It was the weary, discouraging voice of the Secretary, imperiously implying that the Executive must not interpose weakness and mercy where Draconian rigor sat enthroned.

[U.S.], relentless, Spartan, Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed, peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative; coercive &c 744; tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial; inclement &c (ruthless) 914.1; cruel &c (malevolent) 907; haughty, arrogant &c 885; precisian^. Adv.

We may enact a Draconian code which shall maintain a sullen and revengeful order upon the seas, but all fellowship and mutual helpfulness are gone.

The Collector, however, was inexorable, and indeed he had no power to mitigate the Draconian law of sale.

I BROTHER AND SISTER II "THE DRACONIAN REFORMS" III "BRICK," "SORREL-TOP," AND "REDDY" IV THE BITER BITTEN V HOME

CHAPTER II "THE DRACONIAN REFORMS" A few minutes later, and still wrathful, Joe went in to dinner.

He opened the book where a page was turned down, and began to read: Shortly after the Draconian reforms, a war broke out between Athens and Megara respecting the island of Salamis, to which both cities laid claim.

That was easy; but what were the Draconian reforms?

He buried his head in his book and began: Shortly after the Draconian reforms He read the sentence through three times, and then recollected that he had not looked up the Draconian reforms.

He buried his head in his book and began: Shortly after the Draconian reforms He read the sentence through three times, and then recollected that he had not looked up the Draconian reforms.

With a swift sweep he sent both mask and glove hurtling under the bed, and so violently that he heard the mask rebound from the wall. Shortly after the Draconian reforms, a war broke out between Athens and Megara

He sat down again. Shortly after the Draconian reforms, a war broke out between Athens and Megara respecting the island of Salamis, to which, both cities laid claim.

Which was all very well, if he had only found out what the Draconian reforms were.

It was certainly impossible for him to join them when he had not yet learned about the Draconian reforms.

In order to render the surveillance of the treasury agents efficient, and prevent smuggling (which can be so easily done with an object like the diamond), it was necessary to impose a special regime over the entire region of Diamantina, and, in fact, the latter was, up to the independence of Brazil, submitted to Draconian regulations.

Dracon, i.e. Draco, the Athenian legislator, the memory of the excessive severity of whose laws lingers in our adjective draconian.

The fall need not necessarily have been fatal, especially to one insensible and opposing no resistance, but even supposing that death had not resulted, in those Draconian days, the intent to murder was equally subject with its full accomplishment to capital punishment.