Sombre

Examples

• The pines are not tall or luxuriant, but they are sombre, and add an air of severity to the scene. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Her face had grown as sombre as a tragic mask. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He would have preferred sitting alone; for he liked a silent, sombre, unsafe solitude. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was a sombre snowy afternoon, and the gas-lamps were lit in the big reverberating station. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Far away up the sombre valley of heath, and to the right of Rainbarrow, could indeed be seen the light, small, but steady and persistent as before. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But never mind what we laughed at, or how absurd our conversation, so that poor dear Lord Byron got rid of his sombre melancholy. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• His dress was quiet and sombre--a black frock-coat, dark trousers, and a touch of color about his necktie. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was a sad and sombre party that sat at the feast of welcome in the great dining hall of the palace of the Prince of Helium that day. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• She followed Mr. Helstone reluctantly through that porch into the sombre old vestibule beyond. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I drew them large; I shaped them well: the eyelashes I traced long and sombre; the irids lustrous and large. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But Thomasin's former brightness made shadow of that which in a sombre atmosphere was light itself. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Very sombre it was--long, vast, and dark; one latticed window lit it but dimly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You will not mind this sombre light, said Dorothea, standing in the middle of the room. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I remember it as a kind of half chaise-cart, half pianoforte-van, painted of a sombre colour, and drawn by a black horse with a long tail. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Why are you so very shy, and so very sombre? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The sadness of the scene imparted a sombre tinge to the feelings of Mr. Winkle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• As the sombre wheels of the six carts go round, they seem to plough up a long crooked furrow among the populace in the streets. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• And now--solemn and sombre as to their colour, though bland enough as to their faces--appeared at the dining-room door the three rectors. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was full of the moon, which looked solemnly and mildly down on Caroline from beneath that sombre canopy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was a sombre day, and drops of chill rain fell at intervals. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• They pass into a sombre breakfast-room on the ground floor, lighted in the day by two deep windows. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Twilight had passed into night, and the lamps were lit in the streets ere I issued from that sombre church. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• And now, no more sombre thoughts: chase dull care away, Janet. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He was dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The light was more and more sombre, but there came a flash of lightning which made them start and look at each other, and then smile. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Editor: Shanna