All 13 Uses of
vigor
in
Babbitt
- On the vigor of his idea he was carried down the hard, dean, unused-looking hall into the bathroom.†
Chpt 1 *
- When the chop came he vigorously peppered it and salted it.†
Chpt 5
- He always peppered and salted his meat, and vigorously, before tasting it.†
Chpt 5
- BABBITT was fond of his friends, he loved the importance of being host and shouting, "Certainly, you're going to have smore chicken—the idea!" and he appreciated the genius of T. Cholmondeley Frink, but the vigor of the cocktails was gone, and the more he ate the less joyful he felt.†
Chpt 9
- Perhaps three hundred of them were quietly inconspicuous; perhaps three hundred vigorously exclaimed, "This is pretty slick, eh?" surreptitiously picked the late asters and concealed them in their pockets, and tried to get near enough to Mrs. Knowlton to shake her lovely hand.†
Chpt 13
- With his broad shoulders and vigorous voice, he was obviously a Good Fellow; and, rarest of all, he really liked people.†
Chpt 14
- Neglect now means loss of spiritual vigor and moral power in years to come….†
Chpt 16
- It was coming to him that perhaps all life as he knew it and vigorously practised it was futile; that heaven as portrayed by the Reverend Dr. John Jennison Drew was neither probable nor very interesting; that he hadn't much pleasure out of making money; that it was of doubtful worth to rear children merely that they might rear children who would rear children.†
Chpt 23
- And as he pondered on the train home something in his own self seemed to have died: a loyal and vigorous faith in the goodness of the world, a fear of public disfavor, a pride in success.†
Chpt 24
- No one could have told Babbitt that he was a fool with more vigor, precision, and intelligence than he himself displayed.†
Chpt 24
- His vision grew blurred, however, as he applied himself to Healey Hanson's raw but vigorous whisky.†
Chpt 29
- At the end Mrs. Mudge spoke with more vigor and punctuation: "Now let me suggest to all of you the advantages of the Theosophical and Pantheistic Oriental Reading Circle, which I represent.†
Chpt 30
- In this they were like the ruling-class of any other country, particularly of Great Britain, but they differed in being more vigorous and in actually trying to produce the accepted standards which all classes, everywhere, desire, but usually despair of realizing.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(vigor) strength, energy, or good health