There was no mistaking the way the stern-faced woman gestured as she spoke, leaning close to him so she could speak in a low voice.

The door opened, and she found herself face-to-face with a tall, thin, stern-faced woman, only the thin screen separating them.

A moment later, the image of a regal, stern-faced Romulan woman of early middle age appeared in the center of the screen.

She'd been a tough, stern-faced woman, and because of her Erin had kept her visits to the farm few and far between.

Behind him was a clutch of stern-faced women dressed in a similar style, straight out of The Crucible.

- The graying merchant's wife had been a stern-faced woman when Liandrin and the others came.

But before they reached the Eridani system, while they were still in deep space, Kolora, the stern-faced woman at the tactical station, reported.

Jeanette Oliphant was in her mid-fifties, a tall, elegant, but stern-faced woman.

Mrs. Curtin, a stern-faced woman who was busy washing up crockery in the sink, made no response.

"General Grady," the secretary of commerce, a stern-faced older woman, beckoned to him.