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look sullen



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“Buy them when they look sullen, when they’re looking away, when they look angry or sad. The happy-faced ones never pay off.”

From Washington Post May 22, 2017

The long, defiant hair of the late 1960s falls to the floor; the young men look sullen or stern.

From Time Magazine Archive

The other, Manteca, was so much human refuse; his eyes were almost hidden, his look sullen; his wiry straight hair fen over his ears, forehead and neck; his scrofulous lips hung eternally agape.

From The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution by E. (Enrique) Munguía

He has enforced the discipline," said I with a deliberate stare that made Gooja Singh look sullen, "and God knows how necessary that has been!

From Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy

Seeing him look sullen, she took breath, and considered.

From The Young Step-Mother by Charlotte Mary Yonge




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