Then my heart it grew ashen and
sober As the leaves that were crisped and sere -- As the leaves that were withering and sere -- And I cried -- "It was surely October On this very night of last year, That I journeyed -- I journeyed down here!
Though Jones had shown no design of giving offence, yet Mr Blifil was highly offended at a behaviour which was so inconsistent with the
sober and prudent reserve of his own temper.
Next I discovered that I was very weary and very cold, and quite
sober, and that I didn't in the least want to be drowned.
Peace was instantly restored, and a burst of melody drowned the suppressed giggles of Rose and Mac, who found it impossible to keep
sober during the latter part of this somewhat remarkable service.
"Wid that I wint out into the camp an' inthrojuced mysilf to ivry man
sober enough to remimber me.
There being now people enough present to impede the work, the
sobered man put himself at the head of the rest, or was put there by the general consent, and made a large ring round the Old Hell Shaft, and appointed men to keep it.
"Father is much better," replied Jo, trying to keep
sober.
Watch him as we pleased, we could do nothing to solve it; and when we asked him to his face, he would only laugh if he were drunk, and if he were
sober deny solemnly that he ever tasted anything but water.
It was a sorrowful and a mightily
sobered company that came forth again.
And on Monday morning, weary, he began the new week's work, but he had kept
sober.
And presently he came marching back towards the house, with no mark of a sailor's clumsiness, but carrying his fine, tall figure with a manly bearing, and still with the same
sober, grave expression on his face.
He's the best natured- est old fool in Arkansaw -- never hurt nobody, drunk nor
sober."
It was after the early supper-time at the Red House, and the entertainment was in that stage when bashfulness itself had passed into easy jollity, when gentlemen, conscious of unusual accomplishments, could at length be prevailed on to dance a hornpipe, and when the Squire preferred talking loudly, scattering snuff, and patting his visitors' backs, to sitting longer at the whist-table--a choice exasperating to uncle Kimble, who, being always volatile in
sober business hours, became intense and bitter over cards and brandy, shuffled before his adversary's deal with a glare of suspicion, and turned up a mean trump-card with an air of inexpressible disgust, as if in a world where such things could happen one might as well enter on a course of reckless profligacy.
In cases of great enterprise upon charge and adventure, a composition of glorious natures, doth put life into business; and those that are of solid and
sober natures, have more of the ballast, than of the sail.
It was also of some importance that I should speak to her while she was
sober enough to understand what I meant in a general way.
