He's a surly fellow, but he might let us in if we told him we only want to be there for half a minute.

Indeed, the old brown bear was a cantankerous and surly fellow, but she knew him to be an unusually steady and reliable animal.

I have dealt with many such in the course of my business, but none like this surly fellow.

"And the one that comes in the morning may not go into the cave to see me at all--he is a surly fellow."

As an ignorant tourist I queried a surly old fellow about water depths.

Just two rather bitter and surly fellows, low types apparently, being led into a police vehicle.

"That's what spoiled our future," a surly fellow with a shaved head told me.

He was a surly little fellow, whom forty years' practice in criminal procedure had not rendered particularly friendly toward those who came before him.