sternlier

Example Sentences

• "To whom, as more amazed and sternlier stung, / Faltering, the traitor urged this wild address: […]"
• "And haply, with the cream of sacred lore / Was blent some modern’s sweet but thrilling tale, / That made his eye gleam sternlier than before,— / A tale of Times when Scotland’s stifled wail, / And Persecutor’s shout, were blent on every gale."
• "In vain she’d sought through many a striving hour / The word to break which stole the people’s bread; / His freezing brow did but the darker lower, / While sternlier to his will the tax he wed."
• "Accept the swift and rueful death, / Taught, somewhat sternlier than is wont, what waits / The ambiguous creature,—how the one black tuft / Steadies the aim of the arrow just as well / As the wide faultless white on the bird’s breast."
• "I know no law that sternlier deals / With strangers than with kindred blood."
• "Even when Luther purged, / Trimmed the sacred fire, / Sternlier Calvin urged, / Then did he expire."