All 10 Uses of
sober
in
Silas Marner
- "Why, this is what I want—and just shake yourself sober and listen, will you?" said Godfrey, savagely.
Chpt 1.3 (definition 1) *sober = not under the influence of alcohol
- And take care to keep sober to-morrow, else you'll get pitched on your head coming home, and Wildfire might be the worse for it.
Chpt 1.3 (definition 1)
- …those fresh bright hours of the morning when temptations go to sleep and leave the ear open to the voice of the good angel, inviting to industry, sobriety, and peace.
Chpt 1.3 (definition 1)sobriety = not being under the influence of alcohol
- That was not what she had been used to see in her own father, who was the soberest and best man in that country-side, only a little hot and hasty now and then, if things were not done to the minute.
Chpt 1.11 (definition 2)soberest = most serious
- ...thank God! my father's a sober man and likely to live;
Chpt 1.11 (definition 2)sober = serious
- …sitting longer at the whist-table—a choice exasperating to uncle Kimble, who, being always volatile in sober business hours, became intense and bitter over cards and brandy,
Chpt 1.13 (definition 2)
- "Now, ladies, I must trouble you to stand aside," said Mr. Kimble, coming from the card-room, in some bitterness at the interruption, but drilled by the long habit of his profession into obedience to unpleasant calls, even when he was hardly sober.
Chpt 1.13 (definition 1)sober = not under the influence of alcohol
- You've no call to catch cold; and I'd ask you if you'd be so good as tell my husband to come, on your way back—he's at the Rainbow, I doubt—if you found him anyway sober enough to be o' use.
Chpt 1.13 (definition 1)
- For there was the fever come and took off them as were full-growed, and left the helpless children; and there's the breaking o' limbs; and them as 'ud do right and be sober have to suffer by them as are contrairy—eh, there's trouble i' this world, and there's things as we can niver make out the rights on.
Chpt 2.16 (definition 1)
- "Well, he's very sober and industrious," said Nancy, trying to view the matter as cheerfully as possible.
Chpt 2.20 (definition 2) *sober = serious
Definitions:
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(1) (sober as in: Talk to me when your sober.) not under the influence of alcohol
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(2) (sobering as in: a sobering thought) serious or calm (not silly or excited); or making one serious or less excited