All 4 Uses of
solemn
in
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
- It was a great surprise to Scrooge, while listening to the moaning of the wind, and thinking what a solemn thing it was to move on through the lonely darkness over an unknown abyss, whose depths were secrets as profound as Death: it was a great surprise to Scrooge, while thus engaged, to hear a hearty laugh.†
p. 80.6solemn = very serious--possibly dignified
- As the last stroke ceased to vibrate, he remembered the prediction of old Jacob Marley, and lifting up his eyes, beheld a solemn Phantom, draped and hooded, coming, like a mist along the ground, towards him.†
p. 91.8
- He felt that it was tall and stately when it came beside him, and that its mysterious presence filled him with a solemn dread.†
p. 93.6 *
- The Phantom was exactly as it had been, but he dreaded that he saw new meaning in its solemn shape.†
p. 114.2
Definition:
in a very serious (and often dignified) manner