Staid; subdued

Usage examples of sober.

Their serious and sequestered life, averse to the gay luxury of the age, inured them to chastity, temperance, economy, and all the sober and domestic virtues.

It flailed and bawled and could not rise from its burden, and it remained a sobering example of a misstep until they could make the long descent and deal with it.

Armed by now, the shouting prisoners hurled themselves on the English who, falling back before the sobers, gun rammers, muskets and belaying pins wielded by these mud-caked figures, were pressed into a mob so dense as almost to prevent the use of weapons.

The international press corps did not come all the way to the Winter Olympics to watch the biathlon sober.

If his eyes are not too bleared to see me, I fancy the sight of me will sober him.

It was a blinder, but at least, now sober, he could no longer hear the voice of a certain Larry.

One of the surprising things always was the sense of calm and utter silence, broken only by the test rounds fired from the machine guns, by an occasional toneless, terse remark over the intercom, and, at last, by the sobering pronouncement of the bombardier in each plane that they were at the I.

In a snug corner might be seen a party of sober, quiet-looking gentlemen, taking their lobster and bucellas, whose first appearance would impress you with the belief of their respectability, but whom, upon inquiry, you would discover to be Greek banditti, retired hither to divide their ill gotten spoils.

You look very much like Uncle Cesse, or will, when you grow older and less sober.

After two sober nights, I inquired if there was anything to drink on board and Chi promised to buy a bottle of whisky from the sailors.

A long, coggly, cracked slate-stone, whose unsteady clatter would make the soberest steed jump over the moon.

Her voice was sober and clear, perfectly audible to Dacre who, contrary to appearances, was not asleep.

Black trailed off, then his voice deepened with Daniels determination, and his quixotic face sobered.

She ignored them and ignored too the dominie and his deacons, who were very much in evidence as they moved about, trying by their sobering presence to bring order to the sweating multitudes.

Harknesses were shot at the plough, through their lamp-lit cabin windows, coming from camp-meeting, asleep, in duello, sober and otherwise, singly and in family groups, prepared and unprepared.