Soberer
[səubəə]
Examples
- Sydney was none the livelier and none the soberer for so much application. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But we have plenty, and live well, nevertheless, though, by being soberer, we might be richer. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It had certainly not been produced by Selden's arguments, or by the action of his own soberer reason. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Plato says in effect: Let us take hold of life and remodel it; this soberer successor: Let us first know more of life and meanwhile serve the king. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He's my husband, and I shouldn't praise him; but I _will_ say there's not a soberer, honester man i' England nor he is. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He gets so that he could not by any possibility live in a soberer atmosphere. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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