I believe the silly fellows must have thought they would break their shins over treasure as soon as they were landed, for they all came out of their
sulks in a moment and gave a cheer that started the echo in a far- away hill and sent the birds once more flying and squalling round the anchorage.
I thought to myself, "She will consider her first attempt at taking a lesson in English something of a failure;" and I wondered whether she had departed in the
sulks, or whether stupidity had induced her to take my words too literally, or, finally, whether my irritable tone had wounded her feelings.
It's lucky for you that I am not so easily put out as some of them would be by your deaf-and-dumb
sulks. I am fond of you.
Didn't say dat t'all, said Fleece, again in the
sulks. You said up there, didn't you, and now look yourself, and see where your tongs are pointing.
At this point, Joe greatly augmented my curiosity by taking the utmost pains to open his mouth very wide, and to put it into the form of a word that looked to me like "
sulks." Therefore, I naturally pointed to Mrs.
In the sun-time, when the world is bounding forward full of life, we cannot stay to sigh and
sulk. The roar of the working day drowns the voices of the elfin sprites that are ever singing their low-toned miserere in our ears.
I'd sooner you'd tell me to my face as you make light of me, than try to make out as everybody's in the right but me, and come to your breakfast in the morning, as I've hardly slept an hour this night, and
sulk at me as if I was the dirt under your feet."
It was doubtless that same sister who told me not to
sulk when my mother lay thinking of him, but to try instead to get her to talk about him.
'Well, if you will be so bitter against me,' replied she, 'I can't help it; but I'm not going to
sulk for anybody.'
She
sulked, then returned to coax once more, and
sulked again, until, by the end of the evening, she was forced to be content with having impressed upon her father's mind both her love for Luigi and the idea of an approaching marriage.
I retired to the smoking-room, to smoke and read in a corner, and to watch von Heumann, who very soon came to drink beer and to
sulk in another.
Then he would withdraw growling viciously, backing away with grinning jaws distended, to
sulk for an hour or so.