Meaning of sternlier | Babel Free

Definitions

comparative form of sternly: more sternly

comparative, form-of, poetic, rare

Examples

“To whom, as more amazed and sternlier stung, / Faltering, the traitor urged this wild address: […]”

“And haply, with the cream of sacred lore / Was blent some modern’s sweet but thrilling tale, / That made his eye gleam sternlier than before,— / A tale of Times when Scotland’s stifled wail, / And Persecutor’s shout⟳, were blent on every gale.”

“In vain she’d sought through many a striving hour / The word to break⟳ which stole the people’s bread; / His freezing brow did but the darker lower, / While sternlier to his will the tax he wed.”

“Accept⟳ the swift and rueful death, / Taught, somewhat sternlier than is wont, what waits / The ambiguous creature,—how the one black tuft / Steadies the aim of the arrow just as well / As the wide faultless white on the bird’s breast.”

“I know⟳ no law that sternlier deals / With strangers than with kindred blood.”

“Even when Luther purged, / Trimmed the sacred fire, / Sternlier Calvin urged, / Then did he expire.”

“NOW not alone against a world on fire / Must preparation speed⟳. Sure, the great gun / Must be supplied ton on unnumbered ton / Of quick munition. Faster, farther, higher / The deadly plane must flash⟳, and the entire / Substance and spirit of the land⟳ be won / For that impregnable, last⟳ bastion / Which freedom’s dear necessities require⟳. / But, sternlier still, for this we must prepare⟳: / To cast⟳ out devils, yet refuse⟳ to be / Devils in turn⟳; […]”

“Checking the glorious hand’s flaunting of lovelier leisure, now for some stubborner work⟳ sternlier it fashions the stone.”

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