soberizing

There was always some sash twisted about her, some drapery, something odd in the arrangement of her hair and dress; so that the methodical preceptress dared not let her go out without a careful scrutiny and remodelling, whose soberizing effects generally disappeared the moment she was in the free air.

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli Ossoli, Margaret F 1851

What a soberizing effect that prospect produces on the mind.

The Caxtons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

What a soberizing effect that prospect produces on the mind.

The Caxtons — Volume 14 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

There was always some sash twisted about her, some drapery, something odd in the arrangement of her hair and dress; so that the methodical preceptress dared not let her go out without a careful scrutiny and remodelling, whose soberizing effects generally disappeared the moment she was in the free air.

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I Margaret Fuller 1830

She had a taste which would have seemed ludicrous to her mates, if they had not felt some awe of her, from a touch of genius and power that never left her, for costume and fancy dresses, always some sash twisted about her, some drapery, something odd in the arrangement of her hair and dress, so that the methodical preceptress dared not let her go out without a careful scrutiny and remodelling, whose soberizing effects generally disappeared the moment she was in the free air.

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 Margaret Fuller 1830