His tribesmen had arranged to deliver the assault at noon, but what puzzled him was a sullen booming at frequent intervals.
The sullen roar of the big guns, and the sharp rattle from the rifle-pits, quickly placed us on the defence.
The elderly lady again burst into tears of genuine distress, Maria colored over her cheek-bones, and Dick stared at the ground in sullen disquiet.
So the Democrats of the North, and the Bourbon Democrats of the South settled down in a sullenmood to four years more of Republican rule.
Dixie" sat down like a sulky, sullen woman by her own hearthstone, and refused to be comforted.
In that sullen mood she departed to join that "silent majority" whose realm under earth is bounded by the sides of the grave.
And the old man drew off from the ground, which was now measured out by the seconds, and continued muttering and talking to himself in sullen indignation, mixed with anxiety, and with a strong feeling of painful curiosity.
Everybody, from the dejected Baronet to the sullen adept, now caught the spirit of curiosity, crowded round the grave, and would have jumped into it, could its space have contained them.
The fisherman, in a stubborn and sullen tone, added to the same purpose.
Stull looked at him, and his white face, soured by dyspepsia, became sullen with wrath.
Stull regarded him with habitual and sullen distrust.
The best Neeland could do was to find a seat in a compartment where he interrupted conversation between three men who turned sullen heads to look at him, resenting in silence the intrusion.
In sullen wrath the conquered Moor Wide open flings your dungeon-door, And leaves ye free from cell and chain, The owners of yourselves again.
You see how the jutting crags threaten to tumble; how the heaps far below are overgrown by treacherous Knieholz, and form ridges which dam the sullenwaters of two or three small lakes.
A great rounded hill of stone, blocks on blocks up-piled to the summit, sullen as despair, notwithstanding the greenish tinge of clinging lichen.
The lightning flared so much and it was so red that it was uncanny, it even had a supernatural tinge, and the sullenrumbling of the distant thunder added to it.
It was only a sullen gray dome over a gray and ghastly sea, depressing to the last degree to men worn as they were.
The sullen boom of a cannon came from a point far down the river, and then the sullen boom of another replying.
The crimson lightning never ceased to quiver and the sullen rumble of the distant thunder was increasing.
The captain called the mate, speaking to him briefly and rapidly, and the sullen face of the Spaniard became alive.
Obeying orders, they had retreated in sullen silence, when they had felt sure they could have gone on, fought a new battle, and have crushed Montcalm.
She would sit with a sullen stare under her heavy eyelids watching me grow more and more heated and clumsy over my scrap of embroidery or my game of Patience.
I thought of my father and mother lying side by side, beyond the sullen drift of nettles, under the churchyard wall.
As for Mrs Monnerie, her flushed and sullen countenance convinced me that my respite would be undisturbed.
Mr Anon and I seated ourselves three or four feet apart, and I watched the sidelong face, so delicately carved against the green; yet sunken in so sullen a stare.
He turned to mutter a sullen word or two at the woman beside him.
It was gathering towards dark when the rain and lightning began to abate, and the sullen thunder drew away into the distance, echoing hollowly along the furthest horizons.
A sullen malice smouldered in its reddish, luminous eyes.
A heavy rain was falling from a sullen sky, and the deserted square was a dancing sea of agitation as the raindrops smote the little pools between the cobbles and ricochetted with a multitudinous hiss.
The boy looked up with an expression of sullen acquiescence, but said nothing.
He hung his head with its sullen questioning eyes, and he found great solace in a jagged bit of cloth on the torn bosom of his shirt, which he could turn in his embarrassed fingers.
The fury of jealousy subsided to a sullen muttering.
At the bare idea of talking about it Ambrose felt as helpless and sullen as a convicted felon.
Ambrose, raising his sullen eyes to her, experienced a new shock of desire that put the idea of flour out of his head.
He was willing and cleanly, two rather rare qualities in the Mexican camp menial, who was usually sullen in disposition and dirty in person and habits.
Consequently the little group that gathered around the camp-fire that night was unusually merry--all except Pedro, who went about his camp duties with a sullen troubled look on his face.
We all know the scene, and how shabby and mean that mob of human remonstrances looks in face of the great Foe, majestic though inarticulate, that with sullen persistence carries off its prey.
An old Greek miniature[62] represents him with Night behind him, veiled and sullen and holding a reversed torch.
And now they're dooming you some more, there are so many motor things; men scorch the earth withsullen roar, or float around on hardware wings.
The cattle stood humped or took an occasional step forward, the men sat their horses, sullen and morose, forming new resolutions for the future, in which trail work was not included.
Once the herd drifted against a wire fence, leveled it down and moved on, sullen but irresistible.
But this severity only served to change their open insolence into sullen anger, and emissaries from Octavius were ready to draw them over to the side of their young master.
This information rankled in Frank's mind, and all the next day he was sullen and even brutal in his manner towards Miss Vernon.
In a moment Hatteraick had altered his tone, and was speaking to Mannering civilly, yet still with an undercurrent of sullen suspicion which he tried to disguise under a mask of familiarity.
At all events Frank soon saw the English officer stripped of his hat and arms, and his men, with sullen and dejected countenances, delivering up their muskets to the victorious foe.
But, as his car was passing the crowd, he found himself looking out across the near heads of the listeners, and upon all the faces he read a sullen discontent.
Before she could give outcry or reach them, there came an out-spitting of fire from the ugly muzzle and a report which the confined space magnified to a sullen roar.
Silent and sullen vassals Rome ever found these Toledans, holding themselves persistently aloof from all her interests.
Castillian good-nature, a grand manner in money matters, and courtesy, vanish at Toledo, where a sullen discourtesy and importunate mendicity reign.
When the fortress was built, Amron installed himself therein with a strong guard, and then sent word to the Sultan, whose heart by this was well hardened against the sullen and untameable Toledans.
Under whatever sway, Toledo ever wears its unwearying face of sullen independence.
The bridge split, and the unfortunate rebels were drowned in a heap in the deep and sullen Tagus.
The ships below remained in sullen quiet at their anchors, and showed no intention of following them.
I did not think you were either a selfish or a sullen boy.
As for the outer land, it is gone past hope; through the breach pours a roaring salt cataract, digging out a hole on the inside of the bank, which remains as a deep sullen pond for years to come.
Old starved mother Earth's bare-worn ribs and joints peeping out through every field and down; and on three sides of us, the sullen thunder of the unseen surge.
Mas, here a comes: his downcast sullen looke, Is over-waigh'd with mightie discontent.
What discontent hath stopped the crimson current Which ran so cheerefully within that brow, And makes it sullen like a standing poole?
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