All 6 Uses of
vigor
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- It was a slender young man, not more than one or two and twenty years old, with rather a grave and thoughtful expression for his years, but likewise a springy alacrity and vigor.†
Chpt 3
- Her introductory day of shop-keeping did not run on, however, without many and serious interruptions of this mood of cheerful vigor.†
Chpt 3 *
- But still there was something tough and vigorous about him, that not only kept him in daily breath, but enabled him to fill a place which would else have been vacant in the apparently crowded world.†
Chpt 4vigorous = with strength or energy
- It would have been kept in check, however, and even converted into an accomplishment, and one of the thousand modes of intellectual culture, had his more ethereal characteristics retained their vigor.†
Chpt 7
- Hearing the more regular rise and fall of his breath (which, however, even then, instead of being strong and full, had a feeble kind of tremor, corresponding with the lack of vigor in his character),—hearing these tokens of settled slumber, Hepzibah seized the opportunity to peruse his face more attentively than she had yet dared to do.†
Chpt 7
- He had been startled into manhood and intellectual vigor; or, at least, into a condition that resembled them, though it might be both diseased and transitory.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
strength, energy, or good health