Stern in A Sentence

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    A door of one of the inner rooms opened and one of the princesses, the count's niece, entered with a cold, stern face.

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    A lifting bridge at the wharf-end, which the ferry approached stern on, enabled accurate connection of rails at all suites of the tide, the process of embarking a train requiring ordinarily not more than 15 minutes.

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    A series of shackles and wires are attached and the buoy is pulled in using the stern gantry.

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    A stern expression of the lofty, secret suffering of a soul burdened by the body appeared on her face.

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    A stern tone entered his voice.

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    About 1504 an attack of unusual ferocity on some Frankfort traders aroused the elector's wrath, and during the next few years the execution of many lawbreakers and other stern measures restored some degree of order.

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    About 60m behind the keel at the stern end, the ship is completely severed in half.

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    After a short but brilliant career there he turned to Geneva, studied for three years, travelled, in 1586, in Italy, heard Giacomo Zarabella (1533-1589) lecture on philosophy in Padua, visited Rome, and, open-minded enough to see its good as well as its evil, was suspected by the stern Dutch Calvinists of "popish" leanings.

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    After a stay in Hail, where he had every opportunity of observing the character of the country and its inhabitants, and the hospitality and patriarchal, if sometimes stern, justice of its chief, he travelled on to Medina and Mecca, and returned thence to Cairo to report to his patron.

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    After a stern conflict the French were 27, 1810.

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    After a stern talking-to by his mom the teenage star has vowed to improve.

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    After the stern coast of county Clare there follow the estuary of the great river Shannon, and then three large inlets striking deep into the mountains of Kerry and Cork - Dingle Bay, Kenmare river and Bantry Bay, separating the prongs of the forklike south-western projection of the island.

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    After they left, Adrienne gave Brandon a stern look.

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    Alex broke in with a stern response.

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    Alex caught up with them and dropped a stern gaze on Carmen.

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    Alex looked stern, and when Carmen met his gaze, he looked down at his plate.

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    Alex looked up at him and Senor gave him a stern look.

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    Alex shot her a stern look and she made a face.

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    All he had seen that day, all the significant and stern expressions on the faces he had seen in passing, were lit up for him by a new light.

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    All she could see was that his former stern and determined expression had altered to one of timidity and submission.

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    All this went to feed revival, which, founded on fear, refused to see in Jesus Christ anything but a stern judge, and made the Virgin Mother and Anna the "grandmother" the intercessors; which found consolation in pilgrimages from shrine to shrine; which believed in crude miracles, and in the thought that God could be best served within convent walls.

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    Although a hard, stern man, he had a keen sense of justice when his selfish interests were not involved, and few of the German kings possessed so practical an intelligence.

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    Although she looks like an 1800`s wooden stern wheeler she is of all steel construction and diesel electric powered.

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    Among the Calvinistic bodies in the British Isles and abroad kirk-discipline has been a stern reality; but in none of them is there private confession or priestly absolution.

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    And if anyone came into his room at such moments he was particularly cold, stern, and above all unpleasantly logical.

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    And Uncle Nicholas stood before them in a stern and threatening attitude.

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    And with a sad and rather stern look she told Natasha all that Pierre had said.

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    Anna and Stern held a commitment ceremony shortly after the baby's birth but have not officially married.

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    Anna gave birth to her second child, a daughter named Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, on September 7 in the Bahamas.

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    Apparently her stern ramp was deployed on the quayside at the time.

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    Arctic Corsair - The Steering Flat At the very stern of the vessel in a lower compartment is the Steering Flat.

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    As a former subaltern of the Life Guards, he is still fettered by the curious, but stern social code of his regiment.

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    As it was, these studies of Leonardo - "studies intense of strong and stern delight" - seemed to his trivial followers and biographers merely his whims and fancies, ghiribizzi, things to be spoken of slightingly and with apology.

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    As our stern passed them they were indeed sucked right to the center of the canal and set off with renewed vigor.

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    As regards the latter consideration, it is enough to say that nowhere has productive industry developed itself in the form of voluntary effort; in every country of which we have any knowledge it was imposed by the strong upon the weak, and was wrought into the habits of the people only by the stern discipline of constraint.

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    As the ship commenced to make stern way he blew the charges, and the crews got into two cutters which were picked up by the "Whirlwind" and a motor launch.

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    Ashley looked ready to refuse, but Jessi pushed her with a stern glare.

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    Astute and unscrupulous manipulation of the stock markets, and a capacity for the hardest of bargaining and the most determined warfare against his rivals, had their place in this success, and Harriman's methods excited the bitterest criticism, culminating in a stern denunciation from President Roosevelt himself in 1907.

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    At .Waterloo he was in command of the Household Cavalry Brigade, which distinguished itself not less by its stern and patient endurance of the enemy's fire than by its celebrated charge on the cuirassiers of Milhaud's corps.

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    At Austerlitz he had the satisfaction of witnessing the actual results of his artillery reforms. The commissariat scandals which came to light after the peace of Tilsit convinced the emperor that nothing short of the stern and incorruptible energy of Arakcheev could reach the sources of the evil, and in January 1808 he was appointed inspector-general and war minister.

