At least, Bella no sooner stepped ashore than she took Mr John Rokesmith's arm, without evincing surprise, and the two walked away together with an ethereal air of happiness which, as it were, wafted up from the earth and drew after them a gruff and
glum old pensioner to see it out.
"With old Deluse at the 'Isle of Pines,'" {1} was the laughing reply; "and a
glum enough time I had of it.
So we loafed along home down the back lanes, feeling pretty
glum and not talking.
"Why are you so
glum?" asked Nesvitski noticing Prince Andrew's pale face and glittering eyes.
Too sour on the human world, and too
glum in his own soured nature, he was anything save his old courtly self to chance humans who broke in upon him to pat his head, and say silly things, and go their way never to be seen by him again.
This ain't no time of year to start farmin'," he added,
glum and sullen.
Why do you sit there so pale and
glum? Why don't you get up and dance?"
Wish they had, and not gone stalking round stiff and
glum ever since.
And oh, my dear, the great hall I am sure is as big and as
glum as the great hall in the dear castle of Udolpho.
You might suppose,' said Mrs Varden, frowning at her husband, 'from Varden's sitting there so
glum and silent, that he objected to this arrangement; but you must not mind that, sir, if you please.
"Truly," said the Friar in a
glum voice, "thou dost ask thyself freely where thou art not bidden.
He was too filial to be disrespectful to his father, and he bore the thunder with the certainty that it was transient; but in the mean time it was disagreeable to see his mother cry, and also to be obliged to look sulky instead of having fun; for Fred was so good-tempered that if he looked
glum under scolding, it was chiefly for propriety's sake.