Word: solemn
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...solemn hemlocks rose, whose misty gloom
...ever have an alarm clock? I don't mean one of the new-fangled, nickel-plated kind, but one of the homely, old-fashioned sort, with a big iron hammer for the alarm, hands with circular rings near the ends, and a long, solemn, methodistical face, having an expression of chronic melancholy, as of a confirmed dyspeptic: did you ever have one of these? No? Well, you have missed a valuable experience. My own knowledge of these articles came in a practical way, as follows...
...across his features solemn...
Hushed by nature's solemn silence...
...last few solemn seconds lingering...