The sombreness and the sternness of it appeal to me, but not the sadness.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER 9] Reference

Stofile had only occasionally to remind them of the sombreness of the event.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Someone toddles a craft, where sails and eyes and transports bring sombreness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetic Machines 07 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

Beyond, the pines stood up against the sky, full of sombreness and inky shadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference

Blue-black clouds overhung distant islands, and draped mainland hills in unbecoming sombreness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Leaves from Dunk Island] Reference

I like a gray atmosphere relieved by silver birches, just enough sombreness set off by cheerfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference

She looked at Neil, almost without seeing him, unaware of the emotions reflected in the sombreness of her gaze.    From Wordnik.com.  [So Close and No Closer]

"I think they will forget all about the sombreness of the dress when they see your happy face," answered Harriet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas] Reference

The man swayed loosely to the swing of the cart, as the horse stepped down-hill, in the silent sombreness of the afternoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virgin and the Gypsy] Reference

There seemed a smile to play round her red lips, and a sombreness about her eyes (so that she held mine fixed), until Dan spoke.    From Wordnik.com.  [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference

Her own gloomy position seemed divested of its sombreness, as she felt that the penitence of the erring soul had not been a reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference

The hills shall lay away their sombreness unspoken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perpetual Light : a memorial] Reference

If sombre, no happiness can drive that sombreness away.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Edged Tools] Reference

They were all in black, of course; but the sombreness of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framley Parsonage] Reference

And about the man there was an air of sombreness and mystery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Queen Crowned] Reference

The sombreness cleared for a moment from Doggie's young brow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rough Road] Reference

"On the Water" is profound with sombreness and big simplicity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference

Visitors were out of place in the dark sombreness of Manchester House.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Girl] Reference

I think that our lives have become tinged with sombreness and apprehension.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Double Four] Reference

Consequently it was sombre, and its sombreness was unrelieved by any mirror.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood] Reference

A terrible sombreness is achieved in its former half by a notable simplicity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference

"People can always be excused for more or less sombreness on the first day of the term.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chautauqua Girls At Home] Reference

One would have imagined that she found pleasure in the sombreness of which she was the cause.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nether World] Reference

And here and there a fountain of white bloom showed itself amid the sombreness of the fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Christmas Accident and Other Stories] Reference

I had not expected a letter; and what a comfort it was to me in my loneliness and sombreness!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference

To the darkness of the day was added the sombreness of falling night as the three began the ascent of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob, Son of Battle] Reference

If they were very positive, his voice would hesitate; if too grave, a faint smile would lighten their sombreness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Choice of Life] Reference

Eyes and noses are important keys to the bright colours of birds and comparative sombreness of hairy-coated creatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year] Reference

Now, apart from the dress, if he is in any way changed from the picture, it is in a look of greater youth and less sombreness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Light of Scarthey] Reference

Funeral sermons were also printed, with trappings of sombreness, black-bordered, with death's-heads and crossbones on the covers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference

One of those fair Englishmen who grow darker after adolescence; hair, moustache and skin acquiring a dull sombreness in fairness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creators A Comedy] Reference

On either hand reaching up their steep slopes were the spruce woods with beautiful white birches relieving their sombreness, and above.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador] Reference