Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...very shallow thinker. Certainly all the luxury with which Harvard's sons had been lavished, did not abate one whit the patriotic ardor they showed in the late war. When a test came, Harvard men were revealed, not shorn of their manliness, but armed with full strength and vigor...
...Nocturne and Schero by Chopin, Miss Wetzler had an opportunity of showing her finer musical sense. In the Scherzo especially she entered into the spirit of the thing and played with remarkable vigor and accuracy...
...circle of literary men. William Dunbar, the first of these was little known when he came to court. He had been of the Order of St. Francis, but had never liked his profession. At court he wrote innumerable verses on court incidents-which were full of life and vigor. So good was his work that Scott called in the first poet of Scotland to the time of Burns. He too was a follower of Chaucer...
...Black then reviewed in outline the growth of Tennyson's genius, and the events of his literary life. From his parents he inherited physical vigor, spiritual charm, and intellectual superiority. His father was a man of parts, strong and artistic; his mother a gentle, loving woman; his many brothers and sisters bright, intelligent, and poetic. It was a dreamy, and yet inspiring life...
...yesterday afternoon had a particular interest in the reappearance of Lake. He did not play for very long, but his presence seemed to add a good deal to the spirits of the team, for all played with a good deal of snap. Lake showed very much of his old vigor and at the end seemed no worse for his practice...