saturnine

• Afterwards I had a very serious, saturnine, but kind young man, named Paterson, for a tutor. —  Life of Lord Byron
• (Electoral Prince and Heir-Apparent), who became George I. of England; he, always a taciturn, saturnine, somewhat grim-visaged man, not without thoughts of his own but mostly inarticulate thoughts, was, just at this time, in a deep domestic intricacy. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
• I do not wonder he grew more and more saturnine, and addicted to solid taciturn field-sports. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
• But like some of Webster's saturnine, fantastic assistants or tools in crime, Guido has failed in everything, is no longer young, chews upon the bitter root of failure, and is half-poisoned by its acrid juices. —  Robert Browning
• Hitherto the Queen-mother had created dangers for herself — had started at shadows — and distrusted even those who sought to serve her; while her son, silent, saturnine, and inert, had patiently submitted to the indignities and insults which had been heaped upon him, as though he were either unconscious or reckless of their extent; and the Italian adventurer had braved his enemies, and appeared to defy fate itself. —  The Life of Marie de Medicis

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