But let us agree that Monsieur Felix owed it to himself to be that iron door against which poor Celeste's applications beat in vain; was that a reason for keeping away from her and sulking in his tent for fifteen whole days?
The father of Olivier Vinet was just now sulking with the government.
She is sulkingbecause she didn’t get enough applause.
They called him to a conference, and there they laid down the law to him as a school-master would order a sulking child to be good.
Mr. Porne smiled without answer, and Mr. Thaddler went sulking away--a bag of cakes bulging in his pocket.
He found Ross, dressed and ready, sulking blackly on his shadowy porch.
Mea had sent a proposal of peace to Elvira through Loneli, for she hated the constant sulking of her friend and the unpleasant new manner she exhibited in turning her back upon her.
She had been obliged to sit day after day on the same bench with the sulking girl, and to come to school and leave again without saying a word.
By lunch time Hattie had been sent to her room for impertinently suggesting that her father spent more on his books than she did on her clothes, and Connie was sulking over a reduced allowance.
While the Commander of the victorious Confederacy was sulking in his tent on the field of Manassas, playing this pitiful farce about the date of a commission, and allowing his army to go to pieces, George B.
Victory had saddled on the Confederacy two heroes destined to cripple its efficiency with interminable controversy, sulking bitterness and personal ambitions.
They rallied behind the sulking General and his friends and established a vigilant and malignant opposition to Jefferson Davis in the Confederate Congress.
That depends, sir, upon conditions--" The Confederate Chief suddenly threw his thin hands above his head and faced his stubbornsulking Commander.
This sheet was made the organ of all the bickering, backbiting, complaining and sulking in the army and the civil life of the new Republic.
The yellow journals of the South continued to praise this sulking old man until half the people of the Confederacy were hoodwinked into believing in his greatness.
His hatred of Davis had been for three years the one mania of his sulking mind.
He abhorred sulking and was always cheerful and pleasant in his home circle, yet when others approached him familiarly he resented it with a frown.
I must see what she looks like," said she, "for she may prove a congenial companion for my own maid, who is already sulking because the place is so lonely.
The raja refused his evening meal, and as was his wont, when in this frame of mind, retired to the sulking apartment, and lay down.
I am sulking because I see no flowers in my garden.
And going to the sulking chamber he lay down, and as usual refused to eat.
Then the raja got angry, and ordered her to leave, but she said, "If you do not tell me why you are sulking I will not depart, am not I also your humble maidservant?
He was sulkingbecause he can see no flowers in his garden.
Now and then he smiled again at Dan, who sat sulking over his breakfast.
The carriage stopped, and the captain picked Lulu up and put her in it without waiting for her to reply, for he saw that she was sulking over his refusal of her request.
Sitting and sulking there in his old library, day after day.
Twenty-two had got over his sulking or his jealousy, or whatever it was, and during the early hours, those hours when Johnny was hardly breathing, he had planned something.
On the contrary, even the pert sparrows still go moping and sulking about silently, or sit with ruffled plumes and drooping wings, upon the bare branches, watching all day long for their scanty dole of crums, and thinking of nothing else.
Gannette, who had been sulking in his chair, roused up.
He therefore retired sulking to the seclusion of his patio, where he sat down patiently to await the turn of events.
But heir's sulking upstairs, and thou'rt sulking down here.
And that meant that she would have to give way in the great conjugalsulking match.
The day that Anne of Austria had selected for the lottery was a decisive moment; the king had not been near his mother for a couple of days; Madame, after the great scene of the Dryads and Naiads, was sulking by herself.
Well, just now, repenting of my hastiness of the morning, and imagining that Guiche was sulking in his own apartments, I went to pay Madame a visit.
While his parents, brothers, and sisters were cheerfully racing up and down the branches laying up stores for the winter, Featherhead sat apart, sulking and scolding.
But the girl said that she wouldn't marry him if he was the last man on earth, and he fell back to sulking again.
We were all perfectly stiff after luncheon, and Aggie was sulking also.
As it is, it looks to these people here as if he had jilted me instead of I him, and that I am sulking over it.
It will appear to every one as if Ida were sulking in her room on Sibley's account; and people are usually thought to be no better than their friends.
You don't seem to be sulking on account of having to wear old togs," 'Lish Davis said with a peculiar twinkle in his eyes.
We ain't going to have any sulking jest because we've taken it into our heads to see that you get some sleep 'twixt now and morning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sulking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
