soberly

How To Use soberly In A Sentence

• If he had thought soberly over the probable future of a beautiful and penniless girl like Eve Chardon, he would have seen that this marriage was a piece of unhoped-for good fortune. Two Poets
• She saw Ellis, soberly dressed in a well-cut dark suit.
• Without wanting to raise your hopes too high, I would say simply, soberly, that I am very optimistic. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• It's only been a few days since I've been able to talk about it … I mean talk openly and soberly, and not in a rummied up state at some sleazy corner ginhouse. Undefined
• At their return they did eat more soberly at supper than at other times, and meats more desiccative and extenuating; to the end that the intemperate moisture of the air, communicated to the body by a necessary confinitive, might by this means be corrected, and that they might not receive any prejudice for want of their ordinary bodily exercise. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
• Hawthorne said: "Happiness may walk soberly in dark attire as well as dance lightsomely in a gala-dress. Customs and Fashions in Old New England
• The wise youth Adrian observed these further progressionary developments in his pupil, soberly cynical. Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete
• The group turned and Kathryn recognised the physicians, all dressed soberly in dark fustian gowns covered in dust and specks of woodchip. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
• He that televiewers are too impulsive, but the professional jury can estimate the future commercial success of acting participants more soberly.
• How soberly side by side they solved problems and looked up _sesquipedalia verba_ in big lexicons! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873