The Duke of Hereward started, and fixed his eyes sternly and inquiringly upon the bold, handsome face of the witness.
All are sternly answered from the throne, and all are swept off to a common eternal doom except the infants, for whom is reserved "the easiest room in hell.
They were, in their own serious way, happy in their confident possession of truth and sternly resolved to bestow it or, if necessary, impose it on all whom they could control.
It was based on what learned men had theorized out from the Bible, and in a great many cases from the least important passages of the Bible, and it sternly rejected what many other equally learned men had found in the same book.
The old man paused, the long frowning face sternly set.
And he was such a tiny page, He trembled and looked down, For he was sore afraid to see The great queen sternly frown.
But still he gazed calmly and sternly ahead, facing his fate as a brave Indian should.
Then glancing sternly at her prisoner, she withdrew, sweeping after her the long train of her green robe.
The ague fit has marvellously soon passed," said the knight, fixing his eyes sternly upon the stranger.
I understand," replied he, drawing his brows together, even more sternly than he had heretofore done.
Then, turning to the temple, he called solemnly and sternly to the madman, 'Thy hour is come!
Young man,' said Tom Faggus, still preparing sternly to depart, 'you know more about a horse than any man on Exmoor.
It seemed, somehow, to fit itself to the big, kindly man with the sternly rugged face and eyes of a saint.
When at last he raised his face, it looked almost ghastly in the moonlight, so lined and haggard was it, and its sternly set expression was that of a man who had schooled himself to endure the supreme ill that destiny may hold in store.
He was in the act of blotting it when the pen dropped from Mr Deane's fingers; he sat up, and extended his hand as he looked sternly across the table.
One million," replied Purdy, looking sternly at the ceiling.
Or shall we battle sternly for that equation which we know will be maintained whether we battle or no, in order that the strong become not too strong or the weak not too weak?
The captain gazedsternly into the pilot's eye to see if there was the glimmer of a doubt therein, while Paul tumbled into the cabin to suppress his fit of convulsive laughter.
His mother gazed sternly at him and said: "Put out that ugly reptile!
But I felt it was no time for sensibility--I was panting to be away--and I demanded of her sternly where they were.
He assented; and thanking him sternly for this indulgence, I closed the grille.
The poor wretches have received punishment enough, and why thus slaughter them when our own safety does not sternly require us to kill?
I sternly resolved to keep my temper, but I foresaw that it would not be easy.
So intolerable it grew that the Doctor paused in his discourse and sternly rebuked them, speaking of the laughter of fools which is as the crackling of thorns under a pot.
And the Raja hearing the ill-timed merriment, sternlyordered the Baital to cease his immoralities and to continue his story.
Sternly cold, and outwardly unmoved, the captain of guards performed his sworn duty, then in grim silence awaited the end.
Since I am quoting a few verses in this chapter, I may perhaps give, as a final specimen, a few sternly vigorous lines which were handed to me by my friend the other day.
A scene of great disorder immediately ensued, and the Lord Mayor sternly said, "I must ask you to resume your seat.
Only a moment had passed, and she was as sternly in earnest again as ever.
Mrs. Gallilee turned swiftly and sternlyto her son.
Mr. Le Frank made an elaborately formal bow: he apologised with sternly stupid emphasis.
My daily allowance of composition was five pages of this demy in quarto; and I held my natural laziness sternly to that task day in, day out, to the end.
Douglas recoiled, and looked very sternly at Marmaduke, who proceeded more vehemently.
Yes," said Miss Agatha sternly blowing aside her cigarette smoke.
Elizabeth compressed her lips and looked sternly at the old knight, who made a sign to the rowers to use their utmost despatch ; and, in another moment, they shot beneath the gloomy gateway.
This is a mere pretext for some rebellious design, Sir Thomas," replied Gardiner, sternly .
Bret will gainsay little more," rejoined Mary sternly ; "his brain will contrive no further treason against us, nor his tongue give utterance to it.
Mary, glancing sternly at the captive, who remained with his arms folded upon his breast, and.
His next concern, being the product of an artificial age sternly schooled in the suppression of emotion, was to compose himself.
He thrust through the crowd, and came suddenly face to face with a tall man beautifully dressed, whose handsome countenance was sternly set, whose great sombre eyes mouldered as if with suppressed anger.
His eyes looked hungrily into the lean face confronting him, so sternly set.
The womansternly continued: "And what are these miserable low dogs you work with, that you should suffer on their account?
Parrott coughed sternly in reply to this free remark concerning the head of the firm.
He liked to picture himself sitting in the biggest chair and sternly inquiring why certain orders had not been despatched a week ago; and he never went inside the door without the hope of coming out with an increase of salary.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sternly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: firmly; grimly; harshly; rigidly; rigorously; roughly; severely; sharply; strictly
