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• A truer cause of this distaste for the severer studies may probably be found in his natural indolence and his love of convivial pleasures. —  Oliver Goldsmith
• So did many monks of the school of St. Columba and his disciples, who wished for a severer and a more meditative life than could be found in the busy society of a convent. —  The Hermits
• "This outlook reflects mainly the pressures apparent on profitability due to the severer-than-normal downturn in prices for dynamic random access memory [DRAM] and NAND flash memory," Moody's senior analyst Ken Chan (陳冠中) wrote in a report released yesterday. —  Taipei Times
• In hysteria he also suggested ligature of the limbs, and it is easy to understand that this might be a very strongly suggestive treatment for the severer forms of hysteria. —  Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages
• He made them the severer, too, that during the Crimean War and the dangers that threatened the land, Leech could not bear with patience the sight of "pampered menials" passing their time in relatively idle luxury, when they, together with linen-drapers' assistants and others engaged in what is really woman's work, ought rather to have been bearing arms, or at the very least drilling in the newly-formed force of Volunteers Yet the Volunteers had not to thank Leech for anything much but chaff during the early years of the movement. —  The History of "Punch"

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