For many a severe judge, sporting art is minor art.

He was an elderly man with a heavy jowled face and a reputation as a severe judge.

If He was to be thought of as a person, it was solely as a severe judge.

He now looked less like a schoolboy than like a prisoner waiting for sentence to be pronounced by a notoriously severe judge.

However, though a severe judge, Goddard was known to give young offenders probation rather than custodial sentences, if he believed that they would respond.

But when a person endeavours to paint the human form we are quick at finding out defects, and our familiar knowledge makes us severe judges of any one who does not render every point of similarity.

Mr. Maraniss, who is regarded by the White House at least as a severe judge of Mr. Clinton, displayed an almost Clinton-like testiness as he spoke of his being eventually closed off from interviews with the President.

Higg, the son of Snell, withdrew into the crowd, but, interested in the fate of his benefactress, lingered until he should learn her doom, even at the risk of again encountering the frown of that severe judge, the terror of which withered his very heart within him.

As he shaved his reflection seemed to be the face of a low criminal - or like one of Bodo's associates - and when he went into the sitting-room his wife bore more than a passing resemblance to an exceptionally severe judge about to condemn that criminal to hard labour for life.

Judge Campbell looked upon his obligations, whether as public official or as trustee, as duties of the highest order and of great value to society, and he was a just and severe judge upon himself as to the manner and the faithfulness with which these duties were discharged.

Thieves have their hands cut off on Friday afternoons, an event customarily announced the night before so thousands can witness severe justice in a soccer stadium.

"His failure in not bringing the man, and the man's followers, to swifter and more severe justice," De'Unnero interjected.

-- This is the September Massacre, otherwise called 'Severe Justice of the People.'

Hence this next aeon or, as it is called in Hebrew, the next shemii'tah, will lack restrictions imposed on humans; free- dom will replace severe justice and limitation.

The current age, that of severe justice and limitation, Elias explained, is marred by the fact that in its Torah one of the letters was defective, the consonant shin.

The public was clamoring for Liang to mete out the most severe justice to the "holy" man and his henchman, Abu Talib, the only two faces the public had seen.

Also, three aeons or epochs in time exist, the first in order being an age of grace, the second or current one being of severe justice and limitation, and the next, yet to come, being of mercy.

"When I had related all this, I added that I did not see why such a method might not be followed with more advantage than could ever be expected from that severe justice which the counsellor magnified so much.

But the efforts which the dread of truth obliges my powerful enemies to make to destroy every trace of it, render it necessary for me to do everything, which the strictest right, and the most severe justice, will permit, to preserve what I have written.