Through the soddenness of my degradation the lure of her struck like a knife piercing my heart and strangely revived the memories of the days when I was a man like other men -- not yet a sullen, cringing slave of dreams. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)
I was soaked to soddenness, and no longer cared whether my mantle covered my fuligin torturer's cloak. ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1980)
It also brought about a verbal soddenness by which measure the beat generation was positively scholastic, and it brought the abuse of some very destructive drugs. ❋ Friedman, Myra (1973)
Also his soddenness shall open a short way to his slaughter; for when the king shall be intent upon the dressing of his hair, and his hand is upon his beard and his mind upon stories; when he has parted his knotted locks, either with hairpin or disentangling comb, then let him feel the touch of the steel in his flesh. ❋ Grammaticus Saxo (N/A)
Civically, two cross currents cut through the city's life; one of, a high visioned enlightenment which astounds the visiting stranger by its force, its white-fire enthusiasm; the other a black sordidness and soddenness which displays but one redeeming quality -- the characteristic San Franciscan candor. ❋ Inez Haynes Gillmore (1921)
He reeled, flung up his arms and pitched with drunken soddenness full length upon the gravel, picking himself up clumsily with a sound of incoherent, weak lament. ❋ Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1918)
All the soddenness of the old days had come back to him, ghosts which would not be driven away; memories of a time when he was the grubbing, though willing slave of a victim of fear, -- of a man whose life had been wrecked through terror of the day when intruders would break their way through the debris, and when the discovery would be made. ❋ Courtney Ryley Cooper (1913)
Dinner came and went, and the gray soddenness of the skies deepened into the blackness of coming night. ❋ Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1905)
Philosophically, even they may have found that the plan is good, but that did not prevent them from giving their lives to lift the soddenness and accelerate the Inertia of the crowds. ❋ Will Levington Comfort (1905)
At last dinner came and went, and the gray soddenness of the skies deepened into the blackness of coming night. ❋ Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1905)
This act stirred even the soddenness of the legislature. ❋ Julian Hawthorne (1890)
