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The look of brightness attendant upon the thought he was putting into form would, when the utterance was through, suffer a lapse which, for want of strictly definite words, may be described as a sombering of the eyes when they were widest open, a gazing beyond at something else than the opposite speaker; implying that the soul was become mysteriously occupied apart from the mind.
The Prince of India — Volume 01 Lewis Wallace 1866
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May 13th, 2008 9: 21 pm ET so whats the "sombering" news?
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The Democrats are not facing any sombering news as this is a PRIMARY – DEMOCRAT vs DEMOCRATE!
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is definitely a sombering ceremony.
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A friend sent me a link to the story Time magazine published on Nigeria's independence in October 1960 and it made fascinating, if sombering reading.
Reading Aboulela, going back in Time and Alamsco nabbed uknaija 2005
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A friend sent me a link to the story Time magazine published on Nigeria's independence in October 1960 and it made fascinating, if sombering reading.
Archive 2005-12-01 uknaija 2005
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"I can see 'somber' or 'sobering,' but my spell-checker won't let me use 'sombering,'"
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But to the best of Buck's knowledge, there's no such word as "sombering."
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"I can see 'somber' or 'sobering,' but my spell-checker won't let me use 'sombering,'"
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The chief economist of Moody's Economy. com sat down Thursday with a group of reporters and gave a sombering view of what he sees for the U.S. economy.
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