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Definition
serious and without cheer — perhaps even gloomy
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lacking brightness or color
or:
lacking brightness or color
- It is something cruelly incomprehensible to youthful natures, this sombre sameness in middle-aged and elderly people, whose life has resulted in disappointment and discontent, to whose faces a smile becomes so strange that the sad lines all about the lips and brow seem to take no notice of it, and it hurries away again for want of a welcome.4.2 -- Book 4 Chapter 2 -- The Torn Nest Is Pierced by the Thorns (42% in)
- But the younger generation, who had seen several small floods, thought lightly of these sombre recollections and forebodings; and Bob Jakin, naturally prone to take a hopeful view of his own luck, laughed at his mother when she regretted their having taken a house by the riverside, observing that but for that they would have had no boats, which were the most lucky of possessions in case of a flood that obliged them to go to a distance for food.7.5 -- Book 7 Chapter 5 -- The Last Conflict (4% in)
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