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  • One day he'd been a vigorous sixty-seven-year-old man, running his clinic, flirting with the bakery ladies, blabbering to anyone who would listen about his winter vacation in Florida, and the next he was lying at the bottom of the stairs in the Sawtelles' barn.†   (source)
  • Since we didn't have a blender, he spent hours in the kitchen, stirring vigorously with a fork, trying to smooth the clumps to make his meals bearable.†   (source)
  • Shi nodded vigorously.†   (source)
  • I see you are addressing the subject with vigor.†   (source)
  • Leon turns around, knocking a bottle of ink over as he grasps Lale by the hand, shaking it vigorously, overjoyed.†   (source)
  • Ravi nodded vigorously.†   (source)
  • Shay shook her head vigorously.†   (source)
  • I knew English wasn't their first language and had real doubts about how much they were even following what I said, but when I finished, they erupted into vigorous applause.†   (source)
  • He nods again, a little too vigorously.†   (source)
  • She floated around the house looking a bit lost for three days, then she began spring cleaning with a vigor that frightened even Granddad.†   (source)
  • He dusted his hands vigorously.†   (source)
  • "In that case, I think you'll get a vigorous defense out of him.†   (source)
  • Mrs Whatsit nodded her head vigorously.†   (source)
  • "I suppose not," he said, and vigorously rubbed his arms for warmth.†   (source)
  • One dog had come near the verandah on which we sat and was vigorously crying.†   (source)
  • Owen nodded vigorously.†   (source)
  • I managed only to shake my head vigorously, no.†   (source)
  • She nodded vigorously, saying, "Don't want him doin' me like he done Papa, tryin' to make him out lefthanded..."†   (source)
  • With almost maniacal vigor, Langdon yanked down hard with his right hand on the canopy.†   (source)
  • That he is a man who understands the power of the German soil, who feels its dark prehistoric vigor thudding in his very cells.†   (source)
  • He found himself chewing the jerky with loud, thrashing vigor, hoping it made him look tough, not just hungry.†   (source)
  • Skiers in white shrouds winged down virgin slopes, silent as angels, and then, realistically, herringboned up again, but herring-boned in cheerful, sunburned bands, with clear eyes and white teeth and chests full of vigor-laden mountain air.†   (source)
  • I thought of his expressive face, handsome and vigorous.†   (source)
  • A woman in a paisley apron was sweeping with demented vigor in front of her house through whose open door came the smell of fried breakfast.†   (source)
  • The priestess' voice came at longer intervals now, but its vigour was undiminished.†   (source)
  • The crowd clapped vigorously.†   (source)
  • A split second later, the only sound in the car was a vigorous hissing noise from under the hood.†   (source)
  • Again Carla scribbled and nodded vigorously.†   (source)
  • Judith plumped matter-of-factly to her knees and began to pull vigorously.†   (source)
  • Sweat trickled down his forehead and chest as he ironed with great enthusiasm, his right arm pushing the iron across the length of the shirt with such vigor that his breathing nearly duplicated Dr. Hyde's.†   (source)
  • She took some tooth powder and brushed them vigorously.†   (source)
  • An official report on the Nievre in 1844 described the strange mutation of the Burgundian day-laborer once the harvest was in and the vine stocks had been burned: "After making the necessary repairs to their tools, these vigorous men will now spend their days in bed, packing their bodies tightly together in order to stay warm and eat less food.†   (source)
  • The maester's head jerked so vigorously at the end of his absurdly long neck that he looked half a puppet himself.†   (source)
  • Sam nodded vigorously.†   (source)
  • Madam called for tea in her bedchamber the next morning and sent for Ruth, who was pumping the butter churn with vigor.†   (source)
  • She told the girls about Yentl and then about Conan the Barbarian with equal vigor; about Star Wars, which confused them; and Fiddler on the Roof, which did not.†   (source)
  • After rounding off his limbering-up exercises with a few vigorous arm swings, His Lordship begins dressing.†   (source)
  • Dink trained his toon independently from the rest of Rat Army, with discipline and vigor; he never consulted with Rose, and only rarely did the whole army maneuver together.†   (source)
  • I nod vigorously, somehow silencing the involuntary sound coming from my mouth.†   (source)
