She paused, looking at Eddie solemnly.
Stephen King
The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, Book 2)
‘They are sailing, sailing, sailing over the Sea, they are going into the West and leaving us,’ said Sam, half chanting the words, shaking his head sadly and solemnly.
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring
You’d be safer as a destroyed enemy, than as a doubtfully-converted friend.” Mallow said solemnly, “You have your wish.” “Good!” and the secretary smiled savagely.
Asimov, Isaac
Foundation 1 - Foundation
First there were some solemn ceremonies, proper and usual at such times; then, when there was silence again, the reading followed, penetrating the deep hush so that every word was heard in even the remotest parts of the house: “It is found, and is hereby declared, that Joan of Arc, called the Maid, is a good Christian and a good Catholic; that there is nothing in her person or her words contrary to the faith; and that the King may and ought to accept the succor she offers; for to repel it would be to offend the Holy Spirit, and render him unworthy of the air of God.” The court rose, and then the storm of plaudits burst forth unrebuked, dying down and bursting forth again and again, and I lost sight of Joan, for she was swallowed up in a great tide of people who rushed to congratulate her and pour out benedictions upon her and upon the cause of France, now solemnly and irrevocably delivered into her little hands.
Mark Twain
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
“Here in the sight of gods and men,” he said, “I do solemnly proclaim Tyrion of House Lannister and Sansa of House Stark to be man and wife, one flesh, one heart, one soul, now and forever, and cursed be the one who comes between them.” She had to bite her lip to keep from sobbing.
George R. R. Martin
A Storm of Swords
A smile was on his countenance; he seem’d To common lookers-on, like one who dream’d Of idleness in groves Elysian: But there were some who feelingly could scan A lurking trouble in his nether lip, And see that oftentimes the reins would slip Through his forgotten hands: then would they sigh, And think of yellow leaves, of owlets’ cry, Of logs piled solemnly.—Ah, well-a-day, Why should our young Endymion pine away!
John Keats
Poetry
But immediately, noticing the pained expression his joke had brought to his sister’s face, he repented and added: “I am glad; really, dear, I am very glad.” “Against your will He will save and have mercy on you and bring you to Himself, for in Him alone is truth and peace,” said she in a voice trembling with emotion, solemnly holding up in both hands before her brother a small, oval, antique, dark-faced icon of the Saviour in a gold setting, on a finely wrought silver chain.
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
And I always felt like someone would come to me, someone special, and that's how I'd be in the way of knowin the time had come.” She looked at Nick, who sat at the table and regarded her solemnly with his good eye through the haze of Ralph Brentner's cigarette smoke.
King, Stephen
The Stand
My thoughts, when they were wildest, never rose near the happiness that I have known with you, and that we have before us.” He embraced her, solemnly commended her to Heaven, and humbly thanked Heaven for having bestowed her on him.
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
The hall door opened and his mother peered in, hair like shaded bronze held with a black ribbon at the crown, her oval face emotionless and green eyes staring solemnly.
Herbert, Frank
Dune
“Righ’, now, who can tell me why some o’ you can see them an’ some can’t?”Hermione raised her hand.“Go on then,” said Hagrid, beaming at her.“The only people who can see thestrals,” she said, “are people who have seen death.”“Tha’s exactly right,” said Hagrid solemnly, “ten points ter Gryffindor.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
When we closed the door behind us, the Professor said solemnly:— “So much is already done.
Bram Stoker
Dracula
Solemnly, in a formal little voice, Irmgard Baty said to him, "I want you to know we appreciate it very much, Mr. Isidore.
Dick, Philip K.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“Another time perhaps.” “Without Pooh,” said Rabbit solemnly as he sharpened his pencil, “the adventure would be impossible.” “Oh!” said Piglet, and tried not to look disappointed.
