The dearer my home, the more energetic shall be my efforts to preserve it from desolation.

But so astonishing, so rapid, and so energetic had been her rally, that [a year after Syracuse] she was found again carrying on a terrible struggle.'

The most energetic amongst them was Fred, and he had opportunities enough this afternoon for practising kindness and self-denial, for White was in one of his bad moods, and pushed before Fred whenever he saw a fine and easily to be obtained cluster of fruit; and once, (Fred thought purposely,) upset his basket, which stood upon the pathway, all in the dust.

The message was conveyed in terms as energetic as language could supply, but it arrived at a most unpropitious [Footnote 1: Charles's Works, 548-550.