sober

• I am sober, and honest, and have no followers, and although I used to be out at nights and play at the alehouse, I have now left it off. —  George Selwyn His Letters and His Life
• Poe, it appears, found a rime donnéin "sober" to rhyme with —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 2
• A passing traveller on horseback, or in a dray, raised clouds of it, which drifted over everything and covered everything with a light film, but yet did not drive the inhabitants into the Carrier's Rest, for the Birralong people were sober, as they usually are in bush townships--sober, that is, as things are understood in the Southern Land of sunshine and freedom. —  Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush
• To be sober, attentive to his duty, honest, obliging and cleanly, are the qualifications necessary to fit him for my purposes. — —  George Washington Farmer
• In Germany a man may think he is a man, but when he comes to look into the matter closely, he is bound to have his doubts; he finds that in sober truth he is a most ridiculous mixture; and if he ends by trying to comfort himself with the thought that he can at least depend on a third of this mess as being manly and masculine, the humiliating second thought will quickly remind him that in this respect he is no better off than any woman or cow in the land. " —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2

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