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Sentences starting with stern

Stern silence was kept, and the enemy took no alarm. [5]
Stern on court-house, head on dead cottonwood above wood-yard, until you raise the first reef, then pull up square. [5]
Stern and masterful as he looked in his arid isolation, beneath all was a shaking anxiety. [11]
Stern and terrible art Thou in judgment upon Thy foes! [10]

Sentences ending with stern

But at length we came to a trim-built bark lying off Redriff Stairs, with the words "Betsy, of London," painted across her stern. [9]
I could see the watch forward as we dropped silently alongside the stern. [11]
They were holding the boat so close to the shore that the willows swept the guards almost from stem to stern. [5]
He crept down the bank, watching with all his eyes, slipped into the water, swam three or four strokes and climbed into the skiff that did "yawl" duty at the boat's stern. [5]
He had not met Iberville since his capture, but now, on entering the prison, he saw his enemy not a dozen paces from the door, pale and stern. [11]
By day as he went around among the men his brow was unclouded, though his face was stern. [9]
So, as the frigate stood across the river, I had all sail set, roused the men at the oars, and we came running by her stern. [11]
In her mind's eye she saw his face flush as he read her burning phrases, then turn a little pale, then grow stern. [11]
Rostov watched his enemy, the colonel, closely--to find in his face confirmation of his own conjecture, but the colonel did not once glance at Rostov, and looked as he always did when at the front, solemn and stern. [2]
His mood was defiant, morbid, stern. [11]

Short sentences using stern

That was the stern truth. [11]
You are stern. [11]
Stern. [10]

Sentences containing stern two or more times

Then the Stern men found the stern climate, and the Gay found the smiling climate. [9]

