All 4 Uses of
strenuous
in
Of Human Bondage
- She spoke with a passionate strenuousness which was rather striking.†
Chpt 41-42 *
- He wrote impressing upon Upjohn his great need and urging him to make more strenuous efforts.†
Chpt 83-84strenuous = difficult (requiring much effort)
- He showed himself strenuous to see all that was noteworthy, and he described with a fine enthusiasm the castles of the Rhine.†
Chpt 111-112
- But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design.†
Chpt 111-112strenuously = in a manner that requires much effort
Definition:
energetic; or physically or mentally difficult or requiring endurance