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Surlily

adverb
1.
In a churlish manner.  Synonym: churlishly.






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"Surlily" Quotes from Famous Books



... the old fellow he glanced at me surlily, stopped digging, and began to scrape his ...
— Brownsmith's Boy - A Romance in a Garden • George Manville Fenn

... tribunes, and prefects had complimented her as a model of female perfection, on a signal from her husband she accompanied him in silence through six different apartments before he came to her library, where he surlily ordered her to enter and ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... choose to do so—nothing to prevent any one of those cattle doing so, for that matter. There is neither bolt nor latch; you can go into his chamber, if you are so minded," returned the lay-brother, rather surlily. ...
— A Siren • Thomas Adolphus Trollope

... prison, the inherent baseness of the man, or may have recoiled from the type. Anyway, his instinct was to get rid of him. And evidently the less he said about anyone in Sapps Court the better. So he replied, surlily enough considering his really amiable disposition:—"No—I could not say what countrywoman she is, master." Then he thought a small trifle of fiction thrown in might contribute to the detachment of this man's curiosity from Mrs. Prichard, and added carelessly:—"Some sort of a foringer I take it." ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan

... them, or, since Jacob was staring ahead of him, at his wife, surlily, sullenly, yet with a kind of distress—not that she would pity him. Nor would the implacable spirit of love, for anything he ...
— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf

... short, dapper figure leaped lightly on the deck and nearly bounded into him where he stood beyond the circle of light from the gangway lamp. When it had passed towards the bridge, after exchanging a hurried "Good evening," Massy said surlily to Sterne ...
— End of the Tether • Joseph Conrad

... teeth chattered faster, stopped, and began again twice before the man could master his shiver sufficiently to say, "Ju-ju-st in ti-ti-me. . . . Brrrr." He recognised the voice of the chief engineer saying surlily, "I saw her go down. I happened to turn my head." The wind ...
— Lord Jim • Joseph Conrad

... he went the better it would be; so he drove to Jake's house at once. Jake was greatly surprised to see Robert drive up and greeted him very surlily. ...
— Around Old Bethany • Robert Lee Berry

... shook his head. "There be some Bishops round here," he retorted surlily, "but there ain't no dwarf as I know of by ...
— The Secret of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White

... on the shoulder. "Out of work, my lad?" he asked. The youth turned surlily round. "Yes. Looks ...
— A Prince of Sinners • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... leaving Mullett's he met a drove of sheep. The drivers were two men and a boy of his own age, mounted on horseback and carrying their provisions, apparently, strapped behind them. When he asked them where they were going, they surlily replied that they were going to California. That would take them right up the road that he had come down, Sandy thought to himself. And he wondered if the boys at home would see the interesting sight of five hundred sheep going up the Republican ...
— The Boy Settlers - A Story of Early Times in Kansas • Noah Brooks

... you?" she commenced, kindly, to which he replied, surlily, "Don't want reading." "Shall I write to any of your friends?" she continued. "I hav'n't any friends," he said in the sourest tone. Repulsed, but not baffled, she presently, and in the same kind manner, took an orange from her basket, and gently asked him if he would ...
— Woman's Work in the Civil War - A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience • Linus Pierpont Brockett

... "No," replied Stevens, surlily; "and if I had, you should not have it. Your insolence is unbearable; you appear," continued he, with some show of dignity, "to have forgotten who I ...
— The Garies and Their Friends • Frank J. Webb

... replied Mr Openshaw, surlily. 'I can't clear Norah. She won't clear herself, as I believe she might if she would. Only I wash my hands of it; for I am sure the woman herself is honest, and she's lived a long time with my wife, and I don't like her to ...
— Victorian Short Stories, - Stories Of Successful Marriages • Elizabeth Gaskell, et al.

... He drew surlily back, draining his thick cup of coffee and shambling out, chewing a toothpick. At the door he looked back with his lips pulled down, mouthing a filthy epithet ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst

... office, I ran into Herman in the hall, coming in. I bowed to him and he nodded surlily. Evidently, I thought, he had heard of the result of our activities. I did not ask him what progress he had made in the case, for I had had experience with professional jealousy before, and thought that the less said on ...
— Guy Garrick • Arthur B. Reeve

... beneath the opposite wall, had escaped observation during the first reconnaissance. This brought the total to fifteen—three clips of cartridges and no misses, he told himself, if it came to a fight. The men toiled surlily, as though that beaver-like industry, everywhere displayed by the German army in fatigue work, had about reached the quitting point. It was, moreover, possible that they sulked for having been detailed to a duty which ...
— Where the Souls of Men are Calling • Credo Harris

... it is nothin' to you, guv'nor," Burt remarked surlily. "I does the job, you pays the money, and there's an end as ...
— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle

