sober (adj.)
sedate, staid, demure, grave
AC V.ii.54[Cleopatra to Proculeius] I / Will not ... be chastised with the sober eye / Of dull Octavia
JC IV.ii.40[Cassius to Brutus] this sober form of yours hides wrongs
Luc.1403[of Nestor in a painting of Troy] Making such sober action with his hand / That it beguiled attention
Luc.1542[Lucrece to herself, of a painting of Sinon] So sober sad, so weary, and so mild [or: sober-sad]
MV II.v.35[Shylock to Jessica] Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter / My sober house
MV III.ii.78[Bassanio to himself] In religion, / What damned error but some sober brow / Will bless it
Tim III.v.21[Alcibiades to Senators, of his friend] with such sober and unnoted passion / He did behove his anger
Tim iv.iii.499[Timon to Flavius] Forgive my general and exceptless rashness, / You perpetual-sober gods
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