1. Callers, suitably and sombrely attired, came thick and fast.

2. She then stood sombrely facing the memorial while the regimental band played Land of My Fathers.

3. Can not this Milan beautiful compare with that sombrely dry London?

4. She felt more sympathy for Neil's sombrely stolid manner than she ever had before.

5. The characters wear clothes, not costumes-Sue in simple print frocks and Jude dressed sombrely throughout.

6. "All the same, I wish he'd come back," Martha said sombrely.

7. Decades of interviews later, Mr Gaddis, who is now 70, had become accustomed to his students "speculating sombrely about which of us might go first".