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Sentences starting with serious

Serious questions to which she had never given a thought had been brought before her; and yet, in this brief period of anxiety she had gained the precious sense of youthfulness and of capacity for action when she had to depend on herself. [10]
Serious blame is not necessarily due to any serious disaster, and I cannot say that in this case any of the officers are deserving of serious blame. [7]
Serious charges have been made against you, my son, as well as against your servant, on whose account I have been so tormented. [10]

Sentences ending with serious

I was railing, you were serious. [11]
It was only when the man left the table that his face became serious. [4]
Oh, oh, that was serious! [10]
When the salmon-fisher was roused, his anger became desperately serious. [11]
The second hinderance was more serious. [10]
I said I was glad it was nothing more serious. [5]
Things had become truly serious. [5]
I want you to see my lot before you do anything serious. [6]
Then I prepared to cross-question him rigidly, for this thing was getting serious. [5]
Conversation, in order to be good, and intellectually inspiring, and spiritually restful, need not always be serious. [4]

Short sentences using serious

Her condition is serious. [9]
I felt too serious. [6]
This looked decidedly serious. [5]
It is very serious. [4]
Do not be serious. [11]
That was the serious part. [5]
That is a serious objection. [5]
It was a serious moment. [5]
This is a serious matter. [5]
That was a serious matter. [5]

Sentences containing serious two or more times

Frequently their sparring took the form of a serious discussion, which served a double purpose; first their minds, accustomed to serious thought, found exercise in spite of the murderous pressure of the burden of forced labor, and secondly, they were supposed really to be enemies. [10]
You will think this far too serious, I dare say; but the subject is serious, and one cannot help feeling upon it earnestly. [14]
Damia had been present at the brief but vehement interview between her son and Olympius, and had thrown in a word now and again: "It is serious, very serious! [10]
That was one of the most serious occasions of my whole life, yet I never can speak of it without somebody thinking it isn't serious. [5]
He was serious because he was listening to serious news--she told herself. [9]
Hunger had become a serious, nay only too serious and mighty power, in the city beyond, and it was not at all surprising that Wilhelm approached the venders, and with sparkling eyes bought their last ham and as much bread as they had left. [10]

