"We are simply camping out, that's all," said our hostess a vigorous middle-aged woman who had greeted us in front of the house.

She still couldn't reconcile the old Cecelia, well into her eighties, with the vigorous woman who seemed a few years younger than herself.

In most Southern movies it is the women, addled but vigorous, who are clearly in charge.

It had been taken over twenty years ago, in America, and showed a younger, more vigorous woman than the one who had come to his office.

She is an anxious, spare, yet vigorous old woman, clean as a snowdrop.

Shemari, a vigorous square-faced woman who looked more like a Green than a librarian, was always beyond proper in her behavior.

A woman, probably young and once vigorous, but now looking neither, moved to the forefront.

After Jack had stood at the counter for a few minutes, a robust and vigorous woman caught sight of him and came over.

But we get a vivid sense of this vigorous, humane woman.

A vigorous woman, soft in all the right places.