He, too, was beginning to love that severe-looking woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Wind]

Who was that severe-looking Asian woman in the Rosa Klebb suit?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarah Jessica's Little Dress? You're Going to Be Wearing It] Reference

“What about them?” demanded a stout, severe-looking matron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chosen Of The Gods]

Instead a severe-looking older man in uniform came in to speak to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arabian Mistress]

Would she ever be glad to go to the home of those two severe-looking aunts?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Schuyler] Reference

But she was wearing a tight bun in the back of her head, very severe-looking.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2009] Reference

The likenesses of Charles Lamb and Sydney Smith make them both very severe-looking men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference

But Proserpina was a little afraid, he was so dark and severe-looking, and she shrank back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference

She dispatched me to her family doctor – a severe-looking man in his fifties named Grayson.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pursuit of Happiness] Reference

They were wide-eyed and trembling, inside a tight procession of severe-looking nuns and priests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cradle and All]

“Where is that boat now?” inquired the severe-looking elder man, who kept his eyes fixed on me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories] Reference

"Dario, what you're dealing with here is a true American primitive, " said the severe-looking woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Duma Key]

She turned one corner and then another, then spotted a severe-looking door at the end of this last hallway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollywood Husband Contract Wife]

In photographs she is often gaunt and severe-looking, a look which has led to speculation over her sexuality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Claire Denis: 'For me, film-making is a journey into the impossible'] Reference

Gardner had that, even though to Ray he looked like a “square” in his “dark, severe-looking clothes.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raymond Carver] Reference

This from a severe-looking, twentyish guy with a military haircut and some kind of automatic rifle in his hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soulless] Reference

"What? any what?" demanded a severe-looking lady, coming forward and eying Nan suspiciously through her spectacles.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878] Reference

A shadow fell across the threshold and was followed a second later by a severe-looking, impeccably uniformed woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Gryphon]

"How silly can you get?" muttered Olivia, and the severe-looking couple sitting in front of her turned round to stare.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Christmas Wish]

She was small a good two inches shorter than Delorme and her red hair was held back from her face with two severe-looking clips.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Delicate Storm]

Portland, Maine, is the rather severe-looking house built in the latter part of the eighteenth century by General Peleg Wadsworth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference

The girls were supervised by a few young married women with babies and one rather severe-looking older lady in a rigid black bonnet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dirty Life] Reference

She sat opposite a stout, severe-looking dame in black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frivolous Cupid] Reference

And as he spoke a square-shouldered, severe-looking man entered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma] Reference

At the other end of the long board sat a severe-looking person, whom.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Katy Did at School] Reference

Mawha, who had been a wife several times, a tall, rather severe-looking.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Girl in Old Quebec] Reference

A young but severe-looking Sociétaire was sprinkling her with drops of water.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt] Reference

In a few moments a tall, severe-looking man wearing a long dressing-coat entered the parlor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day of the Beast] Reference

Tony kissed his severe-looking cousin obediently, but his hopes of a playmate died there and then.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kitty Trenire] Reference

It was there, in a severe-looking study on the ground floor, that Mrs. Otway found her this evening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Old Anna] Reference

"Is Mademoiselle Loiré in?" she inquired of the thin and severe-looking woman with hair parted tightly in the middle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbara in Brittany] Reference

Juden Murray, and a severe-looking lady, in a wondrous head-dress, and a stiff silken gown, whom he took to be his wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales From Scottish Ballads] Reference

He was tall and severe-looking, with a gray, trooperish mustache and iron-gray hair, and, as Alma decided, iron-gray eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete] Reference

But Barker forgot all this when Stacy -- reserved and somewhat severe-looking in evening dress -- arrived with business punctuality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Partners] Reference

The jailer was about to lock the door when a wrinkled and severe-looking old woman put out her grey head and began speaking to Maslova.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voskresenie. English] Reference