He was seemingly oblivious to Nagel's barbs and Larkwell's occasional surly rebuffs.
When in the course of work it became necessary to give Richter an order, he did it with a short surly bark.
His fellow-apes, especially the bulls, became fierce and surly as they grew older.
The king greeted his visitor with that affability, which invariably drew even the most surly toward him, without relaxing the dignity which is supposed to be the heritage of a monarch.
The landlord answered insurly fashion that it was, but the king tested the point for himself.
Deeply disappointed at the Queen's surly ingratitude, Raleigh, whom she still refused to see, retired for the next nine months into absolute seclusion at Sherborne.
Sir Walter Raleigh now married or acknowledged Elizabeth Throckmorton, and in February 1593 Sir Robert Cecil procured some sort of surly recognition of the marriage from the Queen.
And, after all, I didn't swear; I only called that fellow a surly devil.
What a surly devil that is," said Eric, when he had passed; "did you see how he purposely cut me?
As only a few of you have seen it, it becomes my deeply painful duty to inform you of its purport; the words are these--'Gordon is a surly devil.
She even ventured on the same jest with La Fayette himself, who replied, in his usual surly fashion, that such a project was constantly talked of; but even his rudeness could not discompose her.
Everything I see," was the reply, in a more surly tone.
Perhaps they would not have granted the surly little man this courtesy had they not wished to use him to tie the sunbonnet around the Ork's neck.
The officer gave him a surly glance and made him no answer.
But they were, when Brander came among them, surly and ugly.
The fourth, a surly giant who might have proved unmanageable, he gave into the keeping of his boat-steerer, a big Islander called Yella' Boy.
Mr. Howard was well acquainted with this circumstance; and, as he had before established his credit in point of courage, so was his master now fully convinced of his good temper, and the surly and cowardly disposition of his brother.
The surly Pollux, on the contrary, whenever Mr. Howard had him on his lap, would growl and grumble at Castor if he attempted to come near him, or if any one took notice of him.
The surly Pollux, however, no sooner saw his brother engaged on a meatless bone, though he had feasted on his own delicious morsel, than he fell upon him, and took it from him.
Notwithstanding all these marks of tenderness, Pollux always received his brother in the most surly manner, howling as though he were come to devour him, and treating him with every mark of disrespect.
My men were surly enough, perhaps because they had heard what kind of treatment they should expect; so after I had told them what they must do, I bade them go below and straighten out their dunnage.
Don't be a fool," returned Dennis Wayman, in a surly tone.
The landlord of the 'Jolly Tar' nodded a surly assent to this rather cynical statement.
There she sees the highway near Winding down to Camelot: There the river eddy whirls, And there the surly village-churls, And the red cloaks of market girls, Pass onward from Shalott.
Dry throats make surly answers, as the proverb says.
Sometimes man and his weaknesses aided the enemy, jolly black, or surlyblack fellows packed with superstitious fears.
Perhaps you don't know that the man you saved is Ned Bannister, the outlaw," was his surly greeting.
Generally surly and morose, to such a degree that even his chief was careful to humor him as a rule, when with Hughie all the softer elements of his character came to the surface.
Bannister's orders to them he contrived to make an insult, and their obedience was as surly as possible compatible with safety.
A surly porter guarded the closed door, which some respectable people vainly attempted to open by honeyed words: a whisper from Abdullah solved the difficulty.
The surly donkey-boy was worked up into a paroxysm of passion by such small jokes as telling him to convey our salams to the Governor of Jeddah, and by calling the asses after the name of his tribe.
I only wish that a pressgang may be sent on shore here some night; I'll take good care that they do not overlook either the young fellow or that surly old one.
But he was unconscionably weary; his arm felt as though he had been pitching for a week, a month; and he dropped limp and surly upon the sod at a distance from the players' bench.
