vigorous

• Now comes democracy,--vigorous, jostling, self-assertive,--its true social ideal of brotherly comradeship being yet far from realization. —  The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement
• His conversation was manly and vigorous, abounding in Scotch anecdotes of the old time, which he told with a degree of spirit and humor only second to his great author's. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
• He was young, vigorous, active; he might easily make himself more popular than he was with the boys; and as for the authorities, do what he would, it appeared that he could hardly be in worse disrepute than now. —  St. Winifred's, or The World of School
• The rapid, vigorous, and determined charge in line on to cavalry, riding knee to knee, is what is required." —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888
• His second wife was a beautiful, vigorous, and well-trained woman, mentally and physically, and although her parents were English, she was a native of the colony, and, naturally enough, took the deepest interest in all that concerned the station, the advancement of her husband's interests, and the colony in which she was born. —  Tom Gerrard

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