It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul. From LearnThat.org. [Ovid, Source: Metamorphoses, xiii.]
Noun : The economic recovery has given the country a new vigor. From Dictionary.com.
Your honesty and vigour is pretty inspiring, and I enjoy your style. From Wordnik.com. [Embarassed 2 B Azn] Reference
I hasten to assure you that this law no longer is in vigour, so I can safely continue. From Wordnik.com. [Dario Fo - Nobel Lecture] Reference
The soul of Alleyn seemed to acquire new vigour from the conflict; he fought like a man panting for honour, and certain of victory; wherever he rushed, conquest flew before him. From Wordnik.com. [The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story] Reference
A vitality, a vigour, which is infectious owing to its strength and intractability and to the paradoxical freedom it possesses as against what is related. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature - 1983] Reference
Mahlangu also called on teachers to act with "vigour" against. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
I began with that vigour which is born of hopeful determination to succeed or die. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Otter] Reference
Nitschke sets sights on filtering, questions govt's "vigour" for easily thwarted tech. From Wordnik.com. [ZDNet Australia] Reference
To recall the vigour of his poem gives rise to a smile -- when one chances to sup at a cabaret. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Head of the House of Coombe] Reference
He had a delicacy, when he chose to be delicate, which is quintessential, and a vigour which is thoroughly manly. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
Where Mr. ROOSEVELT blames he blames with a vigour which is overwhelming; where he approves he approves with a resonant zeal and enjoyment. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 12, 1916] Reference
Your manner is so full of hearty old middle-age's kind of vigour ". From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Meeson's Will] Reference
California are told with that vigour which is peculiar to Mr.Henty. ". From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Daring and Danger] Reference
"vigour" in The Pursuits of Literature described a literary crisis that had spread beyond the confines of the Gothic genre. From Wordnik.com. [Haunted Britain in the 1970s] Reference
Taking him by the shoulder, I shook him with some vigour. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
But his father was a man of strong seed and unquenchable vigour. From Wordnik.com. [The man-faced boy] Reference
The sight of Paul seemed to have put new life and vigour into him. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
Any more of this radical vigour and the Observer will be out of business. From Wordnik.com. [That's why they call them airport novels] Reference
Thus the storm, which had momentarily lulled, broke out with fresh vigour. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
In 2010, a strong lobby now insists with equal vigour that it must be reduced. From Wordnik.com. [Cricket fans pay high price for floodlit final] Reference
He promised that he would heal people and bring new vigour and meaning to their lives. From Wordnik.com. [Qur'an burning: Terry Jones set up German base in quest to 'awaken' Europe] Reference
Lipstick doubled as blusher which she massaged in with vigour togive that all over glow. From Wordnik.com. [Girl With Floral Basket.] Reference
Does it only transfer the newly-acquired weakness, and not the previous long-continued vigour?. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
In the weeks that followed, Patrick seemed to recover a large measure of his accustomed vigour. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Our swords meet and though she has all the vigour of a young warrior, she is tired and I am fresh. From Wordnik.com. [Rook] Reference
Slow and late do the young men come to the use of women, and thus very long preserve the vigour of youth. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus on Germany] Reference
In a hot climate the vigour of the plant is increased by the great amount of light and heat which it receives. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
My eye flared with renewed vigour as the numbers of the LED screen jumped, indicating the rise of the elevator. From Wordnik.com. [Mother] Reference
Yet the sheer vigour with which Sonnen has gone for Silva's throat, verbally if not physically, should be commended. From Wordnik.com. [Elliot Worsell: The Method in Chael Sonnen's Madness] Reference
His example and success gave vigour to industry, and promoted a spirit of emulation among the planters for improvement. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
Standing just without the gate he saluted us with a characteristic vigour which was scarcely flattering to our late hostess. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
And he answered: What peace? so long as the fornications of Jezabel, thy mother, and her many sorceries, are in their vigour. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 12: 4 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference
One critic complained of the novel that Ellis had "never written with less vigour" – but the author took this as a compliment. From Wordnik.com. [Bret Easton Ellis: 'So you're a misogynist, a racist – so what? Does it make your art less interesting?'] Reference
This people are distinguished with bodies more hardy and robust, compact limbs, stern countenances, and greater vigour of spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus on Germany] Reference
This animated them to enter with greater vigour on clearing and cultivating lands, and making provision for their future subsistence. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
Holland had lately thrown off the yoke of Spain, and was full of new-born vigour; and Dutch trade in the East -- chiefly in the East India. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Madras] Reference
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