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    Balancing these mystic joys is the stern tone of his Resolutions, in which he is almost ascetic in his eagerness to live earnestly and soberly, to waste no time, to maintain the strictest temperance in eating and drinking.

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    Balashev noticed that his left leg was quivering faster than before and his face seemed petrified in its stern expression.

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    Be stern in the council-chamber, so that you may control the situation.

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    Behind the stern admonitions stood a sad tragic figure.

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    Boarding schools used to be rather stern places where families were not terribly welcome.

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    Boat holders will be required to hold the stern of boats for the start of each race.

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    Both the stern and bow transoms are made of wood from a different tree than that used for the main body.

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    Both these divine figures have grown out of Vedic conceptions - the genial Vishnu mainly out of a not very prominent solar deity of the same name; whilst the stern Siva, i.e.

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    But despite himself, on his face too that same indication of something new and stern showed round the mouth.

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    But General Nott held Kandahar with a stern hand, and General Sale, who had reached Jalalabad from Kabul at the beginning.of the outbreak, maintained that important point gallantly.

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    But golfers of the caliber of Harrington and McGinley are made of stern stuff.

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    But in nothing in the house was the holiday so noticeable as in Marya Dmitrievna's broad, stern face, which on that day wore an invariable look of solemn festivity.

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    But it is just to remember that without the stern discipline of the law the community of the second temple could hardly have escaped dissolution, and that Judaism alone preserved for Christianity the hard-won achievements of the prophets.3 4.

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    But, behind a somewhat stern exterior, Brian was a modest and very likeable man.

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    By the austere clothing and stern features, Katie assessed she was in some kind of religious convent.

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    Canal system of flow lines of current through the sea, and these might be detected by any other ships furnished with two plates dipping into the sea at stem and stern, and connected by a wire having a telephone in its circuit, provided that the two plates were not placed on the same equipotential surface of the original current flow lines.

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    Canovas resumed office in March 1895 immediately after the outbreak of the Cuban insurrection, and devoted most of his time and efforts, with characteristic determination, to the preparation of ways and means for sending 200,000 men to the West Indies to carry out his stern and unflinching policy of no surrender, no concessions and no reforms. He was making up his mind for another effort to enable General Weyler to enforce the reforms that had been wrung from the Madrid government, more by American diplomacy than from a sense of the inevitable, when the bullet of an anarchist, in August 1897, at the baths of Santa Agueda, cut short his career.

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    Carmen looked up at his face and found it as stern as his voice.

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    Carmen set her jaw and challenged them each with a stern look.

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    Carnot was a stern and sincere republican, and voted for the execution of the king.

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    Cassie drew her brows down to feign a stern expression.

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    Chevreul's views were confirmed in 1894 by Krafft and Stern.

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    Clad in fishnet stockings, she dishes out stern advice from a clipboard to readers not man enough to satisfy their woman.

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    Close to the corner, on an overcoat, sat an old, unshaven, gray-bearded soldier as thin as a skeleton, with a stern sallow face and eyes intently fixed on Rostov.

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    Counter Flat, rounded stern deck of a motorboat.

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    Dean went to the kitchen, returning with a dustpan and whisk broom, only to be rewarded with a stern lecture on his insensitivity when he made motions to pitch the little varmint out in the snow.

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    Disputes had been constantly recurring between Dutch and English traders in the East Indies and elsewhere, and the seeds were already sown of that stern rivalry which was to issue in a series of fiercely contested wars.

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    Driving 4x4 Range Rovers through deep mud blindfold was a stern test of trust.

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    Eager to win the first spoils, the German crusaders, who were in advance of the French, attempted a raid into the sultanate of Iconium; but after a stern fight at Dorylaeum they were forced to retreat (October 11 4 7), and for the most part perished by the way.

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    Even one second of tardiness to the biology lab would earn one a stern rebuke.

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    Finally he set the cup on the railing and turned to her, his gaze stern.

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    For the most part this is founded on Dutch models, and testifies in a high degree to the king's progressive aims. Provision was made for the better education of the lower, and the restriction of the political influence of the higher clergy; there were stern prohibitions against wreckers and "the evil and unchristian practice of selling peasants as if they were brute beasts"; the old trade gilds were retained, but the rules of admittance thereto made easier, and trade combinations of the richer burghers, to the detriment of the smaller tradesmen, were sternly forbidden.

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    Founded in 1938 by a local arts activist, the free concerts of Stern Grove are designed to promote both diverse culture and creative arts throughout the city.

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    From his father, whose stern, somewhat pedantic nature repelled warmer feelings on the part of the children, Goethe inherited that "holy earnestness" and stability of character which brought him unscathed through temptations and passions, and held the balance to his all too powerful imagination.

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    From northwest Wales it's a colonial outpost of the English empire - governmental, stern, alien, nothing to do with them.

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    From stern to bow Back deck has gas locker for two bottles and 240V hook up point.

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    Hardly had Prince Andrew gone when the study door opened quickly and the stern figure of the old man in the white dressing gown looked out.

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    Have the added analyst Howard stern going his training.

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    Have the added analyst howard stern going his training.

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    He could not be stern with that face.

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    He had a stern love of justice, and a determined hatred of everything savouring of jobbery or dishonesty.

