And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his shirt(distressingly unbuttoned)hung over his trousers in sloppy fashion. All very out of charactar: Mandrake was normally defined by his rigid self-control. Somthing seemed to have stripped all that away. Well, the poor lad was emotionally brittle. He needed sympathetic handling. "You're a mess," I sneered "You've lost it big time. What's happened? All the guilt and self-loathing suddenly get to you? It can't just be that someone else called me, surly?
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
I really hate Squires. (Syra) (She pulled another flat bolt out and loaded it, then shot it at Otto. Moving so fast he could hardly be seen, the Squire turned around and caught it without flinching. He held the bolt up to his nose and inhaled it lovingly. ) Mmm. Rose. My favorite. (Otto) Perhaps we should leave you two alone. (Jess) Yeah, this does remind me a bit of the mating rites of the mean and the surly. (Allen)
I was kind of like the Rhea Perlman of the bar. I was like Carla on 'Cheers. ' People were more afraid of me. There was a point where I got a little surly. There were only so many chicken wings I could serve before losing the smile on my face.
Books are savaged and careers destroyed by surly snots who write anonymous reviews and publishers can't be bothered to protest this institutionalized corruption.
The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives.
The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.
Vin snorted, kneeling in the low tent as she pulled her belt tight; then she crawled over to him. "I don't know how you read while riding," she said. "Oh, it's quite easy - if you aren't afraid of horses. " "I'm not afraid of them," Vin said. "They just don't like me. They know I can outrun them, and that makes them surly.
he knows too much about himself to subject her to a morning after, when he will be cold, surly, impatient to be alone.
Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.
Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.
I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
