sternly

We must not look back but sternly face the future.

You do not know it for a fact, he sternly told himself.

I want her to be happy, he told himself sternly.

We knew they'd want to talk to us sternly and all the rest of it.

There was work to be done, she told herself sternly.

There would be no more of that tonight, he told himself sternly.

George called him sternly, and he looked at her in surprise.

This was not, she told herself sternly, the point of no return.

"You answer," the mother said sternly from a second phone.

He has a young son, she told herself again, very sternly.

I have to keep myself in check, she told herself sternly.

Put such thoughts from your mind, he told himself sternly.

"I understand you offered money to another teacher to watch your class," she said sternly.

"Those people will never be allowed to get back into power," she said sternly.

Oh, stop it/Winter told herself sternly as she got out of the car.

Perhaps, that is why free women guard themselves so sternly against them.

For I say to you very sternly, there will be a battle!

A great chance to sleep, he told himself sternly, but it was no good.

"I have some problems with your article," he said sternly.

A situation he got you into, she reminded herself sternly.

You really only need her for one thing, he reminded himself sternly.

But I'm not afraid of him, she told herself sternly.

She considered speaking sternly to him about it, but not for long.

He said both would be sternly punished under the law.

When I dismissed class he told me sternly to stay behind.