"Surlily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the unfortunate prisoner of his real relations to his captor. In these circumstances, Chivers's half satirical suggestion that Collinson should be added to the sentries outside, and guard his own property, was surlily assented to by Riggs, and complacently accepted by the others. Chivers offered to post him himself,—not without an interchange of meaning glances with Riggs,—Collinson's own gun was returned to him, and the strangely assorted pair ...
— In a Hollow of the Hills • Bret Harte
... out of the chalet, where they met the furtive-looking man they had seen overnight. He gave them another sidelong look, said Guten morgen surlily, and then, as it seemed to Saxe, began to put on his tail—that is to say, he strapped on his one-legged milking-stool, and went to meet one of ...
— The Crystal Hunters - A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps • George Manville Fenn
... very surlily, led the traveller's weary old brute to the stable; but, prior to carrying out the orders of the traveller, he sought the landlord, to know if it would pay to put up the shabby concern, and treat the old horse to a ...
— The Humors of Falconbridge - A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes • Jonathan F. Kelley
... frowned and gazed out to sea. He had forgotten all about the windfall. "Let's go and have a peg," he suggested surlily. ...
— Parrot & Co. • Harold MacGrath
... been quiet till now," growled a man in the crowd surlily, "but we won't stand the militia protecting the scabs ...
— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford
... Honourable Edmund was riding a grey cob, and was a fat pale- faced man, who looked as if he never went into the open air. "Who the devil's that?" said he to his wife, looking surlily both at me ...
— The History of Samuel Titmarsh - and the Great Hoggarty Diamond • William Makepeace Thackeray
... said Ulick surlily; 'here are the pistols.' And he added, with some emotion, to me, 'God bless you, my boy; and when I ...
— Barry Lyndon • William Makepeace Thackeray
... "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 am, and ...
— The Garies and Their Friends • Frank J. Webb
... need o' thee," said the boatman, surlily;—"come, jump in. They'd need of a hawk, marry, ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby
... to 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
... it me than a muff like that," quoth he of the long pole; while I answered, surlily enough, that I wanted neither him nor his money, and burst through the crowd toward Cambridge. I was so shabby and plebeian, then, that people actually dare offer me ...
— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al
... legs of the horses in a frenzy of excitement. A light appeared in the window and as the two riders drew up before the door it opened, a man thrust his head out and swore at the dog. When the animal subsided he peered at the horsemen: "Whut's up?" he growled surlily. ...
— Prairie Flowers • James B. Hendryx
... and the fire, and the daughter, by the extreme cordiality with which she received the minister and her husband, and the anxious fears which she expressed lest they should have "gotten cauld." "Cauld!" quoted the husband, surlily, for he was not of that class of lords and masters whose wives are viceroys over them, "we'll be cauld eneugh, I think, if ye dinna let us ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott
... getting along?" he inquired. I replied, somewhat surlily, I fear, that I was doing very well, and thenceforth intended to ride horseback and to comport myself ...
— The Way of a Man • Emerson Hough |
