"Somberly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... days, moreover, her attitude towards life was established: it meant a wish to improve the "complaining millions of men." Love went hand in hand with understanding. It may well be that the somberly grave view of humanity and of the universe at large which came to be hers, although strengthened by the positivistic trend of her mature studies, was generated in her sickly youth and a reaction from the narrow theologic thought with which she was then surrounded. Always frail—subject ...
— Masters of the English Novel - A Study Of Principles And Personalities • Richard Burton
... damask-covered easy chair untenanted, and order restored to the length and breadth of the library table. Involuntarily his eyes sought the wall behind the desk, where the panoply of ancient arms glinted somberly, then scanned the polished surface of the wood in search of what?—of the stiletto that was a foil in miniature. Somehow, though he knew that it, along with other relics of that dreadful passing, were in charge of the ...
— Out of the Ashes • Ethel Watts Mumford
... with a twenty-page Description of Sloppy Weather: "Long swirls of riven Rain beat somberly upon the misty ...
— Fables in Slang • George Ade
... into his section discontentedly. The savor of his adventure was gone. He had made his escape with a large share of the plunder, in spite of spies and posses. But in his heart he knew that he had lost forever the girl whom he had forced to marry him. He was still thinking about it somberly when a figure appeared in the aisle at the end ...
— Brand Blotters • William MacLeod Raine |
