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Memphis' Boss Crump, who had been sulking ever since his candidate for the Senate was clobbered in the Democratic primary, was asked if he would support the Republicans.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was a well-to-do bourgeois from the west of France and belonged to a family of former servants of the Empire who had been sulking for the last forty years in a sterile opposition.

From Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War by Rolland, Romain

Gannette, who had been sulking in his chair, roused up.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

Mr. Sheridan, like Achilles, had been sulking for a remarkably long time.

From Jane Lends A Hand by Watkins, Shirley

She had not been permitted to accompany her young mistress when the latter visited her girl-friends, and for a long time she had been sulking and pouting.

From Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction by Harris, Joel Chandler