How To Use Sternly In A Sentence
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‘Carol,’ she said sternly, ‘we are not kidding around here.’
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Then, turning to the temple, he called solemnly and sternly to the madman, 'Thy hour is come! repent, confess, and save thy soul!'
Antonina
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Now," my brain commanded sternly, and out I went to run.
Ejercicio
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The Sheriff made a joke over the similarity of the words 'officious' and 'official' to which there was some laughter, at which point one of the court officials sternly rebuked those present with a shout of "Silence in court!
Signs of the Times
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Severus mounted the tribunal, sternly reproached them with perfidy and cowardice, dismissed them with ignominy from the trust which they had betrayed, despoiled them of their splendid ornaments, and banished them, on pain of death, to the distance of a hundred miles from the capital.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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I have sternly refused to allow mother to ride Wyoming, on the ground that I would not have her make a martyr of herself in the shape of riding a horse with a single-foot gait, which she so openly detests.
To Ted on a Hunting Trip
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Right after experiencing the transfiguration, he and companions James and John had spoken sternly to a man who was casting out demons in Jesus' name.
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Bridget paled with fright, but looked at her cousin sternly.
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Often, awaking suddenly at midnight, he shrank from the bosom of Faith; and at morning or eventide, when the family knelt down at prayer, he scowled and muttered to himself, and gazed sternly at his wife, and turned away.
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This very loaded broaching, through the use of the word posthumanous, of the thought of an extreme posteriority finds itself sternly warned by Derrida's words, above.
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The chair sternly rebuked the audience for their laughter.
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Och, Moira, acushla, sure an 'I know how 'tis to ye --" And then with a reaction to virtue, he said sternly, "An 'if they're not bad, why do they go when you call on the blessed saints?
Hillsboro People
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In dress, for instance, he sternly banished the purple and gold embroideries, the jewelled arms, and the floating draperies so little in accordance with the-severe character of "_war in procinct_" [Footnote: "_War in procinct_" -- a phrase of
The Caesars
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She told herself sternly that she must shake off this tendency towards romantic fantasy.
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She calls him brother and chastises him for speaking so sternly to her.
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Do not," I said sternly to David Attenborough as the camera pulled back during Wednesday's episode of Frozen Planet BBC1 to reveal two polar bear cubs trotting gamely up to their mighty mother as she punched holes in the Arctic ice to find fishy food, "show me two polar bear cubs carking it tonight, Attenborough.
TV review: Perez Hilton: Superfan; Frozen Planet
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The title of this improbable vade mecum — a sternly selective, mostly chronological survey of some two dozen canonical philosophers and their core precepts — is a fair question (even if bathetically asked).
Cover to Cover
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Many a time had I heard and read of our lifeboats, and had seen them reposing in their boat-houses, as well as out "for exercise," but now I had _seen_ a lifeboat tearing before the gale through the tormented sea, sternly bent on the real work of saving human life.
Battles with the Sea
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Well, then, let it be so," said Monte-Cristo sternly, as he took a greenish, strongly smelling pastil from a box cut from an opal.
The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I
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Each had intended to pass a day and a night in this lonely dwelling-place by the lake, but a rival was less to be tolerated there than in love, and each awaited the other's departure, with an air that said: 'You are in my sunlight'; and going deeper, more sternly: 'Sir, you are an offence to Nature's pudency!'
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 1
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He replied sternly, but his voice indicated how badly he was hurting.
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She told herself sternly that she must shake off this tendency towards romantic fantasy.
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My time is not come," the Cailleac replied sternly.
The Woods Out Back
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‘Let this be the last thing to pass your lips, if you wish to find your way to the faery realm and safely back again,’ Merlin cautioned sternly.
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But some officiants I spoke to sternly discourage inclusion of anything which might smack of religion - even a fondly remembered hymn.
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First sternly prohibited by Frelimo from carrying on the "obscurantist" practices of traditional culture, and then driven by the war from their land and the hard-won histories of feminine community rooted in generations of shared agrarian routines, and then facing the formidable challenge of postwar recovery as structural adjustment and market reforms wreaked economic havoc in the countryside 7in these circumstances, the spheres of social life in which women could claim to exercise authority over the present, let alone the past, were few indeed.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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At first he received her sternly and repellantly enough, but, as soon as she introduced herself as the ropedancer who had met with the accident, he showed himself to be a kindly old gentleman.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
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His protest involves, however, no retreat into a mythical golden age and sternly rejects any hints of aestheticism.
