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• Every body looked sober, and Mr. Grant's face wore a very stern and troubled expression. —  In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant.
• 7. But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• Again, Condorcet's impatience of underlying temperament did not prevent him from filling his compositions with solid, sober, and profound reflections, the products of grave and sustained meditation upon an experience, much of which must have been severely trying and repugnant to a man of his constitution. —  Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet
• With the strictest obedience to the law, he moved in the element of freedom; with all the fervor of the enthusiast, he was always calm, sober, and self-possessed; notwithstanding his complete and uniform elevation above the affairs of this world, he freely mingled with society, male and female, dined with publicans and sinners, sat at the wedding feast, shed tears at the sepulchre, delighted in God's nature, admired the beauties of the lilies, and used the occupations of the husbandman for the illustration of the sublimest truths of the kingdom of heaven. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• Otherwise it might have been the very day a year ago that Judge George Petty had lurched through the snow tunnel jubilantly announcing the arrival of the stage Only this year there was no snow tunnel and the Judge was sober--sober and despondent His attitude of depression reflected more or less the spirit of the camp, which for once came near admitting that "if Capital didn't take holt in the Spring they might have to quit Anyway," Yankee Sam was saying, lowering his voice to give the impression to Uncle Bill at the window that he, too, had affairs of a private nature, "I learnt my lesson good about givin' options. —  The Man from the Bitter Roots

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