After the first moment of astonishment and fright, Tom left himself to the stream, holding his breath hard, and, paddling gently with his hands, soon came to the surface, and was about to strike out for the shore when he caught sight of a skiff coming, stern foremost, down the descent after him.

She could see the faces of both men, Gratton's twitching and vindictive, King's immobile, looking at once calm and terribly stern.

The tradition is that his rule was an exceedingly stern one, that he kept the children hard at work, and that he flogged extensively and remorselessly.

Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms,the day Battle's magnificently stern array!

The floor of the church is many feet above the ground, and the entrance was originally protected by a drawbridge and portcullis; but these military works were removed in the sixteenth century, and in their place was raised, upon a perron reached by a double flight of steps, a baldachino-like porch as airily graceful and delicately florid as the body to which it is so lightly attached is majestically stern and scornful of ornament.

She was asked over to spend three days and went, accompanied by Jeanne, who by this time was crying much less; crying was no longer the cue; her mistress, and not merely stern Doctor Mary, had plainly shown her that.

As we stood disconcerted by their intent gaze, they put their heads together and talked in low and rapid tones; then their spokesman approached us, a man of polite bearing but ominously stern.

To his wife he had been inwardly affectionate, but outwardly almost stern.

But our Lord was still seemingly stern.

Hell is full of them singing psalms!" Colonel Arran sat silently stern a moment.

I remember a person of singularly stern and lofty bearing who became remarkably gracious and easy in all his ways in the later period of his life.

Moreover, the sheriff seemed unapproachably stern and dignified.

She caught her breath as if she would utter some protest, but something checked herperhaps it was the memory of Dick's face as she had last seen it, stony, grimly averted, uncompromisingly stern.

He was undoubtedly stern, resolute, and inflexible in his relations with men, as great executive chieftains necessarily must be, whatever their private sympathies and friendships.

Among them it was remarked, that the widow, still quite young, was unnaturally stern and cold, and that her two sons, who were growing up in this sad isolation, were strangely like their mother, not only in appearance, but in manners.

" "We'll do nothing of the sort," Frederic insisted, his voice becoming unusually stern and severe.

He lieth in his blood The father in his face; They have killed him, the Forgiver The Avenger takes his place, The Avenger wisely stern, Who in righteousness shall do What the heavens call him to, And the parricides remand; For they killed him in his kindness, In their madness and their blindness, And his blood is on their hand.

Love for her father alone had swayed her; though all strong demonstrations of filial affection had been checked by that father's habitually stern manner.

Out of a hideously stern world a black spirit had leaped upon her; it clutched at her throat, it dragged at her heart.