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sober down

I saw him looking at my face, and his own sobered.

The thought of how close they had been to death sobered them all.

And then she sobered, thinking about what she'd done in a new light.

He was sobered suddenly by the thought of what they'd done.

However this is next day and John has now sobered up.

Eventually they sobered enough to take a look around them.

His face sobered as he asked what the trouble was.

The attack on his friend had sobered him some, but that would not last.

She had sobered up in the hour it took me to get out there.

The ride and the talk had sobered her, but only a little.

When you get sobered up, he'd said, call me back again.

Then they sobered, knowing that the difficult time was soon to come.

Apparently his coming straight to the point had sobered her.

Yeah, should have sobered up before he sent that letter.

But his heart attack last November has sobered him, friends say.

Then I sobered up, and the voice of reason kicked in.

The whole thing sobers us up a bit, but unfortunately not much.

The men in the group looked at one another, further sobered by the speaker's words.

Then the talk turned to Castro again, and both men sobered.

He sobered and started to look over his shoulder, then caught himself.

The others sobered at the thought, but then became playful again.

Sometimes he sobers up for a while, but then the bottle calls.

The recent decline, however, has sobered things up, he said.

But he sobered quickly, and looked intently into his son's eyes.

I got her sobered up a little and called you."

Try to sober down and forget your fears as there are calmer days ahead.

Then he sobered down and ran lovingly by George as they all made their way to the beach.

They sobered down then, ashamed to keep it up.

The boys thought Archie had sobered down too soon.

But he'd a sobered down in time if he'd bin spared.

When I looked up at that house I sobered down some.

The others lost their smiles and sobered down.

Rasmunsen didn't know, but supposed he was, and the man sobered down a bit.

"As a matter of fact," he continued, sobering down suddenly, "I think I've been enchanted.

Never mind dignity: let's be happy, and by and by I'll sober down."

But she'll sober down in time.'

But you're so featherbrained, Anne, I've been waiting to see if you'd sober down a little and learn to be steady before I begin.

She sobered down then.

The growth of his character from a fun loving boy to an out-of-control alcoholic to a sobered down, mature youngster was well appreciated.

"I've got to sober down.

He sobered down.

So she sobered down, and the resultant entry was a fictional masterpiece, if Tregare did say so himself!

By and by you sober down, and then you perceive that you have been drunk on the smell of somebody else's cork.

As soon as I had sobered down a little we got along very well together, and I found him a most pleasant and friendly deity.

"Well," said Anne, sobering down again with a sigh of recollection, "we have the salad anyhow and I don't think anything has happened to the beans.

Luckily we had a breathing spell in which I sobered down and took to heart the oldest lesson on patrol: You can't do the other man's job.

Soon we'll sober down--and 'keep faith'--and begin to build up our new world.

Then they all sobered down, and the busy ones went off to the various duties of the day, leaving the young invalids to repose and enjoy themselves together.

In an interview with the British youth magazine the Face , supermodel Kate Moss revealed that she hadn't walked sober down the runway for 10 years.

Apparently Mattioli now sobered down, and probably was given a separate chamber and a valet; he certainly had a valet at Pignerol later.