| Mutterings rippled around the room about how all refugees should be taken in, but the squadron leader shook his head sombrely. |
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| Earlier, the marble-effect coffin, decorated with cherubs, was carried sombrely into the church by four pallbearers. |
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| Ben, who was Mr Cook's understrapper until yesterday afternoon, marched sombrely down the street. |
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| Then she went back to the main house and to her bedroom, washed her face, put on a new scarf and attended to dinner efficiently but sombrely. |
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| This is the volcano that for more than three hundred years has sombrely and symmetrically towered over Tokyo without once raising its voice. |
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| The goal is to seem sombrely responsible and prepare the country for a spell of post-election austerity, without alienating too many voters. |
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| Dozens of officers forming a Guard of Honour snapped to attention as the procession, headed by two mounted officers and the solitary drummer, sombrely approached the building. |
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| The stained glass windows are of the expected bright colouring and the dark choir stalls sombrely face each other from both sides of the aisle, in the usual manner. |
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| Not very much, I suspect, with the cast sombrely delivering lines about trust and frailty while starring broodily into the middle distance. |
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| Back at the harbour, veteran fishermen were gathering around chequer boards and cupped cigarettes, black-clad pensioners with sailors' rolls wandering sombrely down to the chapel. |
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| Well, then ladies,' he said sombrely, 'we will keep watch on that widow of whom you spoke, and we will see what we shall see, and having seen we shall act to the glory of God. |
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| Snowden is an icon for a less deluded era when the true dimensions of power are more apparent and the true risks of dissent more sombrely visible. |
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| Stefan Ceder for his broadly painted and sombrely expressive landscapes. |
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