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  • I saw one stern-visaged gentleman tormented in this way till he looked ready to give the child its “final quietus.”

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • "Senator Lott has apologized, and rightly so," a stern-visaged Bush said.

    Ghosts Of The Past 2007

  • The stern-visaged, planar-faced Aron bore no resemblance at all to the images of the cheerful criminal Pausert.

    The Wizard Of Karres Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • When an orphanage girl attained the age of thirteen years and nine months, a stern-visaged churchwoman met with her in private to advise her of two facts: she was now old enough to have a baby, and God would forever condemn her if she meddled with boys.

    Centennial Michener, James 1974

  • "Even in the fair the pictures will pursue you!" said the stern-visaged

    Drolls From Shadowland

  • But if they were stern-visaged in their day, it was that we in our day, which in vision they foresaw, might of all communities beneath the sun have reason for a cheerful countenance.

    Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various

  • Brutalizing as may be the effect of militarism in action, fortified as its devotees may be by all the iron ethics of its code, I cannot help but believe that here again the ever-recurring miracle of repentance and regeneration had been wrought by the grace of a baby's smile; that again this stern-visaged officer had become just

    In the Claws of the German Eagle Albert Rhys Williams 1922

  • The following morning, after Hamilton had almost finished covering one side of the street in collecting the census statistics, he heard the trot of horses 'hoofs, and looking up, saw a tall, stern-visaged soldierly-looking gentleman, with iron-gray hair, riding a powerful iron-gray horse.

    The Boy With the U.S. Census Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

  • On Sunday mornings the stern-visaged officers would go the round of all the barracks on inspection duty.

    The Great White Tribe in Filipinia 1914

  • The town constable, vastly excited, came up the street, accompanied by two or three stern-visaged citizens.

    Quill's Window George Barr McCutcheon 1897

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