More example sentences with the word serious in them

Even the serious young lawyer succumbed, though not without a struggle. [9]
I do hope you will have no serious trouble in Iowa. [7]
And I thought you such a sensible, serious man. [11]
Upon my word, you know, it's quite serious and in earnest, that's clear. [12]
When it reaches you it will mean that there is a hitch in my machine-enterprise--a hitch so serious as to make it take to itself the aspect of a dissolved dream. [5]
What did not yet threaten Barine as serious danger Iras had the power to transform into grave peril. [10]
I am as worn out as a post horse, but still I must have a talk with you, Catiche, a very serious talk. [2]
Dinner is serious work, for he sweats at it as much as at his labor, and he is a terrible fastener on a piece of beef. [4]
Not a serious word had reached his ears from the wanton lips of the Lesbian, while Althea at once desired information concerning his art, and showed that she was thoroughly familiar with the works and the aspirations of the Alexandrian sculptors. [10]
So the battles with the "Knoten" were continued until the Berlin revolution called forth more serious struggles, and our mother sent us away to Keilhau. [10]
The countess looked with sad and sternly serious eyes at Prince Andrew when he talked to Natasha and timidly started some artificial conversation about trifles as soon as he looked her way. [2]
He covered it with his own so quickly that she left it there for a moment, as though paralyzed, while she listened to the first serious words he had ever addressed to her. [9]
A middleaged soldier with a very serious manner arose hesitatingly, with encouraging noises from his comrades. [9]
She did not wish a serious talk with her husband to-night, but she saw now that it was inevitable. [11]
Our intelligent cat will quit the fire and sit for hours in the low window, watching the falling snow with a serious and contented air. [4]
The intelligent reader will not confound this matured and serious intention of falling in love with the young lady with that mere impulse of the moment before mentioned as an instance of making love. [6]
He is embarrassed which to choose, and is not unlikely to waste years in dallying with his chances, before giving himself to the serious tug and strain of a single object. [5]
Shorter's brown eyes, which became very wide and serious, too. [9]
I don't know whether these reformers who carry the world on their shoulders in such serious fashion, especially the little fussy fellows, who are themselves the standard of the regeneration they seek, are more ludicrous than pathetic. [4]
Are you serious when you propose to pay my expence--if that is the Susquehannian way of spelling it? [5]
He knew of what she was thinking, and he did not consider it of serious consequence. [11]
Three other couples were selected, at first with some laughter, but finally with serious consideration, and Uarda's father was sent with the drivers as an escort. [10]
And then Hicks went on, with a serious air, "Colonel, if you register a letter, it means that it is of value, doesn't it? [5]
The last few weeks had claimed his entire time and strength so rigidly and urgently that he would have been compelled to refuse Barbara's demands upon his love or neglect serious duties. [10]
During study hours we were serious, but in the intervals we were merry enough. [10]
Now and then we step on a rat in a hotel, but we have had no rats on shipboard lately; unless, perhaps in the Flora; we had more serious things to think of there, and did not notice. [5]
But he has ways now, and he has had them for a century, but I do not see that he has tried to make serious use of then. [5]
The young Seigneur was serious enough about it, and more than once, irritated and perturbed, he sought Madame Chalice; but she gave him no encouragement, remarking coldly that Monsieur Valmond probably knew very well what he was doing, and was weighing all consequences. [11]
Sometimes, when Mavick was over, a party was made up for the East Side, to see the foreign costumes, the picturesque street markets, the dime museums, and the serious, tragical theatres of the people. [4]
Then the conversation was more serious, and Caracalla said, so loud that Melissa could hear him: "Do not forget to whom you speak. [10]
Dr. Leigh, who was laboring with a serious practical problem, heard this coldly, and with a certain contempt for what seemed to her a vague sort of consolation. [4]
A serious ceremony was evidently in progress. [4]
But his lot was cast, and his youth had all the serious aspect to himself of thoughtful manhood. [6]
Mark Twain's mind was always busy with plans and inventions, many of them of serious intent, some semi-serious, others of a purely whimsical character. [5]
She supposed they wanted a serious answer, and she gave it. [5]
After the French victory at Borodino there was no general engagement nor any that were at all serious, yet the French army ceased to exist. [2]
It becomes a very serious matter when the reading itself is vapid, frivolous, or bad. [4]
He was a very queer person to be attached to the Embassy,--not a courtier, but a serious, literal person like you, Mr. Ritchie, and he resembled you very much. [9]
One or two very important features of it were altered, and in time effects would result from this, if opportunity offered--effects of a quite serious nature, too. [5]
She saw Prince Vasili's face, serious for an instant at the sight of her, but immediately smiling again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression "Marie" produced on the visitors. [2]
Now then, after uttering my serious word, am I privileged to be frivolous for a moment? [5]
There is nothing unusual in the fellow's dress; he wears a shiny silk hat, and has one of those grave faces which would be merry if their owner were not conscious of serious business on hand. [4]
He had the unfortunate capacity many men, especially Russians, have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to be able to take a serious part in it. [2]
His nerves were uncertain, but, strange to say, when (it was not often) any serious case of illness came under his hands, he was somehow able to pull himself together and do his task gallantly enough. [11]
Though he sometimes turned night into day, he gave no serious cause for reproof. [10]
But in serious truth, we have been drifting about, for several days, using our eyes and our ears more from a sense of duty than any higher and worthier reason. [5]
It was all too serious for her. [9]
This leads me to what I chiefly wanted to say in this paper, to the cause of discontent which seems to me altogether the most serious, altogether the most difficult to deal with. [4]
Pray step down to the valley, Dr. Marmion, and complete the situation, for you are trying to seem serious, and it is irresistibly amusing--and professional, I suppose; one must not forget that you teach the young 'sawbones' how to saw. [11]
Adrian followed him to the long row of booths in the wide street, and there saw things, which put an end to his thoughtlessness and made him realize, that the point in question now concerned serious, heart-rending matters. [10]
Pierre drove up to the house of the old prince in a most serious mood. [2]
When he removed to the city house the next day, he had not yet found time for a serious talk with Daphne. [10]
Thuggee became known to the British authorities in India about 1810, but its wide prevalence was not suspected; it was not regarded as a serious matter, and no systematic measures were taken for its suppression until about 1830. [5]
She had meant to test him here and there by throwing little darts of satire, and yet he made her serious and candid in spite of herself. [11]
Perhaps he meant to take advantage of the occasion to say some very serious things. [5]
Joan looked up to see if he was serious, and perceiving that he was at least pretending to be, she declined, of course. [5]
It is enough to say, that I found just what I expected to, and that I think this attack is only the prelude of more serious consequences,--which expression means you very well know what. [6]
Whatever we had to say must, in the circumstances, however serious, be kept superficially unimportant. [11]
Now I wish to say just one entirely serious word: I have reached a time of life, seventy years and a half, where none of the concerns of this world have much interest for me personally. [5]
Cyprian might do to practise on, but there was no danger of her looking at him in a serious way. [6]
Finally, I have to meet a more serious charge, that Mr. Hodder remains in the Church because of "the dread of parting with the old, strong anchorage, the fear of anathema and criticism, the thought of sorrowing and disapproving friends. [9]
All serious trouble to Kansas affairs is over and gone...." "And a column, nearly, of the same sort. [7]
All serious trouble to Kansas affairs is over and gone ..." And a column nearly of the same sort. [7]
I wish you to go over with me to The Poplars, and I should be glad to have good old Father Pemberton go with us; for it is a serious matter, and will be a great surprise to more than one of the family. [6]
He would refuse to examine the figures; they would revolt him so, and he could go to his death unaware that there was nothing serious about them. [5]
He was waiting to collect transportation before turning his passing spirit to less serious affairs. [5]
If you go to Benares with a serious desire to spiritually benefit yourself, you will find it valuable. [5]
I really used to believe you could be serious, once. [8]
We've tried not to be too serious in showing it, but we've felt that these modern business methods were getting into your system without your realizing it. [9]
This trade grew to be so formidable that Italy was obliged to put a prohibitory impost upon it to keep it from working serious injury to her oil industry. [5]
Ought not that to be enough, if the fabulist is serious? [5]
Life has come to be a very serious matter with me. [5]
Since my return to America a serious reverse has occurred. [9]
In the mean time, we must not let the love-making and the song-writing interfere with the more serious matters which these papers are expected to contain. [6]
At the same time, I do feel that the shrinkage in our spiritual assets is getting serious. [5]
For a short time it was really a formidable wedging together of people, and if a lady had fainted in the press, she might have run a serious risk before she could have been extricated. [6]
Making our way through the low growth and bushes of the valley, we came into a fine open forest, watered by a noisy brook, and after an hour's easy going reached the serious ascent. [4]
The first I thought was not serious enough, and the second was on the other extreme. [7]
The really serious thought in Carmen's mind was that perhaps after all a woman had no real freedom until she was married. [4]
In fact, however, though now much farther off than before, the Rostovs all saw Pierre--or someone extraordinarily like him--in a coachman's coat, going down the street with head bent and a serious face beside a small, beardless old man who looked like a footman. [2]
The present feeling, though not so bright and poetic as the former, was stronger and more serious. [2]
Further boiled down, this vast outpouring of malice amounts to simply this: one jest from the Tribune (one can make nothing more serious than that out of it. [5]
I suggest to this portion of the Ohio Republicans, or Democrats, if there be any present, the serious consideration of this fact that there is now going on among you a steady process of debauching public opinion on this subject. [7]
Amasis, who till this moment had been smiling cheerfully at the cheering reports from all parts of the country, now became suddenly serious and thoughtful. [10]
The second and third missus, like the first, were marked by serious accidents; both, however, were won for the Red party. [10]
Kittredge.--"Nothing serious, I think, Mrs. Soper. [6]
The more serious they were, the better, and Macrinus looked as if there was something of grave importance to be settled. [10]
Not only are they liable, as has been mentioned, to various accidental complications which may prove suddenly fatal, but too often, after convalescence seems to be established, relapses occur which are more serious than the disease had appeared to be in its previous course. [6]
But presently, after they had gone back into the library and were seated side by side before the coals, they spoke again of serious things, marvelling once more at a happiness which could be tinged and yet unmarred by vicarious sorrow. [9]
The number of these persons is so great that if they were suffered to indulge their prejudice against every-day duties and labors, it would be a serious loss to the productive industry of the country. [6]
The pictures of these bizarre cottages, with the family and friends seated in front, show very serious groups. [4]
Not finding anything there, he looked up with a serious and annoyed air, anxiously slapped his right pantaloon's pocket, and then his left, and exclaimed, "By George, that's annoying. [5]
Questionings no doubt there were, and, later, serious questionings; for habit is almost as strong as love, and the old ways of life and of thought will reassert themselves in a thoughtful mind, and reason will insist on analyzing passion and even hope. [4]
To these deficiencies there might be added one still more serious, namely, that he cannot climb quickly, and so escape from enemies. [1]
Fortunately, for him the young man who had been introduced at such a most critical moment was not one from whom he need apprehend any serious interference. [6]
Philanthropy, anxiety about the working-classes, is nowhere more serious or in the fashion than it is in London. [4]
The affairs of the Webster Publishing Company were by this time getting into a very serious condition indeed. [5]
But under all the trivial sparkle a serious heart beats. [11]
He who turns the stone over is whosoever puts the staff of truth to the old lying incubus, no matter whether he do it with a serious face or a laughing one. [6]
As a rule, the speech and behavior of these people were gracious and courtly; and I noticed that they were good and serious listeners when anybody was telling anything--I mean in a dog-fightless interval. [5]

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