morose

• Quite lately--yesterday or the day before--his mother had spoken to him, gently but very seriously, about what she called the morose and savage fits which would bring misery upon him if he did not set himself earnestly to overcome them And there were times, he knew, when it seemed as if a demon possessed him and drove him to wound even those who loved him and whom he loved--times when their affection only roused in him some hideous spirit of sullen contradiction He feels softened now somehow, and has a new longing for the love he has so often harshly repulsed. —  The Talking Horse And Other Tales
• Mr. Beamish, my adversary, he described as a morose, fire-eating southern, that evidently longed for an "affair" with a military man, then considered a circumstance of some eclat in the south; his second, the doctor, on the contrary, was by far "the best of the cut-throats," a most amusing little personage, full of his own importance, and profuse in his legends of his own doings in love and war, and evidently disposed to take the pleasing side of every occurrence in life; they both agreed in but one point--a firm and fixed resolve to give no explanation of the quarrel with me. —  The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete
• His expression grew morose, as again he pressed the button on his desk. —  Within the Law
• His most gloomy moods were rather abrupt and fitful than morose, and his usual bearing was calm, soft, and even tender. —  Eugene Aram — Volume 01
• I have seen dark things done in drink -- the cheerful made morose, the gentle violent. —  The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete

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