Excepting only the shadows there was nothing somber in all this wild sea of pines.

Poetry took new and startling forms in Donne and Herbert, and prose became as somber as Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy.

The fishermen of Samaria were gay and somber by turn, as were the Tahitians, doing little work, but much thinking, and innocent and ignorant of the perplexing problems and offensive indecencies of striving and luxury.

This man had generated such goodwill amongst mediamen, that the police department should really offer him a police medal, solely for ensuring that the image of the police in the media remained somber for half a decade or so.

Unused to physical inactivity, Waring had grown somber of mind these latter days.

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

When he stood at ease his whole face, with all its features, sensed you and took you in; the quivering eyebrows were aware of you; the nose, with its short, high bridge, its fine, wide nostrils, repeated the sensitive stare of the wide eyes; his mouth, under its golden brown moustache, was somber with a sort of sullen apprehension, till in a sudden, childlike confidence it smiled.