Assertion: farm bailiff | /r/CapableOf | exercise his natural severity
Facets:
value: in the denunciation of all liquors
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: almost exclusively
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Moved by similar enthusiasm, the cowherd took the pledge also, and if he didn't keep it, he certainly drank less, chiefly owing to the vigilant oversight of the farm-bailiff, who now exercised his natural severity almost exclusively in the denunciation of all liquors whatsoever, from the cowherd's whiskey to Thomasina's elder-flower wine.