This sobered him somewhat, but he went into the battle with renewed fury.
The younger, sobered by the voice of self-accusation, ever feels the weight of the consciousness of a grave duty slighted; she was made more wise in a day of deep reality than by twenty years of conventional training.
He had sobered up and began to realize that he might have made a better bargain with his prisoners.
General Cartabona came out quite sobered by the fierceness of the attack.
The man looked up at her blankly, his laughing, impertinent brown face sobered at once by the sight of her own.
He reeled back before that unexpected assault, then, sobered a trifle by its viciousness, caught her wrists, held her helpless for an instant, and threw her violently from him.
And something of her fond gravity and gentleness penetrated and sobered his own mood.
Suppose the cool night air had already done its work and sobered the wayfarer enough to render him obstinate or even dangerous!
The pedantry of youth had disappeared--practical business had sobered him, and love had relieved him of his idolatry for books.
Marriage had tamed her, sobered her dreams, disillusioned her fancies.
Wild ungovernable strength had whirled him in mere boyhood at the beck of his passions, and when most men are entering freshly upon life, he was already saddened and sobered by sin and suffering.
The sights he had seen were very brilliant, but there was something in the very word Assize that sobered him.
I effaced all traces of my visit, and came forth from the window feeling sobered and concerned.
He looked round him, and it was plain my remark had in some degree sobered his passion.
Toil and isolation had sobered him, and he grew more and more like the clods among which he laboured.
Millard's eyes sobered a bit at his superior's confusion.
Anyhow--" He sobered a bit, perhaps realizing that he was going counter to the tendency to have the author on the lot.
Shirley sobered suddenly, as if he had forgotten the mystery altogether.
My tone sobered the boy, but he did not pretend to be influenced by any such high motives as those which I persuaded myself actuated me, far more than idle curiosity.
But he sobered instantly as he recollected that O'Higgins had found Spurlock once.
But finding himself a close prisoner had sobered Mosey a good deal and long before the shore was gained he made up his mind to escape if he possibly could.
The awful occurrence had for the time sobered him, and he moved forward without a stagger.
Enslee was too befuddled to know or, when the shock sobered him, to remember.
The fear of burnt doublets or kirtles had effectually sobered these over-flowing tempers.
The unfortunate man was never more seen, and the visitors left the vessel in sobered silence, and rowed, without exchanging a word, to their own smack, which lay about a quarter of a mile distant on the port quarter.
Without another word Gunter, who was somewhat sobered by the cold bath, went to where the skipper lay, and attempted to raise him.
His comrades were apparently sobered in an instant.
It did not indeed abate the sprightly activity of his mind or body, but it sobered his spirit and, in one day, made him more of a man than several years of ordinary life could have accomplished.
The first effect produced by these orders would have at once sobered a prince less infatuated than James.
The judgment of the world became still more favourable to Dorset when he had been sobered by time and marriage.
Upon this someone exclaimed in a faltering, sobered tone: "Surely not?
And no doubt it seems strange to many to look back on the fancies of youth, which experience has sobered down.
But to return from such deep thoughts, let it be repeated, that the entire mood of the solitary man is likely to be a sobered and subdued one.
I considered that I had acted the part of a madman, and had again begun to renew my career of sin and of folly, a little, and but a little, sobered by the recent event.
This sobered the lieutenant and his officers; and as the tide fell, we found ourselves high and dry.
And this with the quiet scene so abruptly presented to me, gave check to my thoughts, and somewhat sobered me.
I was somewhat sobered by that, and paused to consider before I replied.
Mrs. Lapham had been sobered into something of her former misgiving by her difficulties with her note.
Neither he nor his wife thought now that their daughter was marrying a Corey; they thought only that she was giving herself to the man who loved her, and their acquiescence was sobered still further by the presence of Irene.
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