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Silence," called Tanis sternly, and the crowd hushed.
Test of the Twins
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She looked at her mother sheepishly, while her mother was looking at her very sternly.
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We grant the "poppet;" we concede the "chickabiddy;" and then sternly inquire if an excess of loyalty is to impugn the reason of the most ratiocinative editor?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841
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But its website sternly warns: 'There will be no public access or opportunity to view the duke and duchess from afar.
Times, Sunday Times
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But its website sternly warns: 'There will be no public access or opportunity to view the duke and duchess from afar.
Times, Sunday Times
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The corrupt politicians and immoral merchants must be dealt with sternly according to the full extent of the law in order to prove that this society is a place where honest citizens can be rewarded.
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“Barnes the blacksmith is the biggest and strongest man for forty miles round,” said the clergyman sternly.
The Complete Father Brown
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She marshalled her players before the game against Pannyok, speaking sternly, grasping each by the shoulder.
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But he snuffed it sternly and rose, and the touch of color in his cheeks could easily have been put down to the cold wind outside the chapter house.
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Men keep exposing themselves to her, but she remains sternly unimpressed: the male member is easily available anywhere.
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The sun was bright and shone through Jim's window sternly, as if warning that it was time to get out of bed.
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Clinging to the hillside amid scenic splendour, these houses sternly defy gravity by not tumbling down to the sea below.
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‘Whom do you call kinsman?’ asked old Martin sternly.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
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Briscoe eyed him sternly, the expression incongruous with the habitual aspect of his broad, jovial, florid face.
The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee
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His presence calmed the storm at once and he sternly bade Ibrahim to obey the "firman," on peril of his own head.
Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile
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‘We go forth,’ he said sternly, and set the pace at a quick trot.
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Welfare workers were sternly rebuked by the court for ignoring the woman's plea for help.
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Usually they're in the forms of ancestors, mostly benevolent and at worst sternly disapproving.
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Bes," he said sternly, "I think you grow dull since you became a king -- or perhaps it is marriage that makes you so.
The Ancient Allan
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Listen to the doctor," Pearl commanded sternly, "or he 'll raise a gumboil on ye.
Sowing Seeds in Danny
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He sternly reminded the airlines that it was illegal to discriminate against passengers based on their race, color, national or ethnic origin, or religion.
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But some officiants I spoke to sternly discourage inclusion of anything which might smack of religion - even a fondly remembered hymn.
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'Whom do you call kinsman?' asked old Martin sternly.
Martin Chuzzlewit
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The Prince overtook them with rapid strides, and knowing that the power of gentleness is more lasting than that of anger, he suppressed his wrath as he spoke to them, though withal he reproved them sternly.
The Fairies and the Christmas Child
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Miss Minchin entered the room with a sternly dignified manner.
A Little Princess
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Listen to the doctor," Pearl commanded sternly, "or he'll raise a gumboil on ye.
Sowing Seeds in Danny
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These transactions, now recollected but as dreams of the night, were then sad realities; and nothing rescued us from their liberticide effect but the unyielding opposition of those firm spirits who sternly maintained their post, in defiance of terror, until their fellow citizens could be aroused to their own danger, and rally, and rescue the standard of the constitution.
Miscellany
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Keeping you at home, in the kitchen, with the children, while government policy rains Hell on the kind of hussies that "ask for it" from men, and scowling and sternly tapping it's foot at the men who give it to them, is all in your own best genetic interest.
Figleaf's Real Adult Sex - Confessions of a libertine prude / grumblings of a prudish libertine
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Tito and his Communist regime acted sternly to suppress nationalist tendencies.
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But its website sternly warns: 'There will be no public access or opportunity to view the duke and duchess from afar.
Times, Sunday Times
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She hurriedly grabbed her papers, gloves, and keys, tucked a stray hair behind her ear and looked sternly at me.
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Never has a woman worn hats with such aplomb or hit a cowbell so sternly.
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A tall gray man with piercing eyes and a sternly lined face remained firmly seated in the pinto's saddle, while four winged men, wearing clothing not too much unlike ploughmen's attire, circled the deck.
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His missionary teachers sternly announced the message that deviation from normality was a sin against the Emperor.
