifests itself by a lowered brow and sidelong look, we speak of sullenness or surliness. The Foundations of Personality She had been ashamed, before, merely of Billy's inhospitality, and surliness, and unfairness. The Valley of the Moon Our friend, Luigi, the butcher, was one of these, and the surliness of the Roman blood was past boiling heat when he received in his ample stomach the blunt end of a German's pike. Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes Nor is the paranoic who chooses to put his interpretation on the surliness of his employer as far estranged from reality as the praecox who recognizes his employer in the person of the physician. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 This he refused with some degree of surliness, and failed not to convince me that, if I should condescend to become more gentle, he would soon grow more rude. Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon — Volume 1 Yes, but surliness might have provoked a point-blank question. 'Twixt Land and Sea We sat upon our saddles with faces of the utmost surliness, while the water dropped from the vizors of our caps, and trickled down our cheeks. The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life |
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