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Dinner came and went, and the gray soddenness of the skies deepened into the blackness of coming night.

From The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore

At last dinner came and went, and the gray soddenness of the skies deepened into the blackness of coming night.

From Violets and Other Tales by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore

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.

From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Comfort, Will Levington

This act stirred even the soddenness of the legislature.

From The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 by Hawthorne, Julian