"Sombrely" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he replied sombrely. "Why should he go to Hades? You have it confused with another place ...
— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... afternoons the sombrely clad figure of a tall, gaunt woman would stand at the open casement of a window in the larger room, and keep a mystic vigil that sometimes lasted for hours. She kept her gaze fixed on that strange little ...
— The Wonder • J. D. Beresford
... They were sometimes led solemnly to the house of some old, influential, or pious person, who formally gave them his blessing. He took them also to some of the funerals of the endless procession of dead Bostonians that files sombrely through the pages of his diary, to the funeral of their baby brother, little Stephen Sewall, when "Sam and his sisters (who were about five and six years old) cryed much coming home and at home, so that I could hardly quiet them. ...
— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle
... Judith looked sombrely down at the Marshall homestead. She had always loved the quaint, picturesque old place, so different from all the commonplace spick and span new houses of the prosperous valley. Judith had never been able to decide whether she really cared ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... tragic family," said Piers sombrely. "As for her, she ruined her own life and my grandfather's too. She might have been happy enough with him if ...
— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell
... her coming to him, had seen the tall figure and the childish look, and the lovely, pleading eyes, would his heart have leapt within him?—would his hands have been outstretched to enfold and pardon her?—or would he have looked at her sombrely, unable to pass the gulf between them—to ...
— Fenwick's Career • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... not to hear him. She stared sombrely at Angel and me, but I believe The Seraph sealed our fate, for, after a moment's deliberation, she said curtly; "I shall have ...
— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche |