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    He had that same stern but compassionate look in his eyes that I saw when he wakened the neighbor boy from the dead.

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    He impressed his countrymen more than any other single writer, partly no doubt by his enormous fecundity in writing, but more by the stern piety and uncompromising dogmatism which pervade his works.

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    He is an earnest, sometimes stern and sometimes pathetic, preacher of righteousness, who despises the mere graces of style and the subtleties of an abstruse logic. He has no patience with mere antiquarian study of the Stoical writers.

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    He looked down at her, his eyes and face stern.

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    He looks too old for his years, but quite unbroken; the character of a veteran sage has fully imprinted itself on his countenance; the features are grand, clear and deeply lined, the mouth firmly set and almost stern, the eyes strong and intent beneath their bushy eyebrows, the hair flows untrimmed over his shoulders and commingles with a majestic beard.

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    He omits all the reasons for this stern prophecy.

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    He paused beside them and turned a stern look on Carmen.

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    He rattled off his number and then gave Connie a stern look.

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    He removed her translator from her ear as promised after a stern warning about not speaking to anyone.

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    He ruled with a stern sway for nearly half a century, but the brilliance of his court, his encouragement of the fine arts and his decoration of the city with sumptuous edifices, to some extent compensated the Bolognese for the loss of their liberty.

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    He seized a boathook and hobbled down the deck toward Quilter, who grimaced at him from his handhold on the stern rail.

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    He shrugged, his tone becoming stern.

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    He sighed again, gripping her shoulders, his gaze stern.

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    He started to turn and then stopped, his expression turning stern.

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    He threw a stern look at Katie.

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    He took some part in the political complications of the Scandinavian kingdoms, but the early years of his reign were mainly spent in the administration of his electorate, where by stern and cruel measures he succeeded in restoring some degree of order (see Brandenburg).

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    He took something like an oarlock from his pocket and fastened it to the stern of the boat; then with a paddle which worked in this oarlock one of the boys could guide the boat while the other turned the paddle wheels.

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    He took stern measures against the revolutionary elements in southern Italy, and his new cabinet was essentially military and conservative.

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    He turned first against the Byzantines, who were defeated several times; he took Cordova and chastised the Suevi; and then by stern measures he destroyed the power of those unruly and rebellious chieftains who had reduced former kings to the position of ciphers.

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    He was a native of Berri, like herself, a stern but kindly taskmaster who treated her much as Dr Johnson treated Fanny Burney.

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    He was merciful as a conqueror, stern as a disciplinarian, enterprising and wary as a general; while his courage, loyalty and forbearance seem to have been almost unsullied.

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    He was not one of those stern moralists who objected to the Theater.

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    He was respected for his integrity and independence, and a stern outside covered warm affections.

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    He was silent a moment, and then his tone had a stern edge.

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    He was still lying on the bed as before, but the stern expression of his quiet face made Princess Mary stop short on the threshold.

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    He wished for nothing and hoped for nothing, and deep in his heart experienced a gloomy and stern satisfaction in an uncomplaining endurance of his position.

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    He wore pince-nez, which made him look like a stern teacher, tho he was not.

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    Heather Stern steps up to handle the editorial blurb and train some scripts to help keep the answers conversational.

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    Henceforward quiet prevailed, and Boniface ruled as a stern master in Rome.

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    Her dance pours out tunes of pure lyricism, which contrast the stern fanfares of the stern, lacerating drama.

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    Her enormous figure stood erect, her powerful arms hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her stern but handsome face really joined in the dance.

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    Her obstinate behavior was considered perverse and unacceptable in the stern environment.

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    Her stern gaze fell on Julia.

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    His advice was successfully followed, and the "Argo" made the passage unscathed, except for trifling damage to the stern.

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    His authority quickly and quietly accepted by all classes, the new ruler governed the city with a stern justice which was in marked contrast to the recent reign of licence and disorder.

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    His expression became stern.

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    His family came on both sides of middle-class people, and it was probably only as a joke that Godwin, a stern political reformer and philosophical radical, attempted to trace his pedigree to a time before the Norman conquest and the great earl Godwine.

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    His father, whose early experiences led him to hate aristocrats, bred him in the stern creed of the first republic. Throughout the empire Poisson faithfully adhered to the family principles, and refused to worship Napoleon.

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    His gaze was back on her, intent and stern.

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    His gaze was stern.

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    His government was stern; he over-rode the privileges of the baronage without regard to precedent; he persisted in keeping large districts under the arbitrary and vexatious jurisdiction of the forest-courts.

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    His high ideas on the subject made him a stern ruler.

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    His stern gaze turned to Rob.

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    His sympathetic nature was influenced by indignation against the brutal methods adopted towards prisoners, especially political prisoners, and by the stern measures which the government of the tsar felt compelled to adopt in order to repress the revolutionary movement.

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    His voice was stern again.

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    His voice was stern.

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    Hoist the sails and haul in the stern slip until parallel to the pontoon.

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    Hutter was a stern champion of Lutheran orthodoxy, as set down in the confessions and embodied in his own Compendium locorum theologicorum (1610; reprinted 1863), being so faithful to his master as to win the title of "Luther redonatus."

