"On the 1st August he sold the buggy and bought the remains of an old sulky--said he just wanted to see those green Tennesseans stare and gawk when they saw him come a-ripping along in a sulky--didn't believe they'd ever heard of asulky in their lives.

'I know I wassulky sometimes, and I should have been glad to see these childrensulky sometimes too; for then I could have understood them: but they never were, for they COULD not be offended, nor hurt, nor ashamed: they could not be unhappy in any way, except when they were in a passion.'

Uggug looked verysulky as he received the bow and arrow, and prepared to shoot.

Young Thomas expressed these sentiments sitting astride of a chair before the fire, with his arms on the back, and hissulky face on his arms.

'He'ssulky,' replied Sikes, giving him a shake; 'he'ssulky.

I can only say of him what an eminent nobleman once said of hissulky servant -- "I wouldn't have such a temper as that fellow has got for any earthly consideration that could be offered me!"

We dined with him in asulky silence, after a few ineffectual efforts on my part to talk.

And when I desired honey I only desired bait, and sweet mucus and mucilage, for which even the mouths of growling bears, and strange,sulky, evil birds, water:

In asulky triumph, Drummle showed his morose depreciation of the rest of us, in a more and more offensive degree until he became downright intolerable.

When I came in I found your fire out, and I had it lit again, and made thatsulky drab of a servant stay and blow at it with the bellows till it had burnt up properly; now, say 'Thank you!'"

But far more terrible is it to behold, when fathoms down in the sea, you see somesulky whale, floating there suspended, with his prodigious jaw, some fifteen feet long, hanging straight down at right-angles with his body, for all the world like a ship's jib-boom.

Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turnedsulky, and would only say, `I am older than you, and must know better'; and this Alice would not allow without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said.