Word: vigourousness
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...young friar was appointed lecturer to the Dominican Convent of San Marco in Florence. The pulpit orator whose thundering was to keep a city in terror, and who seldom spoke to fewer than 15,000 people in his great years, wrote of his beginnings: "I had neither voice, vigour, nor talent for preaching; indeed, my sermons bored everyone...
Members of the club claimed the oath would engender "an atmosphere of intellectual conformity" in a university that "prides itself on its reputation as a center of intellectual independence and vigour...
...trade unionists which formed its core--fully appreciated the vast gulf which separated the British socialist parliamentarian from the Russian Marxist revolutionary, yet it never ceased its work to ensure that Russia was given the same rights as any other state. At the same time, with a ruthless vigour, it acted to destroy communism at home...
...Fair weather and Sunshine had enfeebled and discolour'd, and which in that weak State, by a Thunder Gust of violent Wind, Hail and Rain seem'd to be threatend with absolute Destruction; yet the Storm being once past, it recovers fresh Verdure, shoots up with double Vigour, and delights the Eye not of its Owner only, but of every observing Traveller...
...Their form has commanded plaudits from all sides, but their speed and racing Instinct is highly dubious. By English standards Cambridge has a large crew, by three pounds the heaviest ever to row in the Boat Race. We are certainly not as smooth, but have far more power and vigour...