I thought my father was rather severe upon my cousin, and I determined to speak to him about the matter when we were alone.
No crash, or severe wrench, as I had anticipated, attended the separation of the steamer and its burden.
Severe domestic trials and bereavements completed the work of weaning him from the world; and it is stated that, in his very last years, the resentments of his life were buried and the ties of broken friendships restored.
The letter, dated on Tuesday, the thirty-first of May, is addressed to John Richards alone; and commences with a strong expression of regret that quite a severe indisposition will prevent his accompanying him to the trials.
Layamon in his account is even more severe towards the guilty pair: 'Arethur bi-tahte al [thorn]at he ahte.
Calvin was as severe on those who refused to accept his logical deductions from acknowledged truths as he was on those who denied the fundamental truths themselves.
Nor can it be prostituted, like painting and sculpture; it never corrupts the mind, and sometimes inspires it; and if it makes an appeal to the senses or the imagination, it is to kindle perceptions of the severe beauty of geometrical forms.
I am inclined to think that their faults were greatly exaggerated; but it is certain that so severe and high-handed a measure would not have been taken by the Pope had it not seemed to him necessary to preserve the peace of the Church.
He attached great dignity to the ministerial office, and set a severeexample of decorum and propriety in all his public ministrations.
It is needless to say that this severe simplicity of worship has nearly passed away, but it cannot be doubted that the changes which the reformers made produced the deepest impression on the people in a fervent and religious age.
Here he would seem to lean towards utilitarianism, were it not that he is as severe on men of experiment as on men of dogma.
The torpedoists resorted to severe measures, but with a distinctly useful purpose in view, having bound the ship hand and foot, so to speak, in such a way that her name became a solecism.
Having heard this, von Löve turned his severe eyes on Danveld; but the latter again rubbed his lips with the upper part of his hand and said: "And now to Szczytno as soon as we can!
A general thaw had followed the severe winter, keen frost, and immense snowdrifts which covered whole villages.
I could obtain it afterward from Bishop Jacob; no matter how severe he may be, he will not refuse me this favor.
However, although right was on the old knight's side, it went on with more difficulty, because Wolfgang was of a more severedisposition than his older brother.
Owing to the severe frosts, wolves appeared in such great packs, that they even attacked people traveling together.
But he did not shed even a single tear, only his face looked more severe than usual, but there was depicted in it a kind of torpid calm.
As the way was long, and a severe frost had set in for the night, Jurand and Zbyszko, who had not yet regained their strength, traveled in sledges.
They knew that the sentence would be a severe one, and everyone waited silently.
But notwithstanding all this, everybody could see, and the castellan, Jasko of Tenczyn made it known, that if the Krzyzak was unrelenting, then the severe law must be fulfilled.
Now where a severe punishment is the consequence of a failure, there might seem to be some reasonableness in helping your companions out of difficulty, though even then such tricks are departures from honorable dealing.
This is no reason why they should be indulged, or why the order and regularity of the school should be sacrificed, but it should prevent their exciting feelings of anger or impatience, or very severe reprehension.
He composed under the pressure of intense excitement, and he elaborated his first draughts with minute care and severe self-criticism.
The menace of consumption was removed; and though he suffered from severe attacks of pain in the side, the cause of this persistent malady does not seem to have been ascertained.
Not long after his arrival, Medwin suffered from a severe and tedious illness.
What he says about the debt of the modern world to ancient Hellas, is no less pregnant than his severe strictures upon the part played by Russia in dealing with Eastern questions.
On one occasion he set the trunk of an old tree on fire with a burning-glass: on another, while he was amusing himself with a blue flame, his tutor came into the room and received a severe shock from a highly-charged Leyden jar.
It is certain that this treatment is very severe when a particular revenge is to be exercised, but otherwise, I can say with truth, that in many instances, it is rather a scene of amusement, than a punishment.
This brought on a severe vomiting, the poisonous root was entirely discharged and the man cured.
Their hard and difficult employments are periodical and of short duration, while their husband’s labours are constant and severe in the extreme.
