All 18 Uses of
vigor
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- How it came to pass that an heiress, who was also a beauty, and moreover one of those vigorous, intelligent girls, so common in this generation, but sometimes also to be found in the last, could have married such a worthless, puny weakling, as we all called him, I won't attempt to explain.†
Chpt 1
- Pyotr Alexandrovitch carried the business through vigorously, and was appointed, with Fyodor Pavlovitch, joint guardian of the child, who had a small property, a house and land, left him by his mother.†
Chpt 1
- He was a tall, thin, but still vigorous old man, with black hair streaked with gray, and a long, grave, ascetic face.†
Chpt 2
- At the time, Grigory stood up for his master vigorously.†
Chpt 3
- Fyodor Pavlovitch did not object to any of this, and thought it amusing, though he persisted vigorously in denying his responsibility.†
Chpt 3
- She moved, not like Katerina Ivanovna, with a vigorous, bold step, but noiselessly.†
Chpt 3
- Yet it was a vigorous, ample body.†
Chpt 3
- What most struck the poor monk was the fact that in spite of his strict fasting and great age, Father Ferapont still looked a vigorous old man.†
Chpt 4
- At that instant a stone flew into the group, but only just grazed the left-handed boy, though it was well and vigorously thrown by the boy standing the other side of the ditch.†
Chpt 4
- Opening his eyes, he was surprised to feel himself extraordinarily vigorous.†
Chpt 5
- Mitya went up and began trying to wake him himself; he tried vigorously, but the sleeper did not wake.†
Chpt 8
- Then he vigorously pulled himself up and sat astride on it.†
Chpt 8
- At last she suddenly gripped his hand and drew him vigorously to her.†
Chpt 8
- He danced with special vigor to the refrain: The little pig says—umph! umph! umph!†
Chpt 8 *
- Perezvon, seeing him in his outdoor clothes, began tapping nervously, yet vigorously, on the floor with his tail.†
Chpt 10
- Alyosha, catching Kolya's eye, signed to him vigorously again, but he turned away his eyes pretending not to have noticed.†
Chpt 10
- "The elder is one of those modern young men of brilliant education and vigorous intellect, who has lost all faith in everything.†
Chpt 12
- That lady, who had long watched his career with compassion, gave him the most judicious advice, to give up his dissipated life, his unseemly love-affair, the waste of his youth and vigor in pot-house debauchery, and to set off to Siberia to the gold-mines: 'that would be an outlet for your turbulent energies, your romantic character, your thirst for adventure.'†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(vigor) strength, energy, or good health