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For the first half mile we trudged in sombre mood, the others too scared to speak in case I snapped again
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Helez was the one to break the sombre atmosphere
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“Wow, this is a surprise,” she exclaimed, but when she got closer she must have realised something was wrong from the sombre look on their faces
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That was a sombre task he didn’t look forward to at all
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Doc had been so enthusiastic in the taxi that Jack was beginning to feel that, yes, a good night out was just the tonic he needed to shake him out of his sombre mood
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The man moved forward as fast as a greased rat and he took my hand nearly shaking it off as a smile of welcome lit up his sombre face as he said
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The Colonel looking sombre said
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Within seconds the crowds rippled with a sombre, respectful applause
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“You can’t imagine what you have taken from me,” she said with a sombre coldness, “what you have taken from the world
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“Dressed in sombre black, out of respect for her recently murdered brother, the queen of the ring, the mistress of malice
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Rita’s long black hair wild and inconsistent with her white lace gloves and in sharp contrast with the sombre attire of Akbar
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No matter how many times he was summoned here, he was never prepared for the sombre experience
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We sat nervous and sombre in the armchairs in front of his desk, silently waiting for the doctor to take his place on the other side of the desk
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As Brokin moved across the chamber towards the group of sombre Elders, Drac, their leader, studied him intently
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I looked at Steve who was looking very sombre and thoughtful
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“That’s always good to hear,” he said with evident joy in his voice before adding in a more sombre, well-practiced, even tone:
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“I should be the one asking that,” replied Ethan with an expressionless, sombre face, his features strict and unyielding
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James replied then with a deep, sombre voice:
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This may be so, but the act of cremation is no less sombre
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One evening, in a sombre mood, he played a piece by Oskar Merikanto, the same that Laura had heard, and teased him about so often
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were a few gasps throughout the room, a few looks of sombre
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’ The mood was sombre as the spectre of a return to real life drew closer
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They’re immensely popular and highly visible and a welcome distraction from the sombre reality of most people’s lives
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Horizontal shafts of golden sunlight light illuminated one side of the vast valley, leaving the other in sombre shadow apart from the tallest trees whose tops shone burnished gold
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Uretep stood, raised a hand in salutation, and then addressed the silent masses—his voice both sombre and compassionate
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It was a sombre, high-ceilinged room, carpeted in dull green with eight huge, leather-padded chairs arranged in a semi-circle
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Tim could take a guess that he would be wearing a more sombre tie tomorrow
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A man standing there turned toward her—a giant Shemite, with sombre eyes and shoulders like a bull, his great black beard falling over his mighty, silver-mailed breast
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After exchanging a few words, the door was pushed closed, and Siri could only hear her muffled and sombre conversation which he could not decipher
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The austere committee room was laid out with rows of simple chairs, occupied by around fifty sombre looking men and women
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‘And may the divil be merciless to his soul,’ growled the sombre Mrs Field
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quipped, determined to lighten the sombre presence that had darkened the
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Our meal was a sombre affair, with Coatl picking at his food silently and mother planning more unpleasantness for the prisoner, Gled day-dreaming about Jodas, it was like a blast of fresh air when Wedon came walking in unannounced, mother poured a drink for him and excused herself claiming to have pressing business elsewhere, I shall have to have a word with her about this obsession with the priest’s interrogation, she is beginning to neglect her friends and family
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It was a short and sombre debriefing, it was not the death of the disgraced priest that affected them, it was the hellfire demonstration, this chemical mix that Coatl had now introduced into their lives
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This made our report a sombre affair on our part; Coatl stood tall, demanding silence and said
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Fortunately, however, a ray of light, springing from human intelligence, illuminates the sombre scene; and as the result, some millions of black men may prove more fortunate than those Europe and America have thrown away
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Stern lines and no colour in a sombre room with walls reserved for photographic record of the many achievements in The Stables’ racing history
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The sombre look on her face made it clear all was not well and she seemed close to tears
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Lorene allowed the curtain to drop into place as a sound behind her alerted her to the sombre figure of John Delmage stood in the doorway
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He and Jazz took morning refreshment in a large, dignified room that served as his office with cedar panels for walls, where archangels and saints hovered within frames of sombre cut glass lead lights
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Ken Evans took the off ramp then a left and a right and drove parallel with the sombre stone of prison walls embellished with their rolls of razor wire
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That shocking D-Day of my life came to the end; that day of sombre was elapsed with the dusk of night, and that nightmare had vanished
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For he is now all lonely and spectral and sombre and still but has not lost hope,
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sombre devilry and chose the pangs devotion- luckily there lies our mothers mixed
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This included sombre breakfasts where the order of the day was a curt nod of good
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“What has got you in such a sombre
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with them, Jack came home with a sombre look on his face
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my hand, but had a sombre look on her face
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Brandon and Nathaniel were sitting at the table in a sombre mood,
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But his voice dropped suddenly altered to a sombre tone, the white-haired gentleman leant into Byron peering over his wire-framed glasses
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” His face became sombre,
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A smile cracked the man’s sombre mask, “Because I promised and I keep
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Something more sombre
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Jason teased, trying to lighten the sombre mood,
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church was sombre, Jade was carried out by the
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Dignitaries and ambassadors from every nation come to his coronation to pay their sombre respects
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As always, when visiting Salisbury, he selected garments of a sombre nature, avoiding anything flamboyant and anything that might associate him with a merchant guild