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    I dust and sweep but a stern lady looks after the madam whose care is beyond my responsibilities.

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    I queued my way past three minions before the stern voice growled, Reagan' in my ear.

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    If I catch the pup making a mess in the house, I yell no in a stern voice and immediately take the pup back outside and repeat the command in a pleasant voice.

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    If the waterline projection at the stern of the Thera ships is not a projecting keel or ram what is it?

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    If we place a small floating body in a shallow vessel of water and wet one side of it with alcohol or ether, it will move off with great velocity and skim about on the surface of the water, the part wet with alcohol being always the stern.

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    If you actually catch her in the act, you need to yell "NO" in a very loud, stern voice.

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    If your father was a stern disciplinarian, the odds are that you'll think of God in that way.

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    In 1755 the British took the stern step of deporting the Acadian French from Nova Scotia.

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    In 1844, after the disasters of the Afghan war had shaken the prestige of British arms in India, no less than seven native regiments broke into open mutiny over grievances both real and fancied; and this time the old stern measures were not adopted to stamp out military disobedience.

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    In 1880 Ludwig Stern (Koptische Grammatik) admirably classified the grammatical forms of Coptic. The much more difficult task of recovering the grammar of Egyptian has occupied thirty years of special study by Adolf Erman and his school at Berlin, and has now reached an advanced stage.

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    In military and naval use "to rake" means to enfilade, to fire so that the shot may pass lengthwise along a ship, a line of soldiers, entrenchments, &c. In the nautical sense of the projection or slope of a ship's bows or stern or the inclination of a mast, the word is apparently an adaptation of the Scandinavian raka, to reach, in the sense of reach forward.

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    In November despatches were received from England, but no answer to the emperor's letter, and this, together with a visit paid by Captain Cameron to the Egyptian frontier town of Kassala, greatly offended him; accordingly in January 1864 Captain Cameron and his suite,with Messrs Stern and Rosenthal, were cast into prison.

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    In one, a swimsuit-clad teacher made an appearance on the Howard Stern Show.

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    In Pinus the only leaves produced on the main stern and the lateral shoots are scales, the acicular leaves of the tree growing from axillary shoots.

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    In such a condition of affairs it is hardly surprising to find that the great and stern Teacher congratulates the poor and has nothing but pity for the rich; that He has no interest at all in comfort or property.

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    In Sweden the few farms of the Swedes who inhabit the region are on the lake shores, and the traveller must be rowed from one to another in the typical boats of the district, pointed at bow and stern, unusually low amidships, and propelled by short sculls or paddles.

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    In the course of a long reign Louis, who was called the Stern, became the most powerful prince in southern Germany.

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    In the Holy of Holies was a " cloud of light " (shekinah), symbolical of the presence of Yahweh, and before it stood the candlestick with six branches, on each of which and on the central stern was a lamp eternally burning; while in the forecourt was an altar on which the sacred fire was never allowed to go out.

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    In the same years, stern military suppression accompanied by much bloodshed was applied in Albania and Macedonia; taxation and conscription were enforced, the national schools closed, and Turkish decreed as the official language.

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    In the stern of a dive kayak is a place where you can stow your cylinder and stab jacket.

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    Indeed, he was considered by his stern brethren as somewhat too fond and indulgent a parent.

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    Indeed, the personality of the stern God himself exhibits this feature in a very marked degree, whence the term mahayogi or" great ascetic "is often applied to him.

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    Instead, they're looking for the perks that come with being featured, such as being recognized, and being invited on radio programs such as the Howard Stern Show.

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    It has been well said that the old heroes of the republic were unconscious Stoics, fitted by their narrowness, their stern simplicity and devotion to duty for the almost Semitic earnestness of the new doctrine.

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    It is a proof of the dominating force of his father's character that it cost the younger Mill such an effort to shake off his stern creed about poetry and personal emotion.

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    It is a shallow saucerlike dish either mounted on a stern and foot or on a foot alone.

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    It is mainly a record of teaching, and the teaching is for the most part stern and paradoxical.

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    It was blue and gold and crimson, with a high forecastle at its prow and high poop deck at its stern.

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    It's said that St. Columba banished it back into the water with the sign of the cross and a stern warning.

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    Its skipper, James Kirk, clad only in swim trunks, slouched lazily at the stern, one hand on the tiller.

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    Jamie Stern runs an independent online resource for allergy-conscious foods.

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    Jason's death, it is said, was afterwards caused by part of the stern giving way and falling upon him.

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    Jesus in the painted window of Mansfeld church, stern of face, sword in hand, sitting on a rainbow, coming to judge; an altarpiece at Magdeburg, in which a ship with its crew was sailing on to heaven, carrying no layman on board; the deeds of St Elizabeth emblazoned on the window of St George's parish church at Eisenach; the living pictures of a young nobleman who had turned monk to save his soul, of a monk, the holiest man Luther had ever known, who was aged far beyond his years by his maceration; and many others of the same kind.

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    Jesus replied with a stern rebuke, addressing the questioners as hypocrites, and exposing the falsity of a system which allowed the breach of fundamental commandments in order that traditional regulations might be observed.

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    Jonathan Edwards, a ver y stern Calvinist, is one of the few first-rate geniuses America has to boast in theology.