More example sentences with the word stern in them

And even if your secret should eventually be discovered--which is not probable--you will have earned respect, and society is not as stern as it used to be. [9]
Big-featured and stern, yet he had the kindly eye of the most indomitable of frontier fighters, and I doubted not the truth of what was said of him--that he could kill any redskin hand-to-hand. [9]
In the stern Xavier stood immovable against the tiller, his short pipe clutched between his teeth, the colors of his new worsted belt made gorgeous by the rising sun. [9]
Once in line with the Kismet's counter, he eased off the painter rapidly, and now dropped towards the stern of the wreck. [11]
And Miss Lucretia, with that stern composure with which celebrities accept public situations, follows up the steps as of right and takes the chair he assigns her beside the chairman. [9]
This head smiles with sweet fascination, and the countenance of the goddess that rules the actions even of the immortals, should be stern and grave. [10]
Both were heavyset, with rather stern faces, both had close-cropped, tan-coloured mustaches and wide jaws, with blue eyes like Susan's. [9]
Asa Waring looked with a stern distaste upon certain aspects of modern life. [9]
The stern Balbilla will at last descend from the lofty Olympus of her high-anti-mightiness and no longer disdain that immutable foundation-rock, the adoration of her faithful Verus. [10]
The yachts were whiter, the water bluer, the grass greener; the stern grey rocks themselves flushed with purple. [9]
She and Fabian, when the boat left the shore, went to one corner of the stern, leaving Carnac and Junia in the bow. [11]
Amazement and suspense were painted on every face, not a hand, not a lip moved as Theophilus rose again and cast a glance of proud and stern defiance round the assembly, which each man took to himself. [10]
Two of them were expert swimmers and were able to catch the stern of another canoe as it ran by, and reached safe water, bruised but alive. [11]
But the McMahons, we'll get them yet,"--a stern, determined look came into his honest eye,--"yes, we'll get them yet. [11]
Even in bright weather Janet felt a sense of oppression here; on dark, misty mornings the stern, huge battlements of the mills lining the farther bank were menacing indeed, bristling with projections, towers, and chimneys, flanked by heavy walls. [9]
In that information we shall have a stern, unbending basis of facts--a basis in no wise subject to whim, caprice, or local interest. [7]
Now the letter was to say that they had both played him false; the former in obedience to the stern behest of his father, the town-councillor; the second by reason that his Duke commanded his attendance. [10]
Colonel Ryder's face was stern, Clovelly was pale and anxious, as moment after moment went, and the boat was not yet free. [11]
The tall lad was standing in front, flourishing his arm and saying something with a stern look. [2]
The Prussian, Ollendorff, was in the bow, with a paddle, Ballou paddled in the middle, and I sat in the stern holding the halters. [5]
Repeatedly, as she was held up to it, a precocious roller would sweep from bow to stern, until we without coats were wet and shivering. [9]
Presently the door was flung open, And they saw Mr. Whipple standing in the threshold, stern and dishevelled. [9]
His stern life was crowned with flowers by many hands, and he acknowledged these favours verbally and perhaps--as he did to you in all these letters--with the reed. [10]
Besides, stern austerity was as much a part of the Biamite as her hair and her hands, yet what ardent passion he had seen glow in her eyes! [10]
John Hodder's mother was a widow, and to her, in the white, gabled house which had sheltered stern ancestors, he travelled in the June following his experience. [9]
Within its stern walls Nathaniel Durrett had made a model universe of his own, such as the Deity of the Westminster Confession had no doubt meant his greater one to be if man had not rebelled and foiled him.... [9]
His face was very stern, but his eyes, which had flung fire at Mr. Dodd, looked at her with a vast compassion. [9]
But the stern upholder of the law did not feel that he had the right to disobey the instructions of his father. [10]
With its huge ungainly limbs sprawling unsymmetrically, and its gnarled hands and fingers, it stood an aged, stern, and scornful monster among the smiling birch trees. [2]
No Stern had treated Coptic in a really scientific manner. [10]
After that dark town-meeting day some of those stern old fathers became broken men, and it is said in Coniston that this calamity to righteous government, and not the storm, gave to Priest Ware his death-stroke. [9]
Then Daphne spoke to him tenderly, but her soothing voice caused him keener pain than his old friend's stern one. [10]
When he ventured to glance her way again her face was cold, stern, and he fancied even contemptuous. [2]
Den I swum to de stern uv it en tuck a-holt. [5]
And again stern thought fought his strange fancies. [13]
It seemed as though Barbara's change of mood had overthrown the barrier which her stern refusal had raised between them. [10]
But spoken by those solemn lips to those stern, simpleminded hearers, the words I have cited seem to me to have a fragrance like the precious ointment of spikenard with which Mary anointed her Master's feet. [6]
Tall and stern, they were stout enemies, but they had no firearms, and, as could be seen, they were astonished at the look of the little band, which, at the command of De Troyes, who with Iberville was in the first boat, came steadily on. [11]
Well, the relations they wanted a big funeral, but corpse said he was down on flummery--didn't want any procession--fill the hearse full of mourners, and get out a stern line and tow him behind. [5]
After Mass, when they had finished their coffee in the dining room where the loose covers had been removed from the furniture, a servant announced that the carriage was ready, and Marya Dmitrievna rose with a stern air. [2]
In the Thebaid there dwelt a penitent who thought he led a perfectly saintly life and far transcended all his companions in stern virtue. [10]
He frightened me then, he was so stern and still. [11]
The captain had their senior sergeant called in, and in a stern voice asked him to what regiment he belonged, who was his commanding officer, and by what right he allowed himself to claim quarters that were already occupied. [2]
But Amru took the words out of his mouth and went on in stern and determined reproof: "You behaved to that noble youth like an idiot, like a buffoon at a fair, like a madman. [10]
Now he recalled the whole creation to his remembrance, and its weaknesses forced themselves upon him so strongly and objectionably that the extravagant praise of the stern critic awakened fresh doubts in his mind. [10]
When news of the tragedy came to Mrs. Grier, she was reading in the papers of Carnac's victory, and in her mind was an agonizing triumph, pride in a stern blow struck for punishment. [11]
Rushing in against the tide outpouring, tall, stern, vigorous, is a young man whom many recognize, whose name is on many lips as they make way for him, who might have saved them if he would. [9]
We struck for the stern of the texas, and found it, and then scrabbled along forwards on the skylight, hanging on from shutter to shutter, for the edge of the skylight was in the water. [5]
I went to the stern of the steamboat to tell a stout American traveler what was the origin of the odor he had been trying to dodge all the morning. [4]
