All his urgency and strenuousness he reserved for his book.
Men like the subject of the present sketch are apt to be thought of as sordid and selfish, while with intensity of spirit and strenuousness of brow, they drive impetuously over obstruction, forgetful of the gentler amenities of life.
This brief and rapid summary of his achievements affords but a bare idea of the strenuousness of his career during the stormy days of the Civil War.
The strenuousness of the times imposed burdens on him never before borne by a governor.
Nevertheless the austere spirit inculcated in this chapter must be kept alive, if the Church is to be the spiritual leader of humanity, for strenuousness is the great want of modern life.
As for the national life, public affairs in those circumstances tend to be ruled simply by the standard of immediate expediency, and strenuousness of principle or practice tends to be regarded as an impossible ideal.
Stated briefly its message is that of an optimism which depends on a recognition of the strenuousness of life.
Life is a "training school" for a future existence, and our place in it depends on the courage and strenuousness with which we have laboured here.
I think so," she said, giving desperate lie to proof positive under the strenuousness of desire.
Pam told him, shouting the words in his ear, with the twofold object of reaching his remote understanding and rousing him by sheer strenuousness of voice.
It was probably the dignity of the orator's attitude and the severity of his taste in rhetoric which encouraged the poet to adopt a similar lucidity and strenuousness in verse.
She felt the strenuousness of striving to keep abreast of Hattie.
In each reader the strenuousness had taken a different form.
The strenuousness of this masterful and overbearing man was displayed in his controversy with the Gallican clergy, upon whom he tried to impose the Easter day observed by the Celtic Church in the British Isles.
The mediaeval code of religious ethics applied in its utter strenuousnessonly to monks and nuns.
Whoever may wish to know his strenuousness (strenuitatem) will find it in his precepts," writes the monk Jonas, who had lived under him.
He is a quick genius, checkmated for want of strenuousness or else patience.
The Norman genius, talent for affairs as its main basis, with strenuousness and clear rapidity for its excellence, hardness and insolence for its defect.
He sometimes produced false impressions by the very strenuousness of his aim and the vehemence of his passion; but he was never foggy, obscure, or ambiguous.
The strenuousness of the earlier Elizabethan age was passing away, and the relaxing morality of Jacobean society was making its way into literature, culminating in the entire disintegration of the time of Charles II.
And she could not but feel that in so far as the play diverted her, it did so at the expense of that strenuousness of endeavor for extraordinary usefulness which her mind had taken under the spell of Mrs. Frankland's speech.
But she had left in it strenuousnessenough to make it a powerful stimulant to Phillida's native impulse toward self-sacrifice.
He felt that he could slacken the strenuousness of his exertions and let his fortune expand naturally under prudent management.
All these tests were very closely watched by Edison, who demanded rigorously that the various trials of the battery should be carried on with all strenuousness so as to get the utmost results and develop any possible weakness.
Here strenuousness is expected; and an immediate commencement of investigation and prompt report are required.
There was strenuousness in the air, and she resented it on her vacation.
It was their strenuousness which had given Lady Wetherby that battered feeling.
On the whole, however, the average was high, and the girls seemed disposed to live up to the past traditions of the Form, and set an example in strenuousness to the rest of the school.
There is a great deal in public opinion, and while a do-as-you-please attitude had hitherto been in vogue, keenness and strenuousness now became the fashion.
More than one of the influences thus hastily surveyed combine in creating the moral, social, and intellectual strenuousness which is one of the main marks of the literature of the period.
He on the contrary who curbs or reins in his expansive desires is displaying the chief of all the virtues, spiritual vigilance or strenuousness (appamāda).
At Harrow the dominant chord among masters and boys is a harmony of strenuousness and sentiment.
Inevitably, the sentiment becomes, at times, sentimental; and then strenuousness pushes it into a corner.
She had never been called upon by the strenuousness of any occasion to mention baldly to Lord Walderhurst that she "loved" him.
The strenuousnessof things was becoming, in fact, almost too much for Lady Agatha.
