The right thing was to correct them severely, if they were other than a credit to the family, but still not to alienate from them the smallest rightful share in the family shoebuckles and other property.
" "Mother," said Tom, severely, "this is not the time to talk about that.
" "Sister Pullet," said Mrs Glegg, severely, "if I understand right, we've come together this morning to advise and consult about what's to be done in this disgrace as has fallen upon the family, and not to talk o' people as don't belong to us.
This struck Mr Stelling as something more than natural stupidity; he suspected obstinacy, or at any rate indifference, and lectured Tom severely on his want of thorough application.
"You're a naughty girl," said Tom, severely, "and I'm sorry I bought you the fish-line.
If you blame Mr Riley very severely for giving a recommendation on such slight grounds, I must say you are rather hard upon him.
Bulstrode severely.
She was obliged to let him see it, and, looking at her severely, he said— "Why on earth have you been sending out invitations without telling me, Rosamond?
Rosamond was more severely criticised and less pitied, though she too, as one of the good old Vincy family who had always been known in Middlemarch, was regarded as a victim to marriage with an interloper.
By-and-by came a decided external leading: a confidential subordinate partner died, and nobody seemed to the principal so well fitted to fill the severely felt vacancy as his young friend Bulstrode, if he would become confidential accountant.
And severely she was punished for it.
Casaubon had so severely repulsed Dorothea's strong feeling about his claims on the family property, by her being convinced that she was in the right and her husband in the wrong, but that she was helpless.
Casaubon, severely pointing to it with his pen, and not looking at her.
Not that he had been disappointed as to the possible market for his horse, but that before the bargain could be concluded with Lord Medlicote's man, this Diamond, in which hope to the amount of eighty pounds had been invested, had without the slightest warning exhibited in the stable a most vicious energy in kicking, had just missed killing the groom, and had ended in laming himself severely by catching his leg in a rope that overhung the stable-board.
" Fred was conscious that he would have been yet more severely dealt with if his family as well as himself had not secretly regarded him as Mr.
" asked Bobbie, severely, and of course that settled the question.
" She looked at me severely.
In 1956, a vandal threw sulfuric acid at the masterpiece, severely damaging the lower part of the painting, and a few months later, a Bolivian threw a stone at the painting, causing some of the paint to fall off.
They took and beat them severely with sticks, those two poor faithful creatures, and turned them out into the cold and the wet, with many insulting and uncalled-for remarks!
" said the Water Rat severely.