The governor, from the stern of his schooner, gave a short but truly patriarchal address to his citizens, wherein he recommended them to comport like loyal and peaceable subjects,--to go to church regularly on Sundays, and to mind their business all the week besides. [4]
I could feel the stern malice in our ranks, as we stood there and took, without returning a shot, that damnable fire. [11]
Once seated in the stern between Mr. Carvel's knees, what rapture when at last we shot out into the blue waters of the bay and I thought of the long summer of joy before me. [9]
He placed upon the Saviour's bowed figure, Costa's head, as he had painted it in Titian's studio, and the Madonna, in defiance of the stern judges in Madrid, received the sibyl's face, to please himself and do honor to his mother. [10]
When we consider the immensity of the British Empire in territory, population, and trade, it requires a stern exercise of faith to believe in the figures which represent Australasia's contribution to the Empire's commercial grandeur. [5]
Besides, nothing moves the heart more quickly than the grief of a proud, stern man. [10]
The nimbus round the head was a crown of lamps, and large lanterns shone both at the bows and stern of the vessel. [10]
The Doctor's was the graver of the two; there was something of grimness about it, partly owing to the northeasters he had faced for so many years, partly to long companionship with that stern personage who never deals in sentiment or pleasantry. [6]
The people of the fort had said they had never seen him so irascible, yet so gentle; so uneasy, yet so reserved; so stern about the mouth, yet so kind about the eyes as he had been since Hume had gone on this desperate errand. [11]
I suspect that the conditions of rude, stern life, in which the colonists found themselves in the wilderness, took the nonsense out of them, as the exigencies of a campaign did out of our physicians and surgeons in the late war. [3]
More than once the canoe half jammed between the rocks, and the stern lifted up by the force of the wild current, but again the paddle made swift play, and again the cockle-shell swung clear. [11]
I jumped into the canoe and run back to the stern, and grabbed the paddle and set her back a stroke. [5]
The stern of the boat is decked over and the gondolier stands there. [5]
While still under the ban of uncleanness she had visited the temple of Hathor, and had defiled it by her presence; and the stern Superior of the City of the Dead was in the right--that Bek-en-Chunsu himself admitted--in closing the western shore against her. [10]
Through the cloud that darkened her aspect, now and then a ray would steal forth, which, like the smile of stern and solemn people, was all the more impressive from its contrast with the expression she wore habitually. [6]
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]
When she saw that Arsinoe showed no sign of accompanying her, she once more asked with stern determination: "Are you coming?--Yes, or no. [10]
Pierre looked at that aged, stern, motionless, almost lifeless face and moved his lips without uttering a sound. [2]
Yet, as her sympathies were, to some extent, rationalised by stern fact and everlasting custom, her opposition to some things became more active and more fervid. [11]
But with what sweet dignity did the clerk's daughter kiss the somewhat stern lady's hand--as I had bidden her, and how modestly, though with due self-respect, did she go through Dame Jacoba's inquisition. [10]
I was then struck with his appearance, and stern, martial air. [14]
Her enormous figure stood erect, her powerful arms hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her stern but handsome face really joined in the dance. [2]
And Uncle Nicholas stood before them in a stern and threatening attitude. [2]
Natasha, pale and stern, was sitting beside Marya Dmitrievna, and her eyes, glittering feverishly, met Pierre with a questioning look the moment he entered. [2]
He was a stern, unsmiling man, and hated all forms of precocity. [5]
The first was stern, imperious, reproachful.--Shame for those that took him in and made him, a ruined reputation, a spoiled tradition: he had been but a heathen after all! [11]
His eye was stern, his carriage erect, but I seemed to read in his careworn face the trials of three years in this moist capital. [9]
This enthusiasm, this stern thirst for adventure, wilted under the sultry August sun and did not last above one hour. [5]
He heard in stern silence the Cure's happy statement that Jo Portugais had returned to the bosom of the Church, and attended Mass regularly. [11]
After sixty the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. [6]
From stem to stern of the Bridgwater Merchant and the Swallow, this wild will had its way. [11]
All lamented the stern necessity which dictated the execution. [5]
He was a stern man, but not a cruel one, so he permitted his "moles" to lie down on the sand, for the troops would doubtless be a long time in passing. [10]
Her father, a stern man prone to sudden fits of passion, now yielded absolutely to her will. [10]
And his cold, stern look replied: "Because you are alive and thinking of the living, while I..." In the deep gaze that seemed to look not outwards but inwards there was an almost hostile expression as he slowly regarded his sister and Natasha. [2]
Seven generations of stern life and thought had their focus here in him,--from Oliver Cromwell to John Brown. [9]
It was a stern and terrible trial for a man of acute sensibility, and not without force of intellect and will, and the manly ambition for himself and his family-name which belonged to his endowments and his position. [6]
Real Republicanism is stern and severe; its essence is not in forms of government, but in the omnipotence of public opinion which grows out of it. [6]
His features grew stern and set as he read it. [11]
Nicholas, with a stern and serious air which showed that now was no time for attending to trifles, went past Natasha and Petya who were trying to tell him something. [2]
She looked so stern and resolute that her faithful maid lacked courage to make any sign of recognising the knight, whom she had known while she was in the regent's service. [10]
Arrowhead looked on stern and immobile, but when at last she and the factor's wife sat down before the braves with confidence and an air of friendliness, he sat down also; yet, famished as he was, he would not touch the food. [11]
Now he was standing close beside the carriage, but his grave face looked less stern than it did at that time. [10]
Its stone was stained with age, and the stern front of it seemed to mock the unseemly and impetuous haste of the tide rushing through its arches. [9]
Our scrawny horses splashed across the stream, and we turned to see a gaunt and lonely figure standing apart against the sun, stern and sorrowful. [9]
It appealed to some stern, martyr-like quality in the priest. [11]
As he did so his eyes again rested on the stern face of Nemesis, and the wheel whose turning determined the destiny of men at her feet. [10]
Yet a satisfied smile hovered around his stern mouth as he noticed how thoroughly the people had performed their work. [10]
He untied the skiff at the stern, slipped into it, and was soon rowing cautiously upstream. [5]
The sun was shining hard just then, and the stern, sharp rocks, tumbling awkwardly back into the waste behind, had an insolent harshness. [11]
The stern duty she had had to do had been healthful, albeit she had good cause to fear for the future; for, with her father, the household would lose the bread-winner. [10]

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