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    Jonathan Edwards, a very stern Calvinist, is one of the few first-rate geniuses America has to boast in theology.

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    Katie almost smiled at his fallen face as the stern voice of the Amazonian-size woman before them.

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    Kayak is carved with sharp pointed prow, short stern and flat base.

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    Lemarrois had just arrived at a gallop with Bonaparte's stern letter, and Murat, humiliated and anxious to expiate his fault, had at once moved his forces to attack the center and outflank both the Russian wings, hoping before evening and before the arrival of the Emperor to crush the contemptible detachment that stood before him.

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    Leo, temperamentally stern, hard-working in spite of bodily infirmity, died at Rome on the 10th of February 1829.

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    Little wonder that unions reacted with an immediate and stern rebuke in a letter from the office of Brendan Barber.

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    Look at the powerful, arched eyebrows, which are stern without being severe.

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    Looking at his cold face, as he sat like a stern schoolmaster who was prepared to wait awhile for an answer, Pierre felt that every instant of delay might cost him his life; but he did not know what to say.

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    Looking into that stern face, she felt like a child caught with her hand in the candy jar.

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    Lord Canning, the governor-general, who had at first hoped that he had only to deal with isolated cases of disaffection, at last recognized that the plague was epidemic, and that only stern measures could stay it.

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    Louis, who soon became the most powerful prince in southern Germany, was called "the Stern," because in a fit of jealousy he caused his first wife, Maria of Brabant, to be executed in '256.

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    LovetoKnow would like to thank Jamie Stern for providing reader with a wealth of opportunity regarding the world of gluten-free products.

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    Luke discovers Yoda is a tiny green troll, who can move mountains with his mind, and is a stern taskmaster.

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    Many fishing nets drape over the stern of the wreck.

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    Marya Dmitrievna, with her spectacles hanging down on her nose and her head flung back, stood in the hall doorway looking with a stern, grim face at the new arrivals.

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    Mecca itself was taken; plundering was forbidden, but the tombs of the saints and all objects of veneration were ruthlessly destroyed, and all ceremonies which seemed in the eye of the stern puritan conqueror to suggest the taint of idolatry were forbidden.

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    Misrule and oppression in every form now again prevailed throughout the Sudan, while the slave traders, exasperated by Gordons stern measures, were ready to revolt.

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    Mr Stern arrived in Abyssinia in 1860, and after a visit to Europe returned in 1863, accompanied by Mr and Mrs Rosenthal.'

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    Natasha, pale and stern, was sitting beside Marya Dmitrievna, and her eyes, glittering feverishly, met Pierre with a questioning look the moment he entered.

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    Next to the officer was a stern looking man in a suit and tie, arms crossed, staring straight ahead.

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    Nicholas, with a stern and serious air which showed that now was no time for attending to trifles, went past Natasha and Petya who were trying to tell him something.

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    Now, authorities in Florida are wondering if the actions on the part of the doctors and Stern had anything to do with her 2007 death.

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    On returning we needed to change the engine oil and refill the stern tube greaser.

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    On seeing the count the major- domo made a significant and stern gesture to them both to go away.

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    On the day of the funeral Peter addressed to Alexius a stern letter of warning and remonstrance, urging him no longer to resemble the slothful servant in the parable, and threatening to cut him off, as though he were a gangrenous swelling, if he did not acquiesce in his father's plans.

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    One minute Dulce didn't hesitate to argue with him, and the next he could subdue her with a stern look.

    191

    One of these problems, illustrated by experiment, deals with an ingenious mode of propelling vessels by the reaction of water ejected from the stern.

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    Other celebrities who figure in the Lettres under a transparent disguise are Liszt and Mme d'Agoult (known to literature as Daniel Stern), whom she met in Switzerland and entertained for some months at Nohant.

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    Otto Z. Stern's column is reprinted courtesy of sci-tech world superpower The Register.

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    Parents can reach older children with eye contact, a stern voice, and physical contact.

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    Perhaps, like me, you're a high-powered executive, Army officer, judge, or simply a stern, Victorian paterfamilias.

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    Pierre looked at that aged, stern, motionless, almost lifeless face and moved his lips without uttering a sound.

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    Pierre was about to ask, but seeing the stern expression of the adjutant who was also looking that way, he checked himself.

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    Presently we find an offer of discipleship met by the warning that " the Son of Man " is a homeless wanderer; and then the stern refusal of a request for leave to perform a father's funeral rites.

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    Prince Vasili gave him a look of stern inquiry, as though what Pierre had just said was so strange that one could not take it in.

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    Rather than being situated at the stern of the vessel, the bridge has been brought forward.

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    Red. green and black wool yarn tufts are caught between the stitches on the deck, stem and stern.

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    Regardless of the artist, all the subjects seem to end up looking stern.

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    Running a hand through his hair in a way that Carmen had grown to recognize as a nervous habit, he addressed Lori in a tone that was both stern and conversational.

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    Sarah gave Giddon a stern look and then returned her attention to Lisa.

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    Sarah gave him a stern look.

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    Sarah threw him a stern look.

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    Sarah's tone had an anxious quality, and Giddon's expression was much too stern for the situation.

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    Señor Medena's gaze was stern, but his voice was calm.

