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  • Sullenness crept upon me as my head pounded: I was hurt.

    Good Fortune Noni Carter 2010

  • Sullenness crept upon me as my head pounded: I was hurt.

    Good Fortune Noni Carter 2010

  • Sullenness crept upon me as my head pounded: I was hurt.

    Good Fortune Noni Carter 2010

  • Sullenness crept upon me as my head pounded: I was hurt.

    Good Fortune Noni Carter 2010

  • Accepting good fortune has never come easily to me, because I live in some sort of bullshit Puritan/Mormon dread that all good things must be paid for, and also because I'd cultivated my doom so perfectly, nourished my Garden of Sullenness with so much mulch, that anything else would be a little embarrassing.

    through with buzz 2006

  • Accepting good fortune has never come easily to me, because I live in some sort of bullshit Puritan/Mormon dread that all good things must be paid for, and also because I'd cultivated my doom so perfectly, nourished my Garden of Sullenness with so much mulch, that anything else would be a little embarrassing.

    MMV pr��cis 2006

  • Sullenness dropped on him again, and he went up to the gallery.

    In Chancery 2004

  • Sullenness and dejection strongly marked his countenance on the following morning; to amuse him, he was taken around the camp, and to the observatory: casting his eyes to the opposite shore from the point where he stood, and seeing the smoke of fire lighted by his countrymen, he looked earnestly at it, and sighing deeply two or three times, uttered the word ‘gweeun’ (fire).

    The Settlement at Port Jackson 2003

  • Sullenness and the gesture of the fig: "They'll know you hid me here."

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

  • Sullenness and the gesture of the fig: "They'll know you hid me here."

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988

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