1.   No one knowing how to react, all speaking in low tones with solemn faces.

2.   They sit quietly on the locker-room benches, their faces solemn, their eyes averted.

3.   At the close of the meeting, Speaker-designate Rep. Bob Livingston walked out of the Capitol with a solemn face.

4.   His parents, Edward and Patricia, their faces solemn, clasped hands as they left the courtroom.

5.   However, the solemn face most of us saw during the hearing is long gone.

6.   His solemn bearded face breaks apart in sobs or freezes in bewilderment.

7.   Thaci knows what Kouchner expects of him, so he runs through his lines with a solemn face, condemning, regretting, affirming and so on.

8.   The familiar lanky frame, the familiar solemn face of McVeigh took on a surreal cast on the television screen.

9.   The next morning a senior editor strode over to my desk wearing a solemn face.

10.   The pianist bows, his pageboy hairdo flopping about his solemn face.