What is "rigours"

Usage examples of "rigours".

There was an ambulance, which Branson had commandeered for purposes best known to himself, a large side-counter wagonette which had provided hot meals, a very large TV camera truck with its generator placed at a discreet hundred yards distance and, finally, a van that was unloading blankets, rugs and pillows to help ease the new settlers through the rigours of their first night.

Even the expected fearful rigours of the long night ahead proved to be no more than minor physical inconveniences.

There were no dry dock facilities available but the Russians were masters of improvisation - the rigours of war had forced them to be.

But such slaughter disrupts the discipline of training, stains the mind and so damages the rigours of mindfulness.

He would then have some precious time alone with Korlatthe rigours of this march had kept them apart far too often, and while he and Korlat held to the belief that her Lord, Anomander Rake, could not yet be counted out, she had assumed the role of commander among her Tiste Andü kin in all respectscold, remote, focused exclusively on the disposition of her brothers and sisters.

He would then have some precious time alone with Korlat - the rigours of'this march had kept them apart far too often, and while he and Korlat held to the belief that her Lord, Anomander Rake, could not yet be counted out, she had assumed the role of commander among her Tiste Andü kin in all respects - cold, remote, focused exclusively on the disposition of her brothers and sisters.

Small, lean, and calloused from the rigours of the storm that had delivered him to the fabled isle, Jaric was remarkably like his sire, Ivain.

The most promising talent among the human children had died that morning, too frail and too young to endure the rigours of Sathid-bond.

Provoked by the rigours of bonding, their surface flared hot enough to blister.

Merelan needed all her tact, and the weight of her position as MasterSinger, to get the girl to do the vocalizes that would strengthen her breath control, sustain her range and prepare her for the rigours of singing Petiron's kind of vocally extravagant music.

If Silvina seemed unusually subdued, he at first put it down to the rigours of the final month of pregnancy and the delivery.