sobersides

1 "Thank heaven my audience is not made up of such sobersides. Sander, see that this lad is given instructions in laughing."

2 The joke had gone so far that it overwhelmed all the sobersides who couldn’t see the joke.

3 And those who mark me down as a puritanical old sobersides may be surprised to learn that it was comedians, along with the plays of Shakespeare, that first drew me to theatre.

4 If you once saw her and heard her sing, you’d go crazy about her, old sobersides.

5 Judging from his relaxed demeanor Tuesday, Bradley may try not to seem like such a sobersides next time around.

6 The girls were in high spirits to-night, and in no mood to talk “sobersides,” as Mary Bertram sometimes called their graver discussions.

7 Of course they want you to play, you old sobersides!

8 But he was never a rapscallion ripstitch— Always a prim and proper little man, A butter-won’t-melt-in-my-mouth young sobersides, Since he found his own feet.

9 It’s womenfolks and—and an interest in one that makes a man a sobersides.”

10 "Now, sobersides, it must end—this foolishness of yours—" She stopped, waiting for some question of his to help her.

11 "I had begun to think that some prince in disguise had eloped with little sobersides."

12 You dear old sobersides, you—how gaunt and careworn you look, and how hungry, and what wild eyes you have to frighten one with!

1 严肃的人

owl

2 古板的人

square-toes

3 严谨的人

puritan bluenose mid-Victorian precisian