A gentleman of late middle-age, Claghom was stocky, strong, with black-gray hair, magnificent green eyes, a manner which suggests great internal force under stern control.

The Rowan had had to exercise a stern control over the almost overpowering desire to support him kinetically.

I was measuring spices for the kitchen warder, and only the sternest control kept my hand from trembling and spilling the expensive spice.

But the vacuum left by the unexpectedly swift crumbling of the Communist Party, so recently the monolithic source of stern control over all aspects of East German life, fed tension and anxiety.

Her aura genuinely fright-ened him; he kept his own feelings under stern control.

As usual, Cargill's thoughts were under stern control and nothing peeped out.

Amused by her own alliterative descriptions, she smiled, only to pull her mouth into stern control as she saw the resulting flash of triumph which illuminated Rune's features.

It did take stern control to remain calm.

The clashes again testified to the dangerous ethnic passions that have surfaced across the Soviet Union, and especially in the volatile region of the Caucasus, since the lifting of stern Stalinist controls.

He took a step toward the woman, stopped, swallowed and brought his wild emotions under stern control.