No speaker in America has excelled Mrs. Lathrop in the vigor and the statesmanlike majesty of her arguments for the dethronement of the liquor traffic.
Although about fifty years old, he still maintained a youthful vigor cultivated by exercise.
His vigor as a tireless centaur had helped him powerfully in his task of populating his lands.
All her admiration was for the English army nurses, slender women of nervous vigor whose photographs were appearing in the papers, wearing pantaloons, riding boots and white helmets.
Second, the vigor or vitality of the individual child must be considered.
From puberty until the period of physical maturity, it grows in vigor and it remains stationary until middle life, when it gradually declines.
A young, virile adult will tolerate a sexual expenditure which would seriously affect the health and vigorof an older man.
When wrestlers goe about to counterfeit the Philosophers patience, they rather shew the vigorof their sinnewes than of their heart.
And in his debauching, I would have him out-go al his fellowes in vigorand constancie, and that he omit not to doe evill, neither for want of strength or knowledge, but for lacke of will.
The Colonel sat a moment in his chair, panting for breath; then started to his feet with a prompt vigorthat contrasted widely with the infirm and rheumatic movements that had heretofore characterized him.
Perhaps I shall have a new spirit of vigor if I wait quietly for it; perhaps not.
Trevor’s singing was more creditable from the point of vigor and whole-souledness than on the score of harmony or rhythm.
And having spoken, he bolted out the door a fraction of a second ahead of a German dictionary thrown with much vigor and precision.
A writer of much vigorand strength, whose wide sympathies are clearly shown in his works.
The impetuous rush and vigor of his Lays of Ancient Rome obscure their poetical defects.
It destroys the appetite, although it temporarily sustains vigor by unnatural excitation.
At that time and during the early years of the empire, a Mæcenas surrounded himself with authors and stimulated them to put forth all their vigor in the effort to create a native literature.
Canuleius argued with vigor against the consuls who stood up for the law, and at last he succeeded.
Then the Romans were glad to make peace, though no considerable results followed the struggle, and it had indeed been pursued with little vigor for much of the time.
Another look back at that flat expanse of granite, which had so gradually and so mysteriously changed from precipice to plain, and Rolla strode on with renewed vigor and interest.
Downright fear drove the anger from his face; his massive body suddenly relaxed, and all his power and vigor seemed to crumble and wilt.
He swung the stick with such vigor that he fairly cleared a circle for himself.
The doctor classed him and the younger girl together because of their vigor and independence, while Dulnop and Rolla seemed to have dispositions very similar in their comparative gentleness and restraint.
There is no longer that firm texture of the skin which indicates the vigor of health, and which shows that the muscles are under full control.
After repelling some furious charges of the mosquito cavalry, who displayed their vigor after long starving, we gave up the contest, and attempted sleep.
The crockery proved insufficient, and husbands and wives or sweethearts shared each other's cups, but they made an astonishing feast, for the inhabitants of that land eat with the same strenuous vigor with which they work and live.
Florence noticed the suggestive slackness of his bearing and her heart smote her, for she knew it was not mere physical weariness which had crushed the vigor out of the man.
If it is not for health and physical vigor that one follows up dancing; if it is not the peculiar social tie that binds dancers together; if it is not the incentive to intellectual growth and equipment, what is it?
It is commonly known that in a number of American and foreign colleges, by actual testing, the non-user of tobacco is superior in mental vigor and scholarship to the user of it.
I find everywhere secondary idlers swarming in the shadow of idlers in chief,[1411] and deriving their vigor from the public purse which is the common nurse.
Vigor of heart and of body justifies its own ascendancy, while the superabundance of energy, which begins in violence, ends in beneficence.
In de gym-shum," said Cyd, taking advantage of this faint smile, and exploding the two syllables with all the vigor of a pair of healthy lungs.
But this meal, though it seemed to increase the vigor and resolution of the party, did not remove a particle of their anxiety for the future.
For a few moments, Dandy defended himself from the impetuous assault of the young gentleman, who displayed a vigor and energy which he had never before exhibited.
The camp was designed to develop Negroid snap and vigor to the maximum of military efficiency.
The vigor of blood produced by methodical training soon permitted of vocalization only in iambics.
She had attained the ripe old age of seventy-six years, but her mind preserved its usual vigor and serenity, unimpaired by the influence of time.
The theme is handled by Bishop McIlvaine with his accustomed vigor and earnestness, and is illustrated by the fruits of extensive research.
With merciless vigor the French troops pursued, pouring down upon the retreating masses a perfect storm of bullets, and rolling over the precipitous sides of the mountains huge rocks, which swept away whole companies at once.
They were words from heaven to lift his soul above the trials, and sorrows, and humiliations of earth--words of divine power and virtue to infuse vigor into his depressed and sorrowing heart.
The revelation made unto him by the Almighty God had not altered the tone of his character in this respect, but had rather imparted fresh vigor and energy thereto.
These sculptures are equally re- markable for their primitive vigor and for the perfect preservation in which they have come down to us.
He was a regiment in himself, "being well formed, of a large size, strongly made and not too much loaded with flesh; you will not find his equal in all Gascony for vigor of body.
In vigor and pathos," justly observes the review before mentioned, "this poem rises to the end.
