1 These twin lines of somber trees were his, his the abandoned lawn, waist high in weeds under white-starred young magnolia trees.
2 "I doubt that," he said and his face went suddenly quiet and somber.
3 His face was quiet, almost somber, and there was no mocking in his eyes.
4 When he came into the parlor, his eyes were somber.
5 Mrs. Meade's flaming eyes went somber.
6 Something was wrong with the world, a somber, frightening wrongness that pervaded everything like a dark impenetrable mist, stealthily closing around Scarlett.
7 All the tearing emotion of the last few hours seemed to fall away from her like a somber, uncomfortable garment, which she had but to loosen to be rid of.
8 When he came home that night he was in a very somber mood, having begun to see at last how those might be right who had laughed at him for his faith in America.
9 Still the clear fountain retained a portion of its charmed influence, but it reflected only the somber gloom that fell from the impending heavens.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18 10 Then, throwing their pieces to a low trail, like sportsmen in readiness for their game, they dashed forward, and were soon buried in the somber darkness of the forest.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26 11 Sometimes he could see them gesticulating against the blue and somber sky.
12 He saw that this somber picture was not a fact of the present, but a mere prophecy.
13 Whichever way his thoughts turned they were followed by the somber phantom of the desertion in the fields.
14 Only the gloom to the west, brooding over the upper reaches, became more somber every minute, as if angered by the approach of the sun.
15 Only the barbarous and superb woman did not so much as flinch, and stretched tragically her bare arms after us over the somber and glittering river.