It is soberingto remember, however, that he was one of those who could not assimilate Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood, which Descartes at once adopted and propounded.
Nothing I can do will ever make a Milton of me, unless I go blind someday," he said, sobering at the thought.
The question, soberingin its tendency, has yet for sole effect the setting Byng off again with spread pinions into the empyrean.
The idea, as I have already said, has occurred to Burgoyne that his companion is under the influence of intoxication; but either this is not the case, or the shock of the last words has the effect of instantly sobering him.
It was at this time that Angela first conceived the notion seriously that a child might have a sobering effect on Eugene.
Life apart, they felt, was impossible, and, removed from the sobering influences of his cap and gown, John Lefolle dreamed of throwing everything to the winds.
It cannot be denied that in some cases this course of action succeeded in frightening and sobering the parties towards whom it was directed.
The Heads of Houses, instead of moderating and sobering it, with the authority of instructed and sagacious rulers, blew it into a flame.
His voice seemed to grow clearer with every word; the critical encounter was sobering him.
Let it be hoped that the cool air outside would have a sobering effect and send them home to bed!
They represent distinct stages in the sobering process which man's primitive intoxication with sense-happiness is sure to undergo.
He was not a man to do homage to material gods, but the pomp and circumstance with which she was surrounded had had a sobering effect upon him, and added to his sense of the instability and unreality of the present moment.
Inside the vehicle, hunched up in the corner of the seat, was a man who presented an appearance of helplessness which struck them both with a sobering effect.
A sense of momentous issues at stake means a soberingand deepening of the mental attitude.
The idea of time involves time to think; the sobering second thought expressed in seriousness and gravity.
Reflection on so great a breach of faith throws into soberingperspective the subsequent response that had met the mission of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to the West.
That was a sufficiently sobering thought; he stood still, the better to work out the new problem which faced him.
The Captain, who began to feel the sobering effects of the breeze and the exercise, smiled upon him benignly, and pulled harder.
I deal now only with the first of these two contrasted pictures, and consider the lightly-made vow, and Christ's sobering treatment of it.
It seemed, of a sudden, to put a new and sobering complexion on things.
But, save at such times, and under the sobering influence of such lessons, equality, and not liberty, is the root of French Democracy.
The dress is supposed to have a very sobering effect.
The seriousness of our quest must have had a sobering effect upon us both.
You cannot mean it," Helen said, weakly, sobering down after the first exhilaration of the old man's words.
Yet on the other hand Tacitus had gained practical experience in high office, both as soldier and administrator, which has always a sobering effect on the judgment.
But," a sobering thought seizing hold of her, "how was it possible you never mentioned her to me in a single one of your letters?
That autumn she had affairs of her own to absorb her time and give her a sobering view of humanity.
The announcement that a long interval must elapse before the promise was fulfilled must no doubt have been a shock to Abram; and yet it was sobering and educative.
And these two years of unrelieved and sobering obscurity cannot but be considered most opportune.
After a man's reputation has been established, there is always the danger of giving undue weight to his opinions, expressed at an earlier time, somewhat casually, and not under the soberingsense of responsibility.
Parvis, at Mary's first startled cry, had thrown her a sobering glance through his impartial glasses.
The long, quavering summons brought Trimmle in precipitately with a lamp, and Mary breathed again at this sobering reappearance of the usual.
Aileen suddenly exclaimed, sobering in an equally strange way.
Sobering eventually, she wondered what Cowperwood would think of her now if he knew this?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sobering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
