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  • "Seventeen minutes?" she says to her companion in a sober-looking dress coat.

    Metro after Midnight: 17 minutes Annys Shin 2011

  • He kept it eight or ten days, and then sent a sober-looking, book-faced man back with it, sending therewith the little note which follows the letter.

    Letter 10 2009

  • He was a sober-looking young fellow, neatly dressed, so I thanked him and we went out of the crowded station into a dark and dirty Washington evening.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • You'd barely credit it; here was this sober-looking, middle-aged bargee, with the grey streaks in his trim beard and the solid spread to his middle, burly but by no means tall, as proper a citizen as ever spouted Catullus or graced a corporation-and suddenly it was Attila gone berserk.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • In spite of the friendly welcome, the sober-looking guys who stared them down made that pretty clear.

    Raven Rise D. J. MacHale 2008

  • A sober-looking man in a suit stood behind the podium.

    Raven Rise D. J. MacHale 2008

  • In spite of the friendly welcome, the sober-looking guys who stared them down made that pretty clear.

    Raven Rise D. J. MacHale 2008

  • A sober-looking man in a suit stood behind the podium.

    Raven Rise D. J. MacHale 2008

  • Señor J. A. Cespedes, chairman of an extremely sober-looking reception committee, made the first and longest of several speeches.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • Señor J. A. Cespedes, chairman of an extremely sober-looking reception committee, made the first and longest of several speeches.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

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