Poor old Liszt is mercilessly dissected, and his admiring circle at Weimar slashed by a vigourous pen.
The emotion, as the psychological accompaniment of orderly disturbances in the central nervous system, profoundly influences behaviour and often renders it more vigourous and more effective.
His hypothesis of sexual selection is largely dependent upon the exercise of choice on the part of the female and her preference for "not only the more attractive but at the same time the more vigourous and vicious males.
Mould growth, on the other hand, is most vigourous in media that are strongly acid to phenolphthalein.
If the vein cannot be distended by proximal compression, vigourous friction with a piece of dry lint may have the desired effect--or a test-tube full of water at about 40°C.
The bosom of the vigourous little woman began to show signs of tender agitation--distributed over a large surface.
The cook--lately engaged--was a vigourous little woman, with fiery hair and a high colour.
With some surprise that so well informed a person as Father Anselm should be ignorant of this prominent topic of the day, Sir Godfrey here broke in and narrated the legend to him with many vigourous comments.
Then the most vigourous efforts were made to get together their forces, but it was too late.
We will have foot races and trials of skill with the bow, and I will bid their officers pick me out two hundred of the most active and vigourous among them; these you shall have under your command.
An insignificant and playful rhythm is suitable to the triangle, tambourine, castanets and side drum, a vigourous and straightforward rhythm may be given to the bass drum, cymbals and gong.
Vigourous phrases in the form of a fanfare, although introducing chromatic notes sound singularly beautiful on the brass.
Thus the germ of a vigourous central authority, which will embrace all the ruling interests of the country, is already beginning to sprout.
On all sides the view is terminated by ranges of hills, forming an amphitheatre yet covered with the vigourous growth of the primitive forest.
To render the efforts of the higher classes in favour of the peoplevigourous and sustained, they must, then, be directed by religion.
But yesterday, it seemed as vigourous as ever in England.
In this conquest over nature, Europe has not remained an idle spectator; she has sent forth vigourous labourers, who have co-operated with the sons of New England, for slavery drives them from the men of the South.
The American concerns himself little about that; violent sensations are necessary to stir his vigourous nerves.
He has firmer sinews and more vigourous muscle; physically he is better made for labour; he carries it on with more perseverance and method; he becomes interested in it, and obstinately bent upon it.
Pride is ridiculous in an enervated and inert people, but in an enterprising, active, vigourous nation, it is consciousness of power, and confidence in its high destiny.
In the heat of debate and the shout of acclamation that followed the restoration of order, the old military leaven began to ferment in the President's heart, and without a pause, he rushed into a vigourous campaign against the Bank.
Who knows if thevigourous race which is now bursting forth from this virgin soil, will not then have passed us in their turn, as we have outstripped our predecessors?
The dances themselves are charged with a vigourous spirit and executed with big, noble movement of flourished weapons.
Of a style distinct from these are certain dances of men, including a stirring dance of warriors; in which group is seen vigourous action, a good proportion of open movement, and genuine steps.
The extension of the arms as indicated enables them to give a vigourous start to the revolving movement; the leg, by a sharp sweep “outward,” contributes to the same impulse.
About her work there was a healthy public controversy, a vigourous minority protesting against idolisation of one who they asserted had virtuosity only.
The management of the castanets is a difficult addition to such vigourous foot-work, and important.
Quietly Raven spoke a few rapid words to Little Thunder, who, slowly putting up his knife, made a brief but vigourous harangue to the Stonies, the result of which was seen in the doubtful glances which they cast upon Cameron from time to time.
Only one reflection corrected the vigouroussatisfaction with which he thought out Hilda's proposition.
The neutrality of her hospital dress left Hilda in a manner exposed: one saw in a special way the significance of lines and curves; it was an astonishingly vigouroushuman expression.
The horses quit the earth, the guns fly into the air, and the ample folds of the burnous float and unroll themselves in the wind, thrown back by the vigourous arms of the children of the desert.
Others affirm that his name referred to the vigourous set of his limbs.
Some strong, vigourous fellow takes charge of him, lifts him up, places him across his saddle, and carries him home dead or alive.
My proof is that the male is more noble than the female, and he is, besides more vigourous and potent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vigourous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
