1.   Instead, he strode, looking very somber, into a hangar and made a telephone call.

2.   Republican leaders, who pressed for public release of the report, appeared very somber after the vote as they waited to receive copies of the document.

3.   They were very somber.

4.   And in the end, what began as a very somber service became less so, lifted by the hope that something more would come of the tragedy.

5.   The Paris Bourse did much worse in a very somber atmosphere, again depressed by a lower Wall Street opening, traders said.

6.   Rosser-Owen is pictured in a headscarf and very somber clothing covering everything but her face and hands, which are out-stretched, palms-up.