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The Chinese government has in vain attempted to deal with the evil by stringent laws.

I felt its strengthening effect when I met the directress the next day; its stringent operation on the nerves suffered no trembling, no faltering; it enabled me to face her with firmness, to pass her with ease.

And even there they were frustrated, for stringent vagrancy laws were passed and rigidly enforced.

Among these men there was a stringent code of honour, any infringement of which was punished by death.

A great curiosity came on the trustee, to disregard the prohibition and dive at once to the bottom of these mysteries; but professional honour and faith to his dead friend were stringent obligations; and the packet slept in the inmost corner of his private safe.

I would not believe anything worse of him except under stringent proof.

Many are the enactments made at different times in the different States of Flatland, in order to minimize this peril; and in the Southern and less temperate climates where the force of gravitation is greater, and human beings more liable to casual and involuntary motions, the Laws concerning Women are naturally much more stringent. But a general view of the Code may be obtained from the following summary: --

In the course of his lark he managed to make a wide breach in one of the university's most stringent laws.

"Becoming a little more stringent, I see," he observed, holding it up.

Clearly they could want nothing but a stringent policeman.

What a situation, now, for a patriotic senator, that had been all the week before spurring up the legislature of his native state to pass more stringent resolutions against escaping fugitives, their harborers and abettors!

Sacred cities, to which a periodical religious pilgrimage was enjoined, or stringent laws and customs, tending to invigorate the national bond, were the check on the old rovers; and the cumulative values of long residence are the restraints on the itineracy of the present day.