All 10 Uses of
vigor
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Then, suddenly overclouding all his features, he growled in a hoarsened rasping voice as he hewed again vigorously at the loaf: —For old Mary Ann She doesn't care a damn.†
Chpt 1vigorously = in a strong or energetic manner
- Buck Mulligan bent across to Stephen and said with coarse vigour: —You put your hoof in it now.†
Chpt 1
- His eyes rested on her vigorous hips.†
Chpt 4vigorous = with strength or energy
- He swung himself forward in vigorous jerks, halted, lifted his head towards a window and bayed deeply: —home and beauty.†
Chpt 10
- The lewd suggestions of some faded beauty may console him for a consort neglected and debauched but this new exponent of morals and healer of ills is at his best an exotic tree which, when rooted in its native orient, throve and flourished and was abundant in balm but, transplanted to a clime more temperate, its roots have lost their quondam vigour while the stuff that comes away from it is stagnant, acid and inoperative.†
Chpt 14
- They nod vigorously in agreement.†
Chpt 15vigorously = in a strong or energetic manner
- Almidano Artifoni holds out a batonroll of music with vigorous moustachework.†
Chpt 15vigorous = with strength or energy
- BLOOM: (Elbowing through the crowd, plucks Stephen's sleeve vigorously) Come now, professor, that carman is waiting.†
Chpt 15vigorously = in a strong or energetic manner
- Reflections on his vigour (a bounder), corporal proportion (a billsticker), commercial ability (a bester), impressionability (a boaster).†
Chpt 17
- Why for the observer impressionability in addition to vigour, corporal proportion and commercial ability?†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
strength, energy, or good health