If we were to pass a bill constructing a torpedo corps, and offering a bounty on every ship blown up, it would be much better calculated to make an impression of our seriousness than this bill.
The full extent andseriousness of his illness was carefully concealed from the public.
The seriousness of life had confronted him at a very early date.
Catholics feel so sure that they have a case against Luther that in all seriousness they ask Protestants the question: Did he act honestly when he knelt before the prior asking to be received into the order?
She turned towards him, looking at him with a little smile and yet with grave seriousness in her eyes.
He therefore returned to the cart, much alarmed by the seriousness of the situation.
The crew of the yacht, who did not yet understand the seriousness of these proceedings, maintained a profound silence.
I shall not discuss my affairs with outsiders," replied Bob with seriousness that brought a smile to the plainsman's face.
The maturity of man--that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play.
YOUR sympathy with an indescribable anguish, when we resist it,--when we regard your seriousness as more dangerous than any kind of levity.
There was an answering seriousness in his steady gray eyes that had appealed to her.
Perhaps it was the seriousness of purpose which pervaded them, when everywhere the call was for the airier and lighter effort.
It was Cordelia who had finally persuaded him to undertake the picture, laughing all seriousness out of its rigid secrecy and holding it up to him as merely the passing whim of a very wealthy and very idle woman.
What had formerly been habitude and trifling, was now grownseriousness and inclination.
The boy stands astonished, his impressions guide him: he learns sportfully, seriousness comes on him by surprise.
There is not one item in the program which I did not hear advocated with evident seriousness when I was in England.
My turn for study, literary talent, grave demeanour, and seriousness of character made far less impression on the fair sex than my successes on the stage and the pallone-ground.
The conduct of those few who concealed their feelings and pretended that my self-control and seriousness had charms to win their heart, justifies this moral reflection.
I cannot seem to make you realize the seriousnessof your position.
I summoned the three captains of the sunk boats to the bridge, and made the seriousness of the situation clear to them.
He must have realized, though, the seriousness of his position, for he forestalled a second shell by signalling with the siren that he had stopped.
Cigars and beer were distributed in those days by the officers with great, uncommon liberality, so that it was not surprising that many soldiers were scarcely ever sober and did not realize the seriousnessof the situation.
We were wrong: it existed as our seriousness existed; it was valuable as our seriousness was valuable.
But, at any rate, many of our French neighbors would say that they found our seriousnessaccompanied by so many false ideas, so much prejudice, so much that was disagreeable, that it could not have the value which we attributed to it.
Too much of seriousness had happened during the morning for them to dispel its aftermath lightly.
We may go farther and allow that he played with the mood until he sometimes forgot on which side lay seriousness and on which side humour.
Yet I defy you to read them without recognising a note of high seriousness which is common to our great poets and utterly foreign to our modern bards of empire.
On the contrary, a certain seriousness and quiet reticence, unlike Gray, which might have been borrowed from his new friends, characterized his speech and demeanor.
And at brief intervals further news of increasing seriousness arrives.
He brought the personal pronoun much too frequently into the discussion; he acted ill-advisedly, for everybody's personality ought to have been effaced in view of the seriousness of the debate and the anxiety of the country.
His writing was characterized by seriousnessof purpose, accuracy and keen observations.
Washington then prepared a written report which persuaded the members of the General Assembly to realize the seriousness of this matter.
It sat by itself, an elfish thing, with a touch of seriousness about it, its arms hugging its knees, and looked beyond them all and saw how much bigger and finer the joke was than they thought it.
And yet there was that subtle underlying seriousness about her and a frank, disarming kindliness.
The terrible moments in the kitchen followed by his mother's death had put a new look of seriousness into his face and he felt within him a new sense of responsibility to the dead woman and to himself.
And then, with a wave of his hand and a look of much seriousness on his face, he would add, "And for the same reason.
They had brought him an understanding of his mother and had given a seriousness and purpose to the ambitious plans he continued to make for himself.
Does Mr. Beck realize the seriousness of actual mobilization by Russia at that critical moment?
To this Count Berchtold replied that he understood perfectly well the seriousness of the situation and the advantages of a frank explanation with the Cabinet at St. Petersburg.
His music occupies a middle ground between the melodiousness of the Italian composers of the early part of the century and the seriousness of later German opera.
By this time the process of secularization had been carried so far that there was a great want of seriousness and nobility in the worship.
The frankness of his confession, and theseriousness of his manner, allayed the resentment of Henry, and effected an apparent reconciliation.
The princess more than ever embarrassed by the seriousness of his voice and manner, stammered forth, "The jewel is a charm.
The eminent humorist and author was evidently unaware of the seriousness of his offense for he positively refused to engage an attorney to defend him.
Hence all the sanctity and seriousness of a religious rite was thrown around these dances, and though the Indians of to-day have lost many of their old customs, this is one that is still rigorously observed.
