Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.    From LearnThat.org.  [Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790).]

That day, the group asks that families, schools, other organizations host what he calls sober parties at their homes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2006] Reference

"With reverence, sir," said the boy, "he was what he calls sober, and what I would call concerned in liquor for any other person.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodstock; or, the Cavalier] Reference

“With reverence, sir,” said the boy, “he was what he calls sober, and what I would call concerned in liquor for any other person.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodstock] Reference

So the mile and a half was driven in sober silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queechy] Reference

It describes cruelty in sober and matter-of-fact terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Peace Prize 1992 - Presentation Speech] Reference

'Nay, nay, if you look frightened in sober sadness, I am gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth] Reference

My parents would watch in sober silence, or shaking their heads, jaws clenched.    From Wordnik.com.  [re-runs] Reference

If the desire to remain sober prevails, it is because it is the strongest desire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 26] Reference

Lee kept his expression sober as he sat, to avoid even the appearance of gloating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guns Of The South]

Now in sober truth there is a magnificent idea in these monsters of the Apocalypse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

'What d' you call sober, I'd like to know? 'he replied, with looseness of utterance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demos] Reference

Monstrous Ophidia are mentioned in sober history, e.g. that which delayed the army of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

But do you really, in sober earnest, think it will ever do to be printed and published?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

She did not, of course, plan all this in sober reason; she just dreamed it with her eyes open.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ranch at the Wolverine] Reference

Well, in sober earnest now, I would not live thus a twelvemonth to gain all that the King has lost, unless it were to give it him again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)] Reference

Some meanings of 'sober'-'Tranquil' which means undisturbed, serene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women at Home] Reference

MR. MCCURRY: An accurate one, which is to say a sober one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry And Others] Reference

Brooke Mueller, has checked into a so-called sober- living house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

He met her gaze, his expression sober — she’d almost say sympathetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [In His Own Defense]

VELEZ-MITCHELL: So he finally -- he finally got sober, which is wonderful news.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2009] Reference

We aren’t talking about the right to offend in sober, thoughtful, sincere language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Governments Should Govern] Reference

` Well, you're called a sober man, and I'm called a drunkard; but what's the difference?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference

Plus it's got a video you'd like to watch sober and not so sober, which is always a plus.    From Wordnik.com.  [ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs] Reference

After he cooled off he was more amenable to reason, sometimes called the sober second-thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,] Reference

He was a mason by trade, industrious and sober, which is not often the case with natives of the Emerald Isle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secrets of the Great City] Reference

Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Geithner is known as a sober guy, the type who underpromises and overdelivers.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com -] Reference

He has been described as a sober, earnest, eloquent, sometimes shrewd and witty but very absent-minded, scholar whose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The University of Michigan] Reference

I had tried, was trying now, to live what she liked to call a sober life, -- but all in vain, so far as winning her approval.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Romantic Young Lady] Reference

Of 592 male adults in the almshouse in New York, not 20, says the superintendent, can be called sober; and of 601 women, not as many as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

I felt emotionally "sober" for the first time in my life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mastin Kipp: Addicted to Love, Part 2 -- That's Not Real Love] Reference

At best, I think it's kind of sober tribute to death and loss.    From Wordnik.com.  [intertribal: YOUR MOTHER PASSED AWAY. FUNERAL TOMORROW. DEEP SYMPATHY.] Reference

Withen gave him the same kind of sober attention he gave to his own contemporaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magic's Promise]

I disagree with Alex Massie's view that the SNP's decision was 'sober' and 'rational'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why did the SNP do it?] Reference

Webster must have whipped up a brand new definition for "sober" since the last time I checked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dlisted - Be Very Afraid] Reference

After a few complained about one Clinton 'sober' picture, then that got changed to a 'smiley' one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Poll: Hillary Not Doing Well In Colorado] Reference