A stern-faced, handsome man in his forties replied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]

Thoughtfully the stern-faced Imalla stroked his beard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Magnificent]

"This is the last of it," she told a stern-faced audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Name Buttons] Reference

Ayla gazed at the stern-faced leader with astonished disbelief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clan of the Cave Bear]

The stern-faced count seemed bewildered over what had happened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Triumphant]

The enablers are the same stern-faced moralists as Capone's time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adding Mexico to the Ways Our Anti-Drug Policy Fails] Reference

When a stern-faced Mr Dhlakama arrived at the presidential suite at.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"Gentlemen," began Wade, facing the little group of stern-faced men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Gold] Reference

The two looked to see Kelsey, stern-faced as usual, standing by a fat elm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woods Out Back]

Silent she sat beside her frowning, stern-faced lord, but her eyes grew dim.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Myths] Reference

Even one of the normally stern-faced political heads couldn't help laughing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mao's last dancer]

February 1988 and restored the stern-faced autocrat and former teacher to power.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Jeanette Oliphant was in her mid-fifties, a tall, elegant, but stern-faced woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strip Jack]

Mrs. Sherwood found she could not talk to this stern-faced man as she did to Dexie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces] Reference

The next morning, a stern-faced hospital administrator came to visit me in the ward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nathan Lewis: Does Hong Kong Have the World's Best Health Care System?] Reference

All along the wall, guarding each exit was a stern-faced C.O. (corrections officer).    From Wordnik.com.  [One For The Table: A Thanksgiving NOT To Remember] Reference

Kallendbor met them there, stern-faced and subdued from the previous night's events.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witches' Brew]

They did not respond to the insults and stood stern-faced next to the courtroom door.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

But a stern-faced, darkhaired man next to her shoved the coins back to the innkeeper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons of Winter Night]

A bright flush sprang to Marian's cheeks as she glimpsed the trio of stern-faced girls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Allen: Right Guard] Reference

The stern-faced Imalla had seated himself cross-legged at one end of the unholy pattern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Magnificent]

The graying merchant's wife had been a stern-faced woman when Liandrin and the others came.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fires of Heaven]

Gunthar saw the Speaker's stern-faced son, Porthios, enter with a retinue of elven warriors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons of Winter Night]

The classes -- as Jason should have expected -- were composed of stern-faced little children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deathworld] Reference

The stern-faced private secretary in the outer office was rather surprised at this instruction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gridlock]

The hyena-man, who did the questioning, was a stern-faced individual with a document in one hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle of Forever]

A stern-faced young man -- hardly more than a lad -- tapped him on the arm, motioned him to the side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Languages of Pao]

But the stern-faced army officer has no experience in politics, having been a career soldier all his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2006] Reference

For a moment he forgot that it was the bridal party passing, forgot the stern-faced bridegroom, and saw only.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Schuyler] Reference

The stern-faced Uribe is a conservative who came to power on a vow to crush Colombia's Marxist guerrilla forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Distant Neighbors] Reference

In the intersection stood a small party of stern-faced Maces, blocking the narrow pathway created by the witch's booming threats.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Veiled Dragon]

This was not to be: after a man-to-man conversation with the president, a stern-faced veep emerged to answer the obvious question.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quayle Question] Reference

So Carver gathered together his company in the common cabin, and standing before the stern-faced, storm-weary gathering, the Elder spoke.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Landing of the Pilgrims] Reference

Behind the red runner plod two stern-faced Pilgrims, pushing their way up from Plymouth toward the newer settlement at Massachusetts Bay.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth] Reference