Vigour

Examples

• But in many cases victory depends not so much on general vigour, but on having special weapons, confined to the male sex. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Many cultivated plants display the utmost vigour, and yet rarely or never seed! Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I have said, that the defects of her character awoke and acquired vigour from her unnatural position. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Sowerberry had not yet returned, and Oliver continued to kick, with undiminished vigour, at the cellar-door. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Yet for all this vigour on the part of the senatorial usurers, landgrabbers, and forestallers, the hungry and the anxious were still insurgent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• From whence does this proceed, but that the memory in the first case assists the fancy and gives an additional force and vigour to its conceptions? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He returned to France after Sedan, and flung himself into the stormy politics of the defeated nation with great fire and vigour. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You give me fresh life and vigour. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• A carpenter in London, and in some other places, is not supposed to last in his utmost vigour above eight years. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I can ill record the flow of language and graceful turns of expression, the wit and easy raillery that gave vigour and influence to his speech. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• That music stirs my soul; it wakens all my life; it makes my heart beat--not with its temperate daily pulse, but with a new, thrilling vigour. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The wish to have some strength and some vigour returned to me as soon as I was amongst my fellow-beings. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• And in the nod and in the firm set of her mouth, there was a vigour of purpose not to be doubted. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was the prime and vigour of the year; all things were glad and flourishing. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The light had come back to his eyes and the colour to his cheeks, as he set himself with great vigour and lucidity to explain the situation. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

Typist: Trevor