These are remarkable for their vigour of feeling, and also for showing that Petrarch had formed the idea of Italianita better even than Alighieri.
I do not like the evening-candle-light work: it wears the eyes much more than the same sort of light in the morning, because then the faculties are in vigour and wholly unexhausted.
With these newly-founded States rising with fresh vigour from among the decayed and festering remains of an older society, we look hopefully forward to what the future years will show us.
It was this intimate persuasion in the minds of the people which gave such undying vigour to the counsels and pretensions of the ecclesiastical power.
The rights of princesses to arm-chairs or chairs with only a back were contested with a vigour which might have settled the succession to a throne.
For by this time a stout feeling of mutual hatred had given vigour to the quarrel between the nations.
Fine feelings, without vigour of reason, are in the situation of the extreme feathers of a peacock's tail--dragging in the mud.
It is in the politic as in the human constitution; if the limbs grow too large for the body, their size, instead of improving, will diminish, the vigour of the whole.
Universal plodding prisons up / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long-during action tires / The sinewy vigour of the traveller.
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our= 25 =passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigour to our moral nature.
He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent, still less how to act with vigour and decision.
Vigor ætatis fluit ut flos veris=--The vigour of manhood passes away like a spring flower.
Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora ferme, et finis inclinat=--The commencement of our official duties is characterised by greater vigour and alacrity, but towards the end they flag.
An eternal youth is spread over all his beautiful figure, a sublime mixture of nobleness and agility, of vigour and elegance, and which holds a happy medium between the delicate form of Bacchus, and the more manly one of Mercury.
On this occasion, the aged seemed to have recovered the vigour of youth, and women and children to have acquired the strength of manhood.
This wonderful picture, which was brought from Rome, is, for vigour of execution and truth of colouring, superior to all the others by the same master.
There is a wonderful vigour of colouring in these two capital pictures.
Of two of these, now in full vigour and exercise, I must say a few words, as they are of a nature somewhat curious.
I marvel not at the strength andvigour of these French belles.
Such is the vigour of their arm that, for the circumference of half-a-mile, the air resounds with the noise of their incessant blows.
Had he possessed a vigour of intellect, and a daring equal to the situation of leader of a party, there is little doubt that he might have succeeded in his plan, and been declared regent.
Although superior to the Madonna di Foligno as to style and composition, it is inferior in the representation of the child, and in vigour of colouring.
Cicero names him as the first who impaired the vigour of the earlier eloquence, "preferring his own sweetness to the weight and dignity of his predecessors.
In spite of this misfortune, the occupation party dashed forward, and, regardless of the heavy fire from the enemy trenches, consolidated the position and constructed wire entanglements with great vigour and determination.
The concert party took on their self-appointed tasks with great vigourand success.
The introduction of local talent, in the form of an enfant prodigue who played the violin, and a French girl who sang with great vigour proved highly popular.
This opportunity they took with vigour and success, and by means of it put forth works which showed the best and most essential qualities of their race.
The cuts of the "Biblia Pauperum" are rougher, but full of vigour and power of expression.
Strutting Daimyo, beguiling woman, ferocious warrior, shrewd peasant--he made each part move with the vigour and force of the seen stage.
But weary as seems the spiritual content of these end-of-the-century designs of Utamaro's, there is no lack of brilliant vigour in their composition.
Yet the weak joints in the nation's harness are gaping, and the vigour and virility of the masses appear to be diminishing.
Upon the youthful vigour and strength of their family the parents could rely also when overtaken by the weakness of old age or by accident or disease.
They tell us that we hold in our hands to-day the mental vigour and bodily powers of an untold number of descendants, therefore it behoves us to consider our ways and be wise while there is yet time.
His literary works exhibit both vigour and perspicuity of style; he wrote, in addition to various articles, especially in the Annales de chimie, Elemens de chimie (3 vols.
This speech, delivered with characteristic vigour and Imperialistic enthusiasm, was the type of others which followed in quick succession during the year.
The safety of a considerable part of the state, and the interest of the whole, are not to be trusted to the wisdom and vigour of future administrations; when a security is to be had more effectual, more constant, and much less expensive.
We rose in much better heart betimes on the following morning, and set about our unaccustomed tasks with a vigour that compensated for our inexperience.
Yet the vigour with which I did it, combined with my clumsier masculine methods, had unfortunate consequences.
Without passing a word they resisted this onslaught with all thevigour they could summon.
Seeing what I was about to attempt they made a rush, but I did not bear youth and vigour in my limbs for nothing.
I agree with you there," says I, "but we must strengthen any defects in our tale by the vigour and sincerity of its narration.
The Walnut is propagated by the nut; which is best sown where it is finally to remain, on account of the tap-root, which will thus have its full influence on the vigour of the tree.
This is a sure sign that the vigour of the tree is declining.
Colonel, who in the vigour of her declaration had forgotten to allow for the squint.
The amazing vigour of his conceptions, and the flat contradiction which they impose on the orthodox and traditional images which most people's minds unconsciously harbour, added a sense of shock to that of strangeness.
In this picture it is in the intention rather than the execution that we shall find the vigour and strength which ended only with the painter's life.
To realise fully their vigour and excellence, one need only compare these powerful nudes with those painted in the pilasters close by, the work of assistants.
It is, however, in the three pictures of the predella that we shall find most proof of the vigour of mind and hand.
But if in defence the armies were well matched, it must be conceded that the Northern attack was not pressed with the same concentrated vigour as the Southern.
The extreme vigour with which the Americans had prosecuted their operations now came to an untimely pause.
The Ohio and West Virginia Regiments, of which the Federal force was composed, fought with the vigour which always characterised the Western troops.
Fremont, already fearful and irresolute, was hardly the man to withstand the vigour of Jackson's onset; and that onset would assuredly have been made if more careful arrangements had been made to secure the bridge.
Both were surprised by the unwonted vigour be displayed, especially at South Mountain and in the march to Sharpsburg.
A single battery, pushed boldly forward into the front of battle, has often restored the vigour of a wavering line.
McClellan, moreover, had been paralysed by the vigour of Jackson's blows.
Fremont, by the rapidity of his pursuit, made full amends for his lack of vigour at Cedar Creek.
The men drew fresh vigour from this powerful combination.
There was a wide and open field of fire, and when the Federal skirmishers appeared north of the Miller House the Confederate batteries, opening with vigour at a range of eight hundred yards, struck down sixteen men at the first salvo.
The South, on the other hand, ringing with the brilliant deeds of Lee and Jackson, turned with renewed vigour to the task of resisting the invader.
The enterprise andvigour of Jackson are well known.
From the south and south-east came Anderson and McLaws, the batteries unlimbering on every eminence, and the infantry, hitherto held back, attacking with the vigour which their gallant commanders knew so well how to inspire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vigour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
