Sentence example with the word 'saturnine'

saturnine

black, dark, drear, funebrial, glum, grim, reserved, solemn, staid, taciturn, uncommunicative, weary

Definition adj. bitter or scornful

Last update: September 20, 2015


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She was very saturnine as her husband didn't return.   [Please select]

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In the tenth, the theme of the " vanity of human wishes " is illustrated by great historic instances, rather than by pictures of the men and manners of the age; and, though the declamatory vigour and power of expression in it are occasionally as great as in the earlier satires, and although touches of Juvenal's saturnine humour, and especially of his misogyny, appear in all the satires of this book, yet their general tone shows that the white heat of his indignation is abated; and the lines of the eleventh, already referred to (201 seq.), " Spectent juvenes quos clamor et audax Sponsio, quos cultae decet assedisse puellae: Nostra bibat vernum contracta cuticula solem," leave no doubt that he was well advanced in years when they were written.   [adjective]

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We still contemplate and .consider; we still speak of men as jovial, saturnine or mercurial; we still talk of the ascendancy of genius, or a disastrous defeat.   [adjective]

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THE CAP: (With saturnine spleen) Bah.   [adjective]

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The Artful, meantime, who was of a rather saturnine disposition, and seldom gave way to merriment when it interfered with business, rifled Oliver's pockets with steady assiduity.   [adjective]

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It was not, however, so saturnine a pride.   [adjective]

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In the tenth, the theme of the " vanity of human wishes " is illustrated by great historic instances, rather than by pictures of the men and manners of the age; and, though the declamatory vigour and power of expression in it are occasionally as great as in the earlier satires, and although touches of Juvenal's saturnine humour, and especially of his misogyny, appear in all the satires of this book, yet their general tone shows that the white heat of his indignation is abated; and the lines of the eleventh, already referred to (201 seq.), " Spectent juvenes quos clamor et audax Sponsio, quos cultae decet assedisse puellae: Nostra bibat vernum contracta cuticula solem," leave no doubt that he was well advanced in years when they were written.   [Please select]

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François laughed, which seemed always to offend the saturnine steward.   [Please select]

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He sat by the fire with the frying-pan, looking his daily self--engaging and saturnine.   [Please select]

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He desisted savagely and shrank away, the colour flaming into his disgusted, saturnine face.   [Please select]

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Whence did the towhee derive his equanimity, and the brown thrush his saturnine temper.   [Please select]

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