sullens

How, for instance, he chanced upon Aristarchus wearing the look of one who suffered from a fit of the "sullens," and thus accosted him.

The Memorabilia 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

Only he and she were left below, which, as he had determined the order of ascent, was how he had intended it, given that it was difficult to coax her out of the sullens with six pairs of nosy ears listening to every word he said to her and every snippy reply she made to him in turn.

Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

Only he and she were left below, which, as he had determined the order of ascent, was how he had intended it, given that it was difficult to coax her out of the sullens with six pairs of nosy ears listening to every word he said to her and every snippy reply she made to him in turn.

Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

How, for instance, he chanced upon Aristarchus wearing the look of one who suffered from a fit of the “sullens,” and thus accosted him.

Memorabilia 2007

I begged my maid to be excused attending; but on the repeated command, went down with as much cheerfulness as I could assume; and had a new fault to clear myself of: for my brother, so pregnant a thing is determined ill-will, by intimations equally rude and intelligible, charged my desire of being excused coming down, to sullens, because a certain person had been spoken against, upon whom, as he supposed, my fancy ran.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

No sullens, my Mamma: no perverseness: but, worse than either: this is direct disobedience! —

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

And, indeed, so sturdy was she in her will, that I was afraid it would end in a fit of sickness, as too often it did in fits of sullens.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

What can one oppose but sullens, when it would be unpardonable so much as to think of lifting up a finger?

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

And must it not make her the more strenuous to support her own opinion, when she sees the first fruits of this tenaciousness on your side is to be gloriously in the sullens, as you call it, and in a disobedient opposition?

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

A wall of mute resistance; an entrenchment of sulks and sullens.

Succedaneum 2004