Sterner

Examples

• She was little changed; something sterner, something more robust--but she was my godmother: still the distinct vision of Mrs. Bretton. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Not the best opinion of the sterner sex? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• For a brief time I wandered, in the sweet guiding of love, far from the purpose to which I had been true under sterner discipline and in darker days. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She saw nothing, but her son a little paler, a little sterner than usual. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Nor did he neglect the sterner duties of life while following the bent of his inclination toward the solving of the mystery of his library. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I need a sterner dream. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Perhaps it would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I meant it for the best. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• So the manner was subdued to a quiet deliberation, but the matter was even harder and sterner than common. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• An instant ago, all sparkles and jests, she now sat sterner than a judge and graver than a sage. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I thought Mrs. Thornton had been made of sterner stuff. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I do not mean merely the tender jealousy of the heart, but that sterner, narrower sentiment whose seat is in the head. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Gutenberg was made of sterner stuff than his partner Dritzhn. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Defarge, who had been uneasily biting his thumb-nail and looking at her, collected his face into a sterner expression. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• And even in Socrates himself the sterner judgement of the multitude at times passes into a sort of ironical pity or love. Plato. The Republic.

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