sober-minded
Example Sentences
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Some of our most sober minded commentators take virtually the same view of this necessity of vision for ensuring the production of the true pattern of the Tabernacle.
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh
The singular cases of misconduct, against which the more sober minded preached, possibly had their root in the beautiful and one-sided pictures of the North which came to the South.
From Negro Migration during the War by Scott, Emmett J. (Emmett Jay)
In after years they may smile at their causeless despair; but the world is full of tragedies that to the wise and sober minded had slight cause.
From A Face Illumined by Roe, Edward Payson
Such sober minded people as Castlereagh, Metternich and Talleyrand fully understood the limited abilities of the sentimental Baroness.
From The Story of Mankind by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem
Yet after the first greeting, the girl, whose usual contagion of high and gay spirits carried the youth, who was inclined to be more sober minded, along with her, fell into a brown study.
From In the Court of King Arthur by Lowe, Samuel E. (Samuel Edward)
