1 Mammy pulled and jerked vigorously and, as the tiny circumference of whalebone-girdled waist grew smaller, a proud, fond look came into her eyes.
2 "Don't say 'can't' to me, Pittypat Hamilton," said Mrs. Merriwether vigorously.
3 Except when Hugh was vigorously naughty, or whiney, or laughing, or saying "I like my chair" with thrilling maturity, she was always enfeebled by loneliness.
4 So saying he procured the plane; and with his old silk handkerchief first dusting the bench, vigorously set to planing away at my bed, the while grinning like an ape.
5 Others having broken the stems of their pipes almost short off at the bowl, were vigorously puffing tobacco-smoke, so that it constantly filled their olfactories.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud. 6 Whenever my grandparents had misgivings, and began to wonder whether I was not too young to go off to college alone, Mrs. Harling took up my cause vigorously.
7 They unwrapped him, and a man began vigorously rubbing his ears; and as they were frozen stiff, it took only two or three rubs to break them short off.
8 A few succeeding days were passed amid the privations, the uproar, and the dangers of the siege, which was vigorously pressed by a power, against whose approaches Munro possessed no competent means of resistance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 15 9 Then they resumed their route, and, favored by the darkness, pushed silently and vigorously toward the western shore.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20 10 At that moment she suddenly became conscious that her bucket no longer weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just seized the handle, and lifted it vigorously.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE 11 And when the child was within reach, he seized him suddenly and vigorously by the arm, and pulled him towards him.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 12 He no longer boxed the maids' ears; he no longer thumped the landing-place so vigorously with his cane when Basque was slow in opening the door.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES... 13 And bowing to the lady, he sprang into his saddle, while her coachman applied his whip vigorously to his horses.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER 14 And the travelers buried their rowels in their horses' flanks, who thus vigorously stimulated recovered their energies.
15 Aramis pushed his so vigorously that after going back fifty paces, the man ended by fairly taking to his heels, and disappeared amid the hooting of the lackeys.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 31 ENGLISH AND FRENCH