All 8 Uses
somber
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Brideshead Revisited
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- …a love-sick columnist, who alone was silent, gloating somberly on the only woman of the party; a woman they called "Grizel," a knowing rake whom, in their hearts, they all feared a little.
p. 314.9 *somberly = solemnly (in a manner that is serious--not cheerful or lighthearted)
- We were a somber little party that evening.†
p. 100.6
- A somber figure was there to meet us.†
p. 105.9
- "This is no way to start a new year," said Sebastian; but this somber October evening seemed to breathe its chill, moist air over the succeeding weeks.†
p. 118.8
- "You find me in solitary possession," he said, and indeed he seemed to possess the hall and the somber scenes of venery that hung round it, to possess the caryatids on either side of the fireplace, to possess me, as he rose to take my hand and greet me like a host: "This morning," he continued, "we had a lawn meet of the Marchmain Hounds—a deliciously archaic spectacle—and all our young friends are fox-hunting, even Sebastian who, you will not be surprised to hear, looked remarkably elegant in his pink coat.†
p. 140.3
- There were other illustrations in the book, snapshots of the three brothers on holiday, and in each I traced the same archaic lines; and remembering Lady Marchmain, starry and delicate, I could find no likeness to her in these somber men.†
p. 157.1
- He looked round the somber little place with suspicion as though hoping to see apaches or a drinking party of students.†
p. 197.9
- There seemed little we could do at the moment to lighten the rather somber mood; he, indeed, was the most cheerful of us.†
p. 366.4
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)