They were friendly toward the Cherokees, but kept rigorously to themselves and seldom were seen.

He prayed and after a while felt better; he rigorously kept his eyes away from the Classics after that.

Some never again conform to the rules of society, and quite a few rigorously keep in top physical shape while stockpiling M-60s and hand grenades under the bed in preparation for the next war.

This was his simple plan: he would edge down, never allowing her to forereach him, keeping rigorously to windward, puzzling her as long as he possibly could, and so batter her at close quarters, keeping her there by taking the wind out of her sails.

Providence had no state churches and therefore no adjacent public burial grounds until the year 1700 (64 years after its founding) because Rhode Island's religious and government institutions were so rigorously kept distinct, dating back to its founding by Roger Williams in 1636.

I wanted them designed for athletes and kept rigorously economical.

Gannett has long had a reputation for rigorously keeping costs down.

I say 'successfully' because, firstly, the package has been preserved and, secondly, because the European Parliament is rigorously keeping to the line that in the future Europe we cannot apply differing standards as between so-called international transport and domestic transport.

And to this day the eastern continent is largely uninhabited, one of the largest national parks in the galaxy, visited by millions of tourists a year but rigorously kept undeveloped.

After years of listening to and reading Anglo-Saxon women letting it all hang out, it was refreshing to be among women who so rigorously kept it all in.