Definition of Sombering

1. somber [v] - See also: somber

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sombering

somatotropin release-inhibiting factor
somatotropin release-inhibiting hormone
somatotropins
somatotropism
somatotype
somatotypes
somatotypology
somatrem
somatroph
somatrophs
somatropin
somber
sombered
somberer
somberest
sombering (current term)
somberly
somberness
sombernesses
sombers
sombre
sombred
sombrely
sombreness
sombrer
sombrero
sombreros
sombres
sombrest
sombring

Literary usage of Sombering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria by George Dennis (1878)
"... or are gilt with the most brilliant yellow—thrown out more prominently by an occasional sombering of grey—while the dark ilex, or oak, feathers and ..."

2. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"He saw these mountains in the light Which now across them shines ; This lake, in summer sunset bright, Walled round with sombering pines. ..."

3. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"Which now across them shines ; This lake, in summer sunset bright, He saw these mountains in the light Walled round with sombering pines. ..."

4. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"He saw these mountains in the light Which now across them shines ; This lake, in summer sunset bright, Walled round with sombering pines. ..."

5. The Complete Poetical Works of Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier (1894)
"He saw these mountains in the light Which now across them shines ; This lake, in summer sunset bright, Walled round with sombering pines. ..."

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