sullenness

• “They do not in sullenness deny him an answer, nor stand mute; but they tell him that they are in no care about it.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)

• “It consisted chiefly of a dialogue between the two lovers; and the boy, with a wonderful ease and grace and skill, mimicked the shy coquetries of the girl, her fits of petulance and dictation, and the pathetic remonstrances of her companion, his humble entreaties and his final sullenness, which is only conquered by her sudden and ample consent.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873

• “What was then called sullenness now took the name of resignation, and stupidity was quiet contempt.”

  The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52

• “She was frightened and ashamed, and the sullenness which is the refuge of most young people descended upon her like a darkness.”

  Mary, Mary

• “He spent the whole day in a queer mood, cherishing a kind of sullenness against himself.”

  Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works

• “The animal had the character of being, contrary to what his species usually are, exceedingly savage; and he suffered himself to be taken up by me and carried from his foes with a kind of sullenness; but when, being out of the reach of danger, he was put down, he gazed on his deliverer, and then crouched at his feet.”

  The Dog

• “ill-will" he describes as "an anger that endures and grows old," and this the Philosopher ascribes to "sullenness"; while he describes”

  Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province

• “He thought that some of them resented his sullenness, his silence.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Empty Family

• “The husband noticed her sullenness; he was keen enough for that.”

  Fictionaut: Minimal Resistance

• “They are as good-natured in their contentment as any monarch could hope for, but they have also perfected the art of sullenness, being expert at standing in clusters with their heads tucked into their shoulders, letting their silence shout for them.”

  Simon & Schuster: Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer

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