Слово "austere". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

His sermon was a forthright denunciation of sin, an austere declaration of the motto on the wall behind him: he warned his flock against the evils of heady brews, gambling, and strange women.

Austere, forbidding, and stamped with that particular desolation attaching to all houses that have been long untenanted, it reigned above the other dwellings.

There was a little parlour austerely furnished.

By the standards of the early twentieth century, even a member of the Inner Party lives an austere, laborious kind of life.

Nor is it to be wondered that McLean’s austere Scotch soul stood in danger of being thawed in the sunshine of Lit-lit’s eyes.

The courtroom was an austere place, a large dark chamber, clearly designed for Justice rather than, for instance, for Pleasure.

Whom have you got there dressed up as a Hungarian?" said the commander with an austere gibe.

Austere, forbidding, and stamped with that particular desolation attaching to all houses that have been long untenanted, it reigned above the other dwellings.

As she ground the sifter steadily above the bread board, she sang, to herself at first, something without particular tune or words, repetitive, mournful and plaintive, austere, as she ground a faint, steady snowing of flour onto the bread board.