All 13 Uses of
vigor
in
The Mill on the Floss
- The clergymen have highish notions, in general," said Mr. Deane, taking snuff vigorously, as he always did when wishing to maintain a neutral position.†
Chpt 1.7
- The old woman, seeming to forget Maggie's hunger, poked the skewer into the pot with new vigor, and the younger crept under the tent and reached out some platters and spoons.†
Chpt 1.11
- It was a hard case that a vigorous mood for quarrelling, so highly capable of using an opportunity, should not meet with a single remark from Mr. Glegg on which to exercise itself.†
Chpt 1.12
- He had entered on his career with great vigor, and intended to make a considerable impression on his fellowmen.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- A clergyman who has such vigorous intentions naturally gets a little into debt at starting; it is not to be expected that he will live in the meagre style of a man who means to be a poor curate all his life; and if the few hundreds Mr. Timpson advanced toward his daughter's fortune did not suffice for the purchase of handsome furniture, together with a stock of wine, a gran†
Chpt 2.1
- Yet, strange to say, under this vigorous treatment Tom became more like a girl than he had ever been in his life before.†
Chpt 2.1
- Away they jumped with more and more vigor, till Maggie's hair flew from behind her ears, and twirled about like an animated mop.†
Chpt 2.1
- …afternoons and the first December snow seemed to him far livelier than the August sunshine; and that he might make himself the surer about the flight of the days that were carrying him homeward, he stuck twenty-one sticks deep in a corner of the garden, when he was three weeks from the holidays, and pulled one up every day with a great wrench, throwing it to a distance with a vigor of will which would have carried it to limbo, if it had been in the nature of sticks to travel so far.†
Chpt 2.1
- They were only so far civil to each other as was necessary to prevent their state of feud from being observed by Mr. Stelling, who would have "put down" such nonsense with great vigor.†
Chpt 2.5
- Feeble limbs easily resign themselves to be tethered, and when we are subdued by sickness it seems possible to us to fulfil pledges which the old vigor comes back and breaks.†
Chpt 3.9
- A vigorous superstition, that lashes its gods or lashes its own back, seems to be more congruous with the mystery of the human lot, than the mental condition of these emmet-like Dodsons and Tullivers.†
Chpt 4.1
- "That she never can, my dear," said Mrs. Pullet, with unusual vigor, "for she hasn't got the linen to follow suit wi' mine, I can tell you.†
Chpt 6.12
- Tom rowed with untired vigor, and with a different speed from poor Maggie's.†
Chpt 7.5
Definition:
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(vigor) strength, energy, or good health