Citations:austere
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English citations of austere
| 1851 | 1949 | ||||||
| ME « | 15th c. | 16th c. | 17th c. | 18th c. | 19th c. | 20th c. | 21st c. |
- 1949 June 26, Ann Hightower, “If Paris Is Can-Can, New York Is Tom-Tom”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, page 167:
- "I don't know what those European vets were talking about. After listening to their stories about Paris, I find myself over here wound up in a romance with a French girl whose family is so austere I'm not even allowed to take her out."
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
- And for Radney, though in his infancy he may have laid him down on the lone Nantucket beach, to nurse at his maternal sea; though in after life he had long followed our austere Atlantic and your contemplative Pacific; yet was he quite as vengeful and full of social quarrel as the backwoods seaman, fresh from the latitudes of buck-horn handled bowie-knives.