All 6 Uses of
somber
in
The Thundering Herd
- Tom Doan, riding with these silent, somber men, felt a strong beat of his pulse that was at variance with the oppression of his mind.†
Chpt 11
- This hard-faced, apparently dull and somber man might befriend her.†
Chpt 13
- She was the mainspring of Jett's calculated mechanism, and when the other men realized it, it precipitated something darkly somber into the situation.†
Chpt 14
- She felt the grim and somber presence of death; she felt the imminence of further developments, sinister, harrowing, revolving more around her.†
Chpt 14
- Pruitt pondered this suggestion for a moment and then somberly shook his head.
Chpt 14somberly = solemnly (in a manner that is serious--not cheerful or lighthearted)
- His working, fiercely malignant visage as suddenly set somberly.
Chpt 16 *
Definition:
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(somber as in: a somber mood) serious (without cheer or lightheartedness); or sad