All 4 Uses of
strenuous
in
War and Peace
- She brought into Princess Mary's strenuous, mournful, and gloomy world a quite different atmosphere, careless, lighthearted, and self-satisfied.†
Chpt 1 *
- From early morning strenuous activities and efforts had begun and by ten o'clock all had been brought into due order.†
Chpt 3
- As this Apsheron battalion marched by, the red-faced Miloradovich, without his greatcoat, with his Orders on his breast and an enormous tuft of plumes in his cocked hat worn on one side with its corners front and back, galloped strenuously forward, and with a dashing salute reined in his horse before the Emperor.†
Chpt 3
- She felt that a different world had now taken possession of her—the life of a world of strenuous and free activity, quite opposed to the spiritual world in which till now she had been confined and in which her greatest comfort had been prayer.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(strenuous) energetic; or physically or mentally difficult or requiring endurance