But immediately Birchill had done it the fact that he had committed a murder would have a sobering effect on him.

A particularly BLUE LAW against this economical custom will have the effect of sobering down these brilliant Cullers.

Also the lingering impression left from "Tractarian" days as to the intellectual pre-eminence of the Catholicizing party in the Anglican Church, which pre-eminence might make amends for their numerical insignificance, is gradually giving way to the recognition of the sobering fact that at present that party in no exclusive sense represents the cultivated intellect of the country.

This bombardment had a sobering effect upon the Mohammedan population.

But we had yet to witness the crowning sobering effect of a raging pestilence.

But come," he added, sobering suddenly, "what did you say was your name?" "I declare, sir," said Dunburne, with the most ingenuous frankness, "I have clean forgot.

The European conflict will probably exercise a strong sobering influence upon the minds of the people.

This is a sobering reflection for the proudest of our earthly vanities.

Whatever be the cause, there can be no reason to regret the fact, or to doubt that in these days of "art for art's sake," the influence of Crabbe's verse is at once of a bracing and a sobering kind.

But he had the clerical art of sobering down in a moment, when asked to say grace while somebody was in the middle of some particularly funny story; and though his voice was so cheery in common talk, in the pulpit, like almost all preachers, he had a wholly different and peculiar way of speaking, supposed to be more acceptable to the Creator than the natural manner.

All this produced a sobering and clarifying effect.

And no man can give to such a fact its due place without feeling its steadying, sobering influence through all his life.

But recent events had cast an expression of melancholy over her countenance, which for a moment had a sobering influence over her young companions when she joined them.

He was fascinated and his fascination exercised a strangely sobering effect on him.

And it's a sobering thing tae think they're a' coming, a' those gude folk, tae hear me sing.

He'd just finished sobering up a drunkard that night, or scant attention I'd have had.

He was sobering up when we waked him.

" "Indeed," sobering instantly because of my earnestness.

And above all, a second generation, without the sobering experience of the first, was starting from where the first had reached to, and, in some instances, was rising up against their teachers' caution and patience.

The Heads of Houses, instead of moderating and sobering it, with the authority of instructed and sagacious rulers, blew it into a flame.

But he joined little in the talk, and exercised rather a sobering effect upon us.

As I left the office I heard Martin beg the clerk to lead him to the pump previous to sending him offno doubt for the purpose of sobering himself somewhat previous to reappearing before the major, whose motives for hiring or retaining such a fellow in his modest establishment I could not understand.

The wire-gauze of sobering trouble over the flaming flower of humanity, enabled Dorothy to see right down into its fire-heart, and distinguish there the loveliest hues and shades.

It was both a warning and a challenge, and the memory of the words was at once sobering and cheering.

You can't wish me to go to York, and meet those rattling girls again?" "No, certainly not, though Sister Margaret told Rosamond they had never had such a sobering lesson in their lives as their share in the mischief to you.