  • Though he was old enough to be my grandfather, he projected a vigor more in keeping with older European dads you saw on the East Side—polished, portly, self-possessed dads on their second marriages who'd had kids at fifty and sixty.†   (source)
  • Ulysses, sitting on Flora's shoulder, nodded vigorously.†   (source)
  • "Bluh," Klaus said, nodding vigorously, and he began hurrying down the hallway.†   (source)
  • Camped beside us at Base Camp was a twenty-five-year-old Norwegian climber named Petter ake a solo ascent of the Neby, who announced his intention to in Southwest Face,* one of the peak's most dangerous and technically demanding routes-despite the fact that his Himalayan experience Island Peak, a 20,274-foot was limited to two ascents of neighboring bump on a subsidiary ridge of Lhotse involving nothing more technical than vigorous walking.†   (source)
  • Carol keeps nodding at me really vigorously.†   (source)
  • Then he rubbed his hands together vigorously with his fingers extended, like a pianist about to begin a recital.†   (source)
  • I nod more vigorously than I expected to.†   (source)
  • The meat slowed him down, but he was eager to be home, and renewed vigor filled his steps.†   (source)
  • He took back the hoe and proceeded to hack out a small, square dominion over the jungle, attacking his task with such muscular vigor we would surely, and soon, have tomatoes and beans coming out our ears.†   (source)
  • Despite the vigorous fans pumping the smoke outside, the room was unbearable.†   (source)
  • The dialogues were in no way prayers but took the form of angry monologues which-just short of the point where they became aliatribes-became vigorous arguments with himself.†   (source)
  • I loved the vigorous, sprawling city.†   (source)
  • But these broad brushstrokes are designed to show that the rules of engagement are a clear and present danger, frightening young soldiers, who have been placed in harm's way by their government, into believing they may be charged with murder if they defend themselves too vigorously.†   (source)
  • In March Burnham ordered Dion Geraldine, his chief construction superintendent, to press the matter "with the utmost vigor and see that no delay occurs."†   (source)
  • The audience applauded again for Stewart with new vigor, some of them guessing what Santos was about to announce.†   (source)
  • And when he finished, Paul D said with a vigor fresher than the first time, "I'm sorry, Stamp.†   (source)
  • But inaction went poorly with her vigorous personality and one morning to everyone's surprise she appeared for breakfast in the dining room precisely at 8:10, with the announcement that doctors were often wrong.†   (source)
  • The important thing is to get the country moving again, to restore vigor and energy to the people and the government.†   (source)
  • As soon as she'd become the Oracle two summers ago, she'd brought new vigor and excitement to the job.†   (source)
  • The house is sparsely furnished, and although there is evidence of a woman's touch, there is a lack of warmth and vigor.†   (source)
  • The ones who are quick and vigorous enough to keep clawing their way to the top survive.†   (source)
  • The antitrust laws outlawing such behavior need to be vigorously enforced.†   (source)
  • Flames had pierced one side wall, and the glare of the fire lighted the massive limbs and trunk of the vigorous old elm that had probably been planted the year the house was built, a hundred years ago at least.†   (source)
  • Although PCP preceded the crack epidemic, it was enough to make blabbering idiots of once-vigorous boys and girls.†   (source)
  • Mr. Ellerby shakes his head vigorously.†   (source)
  • The President still vigorous after death.†   (source)
  • But as she said that her mother shook her head vigorously.†   (source)
  • He nodded vigorously.†   (source)
  • "Demented cat," she said, rubbing with vigor.†   (source)
  • It was almost as though some supernatural force possessed him, causing him to shed twenty years; his face lost much of the sunken look of recent times, and he went about his work with such youthful vigour that a stranger might have believed there were not one but several such figures pushing trolleys about the corridors of Darlington Hall.†   (source)
  • Mr Koschel recognized an officer he knew on the pavement and waved to him vigorously and desperately.†   (source)
  • "I'd love to hear more about that," encouraged Jesse, as he stirred up the fire with a stick, causing it to bloom with renewed vigor.†   (source)
  • There was a vigorous trade in appointment times after the lottery was held.†   (source)
