If it produces a proper lenity to our citizens in captivity, it will have the effect we meant; if it does not, we shall return a severity as terrible as universal.
This mansion, slight, inefficient and hastily erected as it was, must have afforded but poor shelter against the severity of a season which is everywhere referred to as one of the coldest ever known.
His violent changes of opinion, and the force and severity with which he expressed himself naturally raised up enemies in both camps.
As a writer he is our greatest master of grave irony, and while he presents the most humorous ideas, the severity of his own countenance never relaxes.
My conclusion after two trials of the use of sodium cacodylate in small or large doses is that it has no effect toward curing the condition; in fact, the throat symptoms were seemingly increased in severity by its use.
Influenza is a self-limited disease with variable complications and of variable severity in different places, thus offering great difficulties in the way of evaluation of different methods of treatment.
And these lessons, which George's temper and her own reason had taught her, remained with her in the future, long after she had forgotten George and the severity of her schooling.
The severity of her self-denial was directed entirely against the trivial and the unessential.
God declared, through Jeremiah, the plain truth that, for a tiny kingdom like Judah to perk itself up in the face of a world-conquering power like Babylon, could only bring down greater severity from the conqueror.
His long-suffering mercy and more than human tenderness do not hamper His arm when it is bared to smite; His judicial severity does not dam up the flow of His mercy and tenderness.
It is an awful thought that human nature may so steel itself against the whole armoury of divine weapons as that favour and severity are equally blunted, and the heart remains unpierced by either.
The increased severityof the message comes from love.
The severity of winter caused many poor people to look for assistance in every possible form.
Winter had far advanced; its reign of severity and pitiless defiance was near its end.
Tall, handsome, and affable, Gerald Bereford bore a strong resemblance to her ladyship, but lacking that severity which predominated in the latter.
Pray, as you can conceive the severity of the troubles by which I am prostrated, and as you must think it natural to your kindness to do so, inform me fully as to the whole state of my case.
For it is not approved of in itself, and our friend Pompey is also spoken of with great severity for the breach of his friendship with Publius Lentulus.
Marshall, the Superintendent, suggested that both might be released together, but I did not dare relax the severity of the restriction.
Stamford knew that such Lacedæmonian severity was alien to his nature.
La Magistral is a brick building of imposing simplicity and severity in its general outlines.
The severity of the structure is heightened by the absence of any distracting decorative elements, excepting the fine Mudejar ceiling to the left upon entering.
In some of the decorative details, however, this retablo shows evident signs of plateresque decadence, and the birth of the florid grotesque style, which is but the natural reaction against the severity of early sixteenth-century art.
The severity of our numerous wounds, and the distress we were in, was all rendered more terrible from the uncertainty we were in respecting the fate of Cortes' and Sandoval's divisions, as the distance between us was full two miles.
Our general, however, was desirous of saving their names from dishonour; to which may be added, that this was not exactly the time to go to the utmost severity of the law.
This example ofseverity brought the remaining conspirators to their proper senses; so that Alvarado was enabled to depart with the gold for Mexico without any fear.
Magellan was exceedingly irritated by these conversations, and punished some of the men, but with somewhat more severity than was becoming to a foreigner, especially to one holding command in a distant part of the world.
Our men had to cover themselves at night with skins, on account of the severity of the wind and snow.
The righteous churchwarden rebuked him with severity for fighting.
That is not ours to choose," answered the old lady severely, but the tone of her severity trembled.
We are injured as much by French severity in the one, as by French rapacity in the other.
You can gain nothing from my admiration, as I am ignorant of that art in which you are said to excel; and I may lose much by the severity of your judgment, as few have a juster taste in poetry than you.
The severity of this rebuke I bore patiently, because I knew that it was just.
It was our first adopting the severity of French taste, that has brought them in turn to taste us.
I quickly began to find that my wife was likely to gain but little at this business; so I resolved to treat him in a style of more severity myself.
Yet, Mr. Honeywood, this does not convince me but thatseverity in criticism is necessary.
This here question is about severity and justice, and pardon, and the like of they.
But your severityshall never abate my affection, as my punishment is but justice.
Now Paphnutius was a wise and holy hermit, the Father, Abba, or Abbot of many monks; and after he had trained himself in the desert with all severity for many years, he besought God to show him which of His saints he was like.
He himself, meanwhile, withdrawing, according to his custom, alone to his own cell, increased the severity of his training.
Sometimes in dealing with vermin the farmer aims at hitting a happy mean between excessive rigour on the one hand and weak indulgence on the other; kind but firm, he tempers severity with mercy.
This severity of the Jalno drives all working classes out of the city till the twenty-three days are over.
I however dread the severity of a winter upon his shattered frame.
Their unwillingness was partly due to the severity of penalties, e.
The mother typically mingled severity with gentleness, but the father did not dare to err on the side of leniency.
There was less severity than in Tudor times, although the maxim "spare the rod and spoil the child" was generally believed, especially by Puritans, and applied to even very young children.
Their French prisoner was placed in the advance; but the darkness of the night and the severity of the storm rendered it impossible to proceed, and they halted in a marsh, with the water up to their knees, to await daylight.
He succeeded by a just severity in curbing his turbulent companions-in-arms, so that they dared not practise any vexations in a country conquered by their boldness and through a thousand dangers, at the extremity of the world.
After a brief reaction under Mary, the Catholic sovereign of England, the policy of suppression was renewed with still greaterseverity by Queen Elizabeth, and the condition of Ireland became one of chronic rebellion.
He fears, besides, your old severity Is now augmented.
A grave severityis in his face, And credit in his words.
Amid the confusion and troubles of the times, thousands must have felt that they needed the royal clemency to protect them against the severity of the laws.
And we may believe that in most cases theseverity of home was mitigated by a greater freedom of communication with the world outside.
He speaks of it satirically as 'this cold winter,' and wishes his wife to send him some worsted for doublets in which to protect himself from theseverity of the season.
Its surrender was delayed for a time only in consequence of the severity of the conditions on which Charles at first insisted; but a sickness which began to ravage his camp at length inclined him to clemency.
Another case, or rather pair of cases, occurring during the restoration of Dutch rule in 1674, seems conclusive as to the severity of the law.
In part it may have been intended to punish violation of the marriage law by dissenters, and its severity must have been keenly felt.
In spite of the constantly increasing severity of the penalties, clandestine marriages gave the lawmaker much trouble.
Always stern of mien, the Emperor now looked severity personified.
At length the appointed time came, bringing with it unusual severity of cold and rain.
I would invoke those who fill the seats of justice, and all who minister at her altar, that they execute the wholesome and necessary severity of the law.
