How To Use Soberly In A Sentence
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How she just now speaketh soberly, this drunken poetess! hath she perhaps overdrunk her drunkenness? hath she become overawake? doth she ruminate? —
Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
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This brought forth the wrath of the strict Sunday observers, and pitched battles, using potatoes, turnips and bottles, were fought between deckhands and smartly - but soberly - dressed sabbatarians.
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She saw Ellis, soberly dressed in a well-cut dark suit.
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Without wanting to raise your hopes too high, I would say simply, soberly, that I am very optimistic.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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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
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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
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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
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The wise youth Adrian observed these further progressionary developments in his pupil, soberly cynical.
Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete
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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
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He that televiewers are too impulsive, but the professional jury can estimate the future commercial success of acting participants more soberly.
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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
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Anne gasped at such a rude phrase, but before she could chase after him in a fury, a soberly clad, bewigged gentleman approached her friend.
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And now, my dear Severn, when you have read this rantipole page, walk soberly into your bed-room, put on your night cap, heave a sigh, squeeze a tear out if you can, and lament over my unfortunate, sad, lost state; while I roar with laughter at all wise fellows like yourself.
New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
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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
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Meanwhile the man was saying soberly: `I do hope Father Wilton 's progress is satisfactory.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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One often sees a wiggling, Lycra-clad nymphet keeping very incongruous company with her soberly-dressed grandmother.
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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
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She walked on more soberly now, and she was lonely.
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The Countesse had scarce made an ende of her tale, but one came to tell them that the Tables were couered for dinner: the king well fedde with Loue, dined for that time very soberly, and not able to eate but vppon amorous dishes, did caste his lokes inconstantly here and there, and still his eyes threw the last loke vppon that part of the table where the Countesse sate, meaninge thereby to extinguish the boiling flames, which incessantly did burne him, howbeit by thinking to coole them, he further plonged himselfe therein.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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How she just now speaketh soberly, this drunken poetess! hath she perhaps overdrunk her drunkenness? hath she become overawake? doth she ruminate?
Thus Spake Zarathustra
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When we first meet in London, Balls is soberly attired.
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Thus, while we casually mock the lunacies of the past, some people, notably mainstream journalists, nod soberly at the lunacies of the present.
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She was dressed very soberly in a plain grey suit.
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Touching ecclesiastical officers, the apostle's evident scope is to urge them not to be proud of their spiritual gifts, (which in those days abounded,) but to think soberly, self-denyingly of themselves, and to use all their gifts well.
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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Even the terrier had partaken --- his blood-sugar levels having been soberly calculated, well prior).
BEHINDLINGS
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I think they're more fun than playing solitaire or mumbletypeg," declared Uncle Henry, soberly.
The Emerald City of Oz
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We must be soberly aware that there is still a long way ahead of us.
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It is indeed refreshing to see politically unaligned individuals beginning to contribute soberly in this crucial public debate in the interest of what the ANC seeks to achieve: a strong and coordinated criminal justice system that is capacitated to effectively fight all kinds of crime within the country.
ANC Today
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But the field of speculation into which one is led by the octonary scale has proved most attractive to some, and the conclusion has been soberly reached, that in the history of the Aryan race the octonary was to be regarded as the predecessor of the decimal scale.
The Number Concept Its Origin and Development
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Yet even the conservative AR4 arguably supports the term by considering, however soberly, probably consequences that could reasonably be construed as involving the "ravaging" of this or that.
RealClimate
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It's a safe bet that the yob putting his dukes up has been soberly simmering all week, but in loosening his inhibitions, it has all come flooding out.
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He was some years younger than Marsden, and dressed soberly but in the very height of fashion, his lightly starched collar reaching to his ears, and a white waistcoat picked out with black calling unobtrusive attention to the slenderness of his waist.
Hornblower And The Crisis
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Without wanting to raise your hopes too high, I would say simply, soberly, that I am very optimistic.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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So much he told the seekers in few words; and then while they grovelled on the earth and wept for pure joy, whereas the sun was down and it was beginning to grow dusk, he went and looked around soberly to see if he might find water and any kind of victual; and presently a little down the hillside he came upon a place where a spring came gushing up out of the earth and ran down toward the plain; and about it was green grass growing plentifully, and a little thicket of bramble and wilding fruit-trees.
The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men
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On the surface of the cloth stream that poured past him, he pictured radiant futures wherein he performed prodigies of toil, invented miraculous machines, won to the mastership of the mills, and in the end took her in his arms and kissed her soberly on the brow.
THE APOSTATE: written by Jack London
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It is indeed refreshing to see politically unaligned individuals beginning to contribute soberly in this crucial public debate in the interest of what the African National Congress seeks to achieve: a strong and coordinated criminal justice system that is capacitated to effectively fight all kinds of crime within the country.
Response to Fivaz-Njenje\'s Sunday Times article
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O Almighty God and gracious Father of men and angels, who openest thy hand and fillest all things living with plenty; and hast provided for thy servant sufficient to satisfy all my needs: teach me to use thy creatures soberly and temperately, that I may not with loads of meat and drink make the temptations of my enemy to prevail upon me, or my spirit unapt for the performance of my duty, or my body healthless, or my affections sensual and unholy.
Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew
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On his way out, he met Baldwin dressed soberly in a black frock coat and pantaloons.
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She was dressed very soberly in a plain grey suit.
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But such trust is scarcely reconcilable with Kant's soberly realistic description of the politics of his own time.
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In short, all would then deny Ungodliness and worldly Lusts; and live soberly, righteously and godlily in this present world, and so walk Hand in Hand together in the narrow way that leads to everlasting Life.
Private Thoughts Upon a Christian Life; or, Necessary Directions for Its Beginning and Progress Upon Earth... Part II.
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If we're not prepared to face up soberly to the truth, how the can we expect them to do so?
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he walked soberly toward the altar
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Gracious, what a rattlebox you're getting to be, Alice," spoke Ruth, soberly, as she laid aside her sewing and went to the bureau for her pocketbook.
The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound Or, The Proof on the Film
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Then hand in hand they soberly left the quiet resting-place, the missel-thrush peering out of its bold eye at their retreating figures.
The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys
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He looked maddish with his love of the horrible thing, and resumed soberly: 'The point is, that she has the charm for me.
The Tragic Comedians — Complete
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She stood on the rug before the fire, looking into it very soberly and consideratively.
Say and Seal, Volume I
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His past went soberly before him; he beheld it as it was, ugly and strenuous like a dream, random as chance-medley -- a scene of defeat.
Short Stories for English Courses