She is fed, clothed, and trained in a house occupied only by geisha; and she passes the rest of her childhood under severe discipline.
Now the last statement was fact--for Koto had a very severe toothache at that time--and the fact helped the falsehood.
This severe mode of dealing with the too prolific marsupial, in whole battalions, I judged correctly, would be among the 'things not generally known' to the British public.
Severe sentences would unquestionably follow—if convictions were secured before the courts.
The subsoil, saturated with the rains of the most severe season known for thirty years, gives under the heavy trampling of the leading bullocks.
Of the ten men hit, three died from the severe nature of their wounds.
Besides, they are in a condition of more or less severe distress in many parts of the world.
Our present enormous, injudicious, and unsystematic rate of production is the cause of continual severe crises which ruin both employers and employees.
Some of our prosperous men may say that the pressure is not yet severe enough to justify emigration, and that every forcible expulsion shows how unwilling our people are to depart.
The mere preservation of obsolete institutions is a task severe enough to require the enforcement of all the despotic measures of an autocratically governed State.
We have come to associate such a look with a plain, homely face, a dull complexion, careless, severe hair-dressing and unbeautiful clothes.
When they saw how severe the night would be they remained up to keep a supply of coffee ready for the Salvation Army men who went the rounds through the storm every half hour, serving the sentries with the warming fluid.
In the processions of Holy Week there are many bloody flagellations [disciplinas de sangre], and other most severe penances.
For some time they lived in the utmost poverty, which, with their severe penances and lack of sleep, "made almost all of the beatas fall ill.
Accordingly, the Sevillans urge that severe restrictions be placed on the Manila-Acapulco trade, and that the Spanish trading fleets be sent regularly and often.
The archbishop administered to him an exceedingly severe rebuke, nor was the provincial left without others, which to a person less carried away by passions would have served for his entire correction.
A severe action followed, and at the end of an hour Pownoll was shot through the body.
Attended at first by marked and general success, it ended with some severe reverses, occasioned by the force given him being less than he demanded, and than the extent of the work to be done required.
On the 18th our admiral was so unwell with a severe fever and cold--a complaint to which he was much subject--that he had to ask to be sent into port.
On the main decks the men fought up to their middles in water, the heavy cannon broke away from the breechings, or ropes used to control them, and even iron bolts tore out from the ships' sides under the severe recoil of the guns.
These convictions must unquestionably have their own pain, and severe was its kind; but they precluded that pain which Lady Russell would suffer in entering the house again, and returning through the well-known apartments.
Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health, and Nurse Rooke thoroughly understands when to speak.
The head had received a severe contusion, but he had seen greater injuries recovered from: he was by no means hopeless; he spoke cheerfully.
Captain Harville had never been in good health since a severe wound which he received two years before, and Captain Wentworth's anxiety to see him had determined him to go immediately to Lyme.
She had had difficulties of every sort to contend with, and in addition to these distresses had been afflicted with a severe rheumatic fever, which, finally settling in her legs, had made her for the present a cripple.
She rated Lady Russell's influence highly; and as to the severe degree of self-denial which her own conscience prompted, she believed there might be little more difficulty in persuading them to a complete, than to half a reformation.
Damage has been especially severe in Louisiana and Mississippi where thousands of acres of cottonwood plantations are intensively managed.
The disease ranges eastward from the Great Plains and is most severe in the South on Virginia and shortleaf pines.
This disease is most severe on trees growing under stress, such as those growing on an unfavorable site, or injured by drought, frost, fire, or severe pruning.
Infestations are generally more severein the South, where the insect has two generations per year causing two periods of defoliation in a single year.
Since this disease is most severe on weakened trees, shade trees should be watered and fertilized to maintain healthy, vigorous growth.
Outbreaks of the variable oak leaf caterpillar may be severe but generally subside before serious tree mortality occurs.
Shoot blight is severe if the weather for two weeks after leaf emergence is cool and moist.
