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Use "sterner" in a sentence
"Her father, Henry Rich, Lord Holland, the second son of the Earl of Warwick, has found place in sterner history than this."
"If the brow slightly bent before her did slightly knit itself in sterner lines than common, she could not be sure of it, bent as it was; and when he looked up, there was no such expression there."
"So much the sterner is the demand through the remaining ground for exquisite brevity."