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Updated: May 17, 2025
"Alas! how often do you see the female, pale, and wretched, and degraded, still following with patient constancy the footsteps of some predominating tyrant, and submitting to all his injustice with the endurance of a faithful and misused spaniel, which prizes a look from his master, though the surliest groom that ever disgraced humanity, more than all the pleasure which the world besides can furnish him?
"Basalt." "Hullo!" The drugged sailor fought with the opiate which had been administered to him and opened his eyes. "There's no one here, is there, Basalt? Tell me." "What are you muttering about now?" demanded Joe Basalt, in his surliest tones, "Are we alone?" "Of course." "I have had such an awful dream, my good friend," said Hunston, still on the shiver.
Here lies, whom hound did ne'er pursue, Nor swifter greyhound follow, Whose feet ne'er tainted morning dew, Nor ear heard huntsman's hallo. Old Tiney, surliest of his kind, Who, nursed with tender care, And to domestic bounds confined, Was still a wild Jack-hare. Though duly from my hand he took His pittance every night, He did it with a jealous look, And when he could, would bite.
Martha Deane's voice was of that quality which compels an answer, and a courteous answer, from the surliest of mankind. It was not loud, it could scarcely be called musical; but every tone seemed to exhale freshness as of dew, and brightness as of morning. It was pure, slightly resonant; and all the accumulated sorrows of life could not have veiled its inherent gladness.
He, on the other hand, was leaning forward, with both hands on the knob of his malacca, his eyes bent on the floor and his mouth squared to the surliest expression. He seemed quite unconscious of her scrutiny, and was tapping one foot impatiently on the floor. After a minute I was surprised to see her lean forward and touch him gently on the knee.
His eyes were cast down in a strange fashion, unlike the bold, inquisitive peering of his countrymen, the more strange, in that he spoke harshly and abruptly, like a racer catching breath. "I bring news." His dialect was the vilest and surliest form of the colloquial "Clear Speech." "One pair of ears, enough." "You can speak and act more civilly," retorted Heywood, "or taste the bamboo."
Gradually the farm became his fee-simple, and the farmhouse expanded into a villa. Wealth and honours flowed in from a brimmed horn. The surliest man in the town would have been ashamed of saying a rude thing to Jos. Hartopp. If he spoke in public, though he hummed and hawed lamentably, no one was so respectfully listened to.
Now, our bad luck seemed to hold, because you wouldn't find many men in that country who wouldn't stake two fellers to a waggon ride wherever they wanted to go, and be pleasant about it, I'd have sure seen that the man got paid, even if Aggy forgot it, but the man that drove us was the surliest brute that ever growled.
Have you not heard that he himself is a kind of 'Jacques bonhomme'?" "That means just a peasant, doesn't it?" I asked obtusely. "No, I hadn't heard that." He laughed again. "Did the good Mishka tell you nothing?" "Why, no; he's the surliest and most silent fellow I've ever travelled with."
If Diogenes coming to life again could have rolled himself, tub and all, into Mr Pecksniff's parlour and could have seen Tom Pinch as he sat on Mercy Pecksniff's stool with his plate and glass before him he could not have faced it out, though in his surliest mood, but must have smiled good-temperedly.
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