Sternly

"We don't give discounts," the woman said sternly. "Regardless how small. Now, please take off the suit if you can't afford it."

"Dima," Al-Sayib said sternly. "You know you're like a brother from another mother to me, but... cheating an Arab is unforgivable. Goodbye!"

My Latin teacher used to look down sternly on me over the rim of her glasses, but now I know it only had to do with the fact that she was wearing reading glasses and that she will have found it a nuisance taking them off all the time, so what looked like contempt towards us students might well and truly have been kindness.

Every time he opened his mouth she looked at him sternly, as if to say, 'Silence,' so he could only let his eyes speak for him.

From under his thick brows sternly watched two black little eyes, which stung sharply.

"Where have you been?" I asked, more sternly.

"I have trusted you too long, Effie," he cried, sternly.

Only at her mother's command, sternly uttered, she summoned strength enough to restore to her plighted suitor the piece of broken gold which was the emblem of her troth.

The unfortunate Baldoon recovered from his wounds, but sternly prohibited all inquiries respecting the manner in which he had received them.

She sternly accuses me.