Rarely is the defoliation severe enough to kill the seedlings, but it undoubtedly has an impact on growth.
His body feathers being gone, they did not become water-soaked and give him the snuffles, a severe cold, or perhaps pneumonia.
Let his punishment be as severe as the bird law will permit.
The struggle for existence has been a severe one, especially so in our streams where species of fish are the more numerous.
Charles went to the proctor's, but his troubles there were not so severe as he had expected.
The blow would be equally severe whether you expect it or not.
Very shortly after this, good Lord Saltire had to retire for a time into the upper chambers; he had a severe attack of gout.
But, when he had heard the cause of the mishap, he altered his tone considerably, and took on himself to give the young men what was for him a severe lecture.
Fever had come on, and his splendid constitution, as yet untried, save by severe training, had pulled him through.
Please, please do not oblige me to have recourse to severe measures," the inspector said, repeating the same words several times over.
The only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father he hath declared him," said the old man in the same rapid manner, and with a severe frown on his brow.
She was crushed by the unexpectedly severe sentence and tormented by hunger.
The old man on his part considered that he should not be too severe on the thoughtless and evidently misguided son of his old comrade, and should not leave him without advice.
I have even been obliged to have recourse to severe measures, and to put her into a separate cell.
The old inspector had been discharged, and a new, verysevere official appointed in his place.
Maslennikoff, in an anxious and severe tone, putting himself at once on his guard.
The doorkeeper told Nekhludoff in a severe tone that the Baron could not be seen except on his reception days; that he was with His Majesty the Emperor to-day, and the next day he would again have to deliver a report.
When he read the poem to his parents, upon its conclusion, both were much impressed by it, though his father made severe strictures upon its lack of polish, its terminal inconcision, and its vagueness of thought.
That he was not more severe was accepted by his son as high praise.
Two months were spent in severe work and, at the end of that time, the little regiment were able to execute all simple cavalry manoeuvres with steadiness and regularity.
Both Charlie Marryat and Peters had been wounded, but in neither case were the injuries severe enough to prevent their continuing on duty.
Charlie's wound was a severe one and, had he been nursed in a hospital on shore, it is probable that it would have been fatal.
Three times, strongly reinforced, they advanced to the attack; but were each time repulsed, with severe slaughter.
I have only once or twice been out in so severe a storm, since I came to sea.
It was, therefore, a severe blow to Peters, to find that Charlie was about to be sent on detached service.
During an unusually severe winter I have known him to make long journeys to a barn, in a remote field, where wheat was stored.
The severe studies and disciplines come easier in winter.
Then Kate bowed her fair head and kissed the horrid paw of him that had administered so severebut salutary a pat.
Looking down a long line of decrepit stone-wall, in the trimming of which the wind had fairly run riot, I saw, as for the first time, what a severe yet master artist old Winter is.
All that is severe and trying, whether in study or in practical life, is and ought to be in its very nature essentially the work of the male sex.
And the model husband yielded to this severe restriction; and, as it never occurred to him to give up his wine, he forbore to be affectionate in his cups.
Partly dragging, partly lifting, he succeeded, after long and severe exertion, in getting him into the vehicle.
This apparent contradiction between the spirit of his preaching and the facts of his position is a severepuzzle to some of our thorough-going friends.
It cost New York and Massachusetts as severe a struggle to accept the Constitution of 1787 as it did Virginia.
He received in reply a letter of severe and cutting reproach, enclosing seven dollars, which his friend explained was given only out of pity for his innocent and suffering family.
But the book itself tells us that it can be subjected, without injury, to tests more severe than summer's sun and winter's cold.
Dwight's severe theology from taking hold of the minds of many students.
Severe was the struggle, but the sacrifice was made, and it cost the great States of the North as painful a throe as it did the great States of the South.
Like many other gentlemen in independent circumstances, he had been particularly severe upon those of his fellow-citizens who earned their subsistence by serving the public.
No enemy of the great orator ever uttered anything so severe against him as this, and we are inclined to think it an error.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "severe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
