All 29 Uses of

solemn
in
Dracula

Sometimes, as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us, great masses of greyness which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn effect, which carried on the thoughts and grim fancies engendered earlier in the evening, when the falling sunset threw into strange relief the ghost-like clouds which amongst the Carpathians seem to wind ceaselessly through the valleys.†
p. 14.9

solemn = very serious--possibly dignified

Then he called me back, and he said to me very solemnly, 'Wilhelmina', I knew then that he was in deadly earnest, for he has never called me by that name since he asked me to marry him, 'You know, dear, my ideas of the trust between husband and wife.†
p. 115.3

solemnly = with seriousness and dignity

Take it and keep it, read it if you will, but never let me know unless, indeed, some solemn duty should come upon me to go back to the bitter hours, asleep or awake, sane or mad, recorded here.'†
p. 115.7

solemn = very serious--possibly dignified

And, my dear, when he kissed me, and drew me to him with his poor weak hands, it was like a solemn pledge between us.†
p. 116.6

He paused and raised his hat as he said solemnly, "Then I fear we are too late.†
p. 157.1

solemnly = with seriousness and dignity

"I swear it!" he said solemnly, kneeling beside her and holding up his hand, as one who registers an oath.†
p. 172.8

He paused a moment and went on solemnly, "Friend John, there are strange and terrible days before us.†
p. 177.5

The service was very simple and very solemn.†
p. 183.1

solemn = very serious--possibly dignified

I remember how on our wedding day he said "Unless some solemn duty come upon me to go back to the bitter hours, asleep or awake, mad or sane ..."†
p. 191.8

If it should be, and he came to London, with its teeming millions ... There may be a solemn duty, and if it come we must not shrink from it.†
p. 191.9

Madame," he said this very solemnly, "if ever Abraham Van Helsing can do anything for you or yours, I trust you will let me know.†
p. 196.7

solemnly = with seriousness and dignity

Each in his own way was solemn and overcome.†
p. 223.9

solemn = very serious--possibly dignified

Van Helsing said solemnly, "You are always right.†
p. 300.1

solemnly = with seriousness and dignity

Mrs. Harker raised her head, looking from one to the other of us she said solemnly, "God's will be done!"†
p. 304.4

He was sitting down, but now he rose and came close to her and put his hand on her head as he said solemnly.†
p. 310.1

Dr. Van Helsing said to us solemnly as we stood before him, "And now, my friends, we have a duty here to do.†
p. 317.6

When we closed the door behind us, the Professor said solemnly, "So much is already done.†
p. 318.0

"Because," he answered solemnly, "he can live for centuries, and you are but mortal woman."
p. 334.9 *

solemnly = very seriously

As the evening drew on, and the earth took its shadows from the sun sinking lower, the silence of the room grew more and more solemn to me.†
p. 346.5

solemn = very serious--possibly dignified

And she solemnly pointed to the scar.†
p. 347.0

solemnly = with seriousness and dignity

I saw that she was in earnest, and said solemnly, "I promise!" and as I said it I felt that from that instant a door had been shut between us.†
p. 347.0

You know that your safety is our solemnest duty.†
p. 347.8

solemnest = most serious or dignified

He knelt down before her and taking her hand in his said solemnly, "I'm only a rough fellow, who hasn't, perhaps, lived as a man should to win such a distinction, but I swear to you by all that I hold sacred and dear that, should the time ever come, I shall not flinch from the duty that you have set us.†
p. 352.3

solemnly = with seriousness and dignity

"One more request," she became very solemn as she said this, "it is not vital and necessary like the other, but I want you to do one thing for me, if you will."†
p. 353.4

solemn = very serious--possibly dignified

Definitions:

(1) (solemn)
in a very serious (and often dignified) manner
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

Less commonly, solemn can mean that something was done with great or appropriate ceremony. It can also be used to describe something as dark or undecorated.