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Sentences ending with severity

His health at this time was tolerably good, except for nervous headaches, which frequently recurred and were of great severity. [6]
With admirable taste the matron had aimed at giving Melissa a simple, dignified aspect, unadorned and almost priestess-like in its severity. [10]
You must not stop me now," he said with a touch of severity. [9]
It was angina pectoris, and while to all appearances he was as well as ever and usually felt so, he was periodically visited by severe attacks of acute "breast pains" which, as the months passed, increased in frequency and severity. [5]
The practical application of these principles can be studied in the Elmira Reformatory of New York, the only prison for felons where the proposed system is carried out with the needed disciplinary severity. [4]
For the present let us think of to-morrow's feast, but the day after I will examine that nice couple, and will act with iron severity. [10]
He did not know that Natasha's soul was overflowing with despair, shame, and humiliation, and that it was not her fault that her face happened to assume an expression of calm dignity and severity. [2]
Whenever he saw it he recalled Sarony with bitterness and severity. [5]
The emperor gazed in astonishment at the counselor, who till now had ever advised him to use moderation, and only yesterday had begged him to ascribe much to Alexandrian manners, which in Rome would have had to be treated with severity. [10]
Who would have imagined on coming to Egypt, that this luxuriant, laughing sunny land, whose sky is always unclouded, could possibly produce and nourish men given to bitterness and severity? [10]

