"There's nothing to talk about," Oakley said, leaving practice in a somewhat surly mood this afternoon.

I knew he was on edge, in a surly mood, and Tom could be hard to get along with.

He missed Clara, too, and for a few days was in a surly mood.

The crowd was in a surly mood last night.

Among the four, only Ivan was in a surly mood.

The effect was to induce a surly mood.

The Stadtholder had lapsed into one of his surly moods.

Perhaps that is why the fans - a less-than-capacity turnout of 14,647 - were in a surly mood.

I found myself suddenly in a surly mood.

This time both of them seemed to be in surly moods.