  • A group of loudmouthed white-haired old ladies, each trying to talk over the next, a few of them texting, the kind of elderly people who have a baffling amount of energy, so much youthful vigor you had to wonder if they were trying to rub it in.†   (source)
  • Another kid nodded vigorously.†   (source)
  • They vigorously ignored the truth that their own "principle of objectivity" is not itself an observable fact...and therefore by their own criteria should be put in a state of suspended animation.†   (source)
  • He nodded his head vigorously.†   (source)
  • We continued like this the entire length of the parking lot, Marley yanking ahead, me yanking back, each time with increasing vigor.†   (source)
  • Ishmael worked, too, for the Etheringtons, who were vigorous summer people from Seattle.†   (source)
  • My mother turned to glance round, but quick as a wink, Mrs. Tomolillo dropped her fat white hands in her lap and started talking vigorously to her friends.†   (source)
  • You've got to have brain power just to make it in—" She broke off and started waving vigorously at a guy who was walking toward them.†   (source)
  • But he was good at it, clearly, and as the days in Moscow wore on, his smiles and his vigor returned and with them, somehow, the illusion of a stylishly dressed man.†   (source)
  • But he continued nodding as vigorously as he could in reply to every question.†   (source)
  • There, he cleared his throat before launching into his speech in a voice that was remarkably vigorous and clear.†   (source)
  • "Right on," says Kaoru with a vigorous nod.†   (source)
  • She won't arrive home until late Sunday night," Dorothea said as she scrubbed Ajax into our kitchen sink with a vigor that made my own elbow ache.†   (source)
  • Nye is a short, short-tempered man who has difficulty moderating his aggressive vigor, his talent for language both sharp and outspoken.†   (source)
  • The rules of professional responsibility prevent us from commenting on the evidence at this point, but the community can rest assured that we are prosecuting this case vigorously, that we have been working around the clock with our investigators to make sure that the evidence is collected, preserved, and appropriately handled so that this unspeakable tragedy will not go unanswered.†   (source)
  • He responded for a time with vigor and joy, finally succumbing to his cancer on August 3, 1986 two years to the day after Mahtob and I arrived in Tehran.†   (source)
  • His reality shocked her and so did his beauty—or his vigor, which, in a man, is so nearly the same thing.†   (source)
  • Even so, I believed that the possibilities of sabotage were far from exhausted and should be pursued with vigor.†   (source)
  • He reached into one of the carts and pulled out a small object, which he polished vigorously on his robe.†   (source)
  • We all gave it a shot, but none more vigorously than my dad.†   (source)
  • Because he was relatively more vigorous, be had been put in charge of the wagon.†   (source)
  • I nod vigorously.†   (source)
  • They ran vigorously for the 270 degrees of each lap that took place in Luma's field of vision.†   (source)
  • (Struck senseless with the news, in its various degrees of goodness and trouble, she sits a moment, her fists propping her chin in thought, and then she starts to rise, bringing her fists down with vigor, the radiance spreading from cheek to cheek again) Well —well!†   (source)
  • Erik passed that on to Henri, who nodded vigorously.†   (source)
  • They fought with renewed vigor; the orange elephant was knocked over and lost a tusk.†   (source)
  • She nodded vigorously.†   (source)
  • The boy shook his head in vigorous negative.†   (source)
  • He nodded vigorously.†   (source)
  • He said that he had traveled all over the world when he was young and that he had studied opera in Milan and in Buenos Aires and as they rolled through the countryside he sang arias and gestured with great vigor.†   (source)
  • She showed such vigor in her last hours that Fernanda thought she was making fun of everyone.†   (source)
  • I nodded my head vigorously and then shook it back and forth.†   (source)
  • The Invincible was off Massachusetts, waiting for the Russian surface force and hunting vigorously after the red subs in the area.†   (source)
  • As a Ranger, Call had had a job that fit him, and he had gone about the work with a vigor that would have passed for happiness in another man.†   (source)
  • Too vigorously.†   (source)
  • In the 1700s, a few Quakers vigorously denounced slavery, but they were dismissed as crackpots and had no influence.†   (source)
  • She grabs a rag and rubs it vigorously across the already clean slate, prattling on in French the whole time, stopping to ask the occasional question, which, I'm panicked to discover, everyone has the answer to—in French.†   (source)
