According to Henry's enthusiastic biographer, Gomes Eanes de Zurara, the three princes persuaded their still-vigorous father to undertake a campaign that would enable them to win their knightly spurs in genuine combat instead of in the mock warfare of a tournament.
Based almost entirely on primary documents, it presented a more vigorous, impassioned founding father than the traditional portrait of, as he wrote, "a comfortable old gentleman staring out at the world over his half-glasses with benevolent comprehension of everything in it".
While the training the younger Mill received has aroused amazement and criticism, its most important aspect was the close association it fostered with the strenuous character and vigorous intellect of his father.
My mother, frenetic as mothers are wont to be, was locked in vigorous debate with my father -- and really, anyone who would listen -- on the merits of hiring a hazmat team to cleanse my entire 400-person West African village.
However, mothers spent more time on vigorous outdoor activities than fathers.
With today's innovations in technology, we can involve many more people in this vigorous debate than the founding fathers could in 1776.
The boy grew up in the mold of his remarkable father robust, vigorous, and temperamental and he became his father's favourite.
A few days before Christmas that year, after a vigorous session of water exercises, my father developed a painful inguinal (intestinal) hernia.
For Roper, the Reformation involved a search for surrogate father figures and a vigorous reassertion of Luther's own masculinity.
King Vajiravudh, Rama VI, who assumed the throne in 1910, had a rough ride in the shadow of his father, King Chulalongkorn, a vigorous moderniser.
The key male figures are Oakley (Tom Hiddleston), a handsome, arrogant young dude who has a needling relationship with his father, George David Rintoull), a blustering, vigorous, prosperous type, bald in a high-testosterone sort of way.
