All 10 Uses of
vigor
in
Arrowsmith
- He liked Madeline's tall comeliness and her vigor; he felt that with her energetic culture she was somehow "good for him.†
Chpt 3
- The moment the urgent Martin showed that he was stirred by her graces, she went at his clothes—his corduroys and soft collars and eccentric old gray felt hat—at his vocabulary and his taste in fiction, with new and more patronizing vigor.†
Chpt 5 *
- The commonplace room shone with peculiar light; the vigorous weeds and rough grass of the waste land were radiant under the April sun, and sparrows were cheeping.†
Chpt 10
- After Mrs. Tromp had recovered from her desire to call her husband aside and make unheard but vigorous observations, and after the oldest Tromp boy had learned that "it wasn't nice for a little gentleman to kick his wee guests that came from so far, far away," they were all very happy.†
Chpt 17
- He denounced Sondelius as an aristocrat, he denounced Martin for his ignorance of economics, he denounced the waiter concerning the brandy; Sondelius and Martin and the waiter answered with vigor; and the conversation became admirable.†
Chpt 17
- The dread of Watters's patronage enabled Martin to lie vigorously: "Awfully sorry—awfully sorry—got a date for tomorrow evening and the next evening.†
Chpt 20
- He started in January with a Better Babies Week, and a very good Week it was, but so hotly followed by Banish the Booze Week, Tougher Teeth Week, and Stop the Spitter Week that people who lacked his vigor were heard groaning, "My health is being ruined by all this fretting over health."†
Chpt 21
- At noon, when the Eugenic Family were giving a demonstration of perfect vigor, their youngest blossom had an epileptic fit, and before the excitement was over, upon the Chicago anti-nicotine lady as she triumphantly assassinated a mouse charged an anti-vivisection lady, also from Chicago.†
Chpt 23
- Over the Nautilus Cornfield's announcement was the vigorous headline: ALMUS PICKERBAUGH WINS First Scientist Ever Elected to Congress Side-kick of Darwin and Pasteur Gives New Punch to Steering Ship of State Pickerbaugh's resignation was to take effect at once; he was, he explained, going to Washington before his term began, to study legislative methods and start his propaganda for the creation of a national Secretaryship of Health.†
Chpt 23
- I'm not going to have the D.P.H. turned into a Y.M.C.A. Bissex has all of Pickerbaugh's mush without his honesty and vigor.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(vigor) strength, energy, or good health