The sternness of his surroundings made him uncomfortable. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A poor unhappy fool that can not face life's sternness, that is crying out to escape his duty!. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow] Reference
The sternness is a definite act and I don’t think I did misread him. From Wordnik.com. [Losing Faith] Reference
Yet she said this with a kind of sternness that somehow belied it — a click of the voice, as it were. From Wordnik.com. [An American Tragedy] Reference
With that sternness which is admissible only to the afflicted, I have denied myself even the consolation of your visits. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
Beneath his sternness was a very human man. From Wordnik.com. [DARKWATER] Reference
Never has he addressed her with so much sternness. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
She was not ready for the terrible sternness in his. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
Miss Roscoe maintained her air of pathetic sternness. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
"Hush, Flossie!" said her father, with sudden sternness. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
The fixed sternness of her face made her seem a stranger. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Austin had much decision and real sternness in his make-up. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Hill House] Reference
Doctor Palmer's sternness and severity vanished in a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge] Reference
“Now,” I awaken him with my sternness. From Wordnik.com. [Saving Grace] Reference
"Your mother was quite right!" the sternness was over-powering now. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
He had inherited his father's sternness of conscience and moral fibre. From Wordnik.com. [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference
At any rate, his sternness soon gave way to an expression of melancholy. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
He could be stern, but sternness was less natural to him than concealment. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
He spoke with a purposed sternness, but with something of a heartache, too. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
A sternness crept into Sandy's voice which Treadwell entirely misunderstood. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
The youth turned and lifted his eyes, full of sorrowful sternness, to her face. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
He was a large and powerful man, and had a genial nature, with force and sternness. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
But the tyrant was immoveable, and the young man expired a victim of his sternness. From Wordnik.com. [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference
Then his sternness relaxed and his smile became a curious compound of pity and regret. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army] Reference
I think you exalted your own judicial sternness and fearlessness unduly at my expense. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Hannibal's sternness, the discipline of Africanus, the acts of Metellus recorded in history. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
One can be as earnest, as truthful, even as eager in joy or sport, as in sorrow or sternness. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Then it suddenly dawned upon David who Mrs. Leavenworth was, and a sternness overspread his face. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
The Hebrew waved his hand commandingly and, with a look of the utmost dignity and sternness, said. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
The sternness of his large mouth, square chin, and heavy jaw was relieved by the large, brown eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheep Eaters] Reference
The great sailor smiled; and in spite of herself the sternness began to melt from the queen's face. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from English History] Reference
The sternness had disappeared from his face, and his eyes were bright with his newly found happiness. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
It was the memory of this that kept the grave shadow of a smile on the father's lips for all the sternness of his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
Treadwell, overcome by sudden remorse, and a kind of fear, strove to propitiate the sternness that found no expression in words. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
It's a very disgraceful thing that a man's property should be destroyed and no one punished, 'said George, with unwonted sternness. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah's School Friend] Reference
When Sandy smiled you forgot his sternness; he could look very joyous, but recent happenings had set a seal upon his brighter side. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
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