" "Who was in the hall when you went down, Robert?" said my uncle sternly.

sternly interrupted Marguerite, "I parted with my child, and silenced a mother's longings, proud nobles, that he might not become the tool of your ruthless policy; I gave up a mother's joy in nourishing and in cherishing her young, that the little innocent might live among his fellows, as God had created him, their equal and not their victim!"

Providence has dealt sternly with thy brothers and sisters, but in leaving thee it has still left me rich in offspring.

"Doth any here," she sternly asked, "suspect the innocence of Balthazar?" "None, good woman, none!" returned the bailiff, wiping his eyes; "go in peace to thy home, o' Heaven's sake, and God be with thee!"

Because God has given us to each other, shall our thank-offering be to shrink cowardly from His work?" He spoke more sternly than he intended, to awe into obedience rather himself than her; for he felt, poor fellow, his courage failing fast, while he held that treasure in his arms.

Campbell stood eyeing him sternly, but at his wit's end.

To wrap himself sternly in himself, and cry, "I will endure, though all the universe be against me;"how fine it sounds!But who has done it?

And that subject he will sternly put away.

Carmen asked, not very sternly, for she was pleased to have news from the other ranch.

Their awful, deep-cut mouths were sternly closed over the long hollow fangs that rested their roots against the swollen poison-bag, where the venom had been boarding up ever since the last stroke had emptied it.

And though in my thoughts it was sternly denied existence, the great black reason for the fact afflicted me unbelievably.

Of course it might have been just girlish dissatisfaction with a toilsome, colourless life, or it might be that there were ambitions and desires which had to be sternly repressed.

"Our fathers crossed the ocean's wave To seek this shore; They left behind the coward slave To welter in his living grave; With hearts unbent, and spirits brave, They sternly bore Such toils as meaner souls had quelled; But souls like these such toils impelled To soar.

"Better!" repeated Dick, sternly.

"'I saw her in New York,' I remarked very coldly, as the scene in Broadway recurred to my mind; 'and though it was only for a moment, I perceived that she was in excellent spirits.' "'Miss Louisa Colman can never be long unhappy,' he replied, sternly, 'while she leans on Heaven and employs her whole time in doing good to others.

"Come, come, Mary," he said sternly.

But I'm going to keep it sternly back and tell it just as it happened, and not begin at the ice-cream instead of the soup.

"It is not becoming," he added sternly, "that the name of the Countess d'Aurillac should be made common as the Paris road!"

"If you can't you had better go at once," said his uncle still a bit sternly.

He's really very good-looking, and his eyes are superb!" Claire looked at him almost sternly.

"There is no joke," said the Professor sternly.

As such it must be indignantly repelled; and it being a question of moral delinquency between the two Governments, the evidence against France, by whom it is raised, must be sternly arrayed.

Scotland has gone back to her ancient business of war, and she is carrying it on in the most businesslike way, sternly and relentlessly.

" "Not mena, not for the George and a' that's in it!" said Tom, with a shudder, sternly, as he took a step backward.

" "That makes a prince of you, Jimmie," I said, sternly.