Some of the provident ones collect one or two hundred tons of natural hay against the Severities of winter.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash
There are economists who are supposed to show a native generous warmth which all the Severities of their science are unable to quell.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
I see in a spiritual writer that even for such, corporal Severities are not to be neglected, but so many of them are unsafe.
"Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2"
Robert Ornsby