Both Uses of
sober
in
Don Quixote
- Tell me, senor, do you mean to travel all that way for nothing, and to let slip and lose so rich and great a match as this where they give as a portion a kingdom that in sober truth I have heard say is more than twenty thousand leagues round about, and abounds with all things necessary to support human life, and is bigger than Portugal and Castile put together?†
Chpt 1.31-32
- O dear friends, peace be with you, and may this madness that is taking us away from you, turned into sober sense, bring us back to you.†
Chpt 2.29-30 *
Definition:
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(sober as in: Talk to me when your sober.) not under the influence of alcohol