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The chair sternly rebuked the audience for their laughter.
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'As I sat before the fire on my fir-twig seat, without walls above or around me, I remembered how far on every hand that wilderness stretched, before you came to cleared or cultivated fields, and wondered if any bear or moose was watching the light of my fire; for nature looked sternly upon me on account of the _murder of the moose_.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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Randolphe muttered some indistinct response; and was again sinking to For - getfuJnesS, when Monta*iba«, with a tran - sient exertion of strength, rudely shook, him, and sternly bade him rise.
The confessional of Valombre
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My favourite comes when Elsie, the irresistible force, meets Jack's mum, the immoveable object, and, on offering to help in the house, is sternly told: Jack's bed were made up this morning.
The Game
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I rose and was about to clap my hat upon my head and burst away, in wrathful indignation from the house; but recollecting — just in time to save my dignity — the folly of such a proceeding, and how it would only give my fair tormentors a merry laugh at my expense, for the sake of one I acknowledged in my own heart to be unworthy of the slightest sacrifice — though the ghost of my former reverence and love so hung about me still, that I could not bear to hear her name aspersed by others — I merely walked to the window, and having spent a few seconds in vengibly biting my lips and sternly repressing the passionate heavings of my chest, I observed to Miss
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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All such professors of the several branches of jocularity would have been sternly repressed, not only by the rigid discipline of law, but by the general sentiment which gives law its vitality.
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The interrogating carbineer who is invested, during such preliminary enquiries, with quasi-judicial functions -- being permitted to assume the role of prosecuting or defending counsel, or to remain sternly unbiased, as he feels inclined -- desired to learn how he had come by this jewel.
South Wind
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These transactions, now recollected but as dreams of the night, were then sad realities; and nothing rescued us from their liberticide effect, but the unyielding opposition of those firm spirits who sternly maintained their post in defiance of terror, until their fellow citizens could be aroused to their own danger, and rally and rescue the standard of the constitution.
The Anas
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This kind of behaviour is not acceptable, " said the teacher sternly.
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The chair sternly rebuked the audience for their laughter.
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She thought that he had been to Boxall Hill, and was only waiting a proper moment to cross-question him sternly on the subject.
Doctor Thorne
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SCTV once did a brilliant episode set on New Year's Eve 1983 in which, as soon as the countdown hit zero, all programming became Orwellian, straight out of Nineteen Eighty-Four, with abundant newspeak and a still photo of Orson Welles as the face of Big Brother, glaring sternly from your "telescreen".
Eric Williams: Right Like Me
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Thereupon the pride of the suffering mastersinger reasserted itself; for while his wife painfully assisted him to mount the stairs, he harshly denied her right to sit in judgment upon his vocal gifts, and sternly ordered her to be silent.
My Life — Volume 1
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They approved of a policy of dealing sternly with Germany; exacting reparations rather than paying taxes.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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Barnes the blacksmith is the biggest and strongest man for forty miles round," said the clergyman sternly.
The Father Brown Omnibus
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Lanser said sternly, " I'm not averse to killing people if that finishes it.
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We've all been very naughty, dirty children, and must be treated sternly.
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She told herself sternly that she must shake off this tendency towards romantic fantasy.
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‘Don't you sass me, young lady,’ she said sternly, and I apologized.
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The king eyed Hagen sternly, for his word irked him.
The Fall of the Niebelungs
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She shook her head sternly as she uncurled from her position.
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We will take the necessary steps," she said sternly.
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His missionary teachers sternly announced the message that deviation from normality was a sin against the Emperor.
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‘The theft of a twelve-million dollar painting by Vermeer,’ said the officer sternly, and all three Californians blinked as a flashcube went off in their faces.
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The former president sternly inquires of Barker whether he knows the best way to lasso a wild horse.
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Not letting her daughter say another word, the Queen bent down over the little girl and gracefully yet sternly took the stone from her hands.
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The title of this improbable vade mecum — a sternly selective, mostly chronological survey of some two dozen canonical philosophers and their core precepts — is a fair question (even if bathetically asked).
Cover to Cover
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`No,' she said sternly
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A boy with black hair and a strong muscular build looked sternly at David.
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Before she had finished making up her part, Rose excitedly offered her suggestions, and had to be sternly told not to interrupt until Karen was finished.