All 6 Uses of
sober
in
Dubliners
- This rebuke during the sober hours of school paled much of the glory of the Wild West for me and the confused puffy face of Leo Dillon awakened one of my consciences.†
Chpt 2
- Every step brought him nearer to London, farther from his own sober inartistic life.†
Chpt 8 *
- His wife was a little sharp-faced woman who bullied her husband when he was sober and was bullied by him when he was drunk.†
Chpt 9
- He told her that for some time he had assisted at the meetings of an Irish Socialist Party where he had felt himself a unique figure amidst a score of sober workmen in a garret lit by an inefficient oil-lamp.†
Chpt 11
- He was sober, thrifty and pious; he went to the altar every first Friday, sometimes with her, oftener by himself.†
Chpt 13
- The shock and the incipient pain had partly sobered him.†
Chpt 14 *
Definitions:
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(sober as in: Talk to me when your sober.) not under the influence of alcohol
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(sobering as in: a sobering thought) serious or calm (not silly or excited); or making one serious or less excited