Sterner

(n.) A director.

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• She was little changed; something sterner, something more robust--but she was my godmother: still the distinct vision of Mrs. Bretton. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Not the best opinion of the sterner sex? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• For a brief time I wandered, in the sweet guiding of love, far from the purpose to which I had been true under sterner discipline and in darker days. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• She saw nothing, but her son a little paler, a little sterner than usual. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Nor did he neglect the sterner duties of life while following the bent of his inclination toward the solving of the mystery of his library. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• I need a sterner dream. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Perhaps it would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I meant it for the best. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• So the manner was subdued to a quiet deliberation, but the matter was even harder and sterner than common. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• An instant ago, all sparkles and jests, she now sat sterner than a judge and graver than a sage. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I thought Mrs. Thornton had been made of sterner stuff. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• I do not mean merely the tender jealousy of the heart, but that sterner, narrower sentiment whose seat is in the head. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Gutenberg was made of sterner stuff than his partner Dritzhn. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Defarge, who had been uneasily biting his thumb-nail and looking at her, collected his face into a sterner expression. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• And even in Socrates himself the sterner judgement of the multitude at times passes into a sort of ironical pity or love. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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