1 She was no longer the listless creature who had lived at his side in a state of sullen self-absorption, but a mysterious alien presence, an evil energy secreted from the long years of silent brooding.
2 His wife was a snarly-haired woman, sickly and washed-out of appearance, the mother of a brood of sullen and rabbity-looking children-- a brood which was increased regularly every year.
3 As a result, Suellen's sullen resentment had passed beyond the point of ladylike concealment and she glowered at Scarlett.
4 But to her pleadings, Scarlett turned a sullen face and a deaf ear.
5 Scarlett could hardly take any joy from that kiss, so sullen was her heart at Melly's prompting it.
6 The small cloud on the horizon had blown up swiftly into a large, sullen storm cloud and it was as though a faint, chilling wind blew from it.
7 The siege went on through the hot days of July, thundering days following nights of sullen, ominous stillness, and the town began to adjust itself.
8 As she stood, looking out of the window, there came to her ears a far-off sound, faint and sullen as the first distant thunder of an approaching storm.
9 A sullen "Yas'm" drifted up to her and she drew a deep breath, feeling suddenly ashamed of herself.
10 Suellen, sullen and tearful, pretended to faint too, but came back to consciousness spitting like an angry cat when Scarlett poured a gourdful of water in her face.
11 The negroes, frightened and sullen, muttered of retaliatory house burnings.
12 The smoke rolled away in sullen heaps.
13 I wouldn't like to be her; Nick's awful sullen, and he'll take it out on her.
14 'After the long winter evenings on the prairie, with Ambrosch's sullen silences and her mother's complaints, the Harlings' house seemed, as she said, 'like Heaven' to her.'
15 WINTER LIES TOO LONG in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.