sober-mindedness
Example Sentences
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Let me repeat it to illustrate how sober-mindedness and great sorrow of heart always come to the best of men.
From Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) by Alexander Whyte
Not sober-mindedness alone comes to him who looks narrowly into himself, but great sorrow of heart also.
From Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) by Alexander Whyte
The Government, though in the form of a Republic, was in truth a despotism, moderated only by the wisdom, the sober-mindedness, and the magnanimity of the despot.—i.
From Famous Reviews by R. Brimley Johnson
The attitude of worship naturally suggests sober-mindedness and deep seriousness, and banishes frivolity.
From George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God by Arthur T. (Arthur Tappan) Pierson
She was Miss Harriet's young Boston cousin, Helena Vernon, who, half-amused and half-impatient at the unnecessary sober-mindedness of her hostess and of Ashford in general, had set herself to the difficult task of gayety.
From The Queen's Twin and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett