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    Señor Medena's gaze was stern, but his voice was calm.

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    She answered as Martha giggled, earning a stern look.

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    She appeared on many TV/Radio shows such as Extra, The Howard Stern Show, and Danny Bonaduce.

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    She brushed past Cade, giving him a stern look as she left the room.

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    She gave him a stern glare that made him smile.

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    She gave him a stern look.

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    She gave him what she hoped was a stern look.

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    She is credited for her husband's look in Twisted Sister, and for Howard Stern's makeover that transformed him from plain to noticeable.

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    She let her stern gaze rest on each of the men before responding.

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    She met his stern gaze archly.

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    She met his stern gaze.

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    She met his stern regard coolly.

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    She was a steel steamship of 178 tons which can now be found with her stern in a charted depth of 23 meters.

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    She was of drive through design, with an enclosed open-plan car deck, bow visor and bow and stern ramps.

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    Should I take Heidi back to my mother's house, or should I be more stern with Checkers when he goes after her?

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    Similar cushions have been added at the stern shelf and there is a further seating area up against the wheelhouse bulkhead.

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    Since many children are plagued by complicated nutritional needs, companies like Jamie Stern's supply allergy-friendly products to parents who endeavor to provide their children with a high quality of life, despite dietary struggles.

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    Slowly I edged the nose to the bank, then pushed the tiller hard over to bring the stern in.

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    Soon after, the Alexander ' s raking shots started a fire in the stern chain of the French flagship.

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    Stern also reported that he and Anna Nicloe Smith have been in a relationship for some time now but felt it best not to come public since he's also her attorney.

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    Stern also told King that he and Smith plan to marry and live in the Bahamas.

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    Stern and ambitious he certainly was, but his aims can scarcely be said to have exceeded his prerogatives as emperor; and though he had sometimes recourse when in straits to expedients almost diabolically ingenious in their cruelty, yet his general conduct was marked by a clemency which in that age was exceptional.

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    Stern and Kapoor have already been arrested, while Khristine Eroshevich has not.

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    Stern and Smith admitted to selling pictures of her son Daniel's last day with her and the baby but say they did so to start a foundation in honor of Daniel's memory.

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    Stern and the doctors are being charged with various felony counts, including conspiracy to prescribe illegal drugs to Smith.

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    Stern and the two doctors, Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich are also being brought up on charges of administering illegally prescribed medications to an addict.

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    Stern announced on Larry King last night that he is the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby daughter and not photographer Larry Birkhead as originally speculated.

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    Stern is the father, while her ex-boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, claims that he is the girl's father.

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    Stern measures of suppression were directed not only against them but against " Goddis Lawe," the book for which they pleaded with such passionate earnestness.

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    Stern Premonstratensian canons wanted no congregations, and cared for no possessions; therefore they built their church like a long room.

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    Stern trial is set to begin in Los Angeles regarding the death of Anna Nicole Smith.

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    Stern turned himself in to authorities and his bail was set at $20,000.

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    Stern went on to say that because of the timing, no one else can claim to be the father.

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    Stern wrote at length on the subject in Crelle's Journal (x., 1833; xi., 1834; xviii., 1838).

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    Stern, although this is being challenged by her former boyfriend.

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    Stern, only to keep her new baby from the man who claims to be his real father, Larry Birkhead?

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    Stern, was also investigated and cleared in her death.

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    Stern, Zur Biographie des Papstes Urbans II.

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    The "Everlong" acoustic MP3 first gained notice when Dave Grohl performed the song during an appearance on the The Howard Stern Show in 1997.

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    The armorial offender in Scotland is accordingly viewed with the same stern and unromantic outlook which meets any other culprit caught evading national taxation.

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    The body of the machine was oblong in shape, with the fore-part cut away like a water-chute boat, and a long counter at the stern over which the propellers revolved.

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    The Chinese Government and people hereby express their utmost indignation and stern condemnation and lodge the strongest protest against this barbaric atrocity.

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    The Columbia river canoe resembled that of the Amur, the bow and stern being pointed at the water-line.

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    The countess finished her prayers and came to the bed with a stern face, but seeing, that Natasha's head was covered, she smiled in her kind, weak way.

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    The crags which he flung at Britannia did indeed graze the stern and graze the prow of her craft.

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    The cruiser-style stern and bow cockpits have inlaid teak decks, and the interior is faced throughout with American white oak.

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    The defect of the disputed prophecies in the former part of the book (a defect, as long as we regard them in isolation, and not as supplemented by those which come after) is that they emphasize too much for the Christian sentiment the stern, destructive side of the series of divine interpositions in the latter days.

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    The dominating features of south New Zealand are not ferny plateaus or volcanic cones, but stern chains of mountains.

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    The door flew open before she could knock to reveal a stern woman in a monk's brown robes.

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    The end is taken into the testing room in the cable-house and the conductor connected with the testing instruments, and, should the electrical tests continue satisfactory, the ship is put on the proper course and steams slowly ahead, paying out the cable over her stern.

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    The enemy ceased firing, and that stern, threatening, inaccessible, and intangible line which separates two hostile armies was all the more clearly felt.

