In his solemn way, he asked, "How did we get here?"

He had always been professional in this manner, and she appreciated the solemn way he went about his job.

And at last, the final passengers made their solemn way down the gangplank.

It was a solemn (and perhaps overlong) way to end so festive an event.

In his solemn way, he has never spoken more lyrically - or truthfully.

"We'd be very careful," Fran said in her solemn way.

"I don't believe I'll go dancing tonight," she said in that solemn way of hers, and he laughed.

And John would touch his forelock with a solemn way he had that made me think he was the best of men.

He looked in his solemn way towards his wife, but not a word said she.

They both looked way too solemn for my tastes, as if something else had gone wrong.