stern-visaged

I saw one stern-visaged gentleman tormented in this way till he looked ready to give the child its “final quietus.”

The Englishwoman in America 2007

"Senator Lott has apologized, and rightly so," a stern-visaged Bush said.

Ghosts Of The Past 2007

The stern-visaged, planar-faced Aron bore no resemblance at all to the images of the cheerful criminal Pausert.

The Wizard Of Karres Lackey, Mercedes 2004

When an orphanage girl attained the age of thirteen years and nine months, a stern-visaged churchwoman met with her in private to advise her of two facts: she was now old enough to have a baby, and God would forever condemn her if she meddled with boys.

Centennial Michener, James 1974

"Even in the fair the pictures will pursue you!" said the stern-visaged

Drolls From Shadowland

But if they were stern-visaged in their day, it was that we in our day, which in vision they foresaw, might of all communities beneath the sun have reason for a cheerful countenance.

Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various

Brutalizing as may be the effect of militarism in action, fortified as its devotees may be by all the iron ethics of its code, I cannot help but believe that here again the ever-recurring miracle of repentance and regeneration had been wrought by the grace of a baby's smile; that again this stern-visaged officer had become just

In the Claws of the German Eagle Albert Rhys Williams 1922

The following morning, after Hamilton had almost finished covering one side of the street in collecting the census statistics, he heard the trot of horses 'hoofs, and looking up, saw a tall, stern-visaged soldierly-looking gentleman, with iron-gray hair, riding a powerful iron-gray horse.

The Boy With the U.S. Census Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

On Sunday mornings the stern-visaged officers would go the round of all the barracks on inspection duty.

The Great White Tribe in Filipinia 1914

The town constable, vastly excited, came up the street, accompanied by two or three stern-visaged citizens.

Quill's Window George Barr McCutcheon 1897