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1 She was not ready for the terrible sternness in his.
2 Then a light burst upon my brain, and I turned upon him with terrible sternness .
3 He could be stern with a terrible sternness .
4 Lady Shelley slurs over the undutiful boyhood of the poet and the terrible sternness of his Mirabeau-father.
5 Only to us youngsters, as we soon discovered, that humorous face and the twinkling eyes were capable of a terrible sternness .
6 Once or twice the senator paused to frown upon the Celebrity with a terrible sternness , thus directing all other eyes to him.
7 Instantly the eyes of the sentry blazed, and he said with a new and terrible sternness : "Stand where you are!"
8 "Sit down, sir, this instant," said the old man, with terrible sternness .
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