Had he ever made a solemn promise to devote his life to missionary labours among the heathen?
But he had not come yet, and while she waited her tears flowed quietly and sadly for all that was no more to be hers, but most of all because she had broken a high and solemn promise which had been the foundation of her life.
In the secondary life of her imagination she was bound by the most solemn vows, and under the most terrible penalties, to preserve herself intact from the touch of man.
Some became Christians, and some afterwards married; but there was one who would not, though she loved as none of them loved, and she withdrew from the world and lived a pure life for the sake of the old faith and of her solemn vows.
So, they all laugh at the dark solemn head of the yew tree, and throw stones up at the place where the moon had silvered the boughs.
The disaster which befell that ship and her crew before Tripoli, forms a solemn page in our naval history; atoned, however, by the brilliant achievements to which it gave rise.
Everywhere, from sky and lawn and solemn trees, the Past came softly in and listened too.
Yet behind thissolemn ritual, that opened with prayer and invariably concluded with hope renewed and courage strengthened, ran the tragic element that no degree of comedy could kill.
The Postmaster put his head out and waved his Trilby hat with a solemn smile.
Jimbo, proudly conscious that more was expected of him, provided it in his solemn little voice.
Which meant that he was not to interfere with the actual thanksgiving, but to countenance the occasion with hissolemn presence.
Jinny, stiff, perplexed, and solemn with exhaustion, yet dared not betray it because she was older, in measurable distance of her hair going up.
There stood the solemn pine trees, thick and close; moonlight flooded the spaces between them and lit their crests with silver.
Tante Jeanne talked furiously and incessantly, her sister-in-law told her latest dream, and the Postmaster occasionally cracked a solemn joke, laughing uproariously long before the point appeared.
Regarding their young with solemn ferocity, their fierce natures are not to be modified or softened in the least.
It breaks forth in its solemn chant, as though the wind were an influence that awakened memories of the immeasurable past, and inspired this primitive song.
This straw was its doll-baby, the only plaything it could know, and this its solemn play.
It is perhaps the subdued light which inspires a certain solemn and hymn-like quality in the notes of wood birds, as in the thrushes and the altogether didactic tone of the redeye.
So long as I fed them they were content to perch on my finger, fierce and solemn little ruffians, and devour bits of raw meat.
There is no abandon in his song; he does not sing about himself--has no moods--but repeats his solemn chant.
That was lost to Charles for ever, and there might well be hymns of rejoicing and solemn thanksgiving for the victory, for the cause of the Parliament had looked desperate enough only a short time before.
Caesar performed the solemn rites of the great Latin festival on the Alban Mount during his Dictatorship.
I have been assured, in the most solemn manner, that the badger, the toad, and the Yellow Hammer are all in league with the Prince of Darkness.
After having bound himself by a solemn oath, he leaves her half-distracted with grief.
Melusine consents to the union under the condition that he pledges himself by a solemn oath, never to blame her, nor to spy her out, should she leave him in the full-moon nights.
Well he is a funny-looking Johnny anyway, looks as pale as a codfish and as solemn as a boiled owl.
He didn't say much, but what he did say was beautifully simple, and on leaving him I felt very solemn and, since I must tell the truth, very important.
These solemn waitings, which did not happen unfrequently, were comical to me, and since my father never could understand why Nina and I were amused at them, he had generally forgotten his original grievance before dinner began.
He had acquired the supreme power by a military revolution and upon the most solemn pledges to wage war against the United States and to reconquer Texas, which he claimed as a revolted province of Mexico.
These solemn assurances in answer to our demand for redress were disregarded.
Several of my predecessors have denied its existence in the mostsolemn forms.
Having this day approved and signed an act entitled "An act to establish the Territorial government of Oregon," I deem it proper, under the existing circumstances, to communicate the fact in a more solemn form.
It is our solemn duty to provide with the least practicable delay for New Mexico and California regularly organized Territorial governments.
But they are willing to try the experiment of another demand, made in the most solemn form, upon the justice of the Mexican Government before any further proceedings are adopted.
They used them even on the mostsolemn occasions; when the Duke of Guise was shot at Blois, he was found with his comfit-box in his hand.
The muse dictated some elegiac verse, and in the solemn pathos deplored the death and the disappointment of his parents.
Thomson, the ardent author of the Seasons, having extravagantly praised a person of rank, who afterwards appeared to be undeserving of eulogiums, properly employed his pen in a solemn recantation of his error.
When they voted a statue to a proconsul, they placed it among the statues of the gods in the festival called Lectisternium, from the ridiculous circumstances of this solemn festival.
Dukes' daughters then wore gownes of satten of Bridges (Bruges) upon solemn dayes.
Gloves, beside their original design for a covering of the hand, have been employed on several great and solemn occasions; as in the ceremony of investitures, in bestowing lands, or in conferring dignities.
