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Updated: June 29, 2025
It was made of pink nun's-veiling, which she had got very cheap as a bargain at Shaw's when the summer sale was over. The dress was made simply, quite high to the throat, with long sleeves, but the plain skirt and rather severe-looking bodice, with its frill of lace round the throat and wrists, gave Alison that curiously refined, ladylike appearance which was so rare in her station of life.
She was a new importation and she had no idea as to the identity of the tall, severe-looking Englishman who walked by her mistress's side. "There is something going on in Monte Carlo," Lady Hunterleys went on, "which I cannot understand. Mr. Draconmeyer knows about it, I believe, although he is not personally concerned in it. But he will tell me nothing.
As she spoke she held out her hand to him, and when he took it she made use of his to help herself up from her stool, and when or how it came about, Curdie could not tell the same instant she stood before him a tall, strong woman plainly very old, but as grand as she was old, and only rather severe-looking.
Mawha, who had been a wife several times, a tall, rather severe-looking Indian woman, turned upon her. "Thou art well-grown and shouldst have a husband. Girls get too wild if they are let go too long. A husband keeps them in order." "I will have some supper," Rose said, with dignity, ignoring the stricture. Then she cleared a place on the table and brushed it clean with the birch twigs.
And yet it was an inveterately severe-looking room a room that seemed as if it had never been convivial, never uproarious, never anything but sternly comfortable and serenely dull a room which appeared to be as unconscious of acts of mercy, and easy unreasoning over-affectionate forgiveness to offenders of any kind juvenile or otherwise as if it had been a cell in Newgate, or a private torturing chamber in the Inquisition.
As he held the watch at the length of its chain and stared, half-comprehending, his hand the hand of the finest swordsman in the Indian Army shook. Lenore gone: a puling, yelping whelp in her place.... A tall, severe-looking elderly woman entered the verandah by a distant door and approached the savage, miserable soldier. Nurse Beaton.
But a light broke through the mental darkness of despair directly, for Murray came back with the officer in command, a stern, severe-looking man, but whose harsh, commanding voice softened a little as he laid one hand on the horse's neck, and held out his other to the rider. "I did not know who you were, Mr Gowan. My old friend, Captain Murray, has just told me. Shake hands, my lad.
A strong severe-looking man will at once come up to you; he has a firm step, a deeply sunburnt body, a decided eye and wide-awake air; it is the guide of the rough track.
Women were in a great majority, a man scattered forlornly amongst them once and again. She discovered at once the alert eyes of young Mr. Warlock. He was seated in the side aisle with a thin, severe-looking woman beside him. He stared straight in front of him, wriggling sometimes his broad back as though he were a dog tied by a chain.
She had a visitor with her now a long, severe-looking lady with a sharp nose surmounted by spectacles, who, taking in the white tiles, the thermometer, the cot, and the brass knobs in a single comprehensive glance, observed: "Admirable!" Mrs, Porter was obviously pleased with this approval.
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