  • Even at seventy, he had the wiry vigor of a lifelong mountaineer.†   (source)
  • "Here are none of the sleepy, semi-Mexican features of the more ancient towns of the Southwest, but, in the midst of a valley of wonderful fertility, has risen a city of stately structures, beautiful homes, progressive and vigorous."†   (source)
  • For them, it was a new chance in a new and vigorous land; a chance to rise, or at least for their children to rise.†   (source)
  • Whenever the teacher came by, I hunched over my work and shaded vigorously.†   (source)
  • The others also revived and found fresh hope and vigour.†   (source)
  • The teacher in front is waving her arms vigorously and urging us to sing.†   (source)
  • 'Yes, yes,' he nodded vigorously.†   (source)
  • His enthusiasm for the struggle he had undertaken restored his former vigor and relieved some of the pain in his aching bones.†   (source)
  • Yossarian was stunned by their overbearing vigor and zeal, by their practical, direct efficiency.†   (source)
  • Lowell stopped his vigorous exercises.†   (source)
  • Everyone instantly sees the mishap, which reduces half an hour of vigorous discussion to a waste of breath.†   (source)
  • Abel nodded vigorously.†   (source)
  • She gives me an expectant look and I nod vigorously.†   (source)
  • As a reflex, he stomped his right foot and snapped a salute with enough vigor for his fingers to sail off.†   (source)
  • "Either way, we often pretend to fight with the same kind of passion and vigor we would in a real fight with the Shataiki," Palus said.†   (source)
  • I saw Mr. Galanter talking to the next batter, who was nodding his head vigorously.†   (source)
  • Big law firms vigorously worshipped inefficiencies: more hours meant more fees.†   (source)
  • So, from the day of Ed's diagnosis until his death a year later, I set out to memorize him: his crooked smile and vigorous embrace, his woodsy smell, and the way he cleared his throat when he reached the top of the stairs.†   (source)
  • He's old physically, but ideologically he's a vigorous young man.†   (source)
  • A man in dungarees and a T-shirt came out and opened it for them; he held a sandwich in one hand and was chewing vigorously as he unlocked the gate.†   (source)
  • Daphne went to climb up to see if it smelled as bad as it looked, and Cahle gently but firmly pulled her back, shaking her head vigorously.†   (source)
  • Their vigor would be quickly cooled.†   (source)
  • Other sheriffs were more vigorous, but my granddaddy fooled them again and again.†   (source)
  • April nodded vigorously.†   (source)
  • Although she was very aged, her hair thin and silvery where it escaped her fraying cap, Mem was straight and lithe as a green cornstalk, and she MON ed with the vigor of a man.†   (source)
  • But whatever he made of it, Pilgrim seemed to draw on this strange and relentless new vigor and soon he was as much a party to the endeavor as Tom.†   (source)
  • She summoned her husband from his workshop by pulling vigorously on a ship's bell he had rigged up for this purpose, unpinned her hair, and led him by the wrist to their bedroom.†   (source)
  • The wrenching terror of the aircraft's uncontrolled descent was equaled by the terror of not knowing where those flames were or when they might flash with greater vigor through the 747.†   (source)
  • She's young, could have served a more vigorous man.†   (source)
  • She vigorously seasoned the ground beef, jabbing the wooden spoon repeatedly into the red meat.†   (source)
  • She hammered the knocker vigorously and stood listening.†   (source)
  • "Surprised you bothered to show up," huffed Alex, scrubbing vigorously now that Max had arrived.†   (source)
  • At age forty-three, JFK exudes fearlessness and vigor.†   (source)
  • He nods vigorously at me, telling me to order something new.†   (source)
  • "This is no time for squeamishness," James Taggart spoke up with unexpected vigor, but his voice, too, was oddly low.†   (source)
  • Iris nods vigorously.†   (source)
  • She soaped her hair vigorously.†   (source)
  • Some purists see language change as producing things rank and gross and demand the strictest husbandry, while others welcome the vigor of new growth.†   (source)
  • Tomorrow we're sending it to President Truman and other federal and state officials in vigorous protest—calling for the removal of Newark Airport."†   (source)
  • I would rub them until they felt warm and they glowed in my hands with health and blood and vigor.†   (source)
  • I am one of your most vigorous supporters.†   (source)
