All 33 Uses
vigor
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Red Prophet
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- Fact is, though, Hooch didn't much care whether it was Harrison who got to be governor and put his capital in Carthage City, or whether it was that teetotaling self-righteous prig Armor-of-God Weaver up north, where Tippy-Canoe Creek flowed into the Wobbish River, who got to be governor and make Vigor Church the capital.†
Chpt 1
- Your enemy is up north of here, in the town of Vigor Church.†
Chpt 1 *
- Except for maybe that Red-kisser up in Vigor Church.†
Chpt 1
- We're calling it Vigor Church, on account of that church we're building.†
Chpt 4
- Why Vigor?†
Chpt 4
- They named this place Vigor on account of their oldest son was named Vigor.†
Chpt 4
- They named this place Vigor on account of their oldest son was named Vigor.†
Chpt 4
- Maybe if he stayed away from the church hill today, maybe if he wandered in the woods around Vigor Church, then the dream beast could find him.†
Chpt 4
- Building his Prophetstown right across the Wobbish from Vigor Church—you can't tell me that's just a coincidence.†
Chpt 6
- They all go up to Prophetstown, or thereabouts, right across the river from Vigor Church.†
Chpt 6
- Well, not all to Vigor Church, but up into the lands where Armor-of-Hell Weaver has his maps.†
Chpt 6
- Well, I can't just take my soldiers up north to Vigor Church and wipe out Prophetstown, cause Armor-of-God would fight me every step of the way, probably get the army detachment at Fort Wayne to back him up.†
Chpt 6
- So I've got to arrange things so the people in Vigor Church, all along the Wobbish, they all beg me to come up and get rid of them Reds.†
Chpt 6
- By now every White man in the whole area was bringing his family in to Vigor Church, where a few men could protect them while the rest went out searching for the missing boys.†
Chpt 7
- Al and the other children of Vigor Church used to imitate Red talk by saying things like "boxy talksy skock woxity" and laughing till their sides ached.†
Chpt 7
- In all this time Prophetstown's been a-growing there across the Wobbish from Vigor Church, has any Red so much as stole a thing from you?†
Chpt 8
- They'd brought along old Tack Sweeper, wheezing his way with the best of them—it was remarkable how vigorous he was, for a man whose lungs sounded like a baby's rattle when he breathed.†
Chpt 8vigorous = with strength or energy
- The baby was Alvin Junior; the man who died was his brother, Vigor.†
Chpt 9
- And then he did see some folks, though he wasn't sure at first cause they were Black and he hadn't seen but one Black man in his life, a slave owned by a peddler from the Crown Colonies, who happened to come through Vigor Church maybe two years back.†
Chpt 9
- That meant White men, maybe even folks from Vigor Church, still searching for him and Alvin.†
Chpt 10
- I was captured with my little brother, Alvin, almost a week ago, and I'm just going home to Vigor Church.†
Chpt 10
- They were looping east, around behind Vigor Church.†
Chpt 10
- After all these years, here he was at Vigor Church, training the local men to be soldiers, while nobody was listening to Armor-of-God at all.†
Chpt 10
- Otherwise he would've come to Prophetstown and then hopped on over into Vigor Church without seeing a soldier.†
Chpt 10
- I also heard a story as I was coming here, about how you captured two Whites from Vigor Church and sent their bloody torn-up clothes to their parents.†
Chpt 13
- He found the town of Vigor Church easy enough.†
Chpt 13
- I wish that I had died with Vigor in the Hatrack River!†
Chpt 14
- So it took him more than a few days to get all the way west to the town of Vigor Church, where he knew there'd be a lot of folks with a long and bitter tale to tell him.†
Chpt 15
- At the end he stood and applauded, which, because he was Governor, guaranteed the company financial success in Canada; applauded long and vigorously, as the rest of the audience was forced to keep applauding with him; clapped his hands until his arms were sore, until the amulet was slick with sweat on his chest, until he felt the heat of his exertion burning through his shoulders and back, until he could clap no more.†
Chpt 16vigorously = in a strong or energetic manner
- All that time, Ta-Kumsaw had been talking to Becca in his Isaac voice, and she to him in her deep melodious way of speech, which had just the slightest hint of foreign-ness to it, like some of the Dutch in the area around Vigor Church, who'd been in America all their lives but still had a trace of the old country in their talk.†
Chpt 17
- The meal was filled with Becca's pleasant chatter about doings in the valley, her saying names that meant nothing to Alvin, except any one of them could have been the name of a body back in Vigor Church—there was even folks named Miller, which was natural, seeing how a valley this size no doubt had more than one miller's worth of grain to grind.†
Chpt 17
- As he made his way along the little spur of the road toward Vigor Church, he saw that new buildings had been put up, new houses built.†
Chpt 19
- Folks were living pretty much cheek-by-jowl here now, and Vigor Church was a proper town.†
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(1)
(vigor) strength, energy, or good health
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)