"Glumly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... joy, as I had expected her to do, she said to me, glumly: "And how do we know that you ...
— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan
... lot of good," Rat said glumly as Alan's breakfast came rolling toward him on the plastic ...
— Starman's Quest • Robert Silverberg
... 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, bound for some ...
— Bar-20 Days • Clarence E. Mulford
... out to the kitchen, where four or five people were sitting and glumly whispering around an old coloured woman, Joe's cook, who was crying and rocking herself in a chair. I hushed her up and told her to show me the pump. It was in an orchard behind the house, and was one of those old-fashioned ...
— In the Arena - Stories of Political Life • Booth Tarkington
... "and in half an hour." He listened glumly to the January blasts making an Aeolian ...
— The Trimmed Lamp • O. Henry
... the Scotch character, we may cite the story of the visitor to Aberdeen, who was attacked by three footpads. He fought them desperately, and inflicted severe injuries. When at last he had been subdued and searched the only money found on him was a crooked sixpence. One of the thieves remarked glumly: ...
— Jokes For All Occasions - Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers • Anonymous
... any sympathy in this crowd," Tom assured Hi glumly. "You were party to this, and all that disturbs you is that any one should dare take the same kind of a liberty with you. We don't care what ...
— The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics • H. Irving Hancock
... clouded as he mentioned her brother. "Poor Ed," she said in a low voice. She went over to the man, leaning over him and smoothing back the hair from his forehead, Hollis looking glumly on, clenching his ...
— The Coming of the Law • Charles Alden Seltzer
... glumly assented the downhearted Mahan. "But he DID. That's the answer. I saw him do it. ...
— Bruce • Albert Payson Terhune
... 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 ...
— Dorothy's Triumph • Evelyn Raymond
... was the big man who had raised the alarm on us; I never knew his real name, everybody always called him Extry—said glumly that he "wasn't going to oblige ...
— Jim Davis • John Masefield
... Cowder nodded glumly. "It's a losing proposition any way you look at it.... Well, good night again." He stepped out, and Old Harry closed and locked ...
— Unwise Child • Gordon Randall Garrett
... Senator was not a man who could be called indifferent to charms such as hers. That meek young lady so commended herself to him in the short walk, that he announced his intentions of paying his respects to her the next day, an intention which Harry received glumly; and when the Senator was out of hearing he called him ...
— The Gilded Age, Part 3. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner
... at the time was uninteresting, unjust, and stupid; he felt irritated and disturbed, but held his tongue, and, because he sat glumly silent and looked at his plate, he was nicknamed in the town "the haughty Pole," though he never had been ...
— The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov |
