| 1. | I insist on perfect sobriety and silence. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 2. | and the sobriety of it, and the modesty of it, to be otherwise. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | Yet, for all his hardy sobriety and fortitude, there were certain qualities in him which at times affected, and in some cases seemed well nigh to overbalance all the rest. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 4. | A man of thirty does not run on in this way he will argue and not merely contradict, and adds new honour to philosophy by the sobriety of his conduct. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 5. | But it will be noticed that besides designing his canvases carefully, he usually balanced the vigour and vitality of his form with a great sobriety of colour. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |
| 6. | In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly arra. - from The King James Bible |