There is something exceedingly winning, to us, in that sturdy sense, that thirst for mathematical precision, that impatience of theory, that positive and self-reliantwe don't mind saying, somewhat dogmaticalair, that sternness of feature, thinness of lip, and coldness of eye, which belong to the best examples.

" "Thinkest thou so?" said the King with somewhat of sternness in his voice.

How he shows us the woman, when she takes her stand on the false masculine ground of intellect, working out her own moral punishment, by destroying in herself the tender heart of flesh, which is either woman's highest blessing or her bitterest curse; how she loses all feminine sensibility to the under-current of feeling in us poor world-worn, case-hardened men, and falls from pride to sternness, from sternness to sheer inhumanity.

But, indeed, I did make a mocking sternness with her; and forbad that she even to say one little word more upon this matter; but to be glad that I did be so utter happy, and she likewise.

Chapter Twenty-eight Hope Deferred Time in six months brought the year to the early spring, that time when even the mountain desert forgets its sternness for a month or two.

Mr. Grahame, too, was compelled to believe all that was told him, and his sternness towards his unhappy child frequently caused her to fly from his presence in dread; although her warm heart yearned towards him with such deep affection, which could he have guessed one-half of its extent, would have twined her fondly round his heart, and forced him to examine more strictly than he did the conduct of Miss Malison.

She was now quite pale, and her face had a certain sternness about it.

In feverish agitation on the part of Caroline, in cold, unbending sternness on that of the Duchess, their journey passed.

Nash stood in the shadow of the doorway watching that lean, handsome face with the suggestion of mockery in the eyes and the trace of sternness around the thin lips.

But the next morning her sore and anxious mother's heart misread the gloom of his strong face into sternness toward her only son.

"Well, who are you, anyway?" demanded Max, throwing as much sternness into his voice as he could.

She was detached from her wonder at his pale sternness by the assault on her nerves made by the first of those barbaric outcries of woe, that sudden, brief clamor of grief, the shouts of despair, the beating upon shields.