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Example sentences for "rigorously"

Lexicographically close words:
rigord; rigorism; rigorist; rigoristic; rigorous; rigors; rigour; rigours; rigs; rigueur
  1. So rigorously did he work that in his best stories we feel that the removal of a sentence would be an amputation.

  2. For it is only by adhering rigorously to the truth that fiction can survive.

  3. These phrases were rigorously required under the circumstances, by Chinese politeness.

  4. Convinced that idleness more inevitably introduced poverty than any other cause, it was rigorously punished; the Egyptians made it criminal, and no vagabonds or mendicants were suffered under any pretence whatever.

  5. And if we may trust the narratives of our travellers, the beavers pursue this regulation more rigorously and exactly than even these industrious societies.

  6. During the space of six years Corneille rigorously kept his promise of not writing for the theatre.

  7. All egress from and ingress into the besieged city being rigorously prevented, the provisions began to fail amongst the thickly-crowded populace.

  8. They observed rigorously the religious precepts, even at the risk of suffering martyrdom.

  9. It commands with a superior voice and its commands must be obeyed, irrespective of cost: there are strict duties to which every man is rigorously bound.

  10. The rich were rigorously taught their duty to society, and they improved upon the lesson.

  11. The duties of wealth, both in Greece and Rome, were at all times rigorously enforced by public opinion.

  12. When he found his messengers lying dead in the forest path, transfixed with arrows, he was greatly exasperated, and resolved to deal rigorously with this obstinate tribe.

  13. Needful work is to be rigorously well done; needless work, and ineffectual or imaginary workers, to be rigorously pitched out of doors.

  14. Are we not the servants of him who commanded rigorously and unflinchingly that if such and such a poor man, who sold him two lean cows for his army, should wander along, to receive him kindly?

  15. On each of the pots they used formerly to place a statuette or cloth doll dressed as a woman, or a Priapus-like figure made of paste; but this custom, rigorously forbidden by the Church, has fallen into disuse.

  16. It is true that there is generally some one department over which they preside as their special province; but they are not rigorously confined to it; they can exert their power for good or evil in many other spheres of nature and life.

  17. In this cabin he shuts up his daughter so that she cannot see the light, and there she remains fasting rigorously for four days.

  18. If he claims a sovereignty over nature, it is a constitutional sovereignty rigorously limited in its scope and exercised in exact conformity with ancient usage.

  19. The wall of China, which rigorously excludes all strangers from the empire, is no mere metaphor.

  20. The feudal system that once theoretically existed amongst us was rigorously carried into practice in Egypt.

  21. Nothing is more true than this, and were we able to give of our own species a definition rigorously correct, we should indeed possess absolute knowledge.

  22. Whether such language be rigorously exact is for the present of no importance.

  23. Often in the North, he is not made to feel welcome in these libraries and in most of the public and private libraries of the South, he is rigorously excluded.

  24. We think it absolutely essential to the success of an official gazette that all of these specialized class publications should be most rigorously excluded from its pages.

  25. But such was the loss in the recent death of John Shaw Billings; a scientist in a department of science intensive and exacting, a librarian rigorously scientific in a profession broadly humane.

  26. Each emphasizes what the other passes over most lightly--each carries to its extreme conceivable development that which in the other is only sketched in by a faint suggestion--but neither has any feature rigorously special to itself.

  27. Thus, as far as surgery is concerned, unquestionably all vivisection should rigorously be proscribed.

  28. He was rigorously endeavoring to conceal that he found himself called upon to make the best of an extremely bad job.

  29. It was perhaps not sufficiently lofty and intellectual, and did not confine itself rigorously to one exalted subject.

  30. Thus is it that a parent's care purveys His bounty, and, exacting rigorously The price in tears, each boon's full cost defrays?

  31. Observe, too, that the very conditions of technique demand this order almost as rigorously in painting as in writing.

  32. But suppose, instead of thus rigorously confining itself to its own caste, this family of handicraft artists were to intermarry freely with poetical, or seafaring, or candlestick-making stocks.

  33. And after the death of the good old man (her father) her brother vsed her very rigorously and cruelly.

  34. There he dined very soberly, and vsing fewe words vnto his company, sate stil al pensiue, musing vpon that he had to doe: For on the one side the grauitie of the facte moued him rigorously to chastise him which had committed the same.

  35. Throughout the Central region the dances, while they might be held only in structures of certain kinds, were never rigorously attached to a specific locality.

  36. Fasting is less frequently and less rigorously practiced by the California tribes than by those of most other parts of North America.

  37. If you accept, you arrive at the house rigorously at the hour specified.

  38. It is a point of courtly etiquette which is observed rigorously by every one who draws nigh, that a question must never be put to a king.

  39. The colleges have rigorously upheld the principles of piety, justice and sacred regard for truth as the best foundation of social order.

  40. But in what parallel of north or south latitude it lay, I concealed for a time as rigorously as ancient Rome through every century concealed her real name.

  41. For the second offense they shall be rigorously punished.

  42. It was decreed that all be covered with roof tiles, but this law is not rigorously enforced.

  43. They rigorously observe their sabath, our Saturdy, so that they make ready no meat on that day.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rigorously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.