1 That which had seemed incredible in the sober light of day had really come to pass, and he was to assist as a helpless spectator at Mattie's banishment.
2 He turned his mild sober gaze on her for a moment.
3 He gave up high-stake card games and stayed comparatively sober.
4 It had been years since he had chosen to do this but he did it now, putting on gravity and charm, even as he put on waistcoats of more sober hues.
5 He came home sober too, but that was none of Scarlett's doing.
6 When she thought of meeting him again, face to face in the sober light of day, a nervous tingling embarrassment that carried with it an exciting pleasure enveloped her.
7 He was freshly barbered, shaved and massaged and he was sober, but his eyes were bloodshot and his face puffy from drink.
8 He was sober and quiet and preoccupied.
9 Rhett was out late many nights but he came home sober on these nights.
10 This was a more sober heartfelt joy, a deep-souled feeling of thanksgiving, and the churches were filled as ministers reverently thanked God for the deliverance of the state.
11 Her tone seemed to sober him, as it had so often done in his stormiest moments.
12 Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
13 No, thought I, there must be some sober reason for this thing; furthermore, it must symbolize something unseen.
14 But quitting all these unprofessional attempts, let us glance at those pictures of leviathan purporting to be sober, scientific delineations, by those who know.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales. 15 The shrieks that followed made everybody sober.