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'Oh,' gasps Vicki, when we start off up the sombre aisles of pines, and the tretching away before us into a gray infinity, and mark their reeking trunks, black with damp, hoar with lichen, and hear their sighings and their creakings through the patter of rain on our umbrellas, and feel their wet breath on our cheeks, 'oh what an empty, frightening world it is
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Frau Dremmel was regarding her with sombre, unblinking eyes, eyes that had the blankness of pebbles
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Sombre words were spoken, but the respectful throng was more mindful of the
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The valley brooded in sullen lushness; and the branches of broom they carried with them in the carriage cut through the sombre background like a golden knife
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He then turned to face Ca and with a sombre look spoke
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It was a sombre air in both rooms as they slowly folded their belongings and packed them into their suitcases, each item held a memory of the last few amazing weeks that had changed their lives
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He’d hated that because he had wanted to know what they talked about, whether it was something to be joyous about or something to be sombre over
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The mood in the Knot was sombre
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With that sombre thought running through his head, he fell into a fitful and unsatisfying sleep
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driver’s door, opening the rear door for a man in his late fifties with greying short hair and now wearing a sombre suit
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“It is too much of a risk,” Hallen said, breaking from his sombre mood
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The mood was sombre, the atmosphere heavy
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As they walked Elowen could see ahead four sombre hills that
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Terrorists had blown up a school in the South killing two hundred, the whole bloody atrocity being strewn across the front pages, children without limbs being dragged from the debris, bits of bodies lying everywhere, the President, black tied and sombre once more, carrying the weight of the people’s expectation
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Curtains of black cloth that left the room looking dim and sombre covered the pyramidal
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The room took on a sombre atmosphere
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Lorry knew Miss Pross to be very jealous, but he also knew her by this time to be, beneath the service of her eccentricity, one of those unselfish creatures--found only among women--who will, for pure love and admiration, bind themselves willing slaves, to youth when they have lost it, to beauty that they never had, to accomplishments that they were never fortunate enough to gain, to bright hopes that never shone upon their own sombre lives
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He wondered every time at his sombre and enigmatic impression and, mistrusting himself, put off finding the explanation of it
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"Of course, I am an ass," he observed, sombre as a storm cloud, "but still
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Raskolnikov really was almost well, as compared with his condition the day before, but he was still pale, listless, and sombre
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The pale, sombre face lighted up for a moment when his mother and sister entered, but this only gave it a look of more intense suffering, in place of its listless dejection
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Another pause of oblivion, and he awoke in the sombre morning, unconscious where he was or what had happened, until it flashed upon his mind, "this is the day of my death!"
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With the waiting depot, the arriving coffin, and the sombre faces,
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Several citizens had scoured their houses the evening before; tri-coloured flags hung from half-open windows; all the public-houses were full; and in the lovely weather the starched caps, the golden crosses, and the coloured neckerchiefs seemed whiter than snow, shone in the sun, and relieved with the motley colours the sombre monotony of the frock-coats and blue smocks
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The tenderness of the old days came back to their hearts, full and silent as the flowing river, with the softness of the perfume of the syringas, and threw across their memories shadows more immense and more sombre than those of the still willows that lengthened out over the grass
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The sky was sombre, and a little snow was falling
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There was at last a moment when Charles, full of a sombre fury, fixed his eyes on Rodolphe, who, in something of fear, stopped talking
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Everything in the subdued incomplete night-life around the Mansion House went on normally with its fascinating air of a dead commercial city of sombre walls through which the inextinguishable activity of its millions streamed East and West in a brilliant flow of lighted vehicles
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It was one of those courts hidden away from the charted and navigable streets, lost among the thick growth of houses like a dark pool in the depths of a forest, approached by an inconspicuous archway as if by secret path; a Dickensian nook of London, that wonder city, the growth of which bears no sign of intelligent design, but many traces of freakishly sombre phantasy the Great Master knew so well how to bring out by the magic of his understanding love
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The dust of the Waterloo year lay on the panes and frames of its windows; early Georgian grime clung to its sombre wainscoting
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‘Forty-five, Kevin, forty-five of my knights! The names…have you seen them?’ He ran a finger down the page and read in a slow and sombre tone
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He stifled, therefore, the feelings of compassion that were rising, composed his features, and sat down, grim and sombre, at his desk
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"I was at the festival of my marriage, monsieur," said the young man, his voice slightly tremulous, so great was the contrast between that happy moment and the painful ceremony he was now undergoing; so great was the contrast between the sombre aspect of M
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The Palais de Justice communicated with the prison,—a sombre edifice, that from its grated windows looks on the clock-tower of the Accoules
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He did not move at the sound of the door, and continued his calculations until the flash of the torches lighted up with an unwonted glare the sombre walls of his cell; then, raising his head, he perceived with astonishment the number of persons present
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It was the last yearning for life contending with the resolution of despair; then his dungeon seemed less sombre, his prospects less desperate
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But my real treasure is not that, my dear friend, which awaits me beneath the sombre rocks of Monte Cristo, it is your presence, our living together five or six hours a day, in spite of our jailers; it is the rays of intelligence you have elicited from my brain, the languages you have implanted in my memory, and which have taken root there with all their philological ramifications
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" Then the steps retreated, and the voices died away in the distance; the noise of the door, with its creaking hinges and bolts ceased, and a silence more sombre than that of solitude ensued,—the silence of death, which was all-pervasive, and struck its icy chill to the very soul of Dantes
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He saw overhead a black and tempestuous sky, across which the wind was driving clouds that occasionally suffered a twinkling star to appear; before him was the vast expanse of waters, sombre and terrible, whose waves foamed and roared as if before the approach of a storm
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Over these dark and sombre chairs were thrown splendid stuffs, dyed beneath Persia's sun, or woven by the fingers of the women of Calcutta or of Chandernagor