The honour of the monarch's reputation for divine sagacity seemed diminished, and the whole Jewish court looked solemn and melancholy.
One Massieu having written a moral explanation of the solemn anthems sung in Advent, which begin with the letter O, published this work under the punning title of La douce Moelle, et la Sauce friande des os Savoureux de l'Avent.
It forms a solemn picture in the histories and ballads of our old writers.
They were brought into the church with solemn pomp, and deposited on the altar, accompanied by an innumerable crowd.
In Germany, a solemn circumstance was practised in these judicial combats.
Thus the best ends of our mortal being are lost sight of; the solemn circumstances, the suggestive mysteries of life, are misconstrued.
Let not a single day bear witness to the neglect or violation of any duty which shall lie hard in the heart when it is excited to tender andsolemn recollections.
Surely they suggest to each of us the most vital and solemn considerations.
The mere suggestion that each one is working out a peculiar destiny invests even the meanest life with a solemn dignity, and counteracts any disparaging argument drawn from its brevity.
There is in this world nothing so great and solemn as the struggles of the solitary soul in its researches after the truth,--in its endeavors to obey the right.
Alone we must realize their sharp suggestions, their painful memories, their brood of sad and solemn thoughts.
It is a slight break in the monotony of our business,--an interlude in the solemn march of life.
I repeat, then, in closing, that the test which proves the excellence of the religion of Christ is the fact that it fits us for those solemn hours of life when we must be alone.
Its deepest pangs, its most solemn visitations, are in the secrecy of the individual soul.
But when the summer sunshine fell Upon the treasures hoarded there, The tears rushed to her tender eyes, Her heart was solemn as a prayer.
A solemn silence reigned on all around, E'en Nature's voices uttered not a sound; The evening shadows seemed of peace to tell, And sleep upon my weary spirit fell.
And haply as the solemn years go by, He will think sometimes, with regretful sigh, The other woman was less true than I.
There entertain him all the saints above, In solemn troops and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears forever from his eyes.
And the sexton ceased, for the funeral train Wound mutely o'er that solemn plain!
Not a thing about her that you'd know except just her great solemn eyes mooning out at you through a gob of white cotton, and her red mouth lipping sort of twitchy at the edge of a bandage.
What solemn freak was this which made it come and sing to one who had no longer any business with the Spring?
All three now stood round the bed, over which the baby presided with solemn gaze.
A look of solemn pride came portentously on his shaven square old face, he rolled his head in his stand-up collar, like a turkey-cock preening himself.
He turned his black, solemn eyes silently from face to face, now and then asking the meaning of an English word.
To these little solemn delicious creatures, all front and no behind, the philosophic eye, with its habit of looking round the corner, was clearly detestable.
Then Benjy's shaven face was seen a moment, bland and steely; the footman folded his arms, and with a solemn crunch the brougham wheels rolled away.
Rozsi; and Margit, with a solemn face, repeated, "We wait.
Nearly a day without sight of those solemn eyes and crinkled toes and fingers!
With each fish caught he experienced a solemn satisfaction.
They urged that his fate had already been determined in a large and solemn council, and that they would be acting like squaws to change their minds every hour.
In Blackstone's time the sentence was still more savage, or, as the great Commentator puts it, "very solemn and terrible.
Well, my idea is let's be a sort of Industrious Society of Beavers, and make a solemnvow and covenant to make something every day.
I think you ought all to be in a Would-be-Kind Society, and vow solemn convents and things not to be down on your younger brother.
It seemed as though something solemn and elevating had entered and driven away the frivolous, chattering presences which had filled the room.
I believe it most fervently," was the clergyman's solemn answer.
After approaching Milady with a slow and solemn step, so that the table alone separated them, the unknown took off his mask.
D'Artagnan obeyed; for Athos had the solemn voice and the powerful gesture of a judge sent by the Lord himself.
My word as a gentleman never to say anything of you, never to do anything against you; on your side, a solemn oath to remain neutral with respect to me.
And he pronounced these words with such a solemn air and with such a real appearance of terror, that Athos eagerly seized his hand, crying, "Are you wounded, my friend?
Pete poured forth agonizing entreaties for mercy, and made the most solemn promises of amendment, if his life could be spared.
The solemnpurple pall that adumbrated the world and the huge nothingness before them, so silent, so immutable and pregnant with terrible mysteries, brought them close together.
And his grave shall be for all the future ages a place of pilgrimage andsolemn thought.
A solemn hush fell over the dead world; night was at hand.
The beauty and majesty of night now--seen again after long absence--a hundred times more solemn than they had ever known it, kept the two Americans from speech.
The solemnbeauty of the scene awed the woman and the man to silence.
He stood there facing the east, priestlike in venerable and solemn worship of the coming sun.
The spectacle she was gazing at filled her with solemn thoughts.
And never has a wedding been so true, so solemn and so holy as yours and mine shall be.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "solemn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
