In her soul Edith resented this as an ascetic and priestly view; but she knew his devotion to that humanity which he in vain tried to eliminate from his austere life, and she turned the talk lightly by saying, "Ah, that is your theory.
In those days my father was gentle and courteous to all; but now he is austere and haughty and cannot abide familiarity.
She was middle-aged, and large and bony and erect, and had an austere face and a resolute jaw and a Roman beak and was a widow in the third degree, and her name was Fuller.
You knew that I am an austere man, taking up what I laid not down, and reaping what I did not sow?
While it was turning nice and brown, All unconcerned John met the frown Of that austere and righteous town.
A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction --prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.
Like yourself, I marvel how a man who has never attempted to carry out in his own life his theories of austere asceticism should preach to others the complete renunciation of all the joys of life.
Though he came quite early in Roman Imperial history and was followed by many austere and noble emperors, yet for us the Roman Empire was never quite cleansed of that memory of the sexual madman.
There are Renaissance things (such as the ethereal silvery drawings of Raphael), there are even pagan things (such as the Praying Boy) which express as fresh and austere a piety.
Mrs. Barstow bestowed a smile upon me, but Miss Moggadore's thin lips did not part, and there was something very austere and acid in the gaze she fastened upon my face.
His wife was an austere woman who had once been kindly and perhaps handsome.
And as I leaned over the rail methought that all the little stars in the water were shaking withaustere merriment!
A certain austere beauty of countenance had made every one take me for a doctor or a parson--a qualified parson, I think; and so I was spared many of the more pronounced jokes, and could sit and contemplate the Life that was so sweet.
Can't you imagine the delightful results of a formal wigging administered by a youngish and austere elder who was not accustomed to make allowances for the natural dancing instincts of the young of the human animal?
They are enthusiastic over princelings of little known fiefs, lords of austere estates perched on the tops of unthrifty hills, hard riders, and good sportsmen.
The austere earnestness of the former "wearer of the coarse petticoat.
Lavretsky tried to get a seat near Liza, but she maintained her grave, almost austere air, and never once looked at him.
I can this instant with certainty foretell the moment of my austere devotee's fall.
I am pleased to find sheer coquetry can make a longer defence than austere virtue.
It would be, perhaps, those declaiming misanthropes, who censure and despise every thing that does not bear a resemblance to their savage and austere way of thinking?
I expect there will be some forms to be settled; but, the first difficulties surmounted, do those austere prudes know where to stop?
A photograph which exists of Rossetti at twenty-seven conveys the idea of a nature rather austere and taciturn than genial and outspoken.
Fortunately, audacity and courage never failed me, and I burn with impatience for the engagement with myaustere princess.
She finds Parnassus steep and high and hard to climb; the air austere and cold, the light severe, too stern for her effeminate nerves.
Often as I watched his austere figure, I asked myself if it were indeed possible that such a man should be living this double life, and I tried to persuade myself that my suspicions might after all prove to be ill-founded.
This was a tall, thin person clad in black, with a gaunt and austere face.
Among his efforts as a limner there has also been published a sketch of his that gives with striking effect the far-reaching panorama of the volcanic mountain masses ranging westward from Le Monastier, a scene of wild andaustere aspect.
She was a woman of austere countenance, displaying like so many middle-aged Frenchwomen a considerable moustache; but I noticed that her teeth were white.
The Federal expanded with surprise and then with austere pleasure.
I heard an austere voice forbid it, but it rose straight on from strength to strength: "Sure I must fight if I would win, Increase my courage, Lord.
At the same tune, so austere and devout a life in a young person of twelve years old could not fail to attract the attention and draw down the censures of the worldly.
Since it is grave in bearing--austere in look and dress.
His long years of seclusion seemed like a spell of time lying curiously far away, a crude period, mislived in an atmosphere which, notwithstanding its austere sweetness, took no account of the human cry.
Can you not believe that the call which prompts men and women to do the things in life which are really worth while is heard as often amid the hubbub of the city as in the solitude of these austere hills?
The Austere Governor A Governor visiting a State prison was implored by a Convict to pardon him.
June has no flowers so quaint, pathetic, and austere as the trembling weeds of November.
Syme had been haunted by a half historic memory in connection with these empty rooms and that austere daybreak.
