In a word, their policy was to aid the government with their countenance and their votes, so far as it would be sufficient to keep it alive, but by no means to give it the robustness and vigour of perfect health.
It belongs to the robustness of the conqueror's mood.
The robustness of his animalism permits him fully to imagine all the simple sensations of these beings, while his pessimism, which tinges these sketches of brutal customs with an element of delicate scorn, preserves him from coarseness.
Every one was delighted with the originality and power of his playing, and the exquisite taste that modified the robustness and passion which entered into the substance of his musical conceptions.
There was a robustnessin her carriage which came of the soil rather than of the city pavement.
But it was a robustness in a finer than the wonted sense, a vigorous daintiness, it might be called, which gave an impression of virility with none of the womanly left out.
When Angelo paints even God the Father in human form, mark what robustness is there.
The great age of the sufferer caused the gravest apprehensions, notwithstanding his well-known vigour and robustness of constitution.
Barbou states that 'the poet of the imperial era was sickly and asthmatic, and he detested Victor Hugo simply for his robustness and power.
To this very day the sufferings of that time are graven, as though by iron wedges, in the furrows of his lofty brow; the recovery of his health and his subsequent robustness have been powerless to efface them.
Henry III was never a strenuous worker, and his character failed in the robustness and self-reliance necessary for personal rule.
Her children inherited her acuteness and refinement with their father's robustness and aversion to study.
Yet, notwithstanding the lack of robustness and all it entails, Chopin might have been moderately happy, perhaps even have continued to enjoy moderately good health, if body and soul had been well matched.
Mothers are too apt to attribute the disappointment of a complete failure to nurse to some weakness or want of robustness in their own health.
That wholesome robustness in his acceptance of life which finds utterance in his early songs must have established a quick bond of sympathy between him and his youthful hearers.
But they had forgotten to take into account the robustness of the rustic appetite, and before they had proceeded far their bag of provisions was empty.
For the tremendous popularity which greeted "Frithjof's Saga" was due in no small measure to this half-juvenile robustness of its author's genius.
I doubt that their clothing lacked the latest fashionable wrinkle; their physique had lost its robustness and they had gained in self-possession.
The biography is the work of John Wellwood, who has approached it with proper appreciation of the robustness of the subject.
The subject, of course, is a revolting one, and so is Dame Quickly--but would any man of average robustness of mind wish Dame Quickly unwritten?
Then she passed to more earnest measures; praised his thickness of limb, the sturdy robustness of neck and loins.
Character is physical robustness to the extent that this latter is spiritual haleness, and in so far as it is compact, firm, steadfast thought.
For this more difficult manner of living, a robustness and a hardihood are requisite which are beyond the natural means of the body.
There is an obvious lack of directness as well as of robustness in the whole intellectual and political character of the man.
His constitution is feeble; he has as little robustness of physique as can well be conceived, and no kind of excitement is suitable for him.
Six of the author's chums of ten years ago have died because of too muchrobustness and worry.
