All 5 Uses of
somber
in
Middlemarch
- The grounds here were more confined, the flower-beds showed no very careful tendance, and large clumps of trees, chiefly of sombre yews, had risen high, not ten yards from the windows.†
Chpt 1
- "You will not mind this sombre light," said Dorothea, standing in the middle of the room.†
Chpt 3 *
- The day passed in a sombre fashion, not unusual, though Mr. Casaubon was perhaps unusually silent; but there were hours of the night which might be counted on as opportunities of conversation; for Dorothea, when aware of her husband's sleeplessness, had established a habit of rising, lighting a candle, and reading him to sleep again.†
Chpt 4
- It was a lovely afternoon; the leaves from the lofty limes were falling silently across the sombre evergreens, while the lights and shadows slept side by side: there was no sound but the cawing of the rooks, which to the accustomed ear is a lullaby, or that last solemn lullaby, a dirge.†
Chpt 4
- The light was more and more sombre, but there came a flash of lightning which made them start and look at each other, and then smile.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(somber as in: a somber mood) serious (without cheer or lightheartedness); or sad