Happily the water was not very deep, and after a few minutes' scrambling they were on dry ground, considerably sobered by their immersion.

he is, as you say, a nincompoop"she had dropped into English"and seldom sober, mais take him!

The practical soundness of his eminently sober understanding had appeared to me the more signal, the more I discerned the atmosphere of erroneous philosophy which he necessarily breathed.

After a while, when the suspense grew intolerable, she resolved on putting a stop to it by personal inquiry, and with that view, as a preliminary, kept herself tolerably sober for twenty-four hours, during which probationary period she instituted a grand "clean up" of his premises; and so, as she mentally expressed it, "with a cool head and a clean house and a clear conscience," confronted her employer on the stairs.

On his threshold, utterly sober, carrying himself with the assurance of the master in his own house, he would not have suffered by comparison with any man.

He too was looking at Kirk, with an oddly sober expression, and when she caught his eye he grew somewhat red and stared out at the rain.

Practically sober.

" Mr. Fairfield laughed, but Patty looked decidedly sober.

Beatrice was deeply and inexplicably sobered, yet a curious happiness took swift possession of her heart.

With horror frozen on their faces, the three rascals were aware of Thompson, leaning in the doorwayunmistakably sober, given up to reprehensible levity, holding out a bright tin pail with an expectant air.

And being now, on the death of the dozenth, grown as dully sober, as if he had been a real husband, his good Mrs. Thomas (for he had not permitted her to take his own name) prevailed upon him to think the loss of their children a judgment upon the parents for their wicked way of life; [a time will come, Lovelace, if we live to advanced years, in which reflection will take hold of the enfeebled mind;]

"All you has to do now, honey, is to keep wide awake, an' duly sober, as ole mast a used to say, 'frain 'ligiously from de tea or coffee, one or de udder, dat she will offer you 'bout eight o'clock dis ebenin', or mebbe dey will send it up by me, I can't say yit.

They were ready at last, and then in a very perturbed state of feeling Madam Conway waited for her carriage, which was not forthcoming, and upon inquiry George Douglas learned that, having counted upon another day in the city, Mike was now going through with a series of plunge-baths, by way of sobering himself ere appearing before his mistress.

The man who in his early days writes in a very inflated and bombastic style will gradually sober down into good sense and accurate taste, still retaining something of liveliness and eloquence.

As I started now to pedal out into the great world, I was icily sober, and the old skill, in consequence, had deserted me entirely.

The grape vine bids fair to lead to wine-making in both islandsunless the total abstainers grow strong enough to put their foot on the manufacture of alcohol in any form in an already distinctly and increasingly sober Colony.

"Mr. Carrollton passed here twenty minutes or more ago, looking mighty sober, and here you are with your face as redWhat has happened?" "Nothing," answered Maggie, a little testily, "only he's the meanest man!

Of course I don't mean painfully sober, but not to get disgustingly disgusting so that they have to be dragged to the taxi.

This incident partially sobered Teddy, and made him ashamed of his condition.

The inflection of the laugh made Pete go red and look challengingly from face to face, with the result that all became piously sober.

Everybody was preternaturally sober.

Jim, indeed, contrary to his wont, when "business," as he called it, was on hand, seemed scarcely sober; but to obtain the use of the vehicle he required without the company of its driver, he had found it necessary to ply the latter with liquor till he became insensible, although the drunken man's instincts of good-fellowship bade him insist that his generous entertainer should partake largely of the fluids consumed at his expense.

By and bye, "I dare say it has," she said, in a strangely sober tone.

It is hardly necessary to call the reader's attention to the unconscious humor of the assertion of Westermarck's friend Cousins that "between their various feasts the Kaffirs have to live in strict continence"which is a good deal like saying of a toper that "between drinks he is strictly sober.

" "Well, I did it," said Peter sturdily, instantly sobered by the expression of his uncle's face, and his generous heart touched with Pompey's defense of his prank, "and nobody helped me, so let's have the whipping right off before dinner, please, Uncle Gulian, and then I can eat in peaceeven if I am a trifle sore," wound up the sinner ruefully.