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    The first formed portion of the stern in all species of Selaginella which have been investigated possesses an exarch haplostele.

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    The first great inrush of population, following the discovery of gold and the opening of the railway, brought many desperate characters, who were held in check only by the stern, swift measures of frontier justice.

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    The footmen came in with sad and stern faces to change the candles, but no one noticed them.

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    The gondolier stands on a poppa at the stern with his face towards the bow, and propels the gondola with a single oar.

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    The high carved prow and stern give the craft almost a crescent shape.

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    The island was seething with disorder, but by stern and sometimes cruel measures the emperor suppressed the anarchy of the barons, curbed the power of the cities, and subdued the rebellious Saracens, many of whom, transferred to the mainland and settled at Nocera, afterwards rendered him valuable military service.

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    The king himself quailed before that stern, august presence.

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    The loyalty of the independent Sikh chiefs, headed by Patiala, and the stern measures which had been taken with the sepoy regiments enabled Lawrence to reinforce this little army with every available man and gun from the Punjab, in addition to Sikh and Pathan levies.

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    The main feature is the stern section with a bronze propeller, which is still in place.

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    The man frowned and gave Yancey a stern look.

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    The more emotional and ingratiating the expression of Natasha's face became, the more serious and stern grew Sonya's.

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    The most useful modern books are Louis and Charles de Lomenie, Les Mirabeau (5 vols., 1878 and 1889); Alfred Stern, Das Leben Mirabeaus (1889).

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    The native disposition of the Tosks has been modified by intercourse with the Greeks and Vlachs; while the Gheg devotes his attention exclusively to fighting, robbery and pastoral pursuits, the Tosk occasionally occupies himself with commercial, industrial or agricultural employments; the Gheg is stern, morose and haughty, the Tosk lively, talkative and affable.

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    The officer pointed with his hand to the smoke visible on the left beyond the river, and the same stern and serious expression that Pierre had noticed on many of the faces he had met came into his face.

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    The old prince stopped writing and, as if not understanding, fixed his stern eyes on his son.

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    The plates, put on in rows from bow to stern, are called strakes.

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    The poet Aarestrup (in 1848) declared that Blicher had raised the Danish language to the dignity of Icelandic. Blicher is a stern realist, in many points akin to Crabbe, and takes a singular position among the romantic idealists of the period, being like them, however, in the love of precise and choice language, and hatred of the mere commonplaces of imaginative writing.

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    The princes had long been chafing under the royal power; they had shaken even so stern an autocrat as Henry III., and the authority of Henry IV.

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    The process was even hastened; for the emperor's stern discipline crushed out all independence of initiative and silenced all honest criticism.

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    The religious atmosphere of Ganja, besides, was most favourable to such a state of mind; the inhabitants, being zealous Sunnites, allowed nobody to dwell among them who did not come up to their standard of orthodoxy, and it is therefore not surprising to find that Nizami abandoned himself at an early age to a stern ascetic life, as full of intolerance to others as dry and unprofitable to himself.

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    The size and character of this house, probably, at the time of its erection, the most spacious house of a subject in the kingdom, not a castle, bespeaks the wide departure of the Cistercian order from the stern simplicity of the original foundation.

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    The sonar transducer and GPS antenna can be mounted on a pole and temporarily attached to the boat 's stern.

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    The stern determination of the British troops, which alone made possible the reduction of Delhi with so inadequate a force, was intensified, if possible, by the ghastly story of The Mass- Cawnpore.

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    The stern government of Nicholas was, however, so far effective that Poland remained quiescent during the Crimean War, in which many Polish soldiers fought in the Russian army.

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    The stern section has an iron wheel shaft and a large spare propeller, which has unfortunately collapsed.

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    The stern simplicity of Calvinism, indeed, would not tolerate religious processions of any kind, and from the "Reformed" Churches they vanished altogether.

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    The stern warnings posted on our website may have helped.

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    The stern woman whirled away from the door, leaving it open for him to follow.

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    The stern, shrewd, and penetrating expression of that look struck Pierre.

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    The Stoic doctrine of the worthlessness of ordinary human virtue, and the stern paradox that all offenders are equally, in so far as all are absolutely, guilty, find their counterparts in Christianity; but the latter (maintaining this ideal severity in the moral standard, with an emotional consciousness of what is involved in it quite unlike that of the Stoic) overcomes its practical exclusiveness through faith.

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    The tall lad was standing in front, flourishing his arm and saying something with a stern look.

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    The tawdry and exaggerated rhetoric; the petty vanity and jealousies; the weak sentimentalism; the utter incapacity for proportioning means to ends, and for grasping the stern realities of things, which so commonly disfigure the lives and conduct even of the more honest members of his class, were wholly alien to his nature.

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    The Twilight's classic rounded stern and ornate architectural details are reminiscent of the vintage riverboats Mark Twain referred to as "Floating Palaces."

    293

    The twin outboard roared and the little craft swept around the Dolphin ' s stern and headed out to sea.

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    The two eyeholes in the head piece have a stern, even predatory character.

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    The uppermost deck running from the bow to the stern is called the weather deck.

    296

    The vascular bundle entering the stern from a leaf with a single vein passes by a more or less direct course into the central cylinder of the stem, and does not assume the girdle-like form characteristic of the cycadean leaf-trace.

