| 1. | It was somber enough too--and pitiful--not extraordinary in any way--not very clear either. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 2. | More sedate and somber types call the Thoracics "bubblers" or "spouters" just for this reason. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 3. | A grand piano stood massively in a corner, with dark gleams on the flat surfaces like a somber and polished sarcophagus. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 4. | I saw on that ivory face the expression of somber pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror--of an intense and hopeless despair. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 5. | Only the gloom to the west, brooding over the upper reaches, became more somber every minute, as if angered by the approach of the sun. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 6. | Don't you know the devilry of lingering starvation, its exasperating torment, its black thoughts, its somber and brooding ferocity Well, I do. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 7. | Only the barbarous and superb woman did not so much as flinch, and stretched tragically her bare arms after us over the somber and glittering river. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 8. | The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 9. | As he turned into the brilliantly lighted street from the somber alleyway of the stage entrance, he paused for a moment to glance at his own name, in three-foot letters of red, before the doors of the theater. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |