All 4 Uses of
somber
in
Bleak House
- They pass into a sombre breakfast-room on the ground floor, lighted in the day by two deep windows.†
Chpt 10-12
- Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.†
Chpt 28-30
- It was a sombre day, and drops of chill rain fell at intervals.†
Chpt 49-51 *
- With so much of itself abandoned to darkness and vacancy; with so little change under the summer shining or the wintry lowering; so sombre and motionless always—no flag flying now by day, no rows of lights sparkling by night; with no family to come and go, no visitors to be the souls of pale cold shapes of rooms, no stir of life about it—passion and pride, even to the stranger's eye, have died away from the place in Lincolnshire and yielded it to dull repose.†
Chpt 66-67
Definition:
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(somber as in: a somber mood) serious (without cheer or lightheartedness); or sad