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Sternly   /stˈərnli/   Listen
Sternly

adverb
1.
With sternness; in a severe manner.  Synonym: severely.  "Peered severely over her glasses"






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"Sternly" Quotes from Famous Books



... speak it! Don't ever think it again," he said sternly. "That's our secret. Rumor has it he fled from me to hide with you, and you were ...
— Valley of Wild Horses • Zane Grey

... the enemy of the righteous shall perish from the earth," said her grandmother sternly; "it is not I condemn or kill him. If it be the will of God that his cause of error cease, let ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 • Various

... robin sings a cheery little song, But he doesn't seem to hear it, showing plainly something's wrong; Comes his faithful little spaniel for a romp and bit of play, But the troubled little fellow sternly bids him go away. All alone he sits in sorrow, with his hair a tangled mass, And his eyes are red with weeping; he's the boy who ...
— Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two • Various

... and Mortain. Equally unwise was her attitude towards London. She demanded a large subsidy. The request of the citizens for a confirmation of the laws of King Edward, because her father's were too heavy for them, she sternly refused. Queen Matilda, "acting the part of a man," advanced with her forces to the neighbourhood of the city and brought home to the burghers the evils of civil war. They were easily moved. A sudden uprising of the city forced the Empress to "ignominious" flight, leaving her ...
— The History of England From the Norman Conquest - to the Death of John (1066-1216) • George Burton Adams

... only to emphasize, waited till the last faint sounds of this diabolical mirth had died away in the high recesses of the space above. Then, fixing the glittering eye of this strange creature with his own, which, as we know, so seldom dwelt upon that of his fellow-beings, he sternly said: ...
— The Circular Study • Anna Katharine Green


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