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Meanings of too severe in English

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Usage of too severe in English
1
In the first we are too sweet, in the last too severe.
Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis to John S. Dwight; Brook Farm...
2
The condition affecting his heart was too severe for him to survive.
Independent.ie
3
Foreign youth steer clear of the gymnasium; its rules are too severe.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
4
I came in the hope of sparing you too severe a shock.
Fairy Fingers / A Novel
5
The idea that our winters are too severe can hardly be just.
A Residence in France / With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Se...
6
The strain upon her worn and overtaxed system had been too severe.
Barriers Burned Away
7
Wilson wasn't a candidate for LASIK because his nearsightedness was too severe.
Wired
8
All that jumping and pivoting was just too severe on the joints.
The Irish Times
9
And if the pain proves too severe, then you can ease her.
The Little Lady of the Big House
10
I believe I'll risk it if the restrictions are not too severe.
Brewster's Millions
11
Jeffrey thought this attack too severe, but the author could not agree.
Sydney Smith
12
You are too severe upon brandy, and upon those who use it.
Charlemont; Or, The Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky
13
At this the seventy murmured, the sentence being, they thought, too severe.
Jude the Obscure
14
It's too severe for you; that is, black crepe de chine is.
People Like That: A Novel
15
It won't do-thepain is too severe- Imightfaint on the way.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
16
No lesson, therefore, is too severe where the temptation is so strong.
A Woman of Thirty
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United Kingdom
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Ireland
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United States of America
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