They are exceedingly strict as to duties.

The town ordinances, while commonly strict in regard to the police of slaves for the rest of the year, frequently gave special countenance to negro dances and other festive assemblies at Christmas tide.

But if the occasion is a large semi-public affaira political gathering, for examplewhere strict etiquet does not require that all remain thru the entire program, there will always be those who will leave early, thus missing the best part of the entertainment.

"You know, dey was mighty strict, 'bout den, wid cullud folks, an' white people, too.

With respect to the conjugal rights they are religiously strict; no person is allowed to have a woman on board, unless married to her according to their laws.

In the Preface he says, "This is not a work of compromises, or of conjectural interpretations of the Sacred Scriptures, neither is it a paraphrase, but a strict [strictly] literal rendering.

It is impossible to forget, however, that while the ethics of this matter were undoubtedly less strict in those days than they areor, at any rate, are recognized as beingin our own, there is nothing in Sterne's character to make us suppose him to have been at all in advance of the morality of his time.

“But I suppose they’re awfully strict, the Sisters.”

Hoping to win his affection this new parent has been very lenient with him, while his father, feeling his responsibility, has been unusually strict.