Unlikely to smile

Usage examples of stern.

The lieutenant retained his place in the stern sheets, which he had not left during the affray or the conference.

Tewdrig was on the point of sending the audacious lad away with a stern rebuke for his affrontery, but I interceded.

I shall at all events be more lenient in my judgement of him, and less stern in my allocutions, for I shall have no text to preach from.

Most unusual was the sixteen-foot dish-shaped moon-bounce antenna that rested high on the stern.

Their antics would have made Antonia blush if she were not made of sterner stuff.

He had swiveled to his extreme left to watch the antics of a superbly sailed Rhodian galley some distance off his stern when his own huge ship lurched, groaned, shuddered convulsively, and the sounds of many oars snapping off like twigs became intermingled with cries of dismay and alarm.

Jews, whose stern fanaticism would be always prepared to second, and even to anticipate, the hostile measures of the Pagan government.

Boy ascribed a low coefficient of irritant potential to Miss Stern, regarding her as a typical young American intellectual woman seeking a cause to justify her existence, until marriage, career, or artsy hobbies defused her.

Executives at Stern Corporation, also interviewed, professed ignorance of any illegal or improper dealings and maintained that antisense research had been a field of particular interest at the company for a number of years.

Allen Soufi, a private banking client, whose every visit occasioned a stern afterword.

The royal standard of house Barca stood at her masthead, and there were lamps burning at stem and stern.

He was familiar with the Jolly Bargeman, where he was both feared and respected as a stern but upright officer of the law.

The foremost of the two was Sir Giles Mompesson, and his usually stern and sinister features had acquired a yet more inauspicious cast, from the deathlike paleness that bespread them, as well as from the fillet bound round his injured brow.

And now, at last, as she stood in the stern of the ship, in a pitch-dark, rather blowy night, feeling the motion of the sea, and watching the small, rather desolate little lights that twinkled on the shores of England, as on the shores of nowhere, watched them sinking smaller and smaller on the profound and living darkness, she felt her soul stirring to awake from its anaesthetic sleep.

Headmaster of Macdonald Hall maintained his stern expression as Bruno and Boots left the office.