Both Uses of
somber
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- They built a fire against the side of a great log twenty or thirty steps within the sombre depths of the forest, and then cooked some bacon in the frying-pan for supper, and used up half of the corn "pone" stock they had brought.†
Chpt 13 *
- All the news that could be gained was that remotenesses of the cavern were being ransacked that had never been visited before; that every corner and crevice was going to be thoroughly searched; that wherever one wandered through the maze of passages, lights were to be seen flitting hither and thither in the distance, and shoutings and pistol-shots sent their hollow reverberations to the ear down the sombre aisles.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(somber as in: a somber mood) serious (without cheer or lightheartedness); or sad