I could tell of a wilderness, and of a village church, and where the bones of my honoured grandam lie; but there are feelings which refuse to be translated, sulky aborigines, which will not be naturalised in another soil.
He still refused to ask his Aunt Patricia's pardon, so his breakfast was sent up-stairs to him, and he ate insulky silence.
He did not like Indians who were like "sulky slim brown dumb snakes"; that was what he muttered when he looked at Clodomiro.
I don't like it," she grumbled at him with sulky gray eyes.
She gave him one sulky resentful look and dug her heel into Pat.
Christophe was disgruntled: there was no doubt then that Sabine was indifferent to him: and he relapsed into his sulky mood from which nothing could draw him, neither the soft eyes of his neighbor, nor the wine that he drank.
In truth, it had been only one of those fits of sulky whimsies to which he was subject.
At first he said nothing and lay still, but his eyes became less dim and his sulkylips moved.
When I came in I found your fire out, and I had it lit again, and made that sulky drab of a servant stay and blow at it with the bellows till it had burnt up properly; now, say 'Thank you!
Fortunately at this sulky juncture, tea, was brought in, and I fell to upon some bread and butter and cold beef directly.
This is only meant as a sample of the kind of way they used to think or talk, when the narrow sulky turned in at the gate of some house where there was a visit to be made.
He looked assulky a chap as ever I clapped eyes on.
Following him were a pair of bright-looking young squaws whose sole occupation in life seemed to consist in ministering to the various wants of his sulky chiefship.
No answer for a moment, then a rathersulky growl, "I'd finished my business, and thought you might want to see him.
Mr. Davis pondered for some time in sulky silence.
Twice Ginger Dick slipped off and tried to get a ship and came back sulky and hungry, and once Peter Russet sprained his thumb trying to get a job at the docks.
Seven years are come and gone, And now doth fall the festival of the holy Baptist John; Christian and Moslem tilts and jousts, to give it homage due; And rushes on the paths to spread they force the sulky Jew.
But when Rodrigo heard him, he looked in sulky sort,-- I wot the words he answered they were both cold and short.
The fellows from the Jockey Club nodded familiarly at her, and received a sulky stare in return as she dispensed her fruit among them with impatient courtesy.
A sally of laughter greeted the words, and the sulky countenance relaxed into a smile.
The sulky peevish expression had disappeared from the boy's dark face, and made way for one of real sadness.
But Lisbeth only shrugged her shoulders without speaking, and lookedsulky and offended.
A sulky man is ever prone to be an inefficient man.
Then the monkey got sulky and carried off the children to a distant hill and did not bring them back at evening.
He would carry a lady or a child, or pull a sulky; in fact, it was quite a common thing for Blinky Bill to drive him in a sulky to a country meeting and look about him for a likely "mark".
If he could find a fleet youth with a reputedly fast pony, Bill would offer to "pull the little cuddy out of the sulky and run yer for a fiver.
I forbid you to open that window again," she said with such severity that even Tom was cowed, and sat meekly down with a somewhat sulky air.
Flossie declared, fearing, with the old clinging to ungraciousness that sulky people have, that her last reply had sounded too much like coming round, a concession which Flossie never made too soon or made too cheap.
They'll bring up another cart directly," said Allstone in his sulky tone of voice.
Sir Henry turned frowning to the man, and said a few words in a low but commanding tone to him which made him scowl; but he went off growling something to himself in a sulky manner.
Outside, I felt the return of a sudden and passionate affection for Lirat and, reproaching myself for being sulky with him, I resolved to ask him to dine with me that very evening.
Juliette was sulky all day; when I said something to her she did not answer or contented herself with articulating monosyllables curtly and with irritation.
In a minute however the door was opened, and a strapping black-eyed young woman stood on the threshold looking both sulky and astonished.
Eyesses are more commonly sulky than passage hawks, and very often display signs of this defect in the days of hack.
But a sulky and moping hawk seldom turns out first-rate.
And this, besides, would have to be before old Raindal, who was already sulky and would keep his eye on them!
The old men were sulky and sad, and spoke of leaving Vao for good and settling somewhere far inland.
They accordingly became most disagreeable, slow, sulky and sleepier than ever, and as I could not be punishing them all day long, life with them became somewhat trying.
However, they proved as sulky as they were dirty, and I was disgusted with them, and quite glad they had refused to sign for more than a month.
Let him speak, Jack; it's a comfort to hear that he's alive after lying there stiff and white and sulky for a whole hour, just like an Egyptian mummy.
But the snags were thick, the water was treacherous and shallow, the boiler seemed indeed to have a sulky devil in it, and thus neither that fireman nor I had any time to peer into our creepy thoughts.
Daguenet, who had been just a little sulky with her since Steiner had come upon the scene, was dreaming of resuming the old connection or at least of snatching some delightful opportunities if occasion offered.
But that evening she was so afraid of a scene that she affected complete indifference, skimming through the letter with a sulky expression and flinging it aside as soon as read.
The aisles were deep in shadow; not a soul was in the church, and the only sound audible amid the unlovely darkness was that made by the old shoes of some verger or other who was dragging himself about in sulky semiwakefulness.
