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Meanings of as glum in English

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Usage of as glum in English
1
She doesn't say a word, but sits there as glum as death.
The Prime Minister
2
So in they went, but madam looked at them as glum as death.
Barchester Towers
3
You were as glum all the evening long as a Tuscarora.
In the Valley
4
When he comes here, he sits as glum as a monkey.
The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. / The Man Of Property
5
The German was resting easily to-day but proved as glum and uncommunicative as ever.
Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross
6
Probably I'll be looking just as glum as that boy.'
Salem’s Lot
7
You have been as glum as could be all evening.
The Return of Tarzan
8
He looks very handsome, but as glum as an undertaker.
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
9
What the mischief are you sitting there for, looking as glum as an owl?
In Search of El Dorado
10
You look as glum as a Jesuit in Lent.
The Helmet of Navarre
11
He looks almost as glum, when he's goin' round alone, as if he'd married mother.
He Fell in Love with His Wife
12
Why, you seem as glum as old Conover himself!
Aunt Jane's Nieces
13
She's just as glum and mum as can be, and she never sits with us!
About Peggy Saville
14
Among private brokers, the situation is just as glum, according to Lloyd's U.S. president Hank Watkins.
Reuters
15
She sat there beside the chauffeur, as glum as if she had lost her last friend.
The Chauffeur and the Chaperon
16
Maxwell looks as glum as an owl to-night.
Sir George Tressady — Volume I
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