The other older children when they were singing "We are the World" went from the solemness (ph) to the joyfulness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2009] Reference
The darkness, the grief of the angels and the spent posture of Jesus' body all remind me of the solemness of what that moment must have been like. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
Obama reflected on Kennedy's presence at the passage of the Voting Rights Act and suggested that while the event was celebratory, concern for the senator necessarily cast an element of solemness to events. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Obama Confirms Sen. Ted Kennedy Collapse During Inaugural Luncheon] Reference
Obama reflected on Kennedy\'s presence at the passage of the Voting Rights Act and suggested that while the event was celebratory, concern for the senator necessarily cast an element of solemness to events. '. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Obama Confirms Sen. Ted Kennedy Collapse During Inaugural Luncheon] Reference
He found means to slide a letter into my hands, and is gone away: He looked at me with such respect and solemness at parting, that Mrs. Jewkes said, Why, madam, I believe our young parson is half in love with you. —. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
Prithee, Virgilia, turn thy solemness out o 'door. and go along with us. From Wordnik.com. [Coriolanus] Reference
Prithee, Virgilia, turn thy solemness out o door, and go along with us. From Wordnik.com. [Act I. Scene III. Coriolanus] Reference
That, yes, there's a sense of importance in the solemness of what I'm doing. From Wordnik.com. [Macleans.ca] Reference
She said it with such an earnest solemness that her companions shouted with laughter. From Wordnik.com. [His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality] Reference
And 'twas as if she were some prophetess who spoke, her face and eyes glowed with such fire and solemness. From Wordnik.com. [His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality] Reference
Thus sweetly did he palliate the woes, which the generosity of his actions, mixed with the solemness of the occasion, and the strange request he had vouchsafed to make me, had occasioned. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded] Reference
In some ways and especially during the band's quieter, starker moments, with the solemness of Good Friday which was the day after the show, Shearwater seemed like a near-perfect soundtrack. From Wordnik.com. [For the records] Reference
She herself had a secret girlish terror of death and its strange solemness, and she so pitied Dolly that sometimes she could not contain her grief, and was obliged to hide herself until her tears spent themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Vagabondia 1884] Reference
He found means to slide a letter into my hands, and is gone away: He looked at me with such respect and solemness at parting, that Mrs. Jewkes said, Why, madam, I believe our young parson is half in love with you. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded] Reference
The manner is, as the company returns, to stop at the Spring Gardens so called, in order to the Park as our Thuilleries is to the Course; the inclosure not disagreeable for the solemness of the groves, the warbling of the birds, and as it opens into the spacious walks of St. James. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)] Reference
Spring Gardens so called, in order to the Parke, as our Thuilleries is to the Course; the inclosure not disagreeable, for the solemness of the grove is broken by the warbling of the birds, as it opens into the spacious walks at St. James's; but the company walk in it at such a rate, you would think that all the ladies were so many Atalantas contending with their wooers. From Wordnik.com. [The Strand District The Fascination of London] Reference
Prithee, Virgilia, turn thy solemness out o’ door. and go along with us. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedy of Coriolanus] Reference
'I will, in all solemness and truth.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
I think it is his solemness that cracks me up. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
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