"Sombrely" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Pertinax could not but heed all the rich, warm beauty of her—these eyes so sombrely sweet, her delicate nose, the temptation of her vivid lips—and ...
— The Geste of Duke Jocelyn • Jeffery Farnol
... full and Rocket was busy. His face glowed with funereal happiness. He was sombrely delighted at the rapidity with which the tide of dollars was flowing across his dingy counter. He was more than ordinarily interested, too, ...
— The One-Way Trail - A story of the cattle country • Ridgwell Cullum
... positively it bore no resemblance to what she had anticipated; nor did it seem to her to possess any of the attributes of influence; for one of her basic ideas about the world was that influential people must be dull and formal, moving about with deliberation in sombrely magnificent interiors. ...
— The Lion's Share • E. Arnold Bennett
... She was sombrely magnificent this evening in black bombazine, with a mauve front cut in a shy triangle, and crowned with a black velvet ribbon round the base of her thin throat; black and mauve for evening wear was esteemed very ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... Jill's ear, as he pulled her along. "This way. Stick to me. Strange how the drama anticipates life! At the end of act two there was a scene where Sir Chester had to creep sombrely out into the night, and now he's ...
— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse
... The soldier had drawn letters from his breast and had died with them in his hands. The unfolded, fluttering sheets stirred as though they had life. Stafford, riding on, found the right and found Longstreet looking sombrely, like an old eagle from his eyrie. "I told General Lee," he said "that we ought never to have divided. I don't see A. P. Hill. You tell General Lee that I've only got D. R. Jones and the knowledge that we fight like hell, and that Burnside ...
— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston
... willing that Mr. Kane should know why she had been crying, but she did not care to talk about that side to him. It had been always, and it would always be, she feared, all life to her. She looked sombrely before her into the ...
— Franklin Kane • Anne Douglas Sedgwick
... black tapestry, without price because inimitable and too delicate to pass from hand to hand among merchants. I looked at the wonderful complexity of its infinite threads, my finger sank into it for more than an inch without feeling the touch; so black it was and so carefully wrought, sombrely covering the whole of the wall, that it might have been worked to commemorate the deaths of all that ever lived there, as indeed it was. I looked through a hole in the wall into an inner chamber where a worn-out driving band went among many wheels, and there this priceless inimitable ...
— The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories • Lord Dunsany
... cheerless face; most of the blinds were still down, and the dwelling might have been unoccupied, for any sign of human activity that the eye could catch. There was no porch at the main entrance, and the heavy nail-studded door greeted a visitor somewhat sombrely. On the front of a gable stood the words ...
— Demos • George Gissing
... front of her, her little chin fell forward on her white wrappings, and she stared rather sombrely into vacancy. ...
— Lady Connie • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... somberly, another ship might land, some day. And how could I trust these children ...
— The Worshippers • Damon Francis Knight
... blacksmith, somberly, "as if Crofield was going to pieces. This is the worst storm we ever had. The meeting-house is ...
— Crowded Out o' Crofield - or, The Boy who made his Way • William O. Stoddard
... being the most economical color and a penny spent in pleasure was never permitted. One day a young man who was buying ribbon from the older girl gave her a yard with the remark that she was much too young and pretty to be so somberly dressed. She wore the ribbon at work, never of course at home, but it opened a vista of delightful possibilities and she eagerly accepted a pair of gloves the following week from the same young man, who afterwards asked her to dine ...
— A New Conscience And An Ancient Evil • Jane Addams
... "It's worse," he declared somberly. They turned by Simmons' store, but continued in the opposite direction from the one-time Makimmon dwelling. They passed a hedge of roses; the perfume hung heavy-sweet, poignant; there was apparently no sky, no earth, only a close, purple envelopment, imminent, palpable, lying languidly, unstirring, ...
— Mountain Blood - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer
... fan, and with the pointed chin resting on the breast of the yellow robe, so that the light from the lamp swinging in the center of the ceiling gleamed upon the great, dome-like brow, this tall man paced somberly from ...
— The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer
... be gone for some time," he said somberly. "The Council feels that it will be two or three years before we have finally driven the Invaders from our planet. This will not be a simple war, nor an easy one. The blockade of orbital ships which encircle Xedii keep us from making proper contact with any friends ...
— The Destroyers • Gordon Randall Garrett |
