All 18 Uses of
vigor
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- He thoroughly cleaned his silver watch-chain with whiting, put new lacing straps to his boots, looked to the brass eyelet-holes, went to the inmost heart of the plantation for a new walking-stick, and trimmed it vigorously on his way back; took a new handkerchief from the bottom of his clothes-box, put on the light waistcoat patterned all over with sprigs of an elegant flower uniting the beauties of both rose and lily without the defects of either, and used all the hair-oil he possessed upon his usually dry, sandy, and inextricably curly hair, till he had deepene†
Chpt 4-6
- "Danged if ye bain't altered now, malter," said a voice with the vigour natural to the enunciation of a remarkably evident truism.†
Chpt 7-9
- Strange to say of a woman in full bloom and vigor, she always allowed her interlocutors to finish their statements before rejoining with hers.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- Then it moved and began to bustle about vigorously from place to place, carrying square skeleton masses, which were riddled by the same rays.†
Chpt 13-15
- Mr. Oak appeared in the entry with a steaming face, hay-bands wound about his ankles to keep out the snow, a leather strap round his waist outside the smock-frock, and looking altogether an epitome of the world's health and vigour.†
Chpt 13-15
- "Well, somebody has——and look here, neighbours," Gabriel, though one of the quietest and most gentle men on earth, rose to the occasion, with martial promptness and vigour.†
Chpt 13-15
- The door was hurriedly burst open again, and in came running Cainy Ball out of breath, his mouth red and open, like the bell of a penny trumpet, from which he coughed with noisy vigour and great distension of face.†
Chpt 13-15
- A young cavalry soldier in a red uniform, with the three chevrons of a sergeant upon his sleeve, strode up the aisle, with an embarrassment which was only the more marked by the intense vigour of his step, and by the determination upon his face to show none.†
Chpt 16-18
- The most vigorous expression of a resolution does not always coincide with the greatest vigour of the resolution itself.†
Chpt 19-21
- The most vigorous expression of a resolution does not always coincide with the greatest vigour of the resolution itself.†
Chpt 19-21
- Gabriel lately, for the first time since his prostration by misfortune, had been independent in thought and vigorous in action to a marked extent——conditions which, powerless without an opportunity as an opportunity without them is barren, would have given him a sure lift upwards when the favourable conjunction should have occurred.†
Chpt 22-24
- "I think you——are conceited, nevertheless," said Bathsheba, looking askance at a reed she was fitfully pulling with one hand, having lately grown feverish under the soldier's system of procedure——not because the nature of his cajolery was entirely unperceived, but because its vigour was overwhelming.†
Chpt 25-27
- The air changed its temperature and stirred itself more vigorously.†
Chpt 37-39
- The artifice showed that the woman, by some mysterious intuition, had grasped the paradoxical truth that blindness may operate more vigorously than prescience, and the short-sighted effect more than the far-seeing; that limitation, and not comprehensiveness, is needed for striking a blow.†
Chpt 40-42
- All Troy's vigour spasmodically revived to prolong the struggle yet a little further.†
Chpt 46-48
- Her original vigorous pride of youth had sickened, and with it had declined all her anxieties about coming years, since anxiety recognizes a better and a worse alternative, and Bathsheba had made up her mind that alternatives on any noteworthy scale had ceased for her.†
Chpt 46-48
- There had originally been shown by the agent to the estate some distrust of Bathsheba's tenure as James Everdene's successor, on the score of her sex, and her youth, and her beauty; but the peculiar nature of her uncle's will, his own frequent testimony before his death to her cleverness in such a pursuit, and her vigorous marshalling of the numerous flocks and herds which came suddenly into her hands before negotiations were concluded, had won confidence in her powers, and no further objections had been raised.†
Chpt 46-48
- Hence her pity for the man who so persistently loved on to his own injury and permanent gloom had betrayed Bathsheba into an injudicious considerateness of manner, which appeared almost like tenderness, and gave new vigour to the exquisite dream of a Jacob's seven years service in poor Boldwood's mind.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(vigor) strength, energy, or good health