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That they attributed to his "strenuousness" in his work, and thought it to be deplored. After all, the department might throw him down who knew what it might not do? and then what would have been the use? For a man who did not have to live on his pay, Captain Jones was looked upon as unnecessarily serious.
But again I seem to hear, like a kind of echo, an answer from beyond the world. "You will have real obligations, and therefore real adventures when you get to my Utopia. But the hardest obligation and the steepest adventure is to get there." It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch.
In doing so, she blamed the father and mother, who had been unnatural parents to the charming child; for to make the marvel complete, and to gratify their own vanity, they had taxed the little girl's mind with such foolish strenuousness that the frail body suffered.
Whence do we get it? The Normans may have brought in among us the Latin sense for rhetoric and style, for, indeed, this sense goes naturally with a high spirit and a strenuousness like theirs, but the sense for style which English poetry shows is something finer than we could well have got from a people so positive and so little poetical as the Normans; and it seems to me we may much more plausibly derive it from a root of the poetical Celtic nature in us.
And I soon recognized that it was the element that gives to the wicked outer world all its moral style, expressiveness and picturesqueness, the element of precipitousness, so to call it, of strength and strenuousness, intensity and danger.
That he was a nobleman of high spirits is evident from the strenuousness with which he lived his short life. Lord George lost heavily by backing horses for the St.
Taking one of the laboratory note-books, he will write in it a memorandum of the experiments to be tried, illustrated, if necessary, by sketches. This book is then passed on to that member of the experimental staff whose special training and experience are best adapted to the work. Here strenuousness is expected; and an immediate commencement of investigation and prompt report are required.
And how the onlookers applaud at the spectacle of a desperately contested race, whether between horses, men, motorcars, bicycles, or boats, or of a match between football, hurling, or cricket teams! It matters not which horse, man, car, cycle, boat, or team is successful: the sport is the thing that counts; the strenuousness of the contest is what stimulates and evokes the rapturous applause.
Clare performed the irrelevant act of stirring the fire; the intelligence had not even yet got to the bottom of him. After stirring the embers he rose to his feet; all the force of her disclosure had imparted itself now. His face had withered. In the strenuousness of his concentration he treadled fitfully on the floor.
Guided by this conversation, and by shrewd observations of her own, Sylvia had insisted, even to the point of strenuousness, upon wearing to this first housewarming a cloth skirt and coat, tempering the severity of this costume with a sufficiently feminine and beruffled blouse of silk.
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