sober-mindedness
Example Sentences
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She was Miss Harriet's young Boston cousin, Helena Vernon, who, half-amused and half-impatient at the unnecessary sober-mindedness of her hostess and of Ashford in general, had set herself to the difficult task of gayety.
From The Queen's Twin and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett
Now sober-mindedness invites us to frugality and the acquisition of real advantages; but wealth to extravagance, and it drags us away from sober-mindedness.
From Seekers after God by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
Then you would call sober-mindedness a condition of our nature, such as pain, not a matter of reason that can be learnt?
From Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus by Henry Graham Dakyns
It is a marvel to me how the Athenians came to be persuaded that Socrates fell short of sober-mindedness as touching the gods.
From The Memorabilia by Henry Graham Dakyns
Wealth is not among the number of good things; extravagance is among the number of evils, sober-mindedness of good things.
From Seekers after God by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
