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  • I think that they keep to themselves & are kind of sullen.

    Olbermann on Bush in Vietnam « raincoaster 2006

  • "What clothes am I to take?" she asked her mother, in a tone which she mentally denominated "quiet and cold," though possibly some people might have called it "sullen."

    Queen Hildegarde Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

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