soberness
Example Sentences
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Fye, brother, fye, and specially you, sister Dalilah, Soberness becometh maids alway.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew
Soberness had now visited the pair behind us; even Lin's lively talk had quieted, and his tones were low and few.
From Lin McLean by Wister, Owen
Soberness of statement, a simple, direct, civic style, with only an underthrob of personal emotion, were what I must at all costs achieve.
From And Even Now by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
