“No longer mourn for me when I am deadThan you shall hear the surly sullen bellGive warning to the world that I am fledFrom this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.”
William Shakespeare
“When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.”
Robert Burns
“[When he got on the plane, Robinson said, King might seem a bit surly because he would tell the flight attendants,] Don't bother me. Don't talk to me. ... clipping, writing, pasting and gluing.”
Bill King
“Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.”
J.M. Synge
“The selfish smiling fool, and the sullen frowning fool, shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod.”
William Blake
“In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth”
John Milton
“Haply I think on thee, and then my state,Like to the lark at break of day arisingFrom sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;For thy sweet love remembered such wealth bringsThat then I scorn to change my state with kings.”
