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This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that Thenardier decided that it was "useless" to proceed further.

Vice and disease, which cast such a sombre moral hue over the world, seemed to have hardly any existence for him.

As the sombre wheels of the six carts go round, they seem to plough up a long crooked furrow among the populace in the streets.

It was one of the many paradoxes in her character, that love of sombre and melancholy melodies, so opposite to her gay, frivolous nature.

It is not too much of a stretch to relate the deflated build-up to the World Cup in England this time to the wider, sombre atmosphere.

But Liu Ping was sombre as he watched them. His home town of Beichuan was wiped out by the shock. Hundreds of children lie among the dead.

Her young life had been sombre, but she had known nothing of the utmost human needs.

WHEN Barack Obama visited Elkhart, Indiana, in early February, a few weeks after his inauguration, it was a sombre affair.

It was noticed that there was a moment when his countenance became very sombre.

It had diffused over the earth all the light which tyranny can give a sombre light.

Hawthorne's own life was free enough from tragedy ; yet he saw destiny's sombre operation all about him .

The sombre-feathered great bird sleepily merciless between them.

PROMISE, wrote the critic Cyril Connolly, has no more sombre enemy than "the pram in the hall" .

The sun lost its heartening power and the sky became grey and sombre .

The studio did not even bother making masks of Abe's sombre successor, Yasuo Fukuda.

What does that sombre intermingling of bones buried beneath the furrows of Waterloo think of that?

There are moments when a woman accepts, like a sombre and resigned goddess, the religion of love.

The wehrmacht obeyed, and marched off into the remotest depths of southern Russia on two separate roads to its sombre fate.

When he entered the somewhat sombre hall, the butler told him that they had gone in to lunch.

a city takes on that sombre garb of grey, wrapt in which it goes about its labours during the long winter.

He repeated Cosette's name for whole nights in the melancholy loquacity of fever, and with the sombre obstinacy of agony.

The very hand of freedom sweetly sweeps upon the sombre plains of your plane of existence.

His palette at the time consisted mainly of sombre earth tones and showed no sign of the vivid coloration that distinguished his later work.

The Bank of England has delivered a sombre warning.

The wind blows. That sombre ship has a path which it is forced to pursue.

"Christmas is a time for celebration, but this year it is a more sombre occasion for many, " the Queen said.

It ought to be enchanting and great youth, why they chose that dark and sombre forest(to die)?

He returned from his sombre eagle flight into outer darkness.

Ms Denis centers the conflict in human gesture. Each emotion is ritualized and embodied in the sombre drills the men perform.

Traditional Taiwanese funerals are elaborate, combining sombre mourning with louder, up-tempo entertainment to fire up grieving spirits.

He would have preferred sitting alone, for he liked a silent, sombre, unsafe solitude.

Clara was full of a sombre preconception.

To welcome the Hallowmas, on this window there are two big spiders pasted, and laid out cobweb, atmosphere are very horrific and sombre.

Lee Myung-bak, the country's conservative president, followed with a sombre address to the country.

The Fifty-ninth WHA opened in a sombre mood following the sudden death on Monday morning of Dr LEE Jong-wook, WHO Director-General.

Although punctuated by the occasional joke, Mr Blair's last performance at prime minister's question time was somewhat sombre.

That the telescopist would have been at sea himself was with the other figure on that sombre, curving mole.

Gorbachev was particularly sombre when he addressed the central committees at the end of 1984.

The great Vistula rolled its yellowish , sombre vastness around low sandy islands .

Nonetheless, the sombre possibility exists that Col Gaddafi could inflict a decisive defeat on the rebels because of his superior firepower.

The amounts involved are "impossible to calculate but far from trivial" , says one sombre analyst.

Initially, van Gogh worked only with sombre colours, until he encountered Impressionism and Neo- Impressionism in Paris.

Sombre as it was, it put on the kindest of its moods to welcome her.

His sombre view of history explains why he tries to block pork of any kind.

The mood at the National Postal Forum, the industry's annual gathering, which took place this week in Tennessee, was sombre.

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable . it is so sombre , so depressing.

This was a sombre sacrifice in lonely waters .

