The country, somber in the somber night. The vast open country. What monotonous desolation! Rapidly, through the vast silent spaces, the little car glided over the lonely route into the black arms of the pines.英文原著 · 《The Secret of the Night》
In the middle of this the handle was softly turned, and Zoe Vizard came in, pale and somber.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
Yet a thing no bigger than a leaf sufficed to drive away this somber mood, a piece of amber-colored paper scribbled on with a pencil: a telegram from Ashmead: "Good news: lost sheep turned up. Is now with her mother at Claridge's Hotel."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
``The scabbard of the sword was too glittering for the regulations''--the ghost of a smile hovered on Conwell's lips--``and I could not wear it, and could only wear a plain one for service and keep this hanging in my tent on the tent-pole. John Ring used to handle it adoringly, and kept it polished to brilliancy.--It's dull enough these many years,'' he added, somberly. ``To Ring it represented not only his captain, but the very glory and pomp of war.英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
And he went on to talk a little of his early years in Philadelphia, and he said, with sadness, that it had pained him to meet with opposition, and that it had even come from ministers of his own denomination, for he had been so misunder- stood and misjudged; but, he added, the momentary somberness lifting, even his bitter enemies had been won over with patience.英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
The rim of the revolving year has a brighter and a darker half, a joyous and a somber half, Autumnal splendors cannot cheer the melancholy that we feel when summer goes from us, but when summer comes again the heart leaps up in glee to meet it. Wait but a moment now.英文原著 · 《Back Home》
... the vigil is especially somber, but there remains a great deal of hope after the deadline was extended earlier this morning.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
You know, it's a somber occasion, and all my tops are too joyful.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
Forgive my somber drapings, but like Masha in Chekhov's "The Seagull," I am in mourning for my life.美剧 · 《Modern Family》