All 3 Uses of
somber
in
David Copperfield
- I remember it as a kind of half chaise-cart, half pianoforte-van, painted of a sombre colour, and drawn by a black horse with a long tail.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- It was a sombre evening, with a lurid light in the sky; and as I saw the prospect scowling in the distance, with here and there some larger object starting up into the sullen glare, I fancied it was no inapt companion to the memory of this fierce woman.†
Chpt 46-48
- She laid her hand on my arm, and hurried me on to one of the sombre streets, of which there are several in that part, where the houses were once fair dwellings in the occupation of single families, but have, and had, long degenerated into poor lodgings let off in rooms.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(somber as in: a somber mood) serious (without cheer or lightheartedness); or sad