It sobered them all.

After a while they sobered down, and then finding that the boys hadn't a handkerchief between them, Miss Laura took her own soft one, and dipping it in a spring of fresh water near by, wiped the red eyes of the sneezers.

The girl laughed; then her eyes sobered while her features retained their appearance of complete amusement.

The manoeuvre sobered him.

But he was thoroughly sobered; the effects he produced were from cool deliberation, rather than the outbursts of an enthusiastic temper.

" "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.

What do you mean, fellow, by handling a lady in that manner?" and Geoffrey Yorke struck Joris a blow with his sheathed sword which nearly sobered him on the spot.

" He sobered at once.

It was Dickie's dumbness, as he leaned against the door, looking at her, that sobered her at last.

The imputation sobered Little Joe and he shrugged his massive shoulders significantly.

"What'll Fagin say?" inquired the Dodger, and the question sobered Master Bates at once, as both boys stood in great dread of the Jew.

Sobered by this culminating tragedy, the mob shortly afterwards dispersed.

In the meantime Mike, perfectly sobered, had turned his horses' heads in the direction of Hillsdale, when Madam Conway called out, "To Worcester, Miketo Worcester, as fast as you can drive.

With sobered faces they shied around me as I strode past, and when fairly safe broke into a run for camp.

It was a good lesson, and one which no doubt sobered him for the future.

Paris must be handled firmly, sobered down by every possible means, kept from the knowledge of painful facts, spoon-fed with cheerful communiqués whatever the truth might be, guarded by strong but hidden force, ready at a moment's notice to smash up a procession, to arrest agitators, to quell a rebellion, and to maintain the strictest order.

The shock sobered me at once, and all the horror of the situation into which I had brought myself by my folly came into my mind.

He will feel that he has been with one who "told him what he knew about himself and what he did not know; has read to him his wants or feelings, and comforted him by the very reading; has made him feel that there was a higher life than this life, and a brighter world than we can see; has encouraged him, or sobered him, or opened a way to the inquiring, or soothed the perplexed."

Nevertheless, Sir George thought that the delay had sobered him, and complied.

" His face sobered as he looked at me.

The aged Duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good himself, sobered and wearied as he was, threw himself passionately into the struggle.

The appearance of that gentleman sobered him at once.

The cup which has intoxicated almost all others sobered him.

The drunkenness of his comrades had sobered him, and, feeling satiated with all the so-called joys and delights of life, he asked himself, with a smile of contempt, whether the stammering, staggering fellows, who sat next to him, were fit and suitable companions and associates of a man who had made pleasure a study, and who considered enjoyment as a philosophical problem, difficult of solution.

Prince seemed fully to appreciate the day, and to be inspired with its subtle and exhilarating elixir; but after a mile or two of over-spirit, he sobered down into his long, easy, springy, untiring gallop.