All 36 Uses of
somber
in
The Rainbow Trail
- In daylight the Indian lost some of the dark somberness of face that had impressed Shefford.†
Chpt 3
- What was the meaning of the trader's somber gravity?†
Chpt 3
- At this juncture the Indian rose to his full height, and he folded his arms to stand with the somber pride of a chieftain while his dark, inscrutable eyes were riveted upon Shefford.†
Chpt 4
- They wore shawls or hoods and their garments were somber, but, nevertheless, they appeared to have youth and comeliness.†
Chpt 5
- Withers rode off, with a parting word to Shefford, and finally Joe somberly mounted his bay and trotted down the valley.
Chpt 6 *somberly = solemnly (in a manner that is serious--not cheerful or lighthearted)
- He liked these women; he liked to see the somber shade pass from their faces, to see them brighten.†
Chpt 6
- It was to see Ruth or Rebecca, as the case might be, full of life and fun, thoroughly enjoying some jest or play, all of a sudden be strangely recalled from the wholesome pleasure of a girl to become a deep and somber woman.†
Chpt 7
- At the top of the wall above the village she put on the dark hood, and with it that somber something which was Mormon.†
Chpt 7
- But a somber fire burned in his eyes.†
Chpt 9
- Next day Joe Lake limped in, surly and somber, with the news that Shadd and eight or ten of his outlaw gang had gotten away with the pack-train.†
Chpt 9
- They made a somber group.†
Chpt 10
- There was little about them resembling the stern, quiet, somber austerity of the more matured men, and nothing at all of the strange, aloof, serene impassiveness of the gray-bearded old patriarchs.†
Chpt 10
- To Shefford the truth was not in their words, but it sat upon their somber brows.†
Chpt 10
- Then her beauty made her seem, in that somber company, indeed the white flower for which she had been named.†
Chpt 10
- Shefford glanced around at the dark and somber faces, and a slow wrath grew within him.†
Chpt 10
- She was held back there in that gloomy hall among those somber Mormons, alien to the women, bound in some fatal way to one of the men, and now, by reason of her weakness in the trial, surely to be hated.†
Chpt 11
- They were mounted on burros and mustangs, and in all that dark and somber line there was only one figure which shone white under the pale moon.†
Chpt 11
- The Indian listened to the loud talk of several loungers round the camp-fire; and thereafter he was like Shefford's shadow, silent, somber, watchful.†
Chpt 12
- She had left off the somber black hood, and, although that made a vast difference in her, still it was not enough to account for what struck both men.†
Chpt 12
- …… That night Shefford found her waiting for him in the moonlight—a girl who was as transparent as crystal-clear water, who had left off the somber gloom with the black hood, who tremulously embraced happiness without knowing it, who was one moment timid and wild like a half-frightened fawn, and the next, exquisitely half-conscious of what it meant to be thought dead, but to be alive, to be awakening, wondering, palpitating, and to be loved.†
Chpt 12
- Shefford took one glance at the dark, somber face, with its inscrutable eyes, now so strange and piercing, and then, with a kind of cold excitement, he faced the way the Indian looked, and listened.†
Chpt 13
- Then a few lights twinkled in the darkness that enveloped the cabins; a woman's laugh strangely broke the silence, profaning it, giving the lie to that somber yoke which seemed to consist of the very shadows; the voices of men were heard, and then the slow clip-clop of trotting horses on the hard trail.†
Chpt 13
- Straightway Joe ceased his cheery whistling and became as somber as the Indian.†
Chpt 13
- Shefford gazed helplessly at the stricken Joe Lake, at the somber Indian, as if from them he expected help.†
Chpt 13
- The moment Nas Ta Bega saw this visitor he made a singular motion with his hands—a motion that somehow to Shefford suggested despair—and then he waited, somber and statuesque, for the messenger to come to him.†
Chpt 14
- Beyond him Shefford saw Nas Ta Bega standing with folded arms, somehow terrible in his somber impassiveness.†
Chpt 14
- Reckon it's no time to weaken," he said, huskily, and with the words a dark, hard, somber bitterness came to his face.†
Chpt 15
- When they were halted by the somber, grieving women it was Joe who did the talking.†
Chpt 15
- Ruth stood there, dressed in somber hue.†
Chpt 15
- Nas Ta Bega sat in repose where they had left him, a thoughtful, somber figure.†
Chpt 15
- Joe averred that this aid could be best given by Ruth going in her somber gown and hood to the school-house, and there, while Joe and Shefford engaged the guards outside, she would change apparel and places with Fay and let her come forth.†
Chpt 15
- The somber Indian gave a silent gesture for Shefford to make haste.†
Chpt 17
- More than once the Indian turned on his mustang to look up the slope and the light flashed from his dark, somber face.†
Chpt 17
- Dark, silent, statuesque, with inscrutable eyes uplifted, with all that was spiritual of the Indian suggested by a somber and tranquil knowledge of his place there, he represented the same to Shefford as a solitary figure of human life brought out the greatness of a great picture.†
Chpt 18
- Danger of this unusual kind had brought out a peculiar levity in the somber Mormon—a kind of wild, gay excitement.†
Chpt 19
- The shadow brightened in Bess's somber blue eyes, as if his words had recalled her from a sad and memorable past.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(somber as in: a somber mood) serious (without cheer or lightheartedness); or sad