All 18 Uses of
vigor
in
War and Peace
- But when she saw that Pierre's sacrilegious words had not exasperated the vicomte, and had convinced herself that it was impossible to stop him, she rallied her forces and joined the vicomte in a vigorous attack on the orator.†
Chpt 1
- He now approached the sick man with the noiseless step of one in full vigor of life, with his delicate white fingers raised from the green quilt the hand that was free, and turning sideways felt the pulse and reflected a moment.†
Chpt 1
- The motion of the small foot shod in a Tartar boot embroidered with silver, and the firm pressure of the lean sinewy hand, showed that the prince still possessed the tenacious endurance and vigor of hardy old age.†
Chpt 1 *
- Despite his rapid journey and sleepless night, Prince Andrew when he drove up to the palace felt even more vigorous and alert than he had done the day before.†
Chpt 2
- Before dawn he had slept for a few hours, and refreshed, vigorous, and in good spirits, he mounted his horse and rode out into the field in that happy mood in which everything seems possible and everything succeeds.†
Chpt 3
- Prince Andrew, greatly changed and plainly in better health, but with a fresh horizontal wrinkle between his brows, stood in civilian dress facing his father and Prince Meshcherski, warmly disputing and vigorously gesticulating.†
Chpt 8
- On the contrary he gazed joyfully, his eyes moist with tears, at this bright comet which, having traveled in its orbit with inconceivable velocity through immeasurable space, seemed suddenly——like an arrow piercing the earth——to remain fixed in a chosen spot, vigorously holding its tail erect, shining and displaying its white light amid countless other scintillating stars.†
Chpt 8
- The most vigorous attack came from an old acquaintance, a boston player who had always been well disposed toward him, Stepan Stepanovich Adraksin.†
Chpt 9
- And there rose before him the Danube at bright noonday: reeds, the Russian camp, and himself a young general without a wrinkle on his ruddy face, vigorous and alert, entering Potemkin's gaily colored tent, and a burning sense of jealousy of "the favorite" agitated him now as strongly as it had done then.†
Chpt 10
- Dron was one of those physically and mentally vigorous peasants who grow big beards as soon as they are of age and go on unchanged till they are sixty or seventy, without a gray hair or the loss of a tooth, as straight and strong at sixty as at thirty.†
Chpt 10
- At times his brain suddenly began to work with a vigor, clearness, and depth it had never reached when he was in health, but suddenly in the midst of its work it would turn to some unexpected idea and he had not the strength to turn it back again.†
Chpt 11
- Having stood there a few moments, he strode back to Michaud and pressed his arm below the elbow with a vigorous movement.†
Chpt 12
- But when the guard was relieved next morning, Pierre felt that for the new guard——both officers and men——he was not as interesting as he had been to his captors; and in fact the guard of the second day did not recognize in this big, stout man in a peasant coat the vigorous person who had fought so desperately with the marauder and the convoy and had uttered those solemn words about saving a child; they saw in him only No.†
Chpt 12
- When the news of Petya's death had come she had been a fresh and vigorous woman of fifty, but a month later she left her room a listless old woman taking no interest in life.†
Chpt 15
- And to do that, order and strictness are essential.... That's all about it!" said he, clenching his vigorous fist.†
Chpt 15
- When her next baby was born, despite the opposition of her mother, the doctors, and even of her husband himself——who were all vigorously opposed to her nursing her baby herself, a thing then unheard of and considered injurious——she insisted on having her own way, and after that nursed all her babies herself.†
Chpt 15
- She did these things not under any external impulse as people in the full vigor of life do, when behind the purpose for which they strive that of exercising their functions remains unnoticed.†
Chpt 15
- What for people in their full vigor is an aim was for her evidently merely a pretext.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(vigor) strength, energy, or good health