All 7 Uses of
sober
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Carton, who smelt of port wine, and did not appear to be quite sober, laughed then, and turned to Darnay: "This is a strange chance that throws you and me together.†
Chpt 2.4
- Don't let your sober face elate you, however; you don't know what it may come to.†
Chpt 2.4
- Sydney was none the livelier and none the soberer for so much application.†
Chpt 2.11 *
- Then he delivered to the escort, drunk and sober, a receipt for the escorted, and requested him to dismount.†
Chpt 3.1
- He accompanied his conductor into a guard-room, smelling of common wine and tobacco, where certain soldiers and patriots, asleep and awake, drunk and sober, and in various neutral states between sleeping and waking, drunkenness and sobriety, were standing and lying about.†
Chpt 3.1
- He accompanied his conductor into a guard-room, smelling of common wine and tobacco, where certain soldiers and patriots, asleep and awake, drunk and sober, and in various neutral states between sleeping and waking, drunkenness and sobriety, were standing and lying about.†
Chpt 3.1
- That, hereupon he had ascertained, through the registers on the table, that his son-in-law was among the living prisoners, and had pleaded hard to the Tribunal—of whom some members were asleep and some awake, some dirty with murder and some clean, some sober and some not—for his life and liberty.†
Chpt 3.4
Definition:
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(sober as in: Talk to me when your sober.) not under the influence of alcohol