The staid and sober Oakland folk who sat upon the car scarcely noted the young fellow and the girl who ran for it and found a seat in front on the outside.
Yet now the dew-drop, now the morning gray, Shall live their little lucid sober day Ere with the sun their souls exhale away.
This perhaps might be the cause that in England a people otherways sober and Religious) have for some Ages (in a manner wholly) refused admitting those so educated to the work of the Ministry.
Mr. Mather says Margaret's Parents were sober and honest, and living at the Time in Boston.
When Oundo became sober he repented of his act, and the more bitterly because the young girl was betrothed to the young chief of a neighboring tribe.
To this, fiery liquor had yielded its portion; while the weird incantations of their priests had transformed the most sober among them into demons of malignity.
Her eyes grew sober enough as they rested inquiringly on my face, for all that they still held an irritatingly roguish twinkle in their depths.
His love of a quiet, sober existence came to him from his father.
The distinguished writer is a sober narrator of facts.
Hence his constant employment of joyful imagery, of bold defiance to thesober workaday world.
Two little lines of boys and girls were playing a sober game of French and English away under the gum trees, and Betty ran her eyes along the lines--but no John Brown was there.
She would joyfully have taken another two years of school-days, with their soberjoys and sweet intimate friendships; their griefs and small quarrellings; their lessons and their play hours; their meetings and their breakings up.
The man, carrying the sleeping child in his arms, walked straight into the hall, to the huge astonishment of the sober man-servant who had opened the door.
But who, in sober earnest, would call this a pecuniary transaction?
They their following, deserting Sir Barnes, whom they had supported in previous elections, voted for the Colonel, although some of the opinions of that gentleman were rather too extreme for such sober persons.
Bellew wouldn't have sung for any man but me--and for two-and-twenty months I kept him as sober as Father Mathew.
Florac, like most Frenchmen very sober in his potations, left us for a while over ours, which were conducted after the more liberal English manner, and retired to smoke his cigar on the terrace.
What the deuce does a mariage de convenance mean but all this, and are not such sober Hymeneal torches more satisfactory often than the most brilliant love matches that ever flamed and burnt out?
Florac, a very sober drinker like most of his nation, was blessed with a very fine appetite, which, as he said, renewed itself thrice a day at least.
Certainly they showed no hesitation about pouring down the wine as fast as it was mixed and served, nor did either of them appear to notice that we drank less than they; they seemed able to hold any amount and stay sober and keep on drinking.
Saunders looked out of the pantry-door to reconnoitre, and finding the sober quiet already described reigning, he opened a drawer, and drew forth a London newspaper.
For a few minutes this contrast in feeling produced an awkward meeting; but the truth soon brought all down to the same sober level.
If either one of them had ever drawn a sober breath in twenty years he should have sued his face for libel, and they looked as if they had been towed behind a trolley car from the Battery to Fort George.
Soon after eight o'clock we left Aldea Gallega, and ploughed through deep furrows of sand at the sober rate of two miles and a half in an hour.
Being curious to see the abode of these semi-royal sober personages, I entered the palace.
Being a little recovered from it, I tottered down the staircase, entered the cabinets of natural history, and was soon restored to my sober senses.
No regal chamber I ever beheld can be compared, in point of sober harmonious majesty, to this apartment, which looks more as if it belonged to a palace than to a church.
There, snug under a garden wall on a sequestered bench, sat two or three Genevois of the old stamp, chewing the cud of sober sermons--men who receive not more than seven or eight per cent.
Their relations continued on this friendly footing for a number of days, until suddenly Julia for some occult reason began to grow sober and melancholy.
That will do; you are dismissed," said the professor of physics, trying in vain to put on a sober face.
Now sunk the sun: the closing hour of day Came onward, mantled o'er with sober gray; Nature in silence bid the world repose.
In religion, What damnèd error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
While lawyers have more sober sense Than t' argue at their own expense, But make their best advantages Of others' quarrels, like the Swiss.
In religion, What damnèd error, but some soberbrow Will bless it and approve it with a text.
Delights which who would leave, that has a heart Susceptible of pity or a mind Cultured and capable of sober thought?
And as I looked and listened, I still observed the Socialist, Unmoved and patient and serious, calm, full of sober reflections.
She had grown sober and serious, in these years of work and battle and stern endeavor.
She was executed at Manningtree all the same as if she had spokensober truth.
Marco di Pino, an imitator of Michelangiolo, as we have observed, though sober and judicious, was held in disesteem by him.
Leonardo da Vinci, from his sober and refined style of colour, could not fail to please him; and he decorated that master's work Su la Pittura with figures designed in his usual fine taste.
In his frescos he displayed fresh and brilliant colours; in his oil pictures, on the contrary, he adopted more sober tints, harmonized by a general tone of tranquillity and placidness.
In sober earnest, I haven't been practising magic these twenty-five years for nothing.
His leisure moments thus carefully improved, it will be inferred that Stephenson continued a sober man.
He was diligent and observant while at work, and sober and studious when the day's work was done.
Mere man is a paradoxical creature--it is not always possible to distinguish between his soberearnest and his leg-pulling exercises.
And no President, not even Lincoln, has more willingly endured for his people, or has more trusted in the people, or has sought more high-mindedly to interpret and carry out the sober thought and ultimate will of the nation.
He was a modest sober young Man, very averse to their unlawful Practice, and a brave gallant Fellow.
Glasby was a reserved sober Man, and therefore gave Occasion to be suspected, so that he was soon missed after he went away; and a Detachment being sent in quest of the Deserters, they were all three brought back again the next Day.
