"Glum" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at seeing both those dear friends again I couldn't help being depressed by every glance at Peter, sitting opposite me, looking white and glum. ...
— Over Paradise Ridge - A Romance • Maria Thompson Daviess
... family; the name is on the house, the carts, the barrows, the very pails) picked up the maize, touched it, tasted it, said something to the girls that made them laugh, and something to the head farmer that made him look very glum; and then led me into a huge stable, where some twenty or thirty white bullocks were stamping, switching their tails, hitting their horns against the mangers in the dark. Alvise III. patted each, called him by his name, gave him some ...
— Hauntings • Vernon Lee
... bad blood between the captain and mate who comprised the officers and crew of the sailing-barge "Swallow"; and the outset of their voyage from London to Littleport was conducted in glum silence. As far as the Nore they had scarcely spoken, and what little did pass was mainly in the shape of threats and abuse. Evening, chill and overcast, was drawing in; distant craft disappeared somewhere between ...
— Sea Urchins • W. W. Jacobs
... seeing all, seeing none, with his mouth drooping open, and such a wildness and bristle lowering from that great glum brow that the champions shivered as though already in the chill of ...
— Irish Fairy Tales • James Stephens
... queer going on in there," she muttered. "Mrs. Montague seemed all worked up over something, and those two men looked as glum as parsons at a funeral. There is cook's bell again, and Miss Ruth must wait," she concluded, impatiently, as a ring came up from the lower regions, and then she went slowly and ...
— True Love's Reward • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
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