sober-minded
Example Sentences
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Some were more sober minded, and Acie's father was among the latter.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives by Work Projects Administration
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)
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
Ready of speech, he could command the attention of the rough as well as the sober minded.
From Lincoln, the Politician by Levy, T. Aaron
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
