soberminded

My country Holland was once one of the most soberminded and decent countries of the world.

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Mrs. Clemens's eyes troubled her and would not permit her to read, so she requested that the Yankee be passed upon by soberminded critics, such as Howells and Edmund Clarence Stedman.

Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872

Mrs. Clemens's eyes troubled her and would not permit her to read, so she requested that the Yankee be passed upon by soberminded critics, such as Howells and Edmund Clarence Stedman.

Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) Mark Twain 1872

We may notice in particular his parade-expedition in 1471 to Florence, when he flaunted the wealth extorted from his Milanese subjects before the soberminded citizens of a still free city.

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866

Small remote houses, used as daughters or auxiliaries to the large convents, were especially apt to fall into a lax state, and in truth the little priory of Greystone, with its half-dozen of Sisters, had been placed under the care of the Lady Agnes Selby because she was too highly connected to be dealt with sharply, and too turbulent and unmanageable for the soberminded house at York.

The Herd Boy and His Hermit Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

The apostle "exhorts the aged to be sober, grave, temperate, and sound in faith, charity and patience, that they may teach the young to be soberminded."

Sermons delivered on various occasions : first published singly, now republished and collected into a volume, with two new one, never before printed 1812

"It will be something ludicrous indeed, for any soberminded person to do.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2001