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Example sentences for "moodily"

Lexicographically close words:
moocha; mooching; mood; moode; mooded; moodiness; moods; moody; mooin; mooing
  1. He stared moodily after her and rang for the servant.

  2. Bergen; my mother was from Warsaw," he moodily replied.

  3. Early one evening as I sat in the bar-parlour, and my grandfather stood moodily at the door between that and the bar, a man came into the private compartment whom I had seen there frequently before.

  4. He may just have been counting the notes over again, or not; but now he was staring moodily at the photograph that lay with them.

  5. For days she sat moodily looking out at the sea in the direction his vessel had taken, and a sad foreboding filled her heart that she would never see him more.

  6. The first individual he saw on emerging from the hatchway was Johnson, the pirate captain, who was leaning moodily over the lee rail abaft the main-rigging, smoking a well-seasoned pipe.

  7. Mr Dale said nothing; he simply sat moodily plucking at his beard and muttering to himself; by the look of his countenance he was utterly disgusted with the whole proceeding.

  8. Duncan was moodily indisposed for banter or dispute.

  9. She now sat a little removed from the rest and gazed moodily out over the deserted race-course, thinking over the events of the past few months, and wondering, in a dazed sort of way, what the outcome would be.

  10. There were exceptions, of course, they had moodily agreed.

  11. Long she sat, moodily reviewing the year that had promised so much, yet had yielded her nothing but dissension and sorrow.

  12. I sighed and moodily contemplated my uncreased trouser legs and thought of my non-existent bank balance.

  13. Moodily I slumped back into the theatre and went backstage.

  14. The Ancient and I now set to work putting up an extemporized table, but as for George, he stood staring down moodily into the yet glowing embers of the forge.

  15. And there, sure enough, was the Outside Passenger staring moodily out of the window, and with an untouched mug of ale at his elbow.

  16. I threw it from me with disappointment, and sat moodily down to brood over my fate.

  17. I sat moodily down in the old oak parlor, my heart bowed down with grief.

  18. Amidst such conflicting thought, I travelled on moodily and in silence, to the palpable astonishment of Mike, who could not help regarding me as one from whom fortune met the most ungrateful returns.

  19. The three officers who commanded sat moodily over a wretched fire of wet wood; a solitary candle dimly lighted the dismantled room, where a table but ill-supplied with cheer stood unminded and uncared for.

  20. Perhaps the faintest suspicion of lean fringed it or you might moodily survey a square inch of fat--if there was not a buckshee inch of rind.

  21. Raven's look rested moodily on the brilliant flood.

  22. The Baron's eyes were moodily fixed on the setting sun and the great masses of cloud striving together for the mastery.

  23. He grumbled into silence, and his thoughts changed and turned moodily about himself.

  24. Kelly made his bow, and so took leave of Smilinda, she gnawing her lips, as she watched him with her inscrutable eyes, moodily pushing to and fro with her foot the broken pieces of the fan on the polished floor.

  25. The girl was walking moodily along the edge of the bank, and looking in a dreamy fashion over the parapet into the sullen fast-flowing brown water below.

  26. A tall, dark figure was leaning moodily with folded arms, looking fixedly at the ground, and taking no notice of the busy scene around him until Sir Norman laid his ungloved and jeweled hand lightly on his shoulder.

  27. Miranda, having shook off her crawling acquaintances, watched them glancing along the foul floor in the darkness, and went moodily on.

  28. In a fury of exasperation he clambered down to the water's edge and washed his face; moodily mopping it with his handkerchief he stared across the water.

  29. Kenny, moodily painting the skin beneath the hole in his sock black, flung down the brush and found his coat.

  30. Kenny himself dug anywhere at any time and moodily escaped when he could to write letters.

  31. At a meeting of the lords and prelates of the kingdom, at which Agnes of Merania assisted, Philip moodily asked, in the midst of an ominous silence, what he was to do.

  32. He threw himself into an arm- chair, and moodily stared at the opposite wall.

  33. Warren was moodily silent, and when they came to the hotel he drew up at the curb and nodded to Bernice to precede him out.

  34. No time was lost in arranging the trunks and portmanteaus, and Lord Glencore sat moodily on a bank, listlessly regarding what went forward.

  35. He had gone through it all, and sat moodily pondering over the future, when Madame de Sabloukoff entered.

  36. Yes, Colonel," said he, with a military salute; and Harcourt now turned moodily towards the Castle.

  37. Glencore sat moodily for some moments without speaking; at last he said,-- "I feel as though continual change of place and scene would be a relief to me.

  38. Moodily he sought out a bench in Madison Square, hunched himself down and considered his case.

  39. Chester sat moodily on the edge of the tub until enough hot water had bubbled into it for him to perform ablutions of appalling thoroughness.

  40. She hastened to answer the doorbell; Mr. Pottle sat moodily in his chair, not at all sure he'd like Mr. Deeley.

  41. Tidbury was moodily copying figures and trying not to heed the fact that the green-eyed monster was clutching him with torturing talons when Mr. Hydeman came up to his desk and prodded him playfully in the ribs.

  42. Altogether, Monsieur did not get much politeness from anyone; so he stumped moodily along, venting his spleen as he went.

  43. That performance over, he again began ducking and shaking his head, and then went moodily on, as if indifferent to consequences.

  44. He moodily filled the meerschaum they had brought him, and after driving a volume of smoke through his nose, looked quietly up and said: "Society is wrong.

  45. He sat moodily about the hospital, and sometimes said bitter things.

  46. The plan came to him completely one day while he was sitting moodily on a tree watching the Peacock and his cousin sweeping proudly over the velvet lawn of the King's garden.

  47. Here he would sit by the hour together, wistfully gazing out over the vast panorama spread beneath him, and moodily watching for the slightest sign of life in the far distance.

  48. One morning, after breakfast, Jack was sitting on a log moodily smoking, while Elwood was busying himself clearing up after the meal recently finished.

  49. Jack smoked away moodily at his pipe; Leonard was absolutely idle, except that he turned his eyes, now on the glow of failing daylight overhead, then down at the scene around him.

  50. The rest of the company were almost moodily silent.

  51. For a moment Clarence was moodily silent.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moodily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.