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For just a few minutes of your day, you can help a columnist get on the straight-and-narrow with his editors, who are a mean and surly lot.

A bull's eye for the professor. Against a backdrop of two wars and a surly economy, Mars is no longer ascendant in Mr Obama's Washington.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE It 's convenient . You don't have to deal with a sort of surly clerk , and you know , I'm just as happy with it.

He was a model of a gaoler : surly , and dumb , and deaf to every attempt at moving his sense of justice or compassion .

Poor business and manufacturing plans will incapacitate the manufacturing system just as surly the unavailability of a machine.

If the surly King wants me to do what can be done by no one, I will not wait till morning, but will go out of the town at once, today.

He found his partner to he very disagreeable. Frequently he was the worse FOR liquor which made him surly.

"Our dream is a bank free of Wolfowitz" would be a more apt reflection of the surly reality on H Street.

Or just casually mention, "You know, I dug the way you handled that surly waiter the other day. "

I would have made a few comments, and requested a short history of the place from the surly owner.

All that surly waiter business was much more your kick than mine.

In Ghost Town , Gervais plays Bertram Pincus, D. D. S. , a surly man living in New York whose goal in life is to be left alone.

The surly youth in an official's uniform who began stirring up the two bags.

But a surly, protectionist Britain would be worse.

The surly merchant twirled his curly moustache as he purchased the first thirty pearls.

Ambrosch had got over his good spell long ago , and was always surly.

The surly merchant twirled his moustache as he purchased the first thirty pearls.

you want them to be burly, and surly, beer-bellied, with pie-breath and greasy flat-cap.

Robert leaned back in his chair quiet and almost surly.

Absolutely no chance, I've carried this camera far too far to just hand it over to a surly fool like you.

Suddenly I am sad to be leaving the UK with its fantastic decent, honest people like Surly.

Surly the most sensible thing would be to stay away from the case.

The hours it took to coax them inside caused the mood in the hungry colony to turn surly .

The early euphoria could rapidly fizzle into surly disappointment.

As the country prepared for the state visit by Pope Benedict XVI due to begin on September 16th, the mood looked surly.

The maid has piled his things up on the sidewalk. The patron looks on with a surly air.

I'm not saying that the surly dwarf you just resurrected could be your next boss--but you never know.

The rich man was ill-natured, and when he heard his brother's request he looked very surly.

But looking back on it, your brain can edit out the surly cabdrivers, remembering only the glorious sunsets.

The coffee is served by a surly male, whose lip curls at the chore of handing me my coffee and change.

Though somewhat cantankerous at times, she was far less surly and unapproachable than the sour-faced Wuher.

Just before moving, I'd apparently developed an odd endocrine disorder that makes people tired, achy, surly, weak.

Wherever he went, the solemn, shaven-headed Caine encountered hostility and intolerance from surly white men.

And surly you can show me the same courtesy by budging on your side a little.

They rode out exhaustedly to the airport with a surly cab driver, who overcharged them.

On the river Acheron the surly old man, Charon by name, forever ferried new arrivals across for one coin.

When one key character disappears, a surly gangster simply tells his friends, 'Bangkok has him now. '

Geese are coming up off the river, black against gray in the surly sky.

Surly is my hero. Had he waited just five minutes to call for me, it would have been too late, game over.

But then life moves along to confront us with realities, and slowly but surly this second truth dawns upon us.

"Sheath thy sword, " the surly sheriff said, "or surely shall a churlish serf soon shatter thee. "

The visitor to Washington was John W. Hinckley Jr. , 25, of Evergreen, Colo. He was in a surly mood.

Besides, taxpayers are usually surly-looking after waiting for a long time.

Thin people turn surly, mean and hard at a young age because they never learn the value of a hot-fudge sundae for easing tension.

There, it was just possible to enjoy a surly Sicilian feast without the loss of arm or leg.

'So you'll begin to pick oakum to-morrow morning at six o'clock, ' added the surly one in the white waistcoat.

They slipped the surly bonds of earth and touched the face of God.

It was run by cynical operators and peopled by surly subjects.

Jeanie followed her consequential and surly, but not brutal , conductor towards the rectory .

Franks surly manner always makes everyone around him feel grumpy .

To speak in an angry OR surly manner.

You stop returning calls; you stop treating her or giving her gifts; you act surly.

On the contrary, we have nothing but contempt for such kind of person who is bully, illiteracy and surly.

Many people are put off by his surly behavior.

Not fine to me, " shouted a large surly woman in the back. "

Dirk's surly exterior concealed a warm and generous nature.

His threw a surly glance at the upraised newspaper.

In the open doorway our surly German shadow glowers.

brusque and surly and forbidding.

Seemingly rough and surly in manner.

Right now, he needed to get to Stephanie, her surly attitude be damned.

They are led by 13-year-old John: spoiled, surly, often mean, yet determined and even heroic in keeping his siblings alive.

An Eye On One Angry Man : Steelers linebacker James Harrison - number 92 - seems quite surly these days.

Most people think time is a river, it flux swiftly and surly one direction.

A lion went surly by.

Oh, I love koalas because they are so cute. I will surly go to those parks. By the way, where can we taste some delicious food?

And Hong Kong, known in the past for surly service, now has friendly and efficient waiters anticipating your every need.

"Cut" : surly look operation, press the button for each control to see whether the bad;

They were intimidated by the surly waiter's sneer into leaving a larger tip

It's true he may be a little surly,

To keep the seat next to them open, some surly commuters lay down a backpack, purse, or lunch pail next to them;

Surly before saying goodbye to Mileva and boys,

my sister will move to Paris , i surly miss her

he ' s also . . . he ' s a surly bear