Sensory Word of the Week | surly

adjective / sur-lee / surlier / surliest / surliness

(Atmospheric) having a darkly domineering appearance that is meant to intimidate and deter something or someone’s actions

Oh, I have slipped the surlyadjective / sur-lee / surlier / surliest / surliness (Atmospheric) having a darkly domineering appearance that is meant to intimidate and deter something or someone's actions Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the ski bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.
Sunward I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirthnoun / murth / mithless / mirthful an emotion that follows humor and accompanied by laughter and amusement We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;

Of sun-split clouds – and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew.
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

John Gillespie Magee Jr (High Flight)

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