A rigorous climate, a savage people, a fatal disease, and a soil barren of gold were the allurements of New France.
For the first year, Melville's imprisonment was of rigorous severity.
The contrast between the King's leniency towards them, and his rigorous and vindictive measures towards the ministers, plainly advertised the disposition of the King to both.
Both have a short but hot summer, and an extremely rigorous winter, differing only in degree.
Another branch migrated in a north-westerly direction, and in their march had to contend with a more rigorous climate.
All theserigorous statutes were now to be carried into rigorous execution by the still more vigorous instruments of arbitrary power, "Writs of assistance.
The pretended antagonism between mental power and sexual power, which does not withstand rigorous analysis, appears definitively to be destroyed by experience, by the tangible facts which incessantly strike the eye.
Under present social conditions, and considering the vast multiplication and subdivision of religious sects, the Virginia system is not too rigorous to justify its adoption throughout the land.
It should everywhere be raised to eighteen or twenty-one--the age of legal majority for a woman in her business or political relations--by a statute as rigorous as that of Idaho or Kansas.
But soon these rigorous persecutions broke out afresh; they were beset by Jesuits seeking to convert them, and when this failed they were driven out or annihilated.
In all these faculties alongside of rigorous scientific exactness there prevailed a noble liberalism without the surrender of the fundamental Catholic faith.
The more lax were styled Wet-, and their more rigorous opponents Dry-Quakers.
He was of a fiery and energetic character, in his writings as well as in his life pre-eminently a man of force, with burning enthusiasm for the truth of the gospel, unsparingly rigorous toward himself and others.
Geneva, where he enjoyed the closest intimacy with Calvin, whose doctrine of predestination, rigid presbyterianism, and rigorous discipline he thoroughly approved.
Guericke= of Halle, beginning as a pietist, passed through the union into a rigorous Lutheran, and joined Rudelbach in editing the journal afterwards conducted by Luthardt of Leipzig.
They combined dualism, demiurgism and docetism with a mysticism that insisted upon inward piety, demanded a strict but not rigorous asceticism, forbade fasting and allowed marriage.
European customs were introduced, but the rigorous enactments against native converts to Christianity were still enforced.
When I play at cards, they never take advantage of my mistakes, nor exact from me a rigorous observation of the game.
The chief praise to which a trader aspires is that of punctuality, or an exact and rigorous observance of commercial engagements; nor is there any vice of which he so much dreads the imputation, as of negligence and instability.
Detectives were employed to visit the gipsy camp and make a rigorous search for the boy.
It at length appeared to be conclusive that Charley's captors had gone to New York, and from rigorousinvestigations at the several hotels, it was almost certain that their names were Mosher and Douglas.
For some time the rigorous measures of the British officers in South Carolina seemed successful and a deathlike stillness prevailed in the province.
His search into principles was not profound, and his power of rigorous consecutive development was not remarkable.
The climate is in general cold, moist and variable; the rigorous winter covers the higher cantons with snow; rain is abundant in spring, and storms are frequent in summer, but the autumn is fine.
The nuns who observe the most rigorous conventual rules are the Capuchinas de Jesus Maria, the Nazarenas and the Trinitarias descalzas.
In consequence, when Stephen was bound by the rigorous oath which William archbishop of Canterbury required from him, concerning restoring and preserving the liberty of the church, the bishop of Winchester became his pledge and surety.
The importation of articles of luxury is forbidden, very rigorous sumptuary laws regulate not only dress, but even the structure and furniture of the dwellings.
From his able and rigorous attention to his horses and men, he was enabled at all times to act with promptness and efficiency.
They caused to be put in statute, and intensified by judicial precedent, the most rigorous laws in favor of property rights.
That Society, as we have seen, set out in the most rigorous and scientific way possible to find out first of all just what actual facts lay behind the confused phenomena of Spiritualism.
For the sake of its enrichment and its empowerment he subjected himself to rigorous disciplines.
Although there was so much talk about our leaving, our confinement continued as rigorous as ever.
In the early part of the thirteenth century for the first time, the horizon of the Latin schoolmen was suddenly enlarged and brilliantly illumined by the advent of the complete Aristotle in his severe, exacting and rigorous panoply.
Maimonides was thus the point of departure for his more rigorous followers as well as for his opponents.
Like Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, he gives a history of the opinions of others in the topic under discussion, and enumerates long lists of arguments pro and con with rigorous logical precision.
Some men share more, some less in the Active Intellect; and it is in everyone's power, within limits, to increase and purify his participation in the influence of the Active Intellect by study and rigorous ethical discipline.
He adopts as much of Aristotelian (or what he thought was Aristotelian) doctrine as is compatible in his mind with the Bible and subject to rigorous demonstration, and rejects the rest on philosophic as well as religious grounds.
The American people had not learned that war is a rigorous thing.
Being reared by a mother having a rigorousfaith has prompted you to speak thus, not acquaintance with the spirit of the age.
They wasted his frame with rigorous fasting, often restricting him to a diet of bread and water, and prohibited all strangers to have access to him.
He had no sooner determined on this, than he pretended to submit the truth of her mission to the most rigorous trial.
They preached the necessity of a community of goods, taught that it was necessary to wear sandals, because sandals only had been worn by the apostles, and devoted themselves to lives of rigorous abstinence and the most severe self-denial.
He gave into practices of the most rigorous mortification.
When Ctesiphon was summoned to appear, it was well understood that it was not he but Demosthenes who was in reality to be tried, and that the public and private record of the latter would be subjected to the most rigorous scrutiny.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rigorous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
