solemn
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It's an awful solemn undertakin', an' the more you think it over the solemner it gets.
From Life at High Tide by Alden, Henry Mills
Hannah looked real pleased when she see Enoch, as if she hadn't really expected him, but Betsey stuck out her hand's if 't was an eend o' board, an' drawed her face solemner 'n ever.
From Strangers and Wayfarers by Jewett, Sarah Orne
And her eyes kep' a growin' bigger and solemner like, and her face grew thinner and thinner, and that red flush would burn onto her cheeks regular every afternoon, and she begun to cough bad.
From Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician by Holley, Marietta
If I have painted Vice in all its gayest colours, if I have decked it with flowers, it has been solely in order to make the worthier, the solemner sacrifice of it to Virtue.
From Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by Cleland, John
And I think it is a solemner thing for the Yankees that they have kept out of the war than it would have been if they had gone into it.
From Rilla of Ingleside by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
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