"Glumly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... me a brownie and git into the feathers," glumly. "I thought I'd go into town in the mornin', I want to do me ...
— The Dude Wrangler • Caroline Lockhart
... mean just that," responded Jim, rather glumly—"in fact, I don't know just what I mean myself, except I feel like I must be always near you ...
— Dorothy's Triumph • Evelyn Raymond
... helplessly up at him; he smiled down into her tense, suffering face, and paid no attention to her objections. As soon as he carried her off, Jim Edwards glumly took out that one of the twins I had at first supposed to be the elder, the remaining Thornhill girls moved on Dr. Bowman and began nagging him to hunt partners ...
— The Million-Dollar Suitcase • Alice MacGowan
... at their head, and gout-ridden Governor Steed sitting on the ruins of a wall beside him, they glumly watched the departure of the eight boats containing the weary Spanish ruffians who had glutted themselves with rapine, murder, ...
— Captain Blood • Rafael Sabatini
... could," returned Paul glumly. "Probably, though, we were too generous. Wouldn't people laugh if they knew the mess we are ...
— Paul and the Printing Press • Sara Ware Bassett
... pocketed the one bid, surveyed glumly the hilarious crowd flocking in to the bar to drink to their joy in his defeat, and wandered disconsolately back to the pound. He was never again seen in that locality, or by any of the citizens of Rawhide, for between dark and dawn he resumed his travels, ...
— Bar-20 Days • Clarence E. Mulford
... you said about the Fourth of July down in Arizona, Bud?" he asked glumly. "Well, this is the same kind ...
— Cabin Fever • B. M. Bower
... glumly, "and where your Summer lines crossed, and mine, too, was the dead centre of Leu-Leu Atoll. It must be the chronometer—slipped a ...
— A Son Of The Sun • Jack London
... "More," the engineer said, glumly. "Want to know what it reminds me of? A bunch of Australian bushmen stumbling onto a ramjet and trying to figure out how it works. And yet Sam here has got the sublime guts to claim that he understands all about their ...
— Masters of Space • Edward Elmer Smith
... said glumly, "I can see that this is going to be one tight knit organization. Six men in love with the one dame ... ah, that is, lady. Kind of a reverse harem deal. Oh, this is going to lead to ...
— Border, Breed Nor Birth • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... instructions, had changed her course at Gibraltar, conveying us by way of the Spanish coast to Genoa instead of Naples. From my port-hole I had gazed glumly on blue skies and bright, blue waters, purple hills, and white-walled cities, and fishing boats with patched, gaudy sails and dark-complexioned crews. Then Genoa rose from the sea, tier after tier of pink and green and orange houses and shimmering groves of olive trees; ...
— The Firefly Of France • Marion Polk Angellotti
... and started towards the ship. One of the locks opened as they came up but no one appeared. Instead a remote-release folding ladder rattled down to the ground. Kerk swarmed up it and Jason followed glumly. Somehow, he felt, this was ...
— Deathworld • Harry Harrison
... If you can tell me of any trustworthy method of selecting a wife, I shall be happy to make use of it. I await your suggestions. [He looks with polite attention to Lord Summerhays, who, having nothing to say, avoids his eye. He looks to Tarleton, who purses his lips glumly and rattles his money in his pockets without a word]. Apparently neither of you has anything to suggest. Then Patsy will do as well as another, ...
— Misalliance • George Bernard Shaw
... he was only partly successful. True, her husband snorted with disgust, but, at a touch from her and a whispered "Be nice to him," restrained himself sufficiently to invite McEwan in with a frigid show of politeness. But once inside, and the candles lighted, Stefan leant glumly against the mantelpiece with his hands in his pockets, evidently determined to leave their visitor ...
— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
... two women scrutinizing her as if they suspected her of being there with no good purpose, a male passenger admiring her a little further off, her maid reading Trefusis's newspapers just out of earshot, an uninterested country gentleman looking glumly out of window, a city man preoccupied with the "Economist," and a polite lady who refrained from staring but not from observing, she felt that she must not make a scene; yet she knew he had not come there to hold an ordinary conversation. Her ...
— An Unsocial Socialist • George Bernard Shaw |
