All 11 Uses of
sober
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Next day, of course, when he was sober, he regretted the broken cups and saucers.†
Chpt 3
- "To my thinking," he revived at once, seeming to grow sober the instant he touched on his favorite topic.†
Chpt 3
- The answer he received was: that he was sober, but wouldn't go away.†
Chpt 8
- The sound of the knock in the silence of the night sobered him and made him feel annoyed.†
Chpt 8 *
- He was suddenly drunk, although till that moment he had been quite sober, he remembered that.†
Chpt 8
- I'm quite sober now.†
Chpt 9 *
- It's with me, you know, like the saying: 'When he is sober, he is a fool; when he is drunk, he is a wise man.'†
Chpt 9
- He seemed not quite sober.†
Chpt 10
- But we must one day begin life in sober earnest, we must look at ourselves as a society; it's time we tried to grasp something of our social position, or at least to make a beginning in that direction.†
Chpt 12
- But that does not diminish the value of the letter, quite the contrary; he wrote when drunk what he had planned when sober.†
Chpt 12
- Had he not planned it when sober, he would not have written it when drunk.†
Chpt 12
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