Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Free from passion or enthusiasm; cool-blooded; cool; calm.
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Examples
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Good faith, this same young sober-blooded boy doth not love me; nor a man cannot make him laugh; but thats no marvel, he drinks no wine.
Act IV. Scene III. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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In the second part of "King Henry IV.," act iv. scene 3, _Falstaff_ says of _Prince John_: "Good faith, this same young sober-blooded boy doth not love me; nor a man cannot make him laugh; -- but that's no marvel: he drinks no wine."
A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare George MacDonald 1864
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I never knew any good come of your young wife, and legal espousals, to any but your 'sober-blooded boy' who 'eats fish' and drinketh 'no sack.'
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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I never knew any good come of your young wife, and legal espousals, to any but your "sober-blooded boy" who "eats fish" and drinketh "no sack."
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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-- Good faith, this same young sober-blooded boy doth not love me; -- nor a man cannot make him laugh.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Good faith, this same young sober-blooded boy doth not love me; — nor a man cannot make him laugh.”
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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