... the boy surlily. He started toward the door. The agent made no move, but his eyes ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... said Captain Kemp, surlily. "You know enough to keep your mouth shut. You don't really have to know anything about the cargo. Besides, it was peace when we sailed. We shall make a safe landing,—if nothing happens ...
— Ahead of the Army • W. O. Stoddard

... (1787), xi. 213, it is said, that this meeting was 'at the Bishop of St. ——'s [Asaph's]. Boswell, by his 'careful enquiry,' no doubt meant to show that this statement was wrong. Johnson is reported to have said:—' Dr. Warburton at first looked surlily at me; but after we had been jostled into conversation he took me to a window, asked me some questions, and before we parted was so well pleased with me ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 4 (of 6) • Boswell

... that pressed sorest Was to vanquish the seasons, the ocean, the forest, To bridle and harness the rivers, the steam, Making those whirl her mill-wheels, this tug in her team, To vassalize old tyrant Winter, and make Him delve surlily for her on river and lake;— When this New World was parted, she strove not to shirk Her lot in the heirdom, the tough, silent Work, 1510 The hero-share ever from Herakles down To Odin, the Earth's iron sceptre and crown: Yes, thou dear, noble Mother! if ever men's praise ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

... Wegg very surlily. 'Why, of course I will! WILL a man partake, as has been tormented out of his five senses by an everlasting dustman with his head tied up! WILL he, ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens

... boy," Pitman muttered, surlily. "That gal, like most of her meddlin' sort, is havin' a regular conniption-fit over nothin'. I reckon she is afeard thar'll be one less on the marryin' list a few years from now. He was a pesky fool, anyway, plungin' in cold water to attend ...
— Dixie Hart • Will N. Harben

... I can't let you go in," he said surlily to Olga Ivanovna; "it's catching. Besides, it's no use, ...
— The Wife and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... then walked surlily by them, whom Mr. Robinson reported to have been committed on an indictment found against him for a most horrid perjury; but, says he, we expect him to be bailed today. "Good Heaven!" cries Booth, "can such villains find ...
— Amelia (Complete) • Henry Fielding

... be imagined, this story filled the soul of the young hero with righteous wrath. He strode into the presence of the king and asked, with little reverence, if the story were true. Alfonso surlily admitted it. Bernardo then demanded his father's freedom. This the king refused. Burning with anger, the valiant youth shut himself up in his castle, refusing to take part in the rejoicings that followed the victory, and still sternly demanding ...
— Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII • Charles Morris

... to be new lines put in,' replied the stage-door keeper, surlily, 'but I don't know. ...
— A Mummer's Wife • George Moore

... is it?" she said rather surlily, her tone seeming to infer that she had taken a great deal of ...
— The Cuckoo Clock • Mrs. Molesworth

... this quarrel is none of yours, and warrants no interference. Leave this fellow to us, and we shall give him clubbing of his choosing." And the man who addressed the boy, though he looked not straight at him, growled surlily. ...
— In the Court of King Arthur • Samuel Lowe

... replying, grasped the horse's foretop with his left hand; with his right he held the thief by the belt. "Come, move on, simpleton!" he ejaculated surlily. ...
— A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections • Isabel Florence Hapgood

... the cook, surlily: "I know of no festival. Of a surety, have I laboured in my calling, to furnish forth something worthy of this house; yet, from what I hear, there will be few at this wedding to profit by my skill. I little thought to see our dear young ...
— The Buccaneer - A Tale • Mrs. S. C. Hall

... Paul glanced surlily at Locke, who bowed pleasantly to him, as well he might, considering their relative positions in Eva's real affections. Catching sight of his father with Eva, Paul paused ...
— The Master Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey

... the window and gazed out into the darkening street. Forms passed this way and that through the dull light. And that was life. The letters of the name of Dublin lay heavily upon his mind, pushing one another surlily hither and thither with slow boorish insistence. His soul was fattening and congealing into a gross grease, plunging ever deeper in its dull fear into a sombre threatening dusk while the body that was his stood, listless and dishonoured, gazing out of darkened eyes, helpless, perturbed, ...
— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce

... sea was becoming more agitated, and the violence of the wind was gradually increasing. The latter no longer whistled amid the cordage of the vessel, but it seemed to howl, surlily, as it passed the complicated machinery that the frigate obtruded on its path. An endless succession of white surges rose above the heavy billows, and the very air was glittering with the light that was ...
— The Pilot • J. Fenimore Cooper

... obvious that it left the men nothing to say. They fell in surlily on either side of her, and without any show of resistance she walked calmly back toward the house. Pudge lingered, uncertain of ...
— The Sturdy Oak - A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors • Samuel Merwin, et al.



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