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sternness
1. He put on an expression of mock sternness
2. “Daughter!” Zoran tried for the sternness that would fall just short of abusing her young sensibilities
3. “Jesse,” the sternness of her grandmother’s voice was almost startling, “you need to hear this and I mean really hear it
4. “Once again, time seems to be of the essence here!” he began, a higher level of sternness still apparent in his voice than he had hoped to project
5. “Once again, time seems to be of the essence here!” he began, a higher level of sternness still
6. It’s Jonathan,” he said, trying to display a bit of sternness without sounding too harsh
7. After several more quiet repetitions, the voice said clearly and loudly, with a sternness that suggested an accusation directed towards one of the occupants of the room, “Murderer!”
8. “The shepherd who leads the flock,” the voice continued with a grave sternness and contempt for the subject, “to the slaughter on the battlefields of war!”
9. All four of the guests had protested in their own fashion, some more vehemently than others, though Feltus had threatened them, with more authority and sternness 345
10. effects of the alcohol dampened the effects of his intended sternness
11. justiciero, -a just, with the sternness of a judge justo,
12. “Barron,” Eleanor said with a slight sternness in her tone, “sit down
13. “What do you mean you think?” he asked with perhaps more sternness than he should have exhibited
14. Wickland recognized the sternness in Del’s voice immediately
15. “You know,” Aaron says, with all the sternness he can muster in his
16. Sternness and severity of manner chill them and throw them back
17. Lucia had never seen Nora this obstinate and was startled by her sternness
18. �On your couch, you mean? That is, assuming you don�t keep him up half the night with your chatter?� countered Venarya, with a hint of uncharacteristic sternness
19. God clarified that the pain of those is increasing in sternness time after time
20. Morrison could not for all that dissemble the disappointment and sternness of her heart, and the old lady glanced up at her as she came in with a kind of quavering fearfulness, like that of a little child who is afraid it may be going to be whipped, or of a conscientious dog who has lapsed unaccountably from rectitude
21. For the first time she was face to face with the sternness, the hardness, the relentlessness of everything that has to do with money so soon as one has not got any
22. No, they had even done that; and there was nothing further to be said except, with great sternness to Chesterton, eyeing her threateningly, 'Coffee at once
23. "George," I said, putting as much sternness into his name as I could, "if I want to get rid of someone I will do it on my own
24. Then he allowed sternness to settle over his features as
25. Consider therefore the kindness of God and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in His kindness
26. The warrior’s voice rang out with sternness to the girl as he gestured at me
27. Drawing from some deep reserve of control he redoubled the look of former sternness by placing his hands on his hips and approaching to stand toweringly over the little girl, who looked quite intimidated now
28. Hadaen Maruj was gorgeous; even the sternness of his eyes had their own beauty
29. Cambridge answered from his podium in front of the water with sternness and compassion in equal measure, never realizing that later on that same evening--in a matter of two hours, to be precise--his army in Dalandaniss would be attacked and slaughtered by the ogres
30. Great and mighty is the power of cold-hearted scorn, for thou with thine own eyes hast seen Altisidora slain, not by arrows, nor by the sword, nor by any warlike weapon, nor by deadly poisons, but by the thought of the sternness and scorn with which I have always treated her
31. And this thawed sternness, contrasted with his habitual brutality, was
32. Anybody else would have been incapable of regarding the childish act with sternness, but he scowled on her and muttered:
33. He was without arms, and his paint tended rather to soften than increase the natural sternness of his austere countenance
34. Trabb, with the greatest sternness, "or I'll knock your head off!—Do me the favor to be seated, sir
35. “Peace, Hester, peace!” replied the old man, with gloomy sternness
36. This was striking while the iron was hot: every one looked at my sternness with surprise, and some begged me to be seated, and to consider the matter calmly
37. "I am bound to say, sir," said Lord John, with some sternness of voice, "that your turning up is a considerable relief to us, for our mission seemed to have come to a premature end
38. I had, i’faith, discover’d the Key to Lord Bellars’ Heart: namely, Sternness
39. It was a shock to me to turn from the wonderful smoky beauty of a sunset over London, with its lurid lights and inky shadows and all the marvellous tints that come on foul clouds even as on foul water, and to realize all the grim sternness of my own cold stone building, with its wealth of breathing misery, and my own desolate heart to endure it all
40. To my surprise, Van Helsing rose up and said with all his sternness,
41. Van Helsing's sternness was somewhat relieved by a look of perplexity
42. Anybody else would have been incapable of regarding the childish act with sternness, but he scowled on her and muttered— ‘Oh! you are not afraid of me? Your courage is well disguised: you seem damnably afraid!’
43. sternness and stillness of the world under this frost
44. “It would be past the power of magic, sir;” and, in thought, I added, “A loving eye is all the charm needed: to such you are handsome enough; or rather your sternness has a power beyond beauty
45. He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious yet; but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon
46. Sir Thomas came towards the table where she sat in trembling wretchedness, and with a good deal of cold sternness, said, “It is of no use, I perceive, to talk to you
47. Sir Thomas came towards the table where she sat in trembling wretchedness, and with a good deal of cold sternness, said, "It is of no use, I perceive, to talk to you
48. Her manner was incurably gentle; and she was not aware how much it concealed the sternness of her purpose
49. at once, without delay” (the words “at once, without delay,” the doctor uttered with an almost wrathful sternness that made the captain start) “to Syracuse, the change to the new be-ne-ficial climatic conditions might possibly effect—”
50. But Verhovensky was not at all inclined to satisfy their legitimate curiosity, and told them nothing but what was necessary; he treated them in general with great sternness and even rather casually
