All 15 Uses
somber
in
The Border Legion
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- He gazed at her somberly.
Chpt 13somberly = solemnly (in a manner that is serious--not cheerful or lighthearted)
- "All right," responded Cleve, somberly, and with a heavy tread he left the room.
Chpt 15
- "We'd better run for it at the first chance," he said, somberly.
Chpt 18 *
- The man, in an instant, seemed transformed, somber as death.†
Chpt 4
- There was a gloom, a somberness, a hardness about him that had not been noticeable the day before.†
Chpt 5
- The white shaded out of his face, leaving a gray like that of his somber eyes.†
Chpt 5
- What a white, somber face, so terribly expressive of the overthrow of his soul!†
Chpt 10
- The somberness was leaving his face.†
Chpt 11
- She saw lounging Indians and groups of lazy, bearded men, just like Kells's band, and gamblers in long, black coats, and frontiersmen in fringed buckskin, and Mexicans with swarthy faces under wide, peaked sombreros; and then in great majority, dominating that stream of life, the lean and stalwart miners, of all ages, in their check shirts and high boots, all packing guns, jostling along, dark-browed, somber, and intent.†
Chpt 13
- He wore his somber and thoughtful cast of countenance.†
Chpt 14
- And upon another night Cleve in serious and somber mood talked about the Border Legion and its mysterious workings.†
Chpt 14
- Joan even recognized his hard and somber tone, and the sharp voice of Red Pearce, and the drawl of Handy Oliver.†
Chpt 15
- Here was somber and terrible sign of the wildness of the border clan—that Kells could send out for a parson to marry him to a woman he hopelessly loved, there in the presence of murder and death, with Pearce's distorted face upturned in stark and ghastly significance.†
Chpt 16
- Texas appeared to become serious and somber.†
Chpt 17
- But Gulden, tireless, sleepless, eternally vigilant, guarded the saddle of gold and brooded over it, and seemed a somber giant carved out of the night.†
Chpt 18
Definitions:
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(1)
(somber as in: a somber mood) serious (without cheer or lightheartedness); or sad
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(2)
(somber as in: somber colors) lacking brightness or color -- perhaps gloomy
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)