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Example sentences for "severer"

Lexicographically close words:
severalty; severance; severe; severed; severely; severest; severing; severities; severity; severs
  1. But indeed I think a little recreation among the Bell Letters and poetry will do you some service in the interval of severer studies.

  2. Severer forms of the affliction are readily recognised and the sufferer is properly restrained.

  3. Paranoia, at least in its severer forms, completely justifies the plea of irresponsibility for actions committed.

  4. As might be expected in this severer form of mental disturbance, heredity plays an especially important part in circular insanity.

  5. Besides this severer type of social disease, there is what has been called sometimes a milder form.

  6. Of course, even in severer forms of epilepsy, mental disturbances do not appear at once.

  7. Milder forms of this paranoia are so common that it is the custom not to think of even the severer forms of the gambling mania as a manifestation of irrational mentality.

  8. In the severer forms motion becomes constant; the arms are thrown around; to and fro movement at least is kept up; the voice becomes loud and is constantly used.

  9. As our country is more and more denuded of its primitive forests, drouths longer and severer even than this may naturally be expected.

  10. Scarcely was Egmont returned when severer edicts against heretics, which, as it were, pursued him from Spain, contradicted the joyful tidings which he had brought of a happy change in the sentiments of the monarch.

  11. Towards you I turned my thoughts; and found that I must adopt severer measures.

  12. The mighty must undergo mightier torments, and a severer trial awaits the strong.

  13. This was a great and memorable battle among those barbarous people: on no other occasion did the Danes ever experience severer conflict, or happier success.

  14. For the last two centuries the greater number of those whose names are known in science have made electrical experiments a favourite pursuit, or turned to them as an agreeable recreation from severer studies.

  15. This slope is not, however, severer than that of Holborn-hill, though it looks very severe upon the map.

  16. Suppuration of the tissues involved is common in the severer forms.

  17. He subjected himself to a severe test in competing with Chaucer--severer than he knew, for Chaucer was not yet, even by Dryden, valued at his full worth.

  18. It is not likely that he had much conduct or economy in his affairs, or was endowed in any degree with the severer virtues.

  19. Every year the persecution of all in Bohemia who were outside the pale of the Church of Rome became severer and their position more precarious.

  20. He also did not remain without torment who had sinned with his tongue,[72] And, as the right demands, who had committed greater offence Had severer punishment.

  21. He remained there from March 24 to June 5, and was held in yet severer custody than in the Dominican convent.

  22. Some natures, as you know, demand a severer discipline than others.

  23. Some hearts require a severer discipline than others," said Jessie.

  24. It is the accusation of the severer sort of French critics that the Goncourts have invented a new language; that the language which they use is no longer the calm and faultless French of the past.

  25. I never saw a man suffer a severer humiliation.

  26. Nothing could be severer or more funereal than the aspect of this galley painted like a cenotaph.

  27. Not far distant lay at anchor the Red Galleon of Pog-Reis, which had a severer and more warlike appearance, and near the entrance of the bay the Tsekedery, or light vessel commanded by Erebus, carried the same standard.

  28. Chinese rites in a yet severer form; but the Franciscan who proclaimed the papal bull was put in prison as an offender against the laws of the country, and, after being maltreated for seventeen months, was banished.

  29. You have your classical and severer studies to continue with Mr. Harte; you have your exercises to learn; the turn and manners of a court to acquire; reserving always some time for the decent amusements and pleasures of a gentleman.

  30. On the next day, in a severer operation by Dr.

  31. Holds that small-pox and cow-pox are modifications of the same disease and that if the system be impregnated with the milder disease, immunity from the severer is conferred.

  32. Elsewhere he puts pretty much the same idea in a severer and more sarcastic form, when he asserts that Sir Robert Peel's mind "was one vast appropriating clause.

  33. The barbed censurers begin to looke Like the grim Consistory on thy booke; And on each line cast a reforming eye Severer then the yong presbytery.

  34. The former was especially recommended to those who sought occasional relaxation from severer studies.

  35. The paper on the "Exporting of Felons to the Colonies" is marked by the grim, biting irony of Swift, but was no severer than the practice of setting British criminals at large in America deserved.

  36. So, also, there are riotous young people who are actively fulfilling their duty by going off to skate, or slide down the snow-clad hills, after the severer duties connected with book and slate have been accomplished.

  37. A hole in a pair of trousers I did not observe, but the captain saw it, and commented on it in a somewhat severer manner.

  38. Keeping by the river, here so intensely clear that every pebble may be seen in the water, we gradually quit the severer characteristics of the Jura for its milder and more smiling aspects.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "severer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.