To-day they glowed rich and splendid, a robing of sombre glory to her inward and backward searching sight.
After a few seconds of silent debate she clasped Carteret's pearls about her throat again; and so fared away, a creature of radiant aspect, amid sombre setting of low ceilings and dark carpeted floors, to await the advent of the travellers.
Against that sombre background, fair and stately in the tender sunlight as a church of vision or dream, Marychurch Abbey rose above the roofs and chimneys of the little town.
The mangrove covered shores looked even more sombre and monotonous than before, in the grey light of morning, as we glided down between them.
In a few minutes more we were in the free open ocean, and the dark sombre river, with its gloomy associations, was far astern.
Truly the sombre Puritan made a better figure than her swaggering neighbor.
The storm had ceased, and something of the solemn spirit of the night had imparted itself to his reflections, giving them the sombre tinge of a supernatural dread.
A sombre rivalry seemed evident, now, between the two differing streams.
Watched, along the main thoroughfare, from porches of liquor-shops and windows of tenement-houses, death has perhaps gained a sombre popularity with not a few shabby gazers.
A great sombre note had been struck through all her being, at a time when brain and nerves had begun to feel the full intoxication of worldly longing.
Her costumes tinkled with black bugles, or rustled and crackled in sombre yet ornamented grandeur.
Another was a heavy, sombre family coach, with two men on the box, both clad in dark, dignified livery.
His changed face took another speedy change; it grew sombre and forbidding.
Both his arms engirt her as previously, but his eyes, looking straight before him, were sombre with meditation.
While he tosses and storms, straining every nerve, in that sea of ambition and confusion, there comes, sombre and still, a monition that for him the issue of it will be swift death.
The French burial places had that sombreeffect which straight lines and extended alleys ever produce.
The sun beat down upon them, in their wide hats, their semi-nakedness, attired in their sombre or brilliant cotton skirts.
The man rose to his feet respectfully as Mercier passed, watching his mistress and watching Mercier with a sombre eye.
I began to break forth in thanks, but he checked me with a sombre roughness.
HYDE That evening Mr. Utterson came home to his bachelor house in sombre spirits and sat down to dinner without relish.
My visitor was, indeed, on fire with sombre excitement.
The winding valley and the wooded slope, the white track of water, and the sombre cliffs, all sprang out of their vaporous mantle; and even the bridge of echoes looked a cheerful place to lounge on.
The rider had not caught her voice, but had descried some white thing fluttering between him and the sombre stripe which he was watching earnestly.
No snow had fallen; but all the downs were spread with that sombre brown which is the breath or the blast of the wind-frost.
A young trooper was leaning over the rude balustrade of the veranda, and beyond him the sombre pines rolled down the darkening valley.
The torrent which had worn it out moaned far down in the shadow below, and the sombre firs rolled up to the edge of it two hundred yards away.
The river roared close beneath him, swirling among its boulders, stained green with the clay of a great glacier, and overhead the sombre pines were blurred by mist and rain.
The bush was very still, and it was pleasantly cool in the shadow of the pines, which rolled in sombre ranks down the face of the hill.
The clink of the shovels no longer rose from beyond the sombre trees, and there was deep stillness in the hollow.
He stood before her as if transfigured, his eyes glowed with the sombre fire which had flashed in them a moment early that morning, a rustling like eagle's pinions ran through the forest--Jupiter was approaching in human form.
He, the man with compressed lips and brow sombre with thought, ruled the unchained elements, became lord of the anarchy, and dictated laws to a universe.
She gazed forth upon the swampy, miasmatic open space and the sombre forest line bounding it, and gave a direction or two to the natives as to the head and horns of the trophy.
Guy and the Rector pored over the tulips a while where in serried borders they displayed their sombre sheen of amaranth and amethyst: then Guy strolled off to hear what was the news of Margaret and Richard.
Pauline looked at her sister and felt afraid the new tenant of Plashers Mead would fall in love with her, for Margaret was so very adorable with her slim hands and her sombre hair.
But she the goddess whose white star is set, Whose fane was pillaged for this sombre shrine, Could she look down upon those lips of thine, And hear thee mutter, would she still regret?
Then I, to hear what he might say, Followed with them, that sombre day.
Tell me, 0 prophet, bird of sombre feather, Who taught thee all the mysteries of spring?
When shadows gather and the night-mists rise, Up to the hills he lifts his sombreeyes To where the last red rose of sunset lies.
If youth could understand the tears and sorrow, The sombredays that age and knowledge bring, It would not be so eager for the morrow Or spendthrift of the spring.
The sombre Gothic can be traced in the older portions of the building, but everywhere it has been seized upon by the restless fancy of later workers.
The bedrooms were wainscoted, but the front one was not gloomy; and in it the cosiness of antiquity quite overcame its sombre associations.
She quickly drew off her sombre visiting gloves; and lifting the newspaper, revealed under it a fresh pair of gloves, pearl-colored.
She felt no especial admiration for that grave, earnest, and rather sombre lady; but neither did she feel admiration for her sterling knife and fork: still she made them serviceable for the ulterior ends of being.
Her face was still cold, but in the sombre depths of her eyes glowed a fire of anger.
Friends, I have not darkened your journey with sombre anticipations.
She was a vision all heavenly white but for her scarlet lips and sombre eyes and brows.
To the west the mountains looked down in sombre placidity as they had looked down every bright autumn morning since the dawn of time, their shoulders bathed in purple mist and their snow-crowned summits shining in the sun.
Grant found himself thinking of this dissembling quality as one of nature's provisions designed for the protection of women, much as the sombre plumage of the prairie chicken protects her from the eye of the sportsman.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sombre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
