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sullen
1. My anger dissolved, reducing, becoming a sullen undertow rather than a raging torrent
2. I started to shake and tears broke through the dam of sullen resistance that I had built up during these last few days of torture
3. At the end of a sullen afternoon of black clouds and driving rain, Ken stood by the back door dripping from head to toe and he turned to his wife and said, “You know, I don’t think I can keep this garden going anymore, not like I used to”
4. sullen and unresponsive glottal brutality of a pubescent teenage
5. He grew sullen instantly
6. The members of the party ate their breakfast, a sullen silence replacing the bad tempered, early morning repartee which usually accompanied this meal
7. She looked down at Roman again with her sullen no-nonsense face
8. looked on with sullen faces of envy as they waited to shake our hands
9. I saw a great yellow face, greasy, with heavy, double-chin, and two sullen, menacing gray eyes which glared at me
10. Rian looked sullen and humiliated as he massaged the blisters on his hands, his otherwise unbelievable training and skill seemingly worthless at the moment
11. There sullen lions sternly seem to roar,
12. She was a sullen, but attractive woman about his age
13. "It's a fucking joke!" said Bradlee, turning sullen at their lack of reaction
14. His voice was sullen
15. But the expression on her face was sullen, arrogant, defiant! You little vixen, this is my roof you're under
16. The tall Man appeared sullen, but looked up to face her
17. Having already been through the teenage years with Ryan’s older brother, she ignored her son’s sullen mood and pottered about the kitchen, humming to herself as she prepared her breakfast
18. His face immediately became sullen
19. Then, there was the basketball court for Oscar: all of this from a man who had lived his days walking about under a sullen cloud, seeking only solitude
20. It was a moment of rapturous joy, however there sat Edgar, morose and sullen, staring at him, with fear clearly written in his eyes
21. They had to wake up to the idea that they were that close to riches beyond their wildest dreams if they would use their heads and work with him as a team, but what with Dougie dancing nervously on the passenger’s side and Patty sullen and quiet in the back…
22. Lanris intoned the somewhat haughty word with a certain character and an outlandish accent that made everyone laugh, especially Mott whose sullen mood was eased and was now up on his feet again, stirring his stew with a certain air of culinary dexterity
23. He could discern a sullen mood
24. His look was now veritably sullen, withdrawn
25. Ethan looked sullen and embarrassed
26. The Romans, they feared, would use an uprising, any disturbance of their dictatorial status quo, as they had many times in the past, to upbraid their truculent subjects additionally, in their sullen acquiescence to the rule of this abhorrent “invader
27. ” His sullen eyes looked steady at me
28. The voices and the laughter and the music breathe life into the sullen walls
29. He usually was sullen and quiet
30. A whisper of sullen wind
31. Seko’s face took on a sullen look
32. capsules around him, his expression growing more sullen as he
33. If he seemed sullen on the walk back to Subway, he would be unbearable after a morning at Metro
34. corner looking rather sullen; his mind was on other things
35. 32 As for Cain, he was so sullen and so angry that he went into the field, where Satan came to him and said to him, "Since your brother Abel has taken refuge with your father Adam, because you did thrust him from the altar, they have kissed his face, and they rejoice over him, far more than over you
36. In the sullen tunnel of time… that hard and cruel claimant
37. and she had become dour and sullen as a result
38. Looking up to see Rachel’s sullen face, Jesse’s voice fell flat
39. 32 As for Cain he was so sullen and so angry that he went into the field where Satan came to him and said to him "Since your brother Abel has taken refuge with your father Adam because you did thrust him from the altar they have kissed his face and they rejoice over him far more than over you
40. First that Myserrah, Moshe thought, then sullen Uruk, now this, lordly Youssaf? What have we done that the gods would plague us in such a manner? -- Careful, the inner voice warned again, he might read your thoughts in your face
41. Penn was with them, looking sullen, brooding over a
42. First that Myserrah, Moshe thought, then sullen Uruk, now this, lordly Youssaf? What have we
43. For weeks after he had been empty and sullen
44. Everything the horse did was sullen but at least he was moving
45. Though the sullen years and the mark of pain
46. How dangerous were those two? They were sinister enough, sullen and tattooed
47. Is the sullen man staring back really me?
48. Forgive his pranks, all parents sometimes have worries about their kids and in these heavy times one should not let sullen thoughts come up but instead be grateful that we are still alive
49. I looked around at the campers’ faces, some sullen and suspicious, some grinning stupidly, some eyeing me as if they were waiting for a chance to pick my pockets
50. I thought about some of the kids I’d seen in the Hermes cabin, teenagers who looked sullen and depressed, as if they were waiting for a call that would never come