But a soberer second thought than this prevailed, and she told the girl who it was that was within and explained the accident of his presence.
This was the soberer mood to which Beaton trusted that night even before he slept, and he awoke fully confirmed in it.
She affected no solemnity and seemed under no constraint, only her thought and bearing had a somewhat soberer coloring, like the shading of a picture.
After Miss Burton's departure, the young people had the dance to themselves, their elders resuming the avocations and soberer pleasures from which they had been swept by an impulse evoked from their half-forgotten youth.
Our soberer minds are apt to think that there must be an actual, particular experience behind every sincere poem.
In the interior of the country, and especially in Morocco, where the whole color-scheme is much soberer than in Algeria and Tunisia, the color of the native houses is always a penitential shade of mud and ashes.
Their savings are now so large that only soberer habits and rounder sense are needed to make them independent capitalists in less than half a lifetime.
Frenchmen are much soberer than Englishmen, and much better mannered.
The Bokhara," replied Hester, her air of joyous expectation already exchanged for a soberer one.
The gaiety, the "laughing light" of youth was changed to soberer hues.
And how cold and grey all soberer tints must seem to these children of Apollo!
He knew it was only the stir of the spring sap in his veins, but Maria Clementina wore a look of morning brightness that might have made a soberer judgment blink.
In the Duchess's company he might have lost all taste for soberer pleasures, but that his political sympathies wore a girl's reproachful shape.
Not for a moment, either in listening to her or in the soberer period of revision, did he question the exact truth of her narrative.
Jeff with dignity informed him that an affair was then brewing, and Lawrence intimated that they were both interested, when the Major declared that he would "advise the young lady to discard both and accept a soberer and a wiser man.
This also was agreed to, though Lawrence's face wore a sobererexpression than had before appeared upon it.
But my thoughtfulness and gravity as a child, my being cast in a larger, soberer mould, lent validity to my assumption of the right to take care of Bettina.
Surely Socrates was right in his opinion, that philosophers are but a soberer sort of madmen, busying themselves in things totally incomprehensible, or which, if they could be comprehended, would be found not worthy the trouble of discovery.
I The nearer the train drew toward La Crosse, the soberer the little group of "vets" became.
They grew soberer when he showed where he had been struck, one ball burning the back of his hand, one cutting away a lock of hair from his temple, and one passing through the calf of his leg.
And of soberer kind are the innumerable, perfectly kept establishments created by Duval and imitated by Boulant.
Lelise glides into the "Nouvelle Athenee," a cafe whose clientele is made up of soberer habitues.
A little later she wrote: "You need not send me Lady Newcastle's book at all, for I have seen it, and am satisfied that there are many soberer people in Bedlam.
His voice was thick, while the Selwyn of Annapolis was never soberer in his life.
I give you my word I was never soberer in my life.
It is only honest to declare that in my soberer moments my estimate of his character suffered.
The irrational is what does not justify itself in the end; and the born artist, repelled by the soberer and bitterer passions of the world, may justly call them irrational.
The family and the state had a soberer antique religion of their own; this hereditary piety, together with the laws, prescribed education, customs, and duties.
Rationalism ran a much soberer course than in France.
Their word-painters are unable to descend to anything cheaper than gold; so that in this case the insistence on pecuniary beauty gives a startling effect in yellow--such as would be unbearable to a soberer taste.
But again it was Barrett who took the soberer view.
For myself, although at the time I wrote it I was rather puffed up and elated in spirit, and looked at it naturally in far too favorable a light, I assure you I have long since come to a much soberer frame of mind respecting it.
These were childish expressions of a feeling thesoberer portion of which remains with me even now, and makes the memory of that excellent woman, and kind, judicious friend, still very dear to my grateful affection.
Only the soberer ones came fluttering into the cool church out of the blinding heat, and settled here and there throughout the nave.
He had been soberer there, marked as a pleader, and at last the day arrived when he was summoned by a great New York lawyer to discuss his future.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "soberer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
