All 7 Uses of
sober
in
Wuthering Heights
- I insist on perfect sobriety and silence.†
Chpt 3 *
- Hindley descended more leisurely, sobered and abashed.†
Chpt 9 *
- I cried, perceiving the master to be tolerably sober.†
Chpt 9
- He kept himself sober for the purpose — tolerably sober: not going to bed mad at six o'clock and getting up drunk at twelve.†
Chpt 17
- He kept himself sober for the purpose — tolerably sober: not going to bed mad at six o'clock and getting up drunk at twelve.†
Chpt 17
- She ran, and returned and ran again, many times before my sober footsteps reached the gate, and then she seated herself on the grassy bank beside the path, and tried to wait patiently; but that was impossible: she couldn't be still a minute.†
Chpt 19
- The red fire-light glowed on their two bonny heads, and revealed their faces animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to feel and learn, that neither experienced nor evinced the sentiments of sober disenchanted maturity.†
Chpt 33
Definitions:
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(sober as in: Talk to me when your sober.) not under the influence of alcohol
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(sobering as in: a sobering thought) serious or calm (not silly or excited); or making one serious or less excited