All 12 Uses of
vigor
in
Gone with the Wind
- They had the vigor and alertness of country people who have spent all their lives in the open and troubled their heads very little with dull things in books.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- This was a section that knew the chill of winter, as well as the heat of summer, and there was a vigor and energy in the people that was strange to her.†
Chpt 1.3
- When Scarlett was a year old, and more healthy and vigorous than a girl baby had any right to be, in Mammy's opinion, Ellen's second child, named Susan Elinor, but always called Suellen, was born, and in due time came Carreen, listed in the family Bible as Caroline Irene.†
Chpt 1.3
- Mammy pulled and jerked vigorously and, as the tiny circumference of whalebone-girdled waist grew smaller, a proud, fond look came into her eyes.†
Chpt 1.5
- That family needs new blood, fine vigorous blood like my red heads or your Scarlett.†
Chpt 1.5
- Like herself, the town was a mixture of the old and new in Georgia, in which the old often came off second best in its conflicts with the self-willed and vigorous new.†
Chpt 2.8
- "Don't say 'can't' to me, Pittypat Hamilton," said Mrs. Merriwether vigorously.†
Chpt 2.9
- The old voice was tired and bitter but vigorous.†
Chpt 4.40
- Scarlett was surprised, too, at the vigor of Melanie's attack, for she knew Melanie considered her husband beyond wifely reproaches and thought his decisions second only to God's.†
Chpt 4.41
- The healthy vigor which had carried her through the hard days at Tara stood her in good stead now, and within two weeks of Ella Lorena's birth she was strong enough to sit up and chafe at her inactivity.†
Chpt 4.42
- "Sentimental nonsense!" snorted Mrs. Merriwether with vigor.†
Chpt 5.49
- "You should make her stop it," said Mrs. Merriwether vigorously.†
Chpt 5.52
Definition:
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(vigor) strength, energy, or good health