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Example sentences for "rigors"

Lexicographically close words:
rigorism; rigorist; rigoristic; rigorous; rigorously; rigour; rigours; rigs; rigueur; rigueux
  1. They have slept in muddy trenches, they have suffered and survived unthinkable physical hardships; the rigors of agriculture will have no terrors for them.

  2. When every growing thing was stirring into life, happy in its blindness to the rigors of seed-time and harvest and the burdens incident to its later family life, Mary found that her battle was nearing the end.

  3. Acclimated by birth to the coldest region of the temperate zone, and naturally of a hardy constitution, I found it not so difficult to endure the rigors of the Arctic temperature as I had supposed.

  4. We were provided with food and clothing prepared expressly for the severe change to and rigors of the Arctic climate through which we must pass.

  5. Our boat was an ingenious contrivance with a thin glass top that could be removed and folded away until needed to protect us from the rigors of the Arctic climate.

  6. We must now examine the arrangement for softening the rigors of winter and toning down the heat of summer.

  7. In connection with this we may notice still another compensation in the elevation of the lands by which the burning heat of the torrid zone and the rigors of the colder zones are more or less diminished.

  8. This softening of the rigors of winter is, I think, as great a blessing to the poor as the heating of the tea-kettle.

  9. There is another transition experienced by water by which heat treasured up in summer is made available for softening the rigors of winter.

  10. His majesty wished to speak to you, you refused him an interview; why, now that you are face to face, that you are here by a force independent of your will, why do you confine yourself to rigors which I consider useless and absurd?

  11. After your rigors and your refusals, how could I dream it was you?

  12. Here were men inured to the rigors of campaigning by eleven months of as arduous fighting as ever fell to troops in all of the history of war.

  13. They are bound to die of hunger, or some disease engendered by hunger, as surely as a hive of bees left to face the rigors of a northern winter, without honey or sweets, must perish miserably before the advent of spring.

  14. To its rigors she brought a front of resolute gayety.

  15. Before returning, I felt weakened mentally and physically by the rigors of the North, where for a year I barely withstood starvation.

  16. In my own achievement I felt, that dizzy moment, that all the heroic souls who had braved the rigors of the Arctic region found their own hopes' fulfilment.

  17. With a skeleton as light as that of the bird and a skin as frail as paper it is nevertheless as well prepared to withstand the rigors of the Arctic as the bear with its clumsy anatomy.

  18. The law was barbarous everywhere, the persecution became so only at certain spots, owing to the zeal of the superintendents or bishops; as usual, the south of France was the first to undergo all the rigors of it.

  19. For Lillian would not hear of the implication of "Polly Hopkins" in the suspicion of the abduction, and the rigors of the law were annulled so far as she was concerned.

  20. With man, woman shared the dangers of the Mayflower on a stormy sea, the dreary landing on Plymouth Rock, the rigors of a New England winter, and the privations of a seven years' war.

  21. But refusing to submit to the orders of the council of state, interfering with his religious duties, he was thrown into prison, and his death was occasioned by the rigors of confinement.

  22. In this voyage he became embayed in ice, and passed the winter in the arctic regions, exposed to the rigors of the climate, and other perils.

  23. On a camping trip a person will submit to rigors and privations which he would think intolerable at home.

  24. Country life has no such rigors as the football field or the outing in the wilds.

  25. The rigors of a severe climate cut them off three mouths from communication with the plain of Oroomiah, and these rigors were to be encountered in native huts.

  26. Unable to endure the rigors of a colder climate, and to live on a less luxuriant soil, he could not have been induced to migrate to less favorable regions, and, crowded on a narrow area, the race must have been finally exterminated.

  27. In the Frigid Zone life seems almost extinguished during the greater part of the year by the rigors of an almost perpetual winter.

  28. He was old and feeble and his death was attributed to his coming in winter from a warm climate to the rigors of Valladolid, then the residence of the court.

  29. A still further project for mitigating the rigors of the Inquisition was laid before Charles in 1520, apparently after his arrival in Flanders.

  30. Not only the rigors of climate but the aspect of the outside world has a marked influence on character.

  31. The Governor could do nothing now, but would move as soon as the rigors of winter had somewhat relented.

  32. Despite the rigors and the dangers of my life here, should I ever again find such happiness and peace in the world?

  33. The precursory symptoms are often not particularly attended to; these are rigors and pain of the loins.

  34. Rigors generally precede the formation of matter, and violent fever almost always attends, abating, along with all the painful feelings, on evacuation of the fluid.


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