More example sentences with the word severity in them

The old church, with its severity, had actually stood for something. [9]
Miss Crane, tall, with all the severity of side curls and bombazine, stood like a stone lioness at the gate. [9]
You know as well as I that there is no money to pay them," said he, with a certain pompous attempt at severity which characterized his kind nature. [9]
But such immunity was not to be granted to the emperor's sweetheart, who could so audaciously reject two brothers accustomed to easy conquests; her demure severity could hardly be meant seriously. [10]
Then he turned to me, and said, with a suggestion of severity in his tone: "Have you considered, sir, what would be the inevitable result of such a meeting as this? [5]
I am grateful to him still, for it is due to this kindness that I can think without resentment of those whose severity robbed me of six months of my life. [10]
I must submit to double severity, he says, because the people look first to those of the highest rank; and if I went unpunished for contempt of the sacred institutions there might be imitators among the crowd. [10]
Philetaerus had sent this touching work to King Ptolemy to thank him for the severity with which he had chastised the daring of the barbarians, who had not spared his kingdom also. [10]
As soon as they show any disposition to refuse to the old gods the respect that is due to them, or to raise a finger against them, severity must be exercised and every excess must be punished by death. [10]
When he turned there was another expression in his eyes and a note of tenderness in his voice that contradicted the severity of the priest. [4]
The Regent at the same time, with every appearance of regret, advised her to avoid an open quarrel, and not to defy Ameni's lofty severity, but to remain absent from the festival. [10]
We expect from the fine lady in her brocades and laces a generosity of display which we should reprimand with the virtuous severity of Tartuffe if ventured upon by the waiting-maid in her calicoes. [6]
The time when the article was read was good for Miss Bronte; she was numbed to all petty annoyances by the grand severity of Death. [14]
With stern severity that boded evil, she gazed down upon her left forearm, bent at the elbow, which corresponds with the ell, the just measure. [10]
I should merely take advantage of the warning, and continue with redoubled severity to sweep away every obstacle that threatens our union. [10]
An army has suffered defeat, and at once a people loses its rights in proportion to the severity of the reverse, and if its army suffers a complete defeat the nation is quite subjugated. [2]
He carried this strain of conviction all through his syndicate letter, which he now took out of his desk and finished, with an increasing security of his opinions and a mounting severity in his judgments. [8]
They desired to show the people by their verdict and the severity of the procedures how thoroughly in earnest they were. [10]
In these months she could not quite be sure, and she tried to shut her eyes when the little pieces fell off, to remind herself that she must make allowances for the severity of his disappointment. [9]
His usual inflexibility seemed to have changed into benevolence, and his stern severity into good-nature, as he turned to his brother Bartja with the words: "Come brother, have you forgotten my promise? [10]
After his departure scarcity and severity developed a mutiny, and six of the settlers were executed. [4]
Of course, the reference to his wife's criticism in this is tenderly playful, as always--of a pattern with the severity which he pretends for her in the next. [5]
She had managed rather marvellously to redeem one room from the old-fashioned severity of the rest of the house, the library behind the big "parlour. [9]
I have here"--he placed his hand on a book--"the Statutes of Victoria, and it lays down with wholesome severity the law concerning the theft of the affection of a wife, with the accompanying penalty, going as high as twenty thousand dollars. [11]
Divine honors are paid to these fortunate quadrupeds as well as to many other animals, and he who kills a cat is punished with the same severity as the murderer of a human being. [10]
Those in authority on the Nile knew how to choose soldiers whose duty it was to exercise pitiless severity against the defenceless. [10]
Soon they dined often together, still in Annette's presence, and the severity of that rule was never relaxed. [11]
The extraordinary features of the business were, first, the excess of the rage into which they lashed themselves; and, secondly, the puerility of the inventions by which they attempted to account for the severity with which they fancied they had been treated. [5]
Victoria had much of her mother's good looks, the figure of a Diana, and her clothes were of a severity and correctness in keeping with her style; they merely added to the sum total of the effect upon Austen. [9]
There were wounds of all degrees of severity, but I heard no groans or murmurs. [6]
She, herself, was not without money, for the Washington lobbyist is not seldom more fortunate than the Washington claimant, and she was able to procure a good many luxuries to mitigate the severity of her prison life. [5]
For his father's noble pride he has overbearing haughtiness; for kindly severity, rude harshness; for dignity, conceit; for perseverance, obstinacy. [10]
Here in the Netherlands the heretics, in consequence of the Draconian severity of the regulations which he himself had issued, had been hung and burned by hundreds, and hitherto he had gained nothing but the hatred of the nation which he preferred to all others. [10]
They also differed much in severity, the cases of puerperal origin being among the most formidable and fatal. [3]
Early the following morning he must be brought before the Spanish Dominicans who had come with the Emperor, and from whom greater severity might be expected than from the Ratisbon brotherhood, by whom monastic discipline had been greatly relaxed. [10]
Cambyses' severity or mildness towards the deputations with whose chiefs he spoke, was proportioned to the obedience of their province and the munificence of their tribute-offerings. [10]
Thus the two men--so different in age and character, but so closely allied in intellectual aims--led a joint existence which was both pleasant and helpful to both, in spite of the various eccentricities, the harshness and severity of the elder. [10]
Sailors, even as low as the pig-sty men, had some idea of fair play; and as the weeks that had passed since they left the Thames had given them better food and drink, and lessened the severity of those above them, real obedience had come. [11]
And after an instant, instead of responding with severity, as was her first impulse, she said, very calmly: "Naturally, Evelyn, you do not like to part with her. [4]
This inhuman severity in the beautiful woman whose affection had once been his, and who, but now, had flung his flowers into the water, had not come from her heart; it was deliberately planned to make him feel her anger. [10]
To see her in her marvellous severity was to strike him dumb. [9]
Terrible stories of his Draconian severity were in circulation, and his first address gave us reason to fear the worst, for the tall man of forty in the professor's chair was very imposing in his appearance. [10]
Ameni gave him his blessing; he told him that if he himself ever had to command he would understand his severity, and allowed the other scholars to accompany him as far as the Nile. [10]
Her mother blamed her husband with bitter severity, but she would not cease to believe in him, and left her house because it was impossible for her to endure to hear him blamed. [10]
As luck would have it, I had run into a pair of daredevil young Kentuckians who had more than once tasted the severity of Clark's discipline,--Fletcher Blount and Jim Willis. [9]
The governor's son hastened to his father's bedroom to beg him to lend him his ring as a token of the authority transferred to him; the Mukaukas had willingly allowed him to take it off his finger, and had enjoined him to exercise relentless severity. [10]
He was a handsome man, whose refined, agreeable features, of the true Netherland type, expressed anything rather than severity. [10]
Another time he had wounded her so deeply by his severity that she had found it impossible to restrain her tears. [10]
He had heard from his mother how anxiously she was guarded from him and his; still Paulina's severity would certainly not have hindered the artist from making the attempt to possess himself of his dearest treasure. [10]
One class of friends believe in greater severity and another in greater leniency in regard to arrests, banishments, and assessments. [7]
If the incensed father, who was a member of the Council, used the full severity of the law, he might fare even worse than ill. [10]
She went so far as to make several drafts, some of which she destroyed for the fault of leniency, and others for that of severity. [9]
But then the expression of severity changed, and he drew Pierre's hand downwards, made him sit down, and smiled affectionately. [2]
Her face bore evidence of the severity of the hour of conflict, and she was perilously near to tears. [9]
A Reviewer has criticised ('British Quarterly Review,' Oct. 1st, 1871, page 472) what I have here said with much severity and contempt; but as I do not use the term identity, I cannot see that I am greatly in error. [1]
He had a cool, unmalicious wit, but that man was unwise who offered himself to its severity. [11]
Of about fifty cases of injuries of this kind, of various degrees of severity, which I have collected from different sources, at least twelve were instances of infection from puerperal peritonitis. [3]
The King and Barbara's political friends perceived that Alba's pitiless, murderous severity had injured the cause of the crown and the Church far more than it had benefited them. [10]
And the escort, as if afraid, in the grievous condition they themselves were in, of giving way to the pity they felt for the prisoners and so rendering their own plight still worse, treated them with particular moroseness and severity. [2]
Ani is kind and without severity. [10]
He looked like a stern judge about to mount the tribunal to pronounce sentence with inexorable severity on some execrable crime. [10]
He was generally a silent man--decisive even to severity, careless carriers and shirking under-officers thought. [11]
Such instincts, such a history, raises before them with tragic severity the idea of life; death is at hand, wounds, blood, tortures. [4]
One, Aristides, was a Greek of high repute, and the other was only an Egyptian, but so distinguished for zealous severity that, for his part, he should vote for him. [10]
He was writing a book with Warner at this time--The Gilded Age --the two authors having been challenged by their wives one night at dinner to write a better book than the current novels they had been discussing with some severity. [5]
For instance-- 'At 4 o'clock ominous clouds began to gather in the south-east, and presently from the Gulf there came a blow which increased in severity every moment. [5]

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