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Example sentences for "severe tone"

  • He then turned to Amabel, and said, in a severe tone, "You are no longer my daughter.

  • Repeating his injunctions to Chowles in a severe tone, the doctor followed; and seeing her take the way towards Saint Paul's, proceeded at a brisk pace along Paternoster-row with the apprentice.

  • I hope it is not too late to save you, Amabel," he added, in a severe tone.

  • Because I suspect you of treachery," returned the highwayman, in a severe tone.

  • You are in a fair way to survive this mad—this wicked attempt upon your life," answered Lascelles, in a compassionately reproachful rather than a severe tone.

  • And whilst you thought me afar, you forgot your sacred oath and holy duty," he replied, in a harsh, severe tone.

  • I have laid the oath of virtue and chastity upon the altar of the Invisibles," replied Wollner, with a severe tone of voice.

  • These are the rules of decency and of etiquette, which I hope my daughter will respect," said Frau von Werrig, in a severe tone.

  • What is just before God and my own conscience," replied Rodolph, in a severe tone.

  • The fact is," said the porter, in a severe tone, "that I know no harm of Mlle.

  • At this command, spoken in a severe tone, she arose.

  • It is not proper that you should talk of such horrid things," said the old lady, in a severe tone; "behold the fruits of all the morals of the age!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    direct action; export earnings; good actor; makes them; not mentioned; only thirty; same name; several years; severe attack; severe blow; severe drought; severe earthquakes; severe engagement; severe frost; severe illness; severe pain; severe punishment; severe weather; severe winter; severely punished; tartar emetic; thousands upon; tis but; will not depart from; you could; your place