Yet what material is here, under sterner discipline, and with a nobler national ideal, for the formation of heroic armies.
But Dove was inclined to take Johanna's sterner view, and to cry: "So young and so untender!
We are at last shaking off the form, of self-indulgence called charity; we realize that if mankind is to profit, sterner conceptions must prevail.
It was the expression "black sermon" as descriptive of a discourse in which the sterner side of the revelation was enunciated.
Now an examination of the history of preaching will reveal to us that all the great preachers have been examples of faithfulness concerning, not only the softer, but also the sterner portions of their message.
There is no suggestion, as there is in Homer and in many modern poets, of vivid contact with the sterner forces of Nature.
The emotions awakened by the deaths of Mezentius and of Turnus are of a sterner character.
He was soon called to exercise his arms on a sterner field.
Sterner matters occupied their thoughts; they had come prepared to battle for their rights, and their proceedings soon showed Lord Botetourt how much he had mistaken them.
When I used to press this fact upon mysterner colleagues, they would say that I only wanted to make things amusing, and that the result would be that we should only turn out amateurs.
Hearing that there were British ships at Lindi, they made for the coast to offer their services in the sterner hunt, after much more dangerous game, that they knew had now begun.
A step drew near, and Mr. Dinsmore's voice spoke close at hand in tones sterner and more peremptory than he really meant them to be.
Only do as I desire, and you may retain your Christian faith; but if you thwart my plans, I must use sterner measures than I have hitherto adopted.
Go to your room: I will follow you there," said the pontiff to his nephew, in a sternertone than he was wont to use.
He had varied the sterner operations of the siege of Calais by a hand-to-hand combat with one of the bravest of the French knights.
Beauty is not sufficient," he went on withsterner and sterner significance, "though it were of an angelic order.
Knox himself was built of sterner stuff, and was not to be frightened.
On their arrival in Jerusalem they found that a sterner race had obtained possession of the Holy Land.
But in England, about this period, sterner disputes arose among men than those mere individual matters which generate duels.
And the compliments became sterner whenever the Matabele recognised in the little force of whites the dread "Wolf that never Sleeps.
But in the summer holidays came Warington fresh from the sea, with abounding energy and indomitable will, and recreation then was of a sterner kind.
Laurette did not really think so; but money affairs were day by day assuming a sterner aspect, and she was anxious to make belief in the success of Ted's suit a ground for making 'sacrifices' on his behalf.
Norton approaches the ideal of the sternerorders of the priesthood.
Wheelwright was made of sterner stuff, and was inflexible.
Mr Pontifex may have been a little sterner with his children than some of his neighbours, but not much.
But Macaulay's cheery and robust common sense carried him safe and sound through an ordeal which has broken down sterner natures than his, and embittered as stainless lives.
But Bertie Bailey was made of sterner stuff; he was of those young gentlemen who have to learn their lessons a good many times over before they can get the meaning of what they have learnt into their heads.
It would have been better, perhaps, if he had been made of sterner stuff, but, unless he could have been entirely changed into another man, sooner or later the end was bound to come.
Admonishingly rang out the hour, the jovial face of the clock looking sterner than was its wont.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sterner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