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    The vessel is a 48 meter stern trawler with 15 persons on board.

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    The wreck of a small fishing vessel lies within feet of her stern.

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    The young Alexius joined the army; and in spite of the opposition of stern crusaders like Simon de Montfort, who sailed away ultimately to Palestine, he succeeded by large promises in inducing the army to follow in his train to Constantinople.

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    There is also an imposing bow sprit, together with a large bronze propeller and columns at the stern section.

    301

    There were stern looks exchanged and then the group was gone, stomping and snapping their way up the stairs.

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    They all carry the standard pair of steering oars at the stern some of which appear to have a tiller arm.

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    They are generally excellent rulers, stern but patient and just.

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    This contemptible conduct met with stern rebuke from the British press.

    305

    This God he could not discover in the Old Testament; on the contrary, he saw there the revelation of a just, stern, jealous, wrathful and variable God, who requires from his servants blind obedience, fear and outward righteousness.

    306

    This is a small unmanned submarine which is launched from the stern of the ship.

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    This is expressed on the Horologium of Andronicus Cyrrhestes, called the Temple or Tower of the Winds, at Athens, where Boreas is represented as a bearded man of stern aspect, thickly clad, and wearing strong buskins; he blows into a conch shell, which he holds in his hand as a sign of his tempestuous character.

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    This stern, thin, pale face that looks so much older!

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    This traditional-style boat is solely propelled by its large stern paddle wheel and offers overnight trips with night accommodations at shore-side lodges.

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    This type of stern is therefore often spoken of as protoslelic. In the Ferns there is clear evidence that the amphiphloic haplostele or protostele succeeded the simple (ectophloic) protostele in evolution, and that this in its turn gave rise to the solenostele, which was again succeeded by the dictyostele.

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    Throughout his life he profited by the gift of attaching to himself the right men, whether as patrons or, like Weidenbach and Stern, as assistants.

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    Throughout his reign he strengthened the central government at the expense of the aristocracy and the Church, by a stern enforcement of law and order.

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    Throughout the whole of the argument there is strong commonsense and a stern severity unrelieved by conscious humour.

    314

    To an axis at the stern of the car a triangular frame is attached, resembling the tail of a bird, which is also covered with canvas or oiled silk.

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    To escape she attacked the stern destroyer, HMS Daring.

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    Use a stern rudder to control the kayak 's direction.

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    Use a stern rudder to control the kayak's direction.

    318

    Viewed in this light Petrarch anticipated the Italian Renaissance in its weakness - that philosophical superficiality, that tendency to ornate rhetoric, that preoccupation with stylistic trifles, that want of profound conviction and stern sincerity, which stamp its minor literary products with the note of mediocrity.

    319

    Was that what Sarah had found so amusing the first day - the fact that she hadn't melted under Yancey's stern gaze?

    320

    We also need lacing eyes for bow and stern fenders and Maureen wants a socket for a Rotary drier.

    321

    Well, the Zeitgeist is a stern taskmaster, that 's not news.

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    Well, the Zeitgeist is a stern taskmaster, that's not news.

    323

    Well, what is Paris saying? he asked, suddenly changing his former stern expression for a most cordial tone.

    324

    What was left of the force originally detailed for the landing at " V " beach contrived during the early hours by stern fighting to occupy some high ground hard by, and also to join hands with the troops landed at " W " beach.

    325

    When Alex gave her a stern look, her hostile gaze shifted to her plate.

    326

    When he ventured to glance her way again her face was cold, stern, and he fancied even contemptuous.

    327

    When this ebony bird flew in it was beguiling my sad fancy into smiling by the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore.

    328

    While shrewdness, plain straightforwardness, and a certain stern way of looking at life are common to both, the Icelandic school adds a complexity of structure and ornament, an elaborate mythological and enigmatical phraseology, and a regularity of rhyme, assonance, luxuriance, quantity and syllabification, which it caught from the Latin and Celtic poets, and adapted with exquisite ingenuity to its own main object, that of securing the greatest possible beauty of sound.

    329

    Why should two hearts, together twined, Be sever 'd by stern Fate 's decree?

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    Why should two hearts, together twined, Be sever'd by stern Fate's decree?

    331

    With his left hand, he gestures toward the stern of a ship at sea.

    332

    With its huge ungainly limbs sprawling unsymmetrically, and its gnarled hands and fingers, it stood an aged, stern, and scornful monster among the smiling birch trees.

    333

    With the stern old prince and the gentle, timid Princess Mary, though he had scarcely known them, Pierre at once felt like an old friend.

    334

    With these stern Protestant discourses may be contrasted the beautiful, but somewhat euphuistical sermons of St Francois de Sales (1605-1622), full of mystical imagery.

    335

    Yancey gave her a stern look.

    336

    You can climb the mast to a ' crows nest ', or swim from the stern marina platform.

    337

    You can find Stern locked and loaded with a life-sized cutout of Hilary Rosen at his solar-powered compound somewhere in the Great American Southwest.

    338

    You can have a stern and sleek style when you put your hair up or a romantic look with dangling wisps.

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    You can use a drogue which is tied to the middle of the stern of the boat.