The lower their character and condition, the louder, clearer, sterner, the just demand for immediate emancipation.

STERNThe stern is long and tapering and set on rather high, with a moderate amount of hair underneath.

But yet did I stay my heart a little stern to mine intent.

Godwin, in order to appease the king, made him a magnificent present of a galley with a gilt stern, rowed by fourscore men, who bore each of them a gold bracelet on his arm, weighing sixteen ounces, and were armed and clothed in the most sumptuous manner.

Small boats with narrow sterns (Fr. pinque).

They were built with ribs as at the present day, with small keels, square sails, with spacious cabins in the centre, and ornamented sterns; there was usually but one mast, and the prows terminated in the heads of animals.

He must keep her running and let the combers split against her pointed stern.

An ascetic, pure in life, stern in faith, harsh to unbelievers because sincere in his own cruel creed, generous and tender to all who accepted his doctrines and submitted to his Church.

But the cruiser's sharp stern cut her to the water-line and sank her; and as her commander swam away, the Königsberg passed, hailed and threw a lifebuoy.

Can you not leave my company out of the question?" The Tancred stern, obstinate spirit was thoroughly roused.

She was a smart clipper of sixty tons burden, with a slightly uptilted stern, and as clever a line forward as a pleasure yacht.

Our laying the boat out to shut off a passing rival was dangerous to the slow boat, for the reason that a collision meant that the strongly-built stem-end of the boat coming up from behind could crush the weaker stern of the obstructing craft.

I answered: "The dead are a long time dead, And care is bitter and duty stern, And each must weep when it comes his turn.

In big black letters on the round retreating yellow stern my eye-corner caught the word Yaroslav, as I bent over the rail to retch and cough and vomit at her.

In a vase on the other side is a flower-the helianthuswith its face toward the sun, in allusion to the characteristic stern, uncompromising consistency of Lafayette-a trait of character which I then considered, and still consider, the great prominent trait of that distinguished man.

An ascetic, pure in life, stern in faith, harsh to unbelievers because sincere in his own cruel creed, generous and tender to all who accepted his doctrines and submitted to his Church.

A little sterner, a little paler than usual he looked; she could perceive no other change.