After the six months of comparative seclusion which decency exacted of his widowerhoodand thereby afforded him ample leisure to complete and publish his Lichfield Legislative Papers prior to 1800the colonel, be it repeated, went everywhere; and people found him no whit the worse company for his black gloves and the somber band stitched to his coatsleeve.

The great cluster of red roses, loosely held, was like blood against the somber gown.

" When Anderson rose to reply it was seen that he was pale and somber.

If that icy and somber wind could have been traced to its source, then the mystery of life would have been clear.

The darkness of the sky fused into a murky gray, and as that somber tone began, in turn, to be replaced by a lighter neutral tint, she made out dimly the figure of the girl.

It is this that is the essence of the problem of Population, portrayed in somber hues more than a hundred years ago by Malthus.

Three dramatists: John Webster (1602-1624), Cyril Tourneur (1575?-1626), and John Ford (1586-1640?), had a love for the most somber tragedy.

It was late in the afternoon of a hot July day, the hottest day Paris had known that year (1907) and M. Coquenil, followed by a splendid white-and-brown shepherd dog, was walking down the Rue de la Cité, past the somber mass of the city hospital.

It was true, Coquenil's look had deepened into one of somber reminiscence.

A strange and pathetic figure she was, sitting there alone in the somber church.

For all of which reasons the present somber happening had particular importance.

" He glanced a moment at the Lebanon looming gaunt and somber through the gathering dusk.

It was ever somber, yet its dusky beauty stirred him more than any richness he had seen in bright cities.

They were dark, lovely eyes, rather somber now in their earnestness, seeming shadowed by the dark shadows of the spruce themselves.

It was enough to carry the weight of one's somber reflections without the addition of cheerful queries of the movie-man as to "how would you feel if the German gunners suddenly turned loose again?" We gathered in a deal of stone ornaments that had been shot down and struggled with a load of them to our car.

Undaunted by the despair of others, she looked straight into the eyes of the somber gate-keeper and, with every art, told the story of Robert le Marchand, brave young officer of France; of his American girl and his deep longing for her.

But instead of that somber ending, here she was, warm, radiant and laughingdoubly precious by the trials through which she had passed and the death from which she had been delivered.

Herbert Rippinghall was dark and grave, his dress somber in hue, but good in material and well made.

Upon their way north they were joined by more than one band of Cavaliers marching in the same direction, and passed, too, several bodies of footmen, headed by men with closely-cropped heads, and somber figures, beside whom generally marched others whom their attire proclaimed to be Puritan preachers, on their way to join the army of Essex.

Webster had an intense and somber genius.

The style kindles slowly into a somber eloquence.

I stepped into this perfectly silent room, of a very silent house, with a peculiar foreboding; and its darkness, and solemn clothing of books, for except where two narrow looking-glasses were set in the wall, they were everywhere, helped this somber feeling.

Dominique Raffin, dressed in somber black, went to the club alone and unattended save by Miss Aphrodite Tate.

soft gray sky, like the breast of a dove; sheeny gray sea with gleams of steel running across; trailing skirts of mist shutting off the mainland, leaving Light Island alone with the ocean; the white tower gleaming spectral among the folding mists; the dark pine tree pointing a somber finger to heaven; the wet, black rocks, from which the tide had gone down, huddling together in fantastic groups as if to hide their nakedness.

And I had never loved him as now, when he finished this appeal, and turned away to the window, gazing out upon the somber woodland.

And the piece itself, although Harris did not recognise it as anything familiar, was surely the music of a Masshuge, majestic, sombre?

Even inanimate objects took upon themselves a subtle alteration, for the setting of the adventurethis deserted bit of sea with its hundreds of uninhabited islandssomehow turned sombre.

And below these upward fire-hills there rose up from the earth vast mountains of ash and burned stuff, that had been cast forth by these perched volcanoes, and had poured downward unto the earth throughout Eternity, and so to build grey and sombre monuments unto the dreadful glory of Time.

And I made upward through seven hours, and the light did grow more plain, and was of a dull redness, very sombre and heavy.

" The point of "intersection" here referred to was the locality of what has been called "that sombre, fatal, terrible stone wall," just under Marye's Hill, where the most fearful slaughter of the Federal forces took place.

Indeed, it would be impossible to imagine a graver or gloomier, a more sombre or unmusical body of men than the Army of the Potomac a month after the battle.

The whole country, the roads, the chance houses, the silence, the unending thicket, in this dreary wilderness, produce a sombre effect.

Ringed all about, a dozen paces away, was the sombre forest.

And as Evelyn Van Wyck fled through the sombre forest aisles before the too arduous advances of her slant-browed, skin-clad wooer, the door of the cabin opened, without the courtesy of a knock, and a skin-clad woman, savage and primitive, came in.

It has seldom troubled to look for the human energy that wrought out his successes, the faith that upheld them, and the enthusiasm that burned in the Prophet himself with a sombre flame, lighting his followers to prayer and conquest.

Wild and beautiful as this poetry of Arabia is, its themes and their manner of treatment seldom vary; as the desert is changeless in contour, filled with a brilliant sameness, whirling at times into sombre fury and as suddenly subsiding, so is the literature which it fostered.

The sombre and heavy-looking churches, with their awkward towers; the long lines of batteries mounted with heavy cannon; the massive houses, with ranges of balconies; and the light and airy cottage, elevated on posts, situated in the luxuriant groves of tropical treesall excite a desire to become better acquainted with the country.

During the rush and fury of the issue and division of the goods, the sombre figures in the background have scarcely moved.

She wore a sombre gown that made her face seem too white, that heightened the groping curiosity of her eyes.

" Graham couldn't disguise his effort to elude the sombre spell of the room, to drive from his brain the illusion of that unearthly moaning.

Its sombre green sets you off to perfection.

Misers will visit you at times, and beautiful ladies in mourning deep as their distress; and from your desk you will catch a glimpse of the sombre pageantry of litigious man.

The streets seemed deserted; the silence and the sombre color, and the strange low plashing of the water against the wharves, oppressed even Draxy's enthusiastic heart.

He gazed out over immeasurable tracts of land, which went up and down in mountains and valleys covered with sombre forests.

There was a fire in the grate, but it was one of those sombre, smoky fires in which it is impossible to take any interest.

She watched for the party who had galloped into the sombre pine-forest that sheltered the road leading to Gloucester, and for the arrival of that cousin of whom Murray spoke to Master Skreene.

She must consult his time, his convenience, and his humour; and wear a sombre or a fantastic garb, or his Lordship turns his back upon her.

Forget-me-nots, mignonettes, certain pretty white flowers, the palest of pink roses, or the most delicate tint of yellow veiled with lace are not inappropriate for those who do not enjoy wearing sombre bonnets and hats which are composed only of rich, black textures.

Weary and sad I sit alone, The storm-god whistles shrill and high, And piles of sombre clouds are thrown O'er the blue curtains of the sky.

As we read its sombre pages we see the wheel of fortune revolving; the same motion which makes the tiara glitter one moment at the summit, plunges it at the next into the pit of pain and oblivion.