A. A. Milne
Winnie-the-Pooh
But rather in the lap of Being, in the intransitory, in the concealed God, in the ‘Thing-in-itself’—there must be their source, and nowhere else!”—This mode of reasoning discloses the typical prejudice by which metaphysicians of all times can be recognized, this mode of valuation is at the back of all their logical procedure; through this “belief” of theirs, they exert themselves for their “knowledge,” for something that is in the end solemnly christened “the Truth.” The fundamental belief of metaphysicians is the belief in antithesis of values.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
And how nobly it raises our conceit of the mighty, misty monster, to behold him solemnly sailing through a calm tropical sea; his vast, mild head overhung by a canopy of vapor, engendered by his incommunicable contemplations, and that vapor—as you will sometimes see it—glorified by a rainbow, as if Heaven itself had put its seal upon his thoughts.
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
“I wish to know from you, gentlemen,” said the Fairy, “if this unfortunate puppet is alive or dead!” At this request the Crow, advancing first, felt Pinocchio’s pulse; he then felt his nose and then the little toe of his foot: and, having done this carefully, he pronounced solemnly the following words: “To my belief the puppet is already quite dead; but, if unfortunately he should not be dead, then it would be a sign that he is still alive!” “I regret,” said the Owl, “to be obliged to contradict the Crow, my illustrious friend and colleague; but, in my opinion the puppet is still alive; but, if unfortunately he should not be alive, then it would be a sign that he is dead indeed!” “And you—have you nothing to say?” asked the Fairy of the Talking-Cricket.
Carlo Collodi
The Adventures of Pinocchio
All we could see of the procession through the closely pressed people that crowded all the side streets and curbs were the great giants, cigar-store Indians, thirty feet high, Moors, a King and Queen, whirling and waltzing solemnly to the riau-riau.
Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises
"Raymun of House Fossoway," he began solemnly, touching the blade to the squire's right shoulder, "in the name of the Warrior I charge you to be brave."
George R.R. Martin
The Tales of Dunk & Egg
“I am going to have the honor of taking my leave of you, mademoiselle, solemnly assuring you that I wish your life may be so calm, so happy, and so fully occupied, that there may be no place for me even in your memory.” “Oh!” murmured Valentine.
Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
“I don’t approve of the match, but I’ve made up my mind to bear it, and shall not say a word against it,” said Jo solemnly.
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
your words lie in the lowest depth of my heart—it is their tomb!” said Lebedeff, solemnly, pressing his hat to the region of his heart.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot
“As wet as ever,” said Alice in a melancholy tone: “it doesn’t seem to dry me at all.” “In that case,” said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, “I move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies—” “Speak English!” said the Eaglet.
Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Every year, she solemnly renewed her vows, and at the moment of taking the oath, she said to the priest, “Monseigneur Saint-François gave it to Monseigneur Saint-Julien, Monseigneur Saint-Julien gave it to Monseigneur Saint-Eusebius, Monseigneur Saint-Eusebius gave it to Monseigneur Saint-Procopius, etc., etc.
Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
On the other hand, if they are not in time, I solemnly promise that it will all come right in the end.
J. M. Barrie
Peter and Wendy
In the meanwhile all the shore rang with the trump of bullfrogs, the sturdy spirits of ancient wine-bibbers and wassailers, still unrepentant, trying to sing a catch in their Stygian lake—if the Walden nymphs will pardon the comparison, for though there are almost no weeds, there are frogs there—who would fain keep up the hilarious rules of their old festal tables, though their voices have waxed hoarse and solemnly grave, mocking at mirth, and the wine has lost its flavor, and become only liquor to distend their paunches, and sweet intoxication never comes to drown the memory of the past, but mere saturation and waterloggedness and distention.
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
He had solemnly promised never to think of self-destruction again.
Aldous Huxley
Crome Yellow
Buck Mulligan erect, with joined hands before him, said solemnly: ―He who stealeth from the poor lendeth to the Lord.
James Joyce
Ulysses
Feisal swore new adherents solemnly on the Koran between his hands, “to wait while he waited, march when he marched, to yield obedience to no Turk, to deal kindly with all who spoke Arabic (whether Bagdadi, Aleppine, Syrian, or pure blooded) and to put independence above life, family, and goods.” He also began to confront them at once, in his presence, with their tribal enemies, and to compose their feuds.
T. E. Lawrence
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Do you understand?” “I think so, Lord.” She stared up at him solemnly.
