| Most of them are sipping coffee, or reading newspapers, or chewing morosely on tough bread. |
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| Well, for one, there'd probably be scores of out-of-work fortune-tellers morosely sitting at home with their parrots and tarot cards. |
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| She wrapped the blankets more tightly around herself, staring morosely out the open, shutterless window of the hayloft where she slept. |
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| Was a political career, he muttered morosely, really the way to spend one's life? |
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| I was becoming unanchored from reality, alternating between being shut morosely in my room and wild, anarchic sociability. |
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| This time though, his team were not the slugabeds who had toiled so morosely against Austria, Poland and England in Manchester. |
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| When I got home I morosely explained to my husband what the program was all about. |
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| The Taliban attack in Kabul would have taken place even if she was sitting morosely alone in a nunnery dressed in black and eating nettles. |
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| At last an end to blokes idling morosely in Monsoon while the women they are browsing with compare a succession of near identical burgundy velvet. |
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| Buried under a layer of quilts he alternated between moodily staring at the paper, morosely changing channels, or just being a great big ill-tempered miserable lump. |
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| Afterwards, back in the locker room, Gregg Allman morosely doles himself out another dollop of coke. |
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| Swann spends nine months convalescing morosely, only snapping out of it when his housekeeper, played with tight-lipped understatement by Sarah Lancashire, buys him a camera. |
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| The young cat sat morosely by the side of the road, mewing pitifully. |
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| My little Elizabeth is now just three and she even drew a picture of Ruphus for me, a scruffy collie that for uncounted years has hung morosely around our house with the swing I erected in the yard only a year back. |
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| But for European leaders, this downbeat reaction is part of a pattern: they often react morosely to success. Exhibit A is the whole process of economic reform. |
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