sulky

No sniggering jokes now about princely flings and sulky princesses and body doubles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2024

Instead, America was treated to a series of photos of him looking like a sulky child in court, accompanied by reports that he acted like a fidgeting, impatient toddler throughout the proceedings.

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2023

Dr. Ash clearly doesn’t take his son’s career seriously, and in just a few days Jed seems to regress to a kind of sulky adolescence.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2023

As well as racing, Luke breeds horses in the hope of getting one that will go on to become a top sulky competitor.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2023

On that last Saturday morning, Francie strapped Laurie into her two-wheeled sulky and took her down on the street.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Often, Clarence and his neighbors got their workhorses together, attached them to sulkies and trotted them around to see which was fastest.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2011

At the early-morning hour, the trotters were out exercising too, pulling balloon-tired practice sulkies, passing the two-legged runner in a flurry of neighs, snorts and hooves.

From Time Magazine Archive

After World War II, when harness racing caught the public eye, and horse-players learned to tolerate the nighttime trots, Little Joe and his string built a reputation wherever standard-bred horses drew sulkies.

From Time Magazine Archive

As an indigenous U. S. pastime, harness racing to sulkies began about 100 years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

More than half the number were in sulkies or some sort of go-carts, with all sorts of animals pulling them, mostly quadrupeds that had once been horses,—and some might still bear that name.

From Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) by Pearson, Elizabeth Ware

Most of the so-called Musketeers I spoke to came from Twitter, their central battleground, usually after they replied to one of Musk’s sulkier tweets.

From The Verge ● Jun. 26, 2018

The producers first hoped to cast Ryan Gosling, but he would have made Christian sulkier, more brooding, more Heathcliff.

From Time ● Feb. 12, 2015

And he half knew that it wasn't a success and then became sulkier and more awkward than ever.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

As for Clemency, she bent over her plate and looked sulkier than ever.

From 'Doc.' Gordon by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)

Wal, that's the gun fighter of it," declared Colter, wagging his head, "Ever since that cowman, Blue, braced us an' said he was King Fisher, why Queen has been sulkier an' sulkier.

From To the Last Man by Grey, Zane

A delicious salty air, like the breath of perpetual spring, blew in, tingling the skin of the sulkiest adventurer with delight in this virgin world.

From Heroes of the Middle West The French by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell

"Have a care of the poor brute, friend!" he cried genially to Diccon, whose looks were of the sulkiest.

From To Have and to Hold by Johnston, Mary

Poker’s bosom friend, Dumps, was so named because he had the sulkiest expression of countenance that ever fell to the lot of a dog.

From The World of Ice by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

A stopped clock has the sulkiest face in the world.

From The Extra Day by Blackwood, Algernon

Poker's bosom friend, Dumps, was so named because he had the sulkiest expression of countenance that ever fell to the lot of a dog.

From The World of Ice by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)