The sadness of the scene imparted a sombre tinge to the feelings of Mr. Winkle .

Creative mentality is the cause of Zhang Ailing's novels' " sombre " meaning.

Instead, the speech was a sombre affair, and the popular reaction muted.

Nothing can reproduce the sombre and kindly melancholy of tone which accompanied these words.

Watching sombre scenes from Saving Private Ryan had no such effect.

The movement was characterized by its disregard of outlines and distaste for sombre colours.

Through the congenial gloom of the forest silent and sombre.

The couple were reportedly sombre as they laid flowers at the island tomb on the 14, 000-acre Althorp Estate in Northamptonshire.

She saw it through a mist of fancy--a pale, sombre half-light, which was the essence of poetic feeling.

It sounded like someone relentlessly playing the kazoo during one of the more sombre passages of a War Requiem.

The stony shores ran away right and left in straight lines, enclosing a sombre and rectangular pool.

But most of the movie is as sombre as Melville's Army of Shadows, if less intense.

Someone hands round a list of 124 bogus headlines, all written in the sombre style of the New York Times.

He entered a packed court looking sombre in a dark business suit and heard the charges.

Towards the evening when the western skies are lit up by the setting sun, the tree gradually becomes sombre, dark, closing in on itself.

That sombre view matches the alarm of British intelligence chiefs in recent months.

She is usually dressed in sombre black.

He strides in briskly, dressed as always in a dark suit and sombre tie.

I can never understand why some ancient poets describe autumn as so sombre and desolate.

The sombre existence of the former days.

Within this sombre picture, there is one silver lining for the Greek government.

It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet sombre physiognomy.

another pause of oblivion , and he awoke in the sombre.

'When it comes to building military trust, the sombre reality is that there is still a long way to go, ' the newspaper said.

A catastrophic meltdown is a sombre possibility.

VC: [In sombre mood] I take your point, Charles, but these people really are an irrelevance, so I wouldn't worry about it.

Her bed-chamber is hidden in the sombre part of the ideal.

Love. A sombre and starry transfiguration is mingled with this torture. There is ecstasy in agony.

but since this particular True Linen yarn is rather sombre in colour.

But the new document paints a more sombre picture.

Sombre is human life, and as yet without meaning: a buffoon may be fateful to it.

She looked up staring at the sombre sky.

THE setting was sunny but the subject sombre.

They are hybrid creatures, neither gay like butterflies nor sombre like their own species.

They were in sombre mood.

In the sombre wars of modern democracy chivalry finds no place.

Accordingly, the crowd was sombre and grave.

In XX bar, We had a short talk through interpretation under the sombre light.

The Tetrarch has a sombre look. Has he not a sombre look?

The bleak scene imparted a sombre feeling in Mr. Smith.

Local newspapers issue sombre reports on victims such as TJ, a Yorkshire terrier in Missouri who enjoyed the smell of roses.

A sombre figure was there to meet us.

AT THE World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2001, the mood was sombre.

From that moment forth, Mother Plutarque saw a sombre veil, which was never more lifted, descend over the old man's candid face.

There's a sombre experession on his face.

Van Duyckink's rather sombre eyes lighted up.

The football future of the team is sombre, but also our image and reputation are in danger.

In a sombre grey skies, such as Valentine's inter-Cai Butou in mind.

SECOND SOLDIER Yes, he has a sombre look.

FIRST SOLDIER Yes, he has a sombre look.

This year we will all be much more sombre.

Is the under side of civilization any less important than the upper side merely because it is deeper and more sombre?

Yes he has a sombre look.

how the sombre dominance of the Catholic church began to recede from the country's moral life;

his sombre acceptance of the bad news that stood in such sharpcontrast to her wild, hysterical cries of sel-pity

Laid down in sombre sleep

Oil on canvas Hamon If I Were the Sombre Winter

a man of sombre character

Blue as the sky, sombre and lonely,

the novel's sombre purity that removed it so decidedly from thecharge of fashionable nihilism

Sombre history, soberly viewed

a sombre expression on his face

a clouded moon that made the path sombre and forbidding

The sombre soaked velvet-drape is hung upon me

You have a sombre countenance suddenly

why are you so very shy , and so very sombre