Frank Herbert
God Emperor of Dune
You had a fine escape.” “I have had what is far more to the purpose,” returned the doctor solemnly: “I have had a lesson—O God, Utterson, what a lesson I have had!” And he covered his face for a moment with his hands.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Paul and he shook hands solemnly; they smiled as shyly as though they had been parted three years, not three days—and they said: “How’s the old horse-thief?” “All right, I guess.
Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt
Poirot,” she said in a clear voice, “I swear to you—swear solemnly—that I have no idea where Ralph is, and that I have neither seen him nor heard from him either on the day of—of the murder, or since.” She sat down again.
Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The survivors went crazy or refused to talk about what had attacked them.” I know, Hazel thought solemnly.
Rick Riordan
The Son of Neptune
So he looked up at the sky for a minute, and said solemnly: “What the jungle has taken the jungle has restored.
Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Book
Then she closed her eyes, and began, solemnly, to snore.
Gaiman, Neil
Neverwhere
But that isn’t what your high priest saw at all, is it?” “No.” Moqorro’s deep voice tolled as solemnly as a funeral bell.
Martin, George, R. R.
A Dance With Dragons
I solemnly believe that in some ecstasy of noble thoughts she attempted the miracle.
G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
“You’re very polite, but I belong to another generation,” he announced solemnly.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
She then, turning to Don Quixote and addressing herself to him said, “Some days since, valiant knight, I gave you an account of the injustice and treachery of a wicked farmer to my dearly beloved daughter, the unhappy damsel here before you, and you promised me to take her part and right the wrong that has been done her; but now it has come to my hearing that you are about to depart from this castle in quest of such fair adventures as God may vouchsafe to you; therefore, before you take the road, I would that you challenge this froward rustic, and compel him to marry my daughter in fulfillment of the promise he gave her to become her husband before he seduced her; for to expect that my lord the duke will do me justice is to ask pears from the elm tree,860 for the reason I stated privately to your worship; and so may our Lord grant you good health and forsake us not.” To these words Don Quixote replied very gravely and solemnly, “Worthy duenna, check your tears, or rather dry them, and spare your sighs, for I take it upon myself to obtain redress for your daughter, for whom it would have been better not to have been so ready to believe lovers’ promises, which are for the most part quickly made and very slowly performed; and so, with my lord the duke’s leave, I will at once go in quest of this inhuman youth, and will find him out and challenge him and slay him, if so be he refuses to keep his promised word; for the chief object of my profession is to spare the humble and chastise the proud; I mean, to help the distressed and destroy the oppressors.” “There is no necessity,” said the duke, “for your worship to take the trouble of seeking out the rustic of whom this worthy duenna complains, nor is there any necessity, either, for asking my leave to challenge him; for I admit him duly challenged, and will take care that he is informed of the challenge, and accepts it, and comes to answer it in person to this castle of mine, where I shall afford to both a fair field, observing all the conditions which are usually and properly observed in such trials, and observing too justice to both sides, as all princes who offer a free field to combatants within the limits of their lordships are bound to do.” “Then with that assurance and your highness’s good leave,” said Don Quixote, “I hereby for this once waive my privilege of gentle blood, and come down and put myself on a level with the lowly birth of the wrongdoer, making myself equal with him and enabling him to enter into combat with me; and so, I challenge and defy him, though absent, on the plea of his malfeasance in breaking faith with this poor damsel, who was a maiden and now by his misdeed is none; and say that he shall fulfill the promise he gave her to become her lawful husband, or else stake his life upon the question.” And then plucking off a glove he threw it down in the middle of the hall, and the duke picked it up, saying, as he had said before, that he accepted the challenge in the name of his vassal, and fixed six days thence as the time, the courtyard of the castle as the place, and for arms the customary ones of knights, lance and shield and full armour, with all the other accessories, without trickery, guile, or charms of any sort, and examined and passed by the judges of the field.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote
‘If you run into trouble, just tell everybody that the security of the country requires a strong domestic Egyptian-cotton speculating industry.’ ‘It does,’ Milo informed him solemnly.
Heller, Joseph
Catch-22
Agamemnon and Achilles are solemnly reconciled: the speeches, presents, and ceremonies on that occasion.
Homer
The Iliad