A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. From LearnThat.org. [Charles Lamb, Source: Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist.]
Noun : the rigor of wartime existence. ,the logical rigor of mathematics. ,the rigors of winter. From Dictionary.com.
Although accepting this heightened risk and rigour, which is the test for a Campaign Medal. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
I don’t know why intellectual rigour is something to sneer at and yet reality TV is not … it makes no sense to me. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Fame « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
Lack of statistics or any kind of rigour is the main problem however. From Wordnik.com. [Brazil Nuts: Dale's Anonymous Guest Post Today] Reference
I expect the rigour which is instilled will be in the long term a much better quality outcome. From Wordnik.com. [Transcript: ABC Lateline - 9 March 2010 - The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs] Reference
(I'm not aiming at any kind of rigour ... simply trying to gain some basic intuitions). From Wordnik.com. [Planet Haskell] Reference
He had felt himself go pale, and a kind of rigour had affected his respiration as he delivered himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories] Reference
I've just had a play for 10 minutes (it's that kind of rigour that CiB is known for) and my initial thoughts are that it's good … as far as it goes. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
I may be wrong, but I haven’t seen this kind of rigour in the dendrochonologists work to date. From Wordnik.com. [Wilson, Pisaric and Gaspé « Climate Audit] Reference
His driving passions were evidence, rigour and truth. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Judt obituary] Reference
Equity strives to mitigate the rigour of her positive sentence. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Somehow, when it comes to Africa, rigour flies out of the window. From Wordnik.com. [The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief by VS Naipaul] Reference
The rich classes by turning day into night avoid much of its rigour. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
Should an unfortunate and suppliant King be treated with so much rigour?. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Nature has claimed many victims through disease or the rigour of unknown climes. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Others took refuge there from the frowns of fortune and the rigour of unmerciful creditors. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
A spokesman for Pearson exam board said it stood by the "rigour of the BTec vocational qualifications". From Wordnik.com. [GCSE results: university crisis to hit school students, union warns] Reference
The hands on the factor's knees were trembling with a rigour that shook the whole small form before him. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
Colonel sent him to Charlestown, to see whether the Lieutenant-Governor would consent to mitigate the rigour of it. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
The Edict of Fontainebleau served as a weapon to my enemies, and it was put in force with the utmost rigour against me. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
UCU said private companies were not subject to the same academic rigour or public scrutiny as publicly-funded universities. From Wordnik.com. [Private university to be first in Britain for over 30 years] Reference
Let's be honest: the PCC took the heat for the Yard's failure to pursue its investigation with anything like enough rigour. From Wordnik.com. [No royal commission, and don't blame the PCC - focus on the real culprits] Reference
The flame was already kindled, and nothing could be imagined more likely to add fewel to it than such rigour and oppression. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
He has taken up their training with all his Scottish vim and thoroughness, and has insisted upon the full rigour of the game. From Wordnik.com. [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference
And Stonyer avoids spaced-out cliches through the sculptural rigour and sheer sonic effectiveness of his come-to-life objects. From Wordnik.com. [This week's new exhibitions] Reference
Such rigour extends to an insistence that potential new African employees are flown to the UK for personal interview by Bellamy. From Wordnik.com. [Even David Beckham could learn a thing or two from Craig Bellamy] Reference
The sad feature is that the increasing rigour comes upon men already weakened, both physically and mentally, by long confinement. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
Unleashed from scientific rigour, individuals are then free to embrace all manner of interpretations, speculations and applications. From Wordnik.com. [Science, evolution, and ideology] Reference
A new framework will compel firms to adhere to basic principles of consent, data protection, truthful marketing and scientific rigour. From Wordnik.com. [Clampdown on companies offering genetic disease testing] Reference
This oppressive rigour of their first laws was soon heavily felt by many, but especially by that peaceable society of people called Quakers. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
Protestant subjects, but was also obliged to give the Roman catholics up to the rigour of those laws enacted against them in the preceding reigns. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
To increase the confusion, Archbishop Laud insisted on conformity, and persecuted all who refused obedience to his mandates with the utmost rigour. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision] Reference
All were glad and thankful to be within doors at such a time, and talked compassionately of the poor fellows who were exposed to the pitiless rigour of the elements. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
The hills occasion an agitation in the atmosphere, and by collecting the air in streams, these run along the earth in pleasant breezes, and mitigate the rigour of the hot season. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
Through the rigour of winter we had been brought now to the very flagrance of the dog-star, to the time when human nature can pretend no opposition to the mood of the lordly sun. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
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