But it also proved to what point of forbearance and self-sacrifice the Southern soldier could go when the necessity arose, and how faithful and obedient they would remain to their leaders under the severest of tests.
In these woods, and in and over that glade, occurred the severest struggles and the greatest slaughter of this hard-fought battle.
But the habit had become too strong to be controlled, and its consumption increased, despite the severest penalties.
The Franciscans of the rigid observance of those early times took vows of the severest poverty.
Could she be the person to inflict on Lady Audley the severest disappointment she could experience?
Let Mr. Tilden have the place by violence, intimidation and fraud, rather than undertake to prevent it by means that will not bear the severest scrutiny.
This new policy was adopted under the pressure of the severest necessities, and only because of those necessities, and was intended to meet a state of affairs never foreseen by the framers of the constitution.
The severest of these cruel rites have, finally, been suppressed by the Roman Catholic church, but it encountered great difficulty in so doing, and the last crucifixion took place in 1891.
In critical moments, the colonel can use the severest Draconian code, without having anything to fear from the disapprobation of his men.
Her wonderful elasticity in rising superior to the severest visitations has often surprised the world, and those who remember 1815 will be most astonished at her present position in Europe, or rather in Christendom.
The rose grows amidst thorns; and the most beautiful and most solid virtues grow amidst the severest contradictions.
Thirdly, the virginity of Our Lady surpassed that of the Angels, because it was subjected to the severest trials, whilst that of the Angels could never be tempted or tried.
Some may, perhaps, wonder that I have said that the purity of Our Lady was exposed to the severest trials; and yet so it was.
He had the power to inflict the severest of punishment, even death.
It appealed to some of the strongest of human motives, and enforced that appeal by the severest of all sanctions, the exclusion of the body from its sepulchre, and of the soul from the abodes of the blessed.
The populous and mutinous town of Narbonne, to save itself, adopted the severest laws against heresy, raised a large subvention in aid of the crusade, and surrendered sundry castles as security.
As to Raymond, the complete silence preserved with respect to him was more significant than could have been the severest animadversions.
They were parricides whom it was mercy to reduce to subjection, and whose sin only the severest suffering could expiate.
The severest penance the inquisitor could impose was incarceration.
She was pale, ill, and making the severest inroads upon her present and future health.
The work of the spool tenders seemed to the present writer to be the severest work for women in this cotton mill.
Consequently, this devotion is invested with every guarantee of authenticity that the severest criticism could exact.
Baptiste, a wood sawyer, whom you knew during your sojourn in this city, was confined to his bed two whole months by an attack of the severest form of dropsy on the chest.
A few days later a tall, slender woman robed in theseverest black, with a cap on her head and blue glasses covering her eyes, walked slowly up the broad, graveled path that led to the Varrick mansion.
This had gone broadcast throughout the city, he told himself, and now what could he do but marry Gerelda; otherwise it would subject her to the severest criticism, and himself to scorn.
For another to usurp it, we knew to be the severest trial of her, and consequently of your temper and feelings.
Kabebonicca[53] observed him, and felt a little piqued at his perseverance and good luck in defiance of the severest blasts of wind he could send from the northwest.
Well, man,' said Mr Dombey in his severest manner.
Ought we not, then, to put our virtue and fortitude to theseverest test?
Now, when the war was practically over, his influence with both officers and soldiers was destined to be put to its severest tests.
The successful management of allies, and of allied forces, had been one of the severest tests of the statesmanship of William III.
The farm, the ship, the humble shop, have each Gains which severest studies seldom reach.
He would have denounced it as deserving of the severest reprobation.
Four men, of a highly correct appearance, dressed in quiet good taste, who would have passed in the Broadway muster for merchants of the severest practical variety, entered the room.
He had been treated both brutally and unjustly by Quesada, at that time inspector of infantry; and, with his active spirit, a condemnation to inactivity was the severest sentence that could be passed upon him.
When they can no longer drag themselves along, they are placed upon mules, and, through the severest cold or most burning heat, are driven after the army.
That's the severest thing you've said since we've sailed together.
The severest thing she ever said of you, was said in a letter I received from her yesterday.
In speaking of Hartwig, Witte remarked: 'His death is the severest blow to Russian diplomacy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "severest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