  • He used to say to me when I was young that his gohpsul muh-rhee showed the great vigor of the blood running through him.†   (source)
  • "Nein," was the answer, the abruptness of which Alessandro associated not with rudeness but with vigor.†   (source)
  • Letters and diaries mention vigorous campfire arguments about slavery.†   (source)
  • Though she was very old, she could still switch a small child with vigor, using a tough young shoot from a black gum tree, to enforce obedience.†   (source)
  • And all three men nodded too vigorously, beaming too brightly, like parents admiring a piece of art that a child has brought home from nursery school.†   (source)
  • Heidi looked at me with what seemed to be a renewed vigor.†   (source)
  • Vigor and expedition are necessary executive qualities.†   (source)
  • Already the barbarian could see that the giant's blows were coming with less frequency and vigor.†   (source)
  • He rode alone, and then there was cheering behind him, raw, hoarse cheering from dusty throats, and there was Lee-the old man with the slight smile, the eyes bright with new vigor, revived, the fight coming up to warm him like sunrise.†   (source)
  • My only remedy was to stop occasionally, shake my leg vigorously to dislodge the mud, do the same with my other leg, and then continue on.†   (source)
  • Louisa scrubbed plates vigorously with a hardenedcorncob.†   (source)
  • Nodded vigorously.†   (source)
  • The young Egyptian vigorously nodded his head.†   (source)
  • He gave the snowman another, more vigorous shake.†   (source)
  • During the first week of the mouse diet I found that my vigor remained unimpaired, and that I suffered no apparent ill effects.†   (source)
  • Then, with more vigor, "You do nothing!†   (source)
  • To—you know—to pursue him so vigorously.†   (source)
  • Tired and sore as we were from our vigorous game, the Sunday-morning sun bounced up too early.†   (source)
  • Jim pulled over a bench, sat down and pedaled vigorously, Mark poked a key.†   (source)
  • I'd stand in the living room and sing all the show tunes with vigor, doing the best I could with unfamiliar words and phrases, as with the Green Acres song: I just adore the pink house fumes….†   (source)
  • His vigor was being expended in survival, he decided.†   (source)
  • Jan walked slowly round the stuffed monster, admiring the skill that had frozen it forever at this instant of greatest vigour.†   (source)
  • He found it beyond simple coincidence that in of all years 1861 the federal government should have set out on a vigorous suppression of those independent mail routes still surviving the various Acts of '45, '47, '51 and '55, Acts all designed to drive any private competition into financial ruin.†   (source)
  • At any rate, as I stood there that morning, tumescent amid my interrupted labors, I felt that there was being thrust on me a priceless reward for the vigor and zeal with which I had embraced my Art.†   (source)
  • ANNIE goes to him, pats his cheeks vigorously.)†   (source)
  • He was an enormously strict and vigorous-minded old man.†   (source)
  • I dried off several of them, rubbing them vigorously with my towel.†   (source)
  • (He gets up and cracks it more vigorously, finally with success.†   (source)
  • DUNLAP (Vigorously) I believe in the Holy Word of God.†   (source)
  • "The preacher," she said with sudden vigor.†   (source)
  • He was a vigorous man and needed the body of a woman, and that too cost money——unless you were married to it.†   (source)
  • Just as a potter's wheel, once it has been set in motion, will keep on turning for a long time and only slowly lose its vigour and come to a stop, thus Siddhartha's soul had kept on turning the wheel of asceticism, the wheel of thinking, the wheel of differentiation for a long time, still turning, but it turned slowly and hesitantly and was close to coming to a standstill.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Shortley jerked her own hand up toward her mouth and then after a second brought it down and rubbed it vigorously on her seat.†   (source)
  • The 10TH JUROR blows his nose vigorously.†   (source)
  • It was Mulligan who'd proposed it—"Our young, vigorous and attractive comrade... .†   (source)
  • He was indulgent toward these immature works on account of their vigor and originality.†   (source)
  • Least of all a man like Jay, with all his vigor, of body and mind too, his independence, his loathing for being laid up even one day.†   (source)
  • One look at the swelling grain will be enough to renew our vigour.†   (source)
  • The assault upon the Senator in Mississippi was instantaneous and vigor-ous.†   (source)
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