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Stern in sentence

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Reason struggles in vain against memories of this sort; its stern endeavours serve only to enhance their charm.
Next morning, before daybreak, Julien was several leagues from Paris, knocking at the door of the stern Jansenist.
'Such an equipage is no longer in keeping,' the stern abbe told him, with a cantankerous air.
You fix iron hoops up over the boat, and stretch a huge canvas over them, and fasten it down all round, from stem to stern, and it converts the boat into a sort of little house, and it is beautifully cosy, though a trifle stuffy; but there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
He said it made him feel that life was not an idle dream to be gaped and yawned through, but a noble task, full of duty and stern work.
He got the hitcher instead, and reached over, and drew in the end of the tow-line; and they made a loop in it, and put it over their mast, and then they tidied up the sculls, and went and sat down in the stern, and lit their pipes.
Harris stood in the middle to take it from George and roll it on to me, and I kept by the stern to receive it.
We put the kettle on to boil, up in the nose of the boat, and went down to the stern and pretended to take no notice of it, but set to work to get the other things out.
But the heart of King John sinks before the stern faces of the English fighting men, and the arm of King John drops back on to his rein, and he dismounts and takes his seat in the foremost barge.
Montmorency gave a cry of joy - the cry of a stern warrior who sees his enemy given over to his hands - the sort of cry Cromwell might have uttered when the Scots came down the hill - and flew after his prey.
The expression on the face of the man who, with his hands in his pockets, stands by the stern, smoking a cigar, is sufficient to excuse a breach of the peace by itself; and the lordly whistle for you to get out of the way would, I am confident, ensure a verdict of "justifiable homicide" from any jury of river men.
George said he should be happy to be number four, and promptly stepped into bow's place, and sat down with his back to the stern.
And all the fellows were frowning, and looking stern and noble.
The gentleman caught one of her hands in his own, and the stern expression of his countenance gave place to a look of admiration as he replied,-"You managed him famously, my dear little kinswoman; never - no, never, forget the land of your birth; remember, if you are the granddaughter of an Englishman, you are, also, the granddaughter of a Peyton."
If threats or entreaties could move his stern sense of justice, would Andre have suffered?"
Dunwoodie was by his side and held his hand, giving frequent and stern injunctions to the men to proceed with care, and, in short, manifesting all the solicitude that the most tender friendship could, on such an occasion, inspire.
The stern expression of his eye gradually gave place to a look of softness; and his reflections on the victory brought with them no satisfaction that compensated for the sacrifices by which it had been purchased.
If death has anticipated your nuptials, I am fearful you have no remedy against his stern decrees."
The captain of dragoons had on all occasions manifested so much zeal for the cause in which he was engaged, was so regardless of personal danger when opposed to the enemy, and his stature and stern countenance contributed so much to render him terrific, that these qualities had, in some measure, procured him a reputation distinct from the corps in which he served.
"The usages of war are stern enough in themselves; you need not aid them to your own condemnation."
At times, as they gazed upon the flood of waters that rushed tumultuously at his feet, there was a stern and daring look that flashed from them, which denoted the ardor of an enthusiast.
Tom stood amidships, gloomy-browed, and with folded arms, and gave his orders in a low, stern whisper:"Luff, and bring her to the wind!""Aye-aye, sir!""Steady, steady-y-y-y!"
He crept down the bank, watching with all his eyes, slipped into the water, swam three or four strokes and climbed into the skiff that did "yawl" duty at the boat's stern.
He untied the skiff at the stern, slipped into it, and was soon rowing cautiously upstream.
In the stern I saw a flutter of red, and I knew that it came from her shawl.
They had stern enough faces for us, I can tell you, when we marched in, and we of Adams' brigade were the very first who set foot in the city.
Camille stepped over the side, and went staggering to seat himself at the stern.
Sometimes I have not been successful in my purpose, sometimes I have, supporting it upon the shoulders of the truth; which truth is so clear that I can almost say I have with my own eyes seen Amadis of Gaul, who was a man of lofty stature, fair complexion, with a handsome though black beard, of a countenance between gentle and stern in expression, sparing of words, slow to anger, and quick to put it away from him; and as I have depicted Amadis, so I could, I think, portray and describe all the knights-errant that are in all the histories in the world; for by the perception I have that they were what their histories describe, and by the deeds they did and the dispositions they displayed, it is possible, with the aid of sound philosophy, to deduce their features, complexion, and stature."
"When equity may and should be brought into play, press not the utmost rigour of the law against the guilty; for the reputation of the stern judge stands not higher than that of the compassionate.
The robbers made haste to search Dapple, and did not leave him a single thing of all he carried in the alforjas and in the valise; and lucky it was for Sancho that the duke's crowns and those he brought from home were in a girdle that he wore round him; but for all that these good folk would have stripped him, and even looked to see what he had hidden between the skin and flesh, but for the arrival at that moment of their captain, who was about thirty-four years of age apparently, strongly built, above the middle height, of stern aspect and swarthy complexion.
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