Yet awful as is this Massachusetts tragedy, it is but a little fragment of the sternest struggle of the modern world.
Now, thesternest dogmas that ever came from a soul cramped or palsied by an obsolete creed become wonderfully softened in passing between the lips of a mother.
His sternest critics, and even these admiring ones, were yet to be found among those who with fundamental beliefs at variance with his own followed him in his long researches among the dusty annals of the past.
The sternest of all touchstones of the genuineness of our better feelings is the fashion in which they stand the wear of years.
Her Church represented to Clarendon the sternest and most repulsive form of Presbyterianism, the very antithesis of all Clarendon's ecclesiastical ideals.
But these appeals, which might have touched the heart of the sternest tyrant, fell dead upon the selfish cynicism of Charles, deaf at once to the calls of honour, and to the gratitude due to unswerving loyalty.
His inclinations impelled him home, the fascinations of which it required the sternest resolves to resist.
This misconception is not only natural, but even necessary on the sternest of physical bases.
His sternest rebuke, the most indignant measure of his whole administration, was aimed against such an attempted interference.
Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet, and when the sternest authority does not venture to encounter the scorching power of public reproach.
The sternest threatenings of Scripture are spoken that they may never need to be executed.
The sternest threatenings in the Bible come from the lips of that infinite Love.
It had been woven over with love-tales and scenes of sentimental gallantry totally opposite to its real character; for it was, in truth, one of the sternest of those iron conflicts sanctified by the title of "holy wars.
The war of Granada, however poets may embroider it with the flowers of their fancy, was certainly one of the sternest of those iron conflicts which have been celebrated under the name of "holy wars.
But the strongest fortress and sternest virtue have weak points, and require unremitting vigilance to guard them: let warrior and dame take warning from the fate of Zahara.
There was no pretense about this, but the sternest reality of self-distrust, for Washington saw and measured as did no one else the magnitude of the work before him.
These and a hundred other disputes buzzed and whirled about Washington, stirring his strong temper, and exercising his sternest self-control in the untiring effort to suppress them and put them to death.
On the other hand, while his anxiety was sharpened to the highest point by the character of Congress, his sternest wrath was kindled by the gambling and money-making which had become rampant.
Richard's sternest voice; 'he assured me over and over again that he had not said a word which Dr.
Of that wine, so purely white, Which the sternest mood makes pass, And which sparkles yet more bright In your eyes than in my glass.
It enlivens the dullest of reunions, brings smiles to the lips of the sternest cynics, softens the most irascible tempers, and loosens the most taciturn tongues.
A mistaken idea is quite as capable of causing unhappiness as the sternest reality," she said.
Her sternest critics, however, smiled as they shook their heads.
Do you realize," asked Percival, assuming his sternest manner in order to impress her with the gravity of the situation, "that we stand a very good chance of being left?
The woman before her had been disciplined by sorrow to sternest self-control.
Then his words were the sternest protest that could have been uttered, though they came from no exercise of thought, only out of the deeps of his heart.
The sternest among landlords and masters were driven to acknowledge that the people had not got food, or the means of earning it.
None, I am very much obliged to you," said Mr. Carter, with sternest reprobation of feature.
I mean that the laws and relations which grow out of men's relations in physical things are the sternest and hardest, and at every step in the assent toward reason and spirituality, the relations grow more kindly and free.
They offer likewise verbal admissions of such depression of heart as we recognize in the sternest episodes of the later Sonatas and of the Galitzin Quartets, and in the awful Allegretto of the Symphony in A.
The nation’s life at stake, one word will rouse us from our rest, The patriot stands ready to submit to sternest test.
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