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Meanings of so stern in English

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Usage of so stern in English
1
The tame coffee is not so stern as the singing of swinging.
Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein / With Two Shorter Stories
2
One can see Mother is very much moved; she was so stern.
The Reason Why
3
She faltered over the words, his look was so stern, so forbidding.
The Top of the World
4
You could not be so stern and silent if you loved me!
Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten
5
Her face could have been pretty if her personality wasn't so stern.
The Neutronium Alchemist
6
This he spoke in so stern a voice that he almost frightened her.
Kept in the Dark
7
He had never before beheld it so stern, so resolute, and so pitiless.
The Scouts of the Valley
8
Her manner was so stern that Buddy Brown Thrasher did not dare disobey.
The Tale of Bobby Bobolink / Tuck-me-In Tales
9
He looks so stern -maybe he is Swiss or something.
The Guardian
10
He was so tall, and so dark, and so stern, and so strange.
Night and Morning, Volume 5
11
She had never guessed that Pollock Hampton could be so stern-faced, so purposeful.
Judith of Blue Lake Ranch
12
And I was so strict, so stern, so arbitrary, so severe.
Elsie's Womanhood
13
He was so stern, so impressive, that she begged for explanation.
The Snare
14
You are not always so stern, madam, as you are now.
The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 4 (of 5)
15
Her face was fair to see, but stern, oh, so stern!
Old Greek Stories
16
Elfride was distressed to find him in so stern a mood, and she trembled.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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