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    rigor


    1. Locating Williams at his post, he immediately saw the hard rigor mortise in the Boston Cream


    2. Land bound seagulls fly the rigor rhyme,


    3. Rigor mortis had set in so the removal process became easier


    4. Her body was stiff with rigor mortis


    5. were ill, the declaration of rigor mortis had to at least be 30


    6. 35 And the hands of the men of Egypt were directed with continued severity against the children of Israel in that work, and the Egyptians made the children of Israel work with rigor


    7. 38 And all the work wherein the Egyptians made the children of Israel labor, they exacted with rigor, in order to afflict the children of Israel, but the more they afflicted them, the more they increased and grew, and the Egyptians were grieved because of the children of Israel


    8. 35 And the hands of the men of Egypt were directed with continued severity against the children of Israel in that work and the Egyptians made the children of Israel work with rigor


    9. 38 And all the work wherein the Egyptians made the children of Israel labor they exacted with rigor in order to afflict the children of Israel but the more they afflicted them the more they increased and grew and the Egyptians were grieved because of the children of Israel


    10. He was starting to go hard, like rigor mortis or whatever

    11. we were then encouraged to pass to the second type with scientific rigor and


    12. While I was maintaining the girl immobilized, her mouth to the floor with the rigor of all my weight seated on her back supporting her hands interlaced at the height of her coccyx, observed her mouth and bloody hair


    13. She wasn’t even found ‘til late that night, all stiff with rigor mortis, her own nightstick making her a cop lollipop


    14. He began by advising her to moderate the rigor of her mourning, to ventilate the house, to forgive the world for the death of José Arcadio


    15. In spite of her secret hostility toward the colonel, it was Fernanda who imposed the rigor of that mourning, impressed by the solemnity with which the government exalted the memo-ry of its dead enemy


    16. “They play with such rigor yet delicacy that it’s very unique


    17. The rigor mortis, however, suggests that he’s been dead about seven or eight hours at the most


    18. It was not easy since, in her dream, rigor mortis had set in


    19. Rubin’s rigor mortise was reducing quicker than usual, because of the heat earlier in the day and the extreme physical exertion he had gone through prior to death


    20. Rigor was still firm and the wraps were puffing up, but there was no smell

    21. She wanted to arrange the collection of the ottoman from the flat and hire a van to move it into storage, but all this would have to wait until rigor had passed


    22. They were draped over the side of the ottoman and not stuck up at 45 degrees, which indicated rigor had passed


    23. Rigor mortis had set in and he was as stiff as a board


    24. Rigor on the way


    25. are often measured not by their discoveries or the rigor they used in


    26. "Your roommate discovered the body at 6:00, and there was no rigor mortis at that time


    27. Rigor almost always begins within two hours, so we figure it had to be between 4:00 and 5:00 PM


    28. Rigor mortis? Autopsy? That happened on t


    29. All that about taking a chance with the car and how did he know that the body had passed through the rigor mortis phase, before it was wrapped up in the carpet?


    30. I’d have tolerated anything this side of rigor mortis

    31. as it appeared to be coming out of first-stage rigor, ghosts would stream,


    32. Thick with rigor mortis, the cat we thought was ours will soon begin to rot


    33. Perhaps that was inevitable given the poverty, the wretched living conditions, the lack of education and ignorance and, finally, the unthinking adherence to the religious rigor and narrow-mindedness of Islam and Christianity of the native


    34. Level 6 awareness is partially speculative in nature and has just recently begun to be researched and studied with proper scientific rigor


    35. As if, at every meal, the cadets fill their tin cups not with the cold mineralized water of Schulpforta but with a spirit that leaves them glazed and dazzled, as if they ward off a vast and inevitable tidal wave of anguish only by staying forever drunk on rigor and exercise and gleaming boot leather


    36. Heresy must be stamped out among the children of God, with all the rigor the Book of Schueler prescribed, just as cancer must be cut from a living body to save the patient’s life


    37. Nor was it the moment to suggest that an official authorization to … ease the rigor in the camps might be in order


    38. Despite any effort on Inquisitor General Wylbyr’s part to put a good face on things, the Inquisition’s own internal reports all pointed to the extent to which the inquisitor general’s own inquisitors had allowed the rigor with which they approached the heretics in his holding camps to … erode


    39. Can any one who has rejoiced in woman's tenderness think it a reproach to her that she took the little oval picture in her palm and made a bed for it there, and leaned her cheek upon it, as if that would soothe the creatures who had suffered unjust condemnation? She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly, as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings—that it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigor of irresistible day


    40. Having been roused to discern consequences which he had never been in the habit of tracing, he was preparing to act on this discernment with some of the rigor (by no means all) that he would have applied in pursuing experiment

    41. He was nerving himself to this rigor as he rode from Brassing, and meditated on the representations he must make to Rosamond


    42. I felt, in a fierce rigor of confidence, that if I stood my ground a minute I should


    43. Grose; the rigor with which I kept my pupils in sight making it often difficult to meet her privately, and the more as we each felt the importance of not provoking—on the part of the servants quite as much as on that of the children—any suspicion of a secret flurry or that of a discussion of mysteries


    44. The prerequisite is that the fresh fish has been treated correctly, cleansed by the Japanese ike jime method and allowed to come out of rigor mortis while maturing on a bed of ice, which can take up to twenty days for turbot, for instance


    45. “The fish we serve is always tenderized after rigor mortis in order to bring forth all of the best flavors of the meat


    46. The fish will first cramp up and then enter rigor mortis


    47. The course described here is very simplified so that it is understandable, because there are obviously many other chemical processes that take place during the death of a fish and the subsequent rigor mortis


    48. An ike jime-slaughtered fish will go into rigor mortis like any biological organism, though without blood and with as much as possible left of the various phosphates and glycogen from its energy storage


    49. If the fish were to be prepared right away, it would go into rigor mortis as soon as it was exposed to heat, with the result that it would harden and lose flavor


    50. The rigor mortis is controlled by proteins, but when the muscle cells have “understood” that it is dead, other proteins will starts loosening the retraction and the rigor mortis will stop


















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    Synonyms for "rigor"

    hardness harshness inclemency rigor rigorousness rigour rigourousness severeness severity stiffness asperity grimness hardship cogency validity sternness cruelty adversity stringency rigidity obstinacy inexorability ordeal austerity

    "rigor" definitions

    something hard to endure


    the quality of being valid and rigorous


    excessive sternness