What is "harshly"

Usage examples of "harshly".

Turnbull was pouring a careful measure of avgas on the weed, when the distant sound of a revving engine and harshly clashing gears attracted their attention.

Now and again the male ceboid would speak harshly to them, and for a moment they would desist and be all business, but soon they were at it again.

Then he chuckled harshly, shoved it into his mouth, and turned to his own com to begin giving orders.

Mac looked harshly at Aaron Pinkus as Desis One and Two ran out the door, then forced his eyes on Sam Devereaux and finally Jennifer Redwing.

Boston harbour: he could feel again the sudden heavy living tug, the wriggling vitality, at the end of 200 feet of line, and then the wet line slipping harshly through his fingers as exultantly he drew the great fish upward to the surface.

One of the little trash robots trundled across the floor, gears grinding harshly, and bumped into a plant trough.

They breathed harshly through their noses, and the enbees split the oxygen from the sea so that their lungs were filled with air that they used up far too soon.

The old Tri-States had been harshly criticized because Ben had admitted that perhaps no more than one person out of five-if that many-could or would live under and by the simple rules that the Rebels adopted.

As they gathered the little ones up for bed, Martin noticed Amballa and several of the other pigmy shrews watching them carefully lest they became roughpawed or spoke harshly to the babes.

They were a complicated frieze against a spackle of frosty stars, sharp and harshly lit in the clarity of vacuum.

But to suppose that men with minds so constituted as to accept such statements and embrace such doctrines as make up the so-called science of Homoeopathy are more competent than others to regulate the circumstances which influence the human body in health and disease, would be judging very harshly the average capacity of ordinary practitioners.

The Empire used espers harshly, which was why so many died or went rogue.

The angel bade the pregnant Hagar return to her mistress Sarai, even though Sarai had dealt harshly with her.

The word choose must not sound harshly in your ears, since it leaves my fate as well as yours entirely in your hands.

Autographed photo of William with George Bush at The Peking Gourmet Restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, a harshly flash-lit amateur snapshot, Cozzano and Bush eating Peking duck in shirtsleeves and yukking it up.