Transgression of the limits of soberness or steadiness; act of levity; wild gayety; frolic; escapade.
But were it not curious to know how Sieyes, now in these days (for he is said to be still alive) looks out on all that Constitution masonry, through the rheumy soberness of extreme age?
Then, as he saw her soberness deepen, he grew grave immediately.
If a girl, no matter how light of heart and frivolous, a silence and sobernesscame over her for a moment, and her eyes grew wistful.
On the other hand, Mrs. Drane had been surprised at Ralph's soberness of manner, and she found herself in the unusual position of the liveliest person at the breakfast table.
She had come down late to breakfast, and he had been surprised at her soberness of manner.
There is a departure from soberness and an attempt to give ornament a place whether ornament is necessary or not.
Queen Anne period, soberness and reticence without that added touch of classic austerity which brought Greece and Rome to the English dinner table, and scattered the gods of Olympus throughout Staffordshire.
Our purpose is to speak clear, earnest words of truth and soberness in a spirit of kindness.
But he did not let that sobernesstrouble him long.
As Naida had finished her story, Kirby mustered a smile despite the soberness which had come upon him.
It was plain from the moment he took the stand that the situation suited him, and that we were to hear from him that day such words of wisdom, truth and soberness as only genius could supply.
His face took on a depth of soberness Ken seldom saw in his father.
He was not so assured as he had tried to make her think, andsoberness dwelt within his breast.
Trimmer was frightened into soberness--at least into soberness sufficient to protect himself and McCoppet.
She then rose; but before retiring, addressed a few words to them with a pretty dignity, to which her mourning dress added a soberness that was hardly to be found in the words themselves.
In the background, mellowed by tawny shade, were the three women, Maryann Money, and Temperance and Soberness Miller, gathering up the fleeces and twisting ropes of wool with a wimble for tying them round.
But he saw soberness coming into Jack's eyes and with it the pressure of a certain resoluteness of purpose.
Yet she sensed in his soberness something fine that did not mark the rest.
He had a vague notion that their utilitarian virtues were sometimes shabby; for example, in Kit's circle, one was sober because soberness paid.
We hear so much of mist and transcendentalism, problems, theories, essays, critiques that a book of Aristotle's dry but exact definition seems like the words of soberness after some nightmare.
Yea, the law of Zeus is, wisdom by suffering, for thus soberness of thought comes to those who wish not for it.
Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety.
Of this hitherto I feel no doubt: it may be otherwise any day of course; and to what else can I attribute this fact, in all soberness of mind, but to the mercy of God in strengthening me for my work?
Soberness had now visited the pair behind us; even Lin's lively talk had quieted, and his tones were low and few.
I have made the youth's heart burn with high purpose to emulate the heroic deeds of old, and I have implanted thoughts of soberness in the giddy headed.
If Acton in his tipsy state was mad, in his intervals of soberness he was thoroughly miserable.
