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Sentences ending with resist

The issue may yet have been undecided when he turned round to Jethro with a sneer which he could not resist. [9]
I wanted to write what was in me, and that invasion of a little secluded French-Canadian society by a ne'er-do-well of the over-sea aristocracy had a psychological interest, which I could not resist. [11]
She had a way of drawing things out of you, and you just couldn't resist. [9]
The letter now took this form: "Poultices do sometimes choke swine; tulips reduce posterity; causes leather to resist. [5]
It was hard to resist the impulse to burst out with exultation and reveal everything; but I did resist. [5]
I was so tired last night that I thought I would lie abed and rest, to-day; but I couldn't resist. [5]
And then in the fragrant hill pasture there were beds of wintergreen with red berries, tufts of columbine, roots of sassafras to be dug, and dozens of things good to eat or to smell, that I could not resist. [4]
Again she felt the buffeting mist, again her face was muffled in smothering folds; again great hands reached out towards her; again her eyes were drawn into a stupefying darkness; but now there was no will to fight, no energy to resist. [11]
And he prayed that some of them, on this day, would receive that desire, that power which nothing could resist. [9]
But you were strong enough to resist. [9]

Short sentences using resist

She did not resist this. [9]
I do not resist it. [7]
How can you resist him? [13]
And he did not resist. [9]
Who could resist him? [9]
Nor resist the Governor? [11]

Sentences containing resist two or more times

They were alarmed at the weakness of a President who would indeed resist the urgent remonstrances of statesmen against his policy, but could not resist the prayer of an old woman for the pardon of a soldier who was sentenced to be shot for desertion. [7]

More example sentences with the word resist in them

But we know your strength; we know that the small remnant of our nation, which war and pestilence have spared, cannot resist your vast and well-armed hosts. [10]
Few will resist you, but of those few the first will surely be your own father. [10]
And just, because you or I would not be able to resist an invitation to go yachting with Eldon Parr, a man might be imagined who had that amount of moral courage. [9]
And if true, would Chiltern resist, even as she, Honora, had resisted, loyally? [9]
It is hard work to resist this grinding-down action.--Now give me a chance. [6]
Paulus did not withdraw, he accepted the blow from his victim as a gift or a greeting, thinking, "Aye, and I only wish you had a dagger in your hand; I would not resist you. [10]
Friend," he added, with the winning insistence that few found it possible to resist, "if all be well, and we go thither, wilt thou become the governor-general yonder? [11]
The devoted wife with great pain and risk came the whole journey to Honolulu, and pleaded until the authorities were unable to resist her entreaty that she might go and live like a leper with her leper husband. [5]
Is it those who resist the measure, or those who causelessly brought it forward, and pressed it through, having reason to know, and in fact knowing, it must and would be so resisted? [7]
Then I witnessed what Brehm has described, for monkey after monkey, with head raised high and turned on one side, could not resist taking a momentary peep into the upright bag, at the dreadful object lying quietly at the bottom. [1]
Softened by affectionate weakness and no longer able to resist the impulse to see his little Belita happy, he whispered: "Poor thing, poor young lovers! [10]
But the man was perfectly healthy, and this helped to resist the danger of a fatal result. [11]
True, my character was not yet steeled sufficiently to resist every temptation, but I no longer need fear the danger of crossing the barrier which Froebel set for men "worthy" in his sense. [10]
Certainly the master-carpenter was not unpopular, and people could not easily resist the grip of his physical influence, while mentally he was far indeed from being deficient. [11]
The governor's arm was as quick to her waist as a gallant's of twenty-five: not his to resist the despair of so noble a creature. [11]
He, Adrian, had warned her, but she had been unable to resist the entreaties of the sorely punished mother. [10]
Mr Quilp now walked up to front of a looking-glass, and was standing there putting on his neckerchief, when Mrs Jiniwin happening to be behind him, could not resist the inclination she felt to shake her fist at her tyrant son-in-law. [12]
The king himself urged Mena's suit, for he loves him as his own son, and when I represented your prior claim he commanded;--and who may resist the commands of the sovereign of two worlds, the Son of Ra? [10]
She evidently felt unable to look at him without laughing, but could not resist looking at him: so to be out of temptation she slipped quietly behind one of the columns. [2]
It was called twelve miles, straight out to the islands--a long pull and a warm one--but the morning was so quiet and sunny, and the lake so smooth and glassy and dead, that we could not resist the temptation. [5]
At last Frau Traut had been unable to resist her entreaties, and allowed her to see her son and hold him a short time in her arms. [10]
They were walking towards Fourth Avenue one evening--the priest could not resist the impulse to accompany her a little way towards her home--after a day of unusual labor and anxiety. [4]
It was impossible to resist the wholesome eloquence of his temperament; he was a revelation of humanity: what he said had life. [11]
They might try to resist the law through him, but, if violence was shown, he would first kill Arrowhead, and then destruction would descend like a wind out of the north, darkness would swallow them, and their bones would cover the plains. [11]
Sinai, were preparing to resist the Hebrews' passage through their well-watered tract in the wilderness with its wealth of palms. [10]
Who would dare to resist him? [10]
So I tried to repress such thoughts; but now I will resist them no longer. [10]
I should wish to keep it in rational strength and coolness; but to do so I must determinedly resist the kindly-meant, but too irksome expression of an apprehension, for the realisation or defeat of which I have no possible power to be responsible. [14]
Nations thus tempted to interfere are not always able to resist the counsels of seeming expediency and ungenerous ambition, although measures adopted under such influences seldom fail to be unfortunate and injurious to those adopting them. [7]
Experience, he said to Charmian, proved that no man of any feeling could wholly resist the charm of her nature, and to him at least she had never seemed more winning than now. [10]
And so, yielding to a pressure which I could not understand, and yet found myself unable to resist, I promised to take a part in the new venture, as an occasional writer in the columns of the new magazine. [6]
For the first time she ventured to call herself unhappy and, while walking through the streets with downcast eyes against the wind, struggled vainly to resist some mysterious, gloomy power, that compelled her to minutely recall everything that had resulted differently from her expectations. [10]
I had not thought that his hatred of her was deep enough to resist it. [9]
Whatever Burlingame actually thought or believed, he could not now resist picking up the handkerchief and looking at it with a mocking smile. [11]
I would resist the temptation to print it here, if I could, but the task is beyond my strength. [5]
He himself felt the pull of the young clergyman's personality, and instinctively strove to resist it: and was more than ever struck by Mr. Hodder's resemblance to the cliff sculpture of which he had spoken at the vestry meeting. [9]
Pah-go-to-wah-wah-pukketekeewis (Mighty-Hunter-with-a-Hog-Eye-Twain) adorned the middle of the eighteenth century, and aided General Braddock with all his heart to resist the oppressor Washington. [5]
He was in the habit of casting aside whatever displeased him unless it appeared advantageous to impose restraint upon himself; and who would ever have dared to resist the expression of his indignation? [10]
They burst open the gates of the palace and were pressing in with cries of "Death to the Magi," when the seven princes of the Persians appeared in front of the raging crowd to resist their entrance. [10]
It was on the eve of this epoch-making trip of which we heard so glowing an account to-night, and I made up my mind that no Spaniard, however wily, could resist his persuasion. [9]
The intimacy among the different members of the society was so close that, beyond a courtesy of manner that never failed, the tendency was to resist the approach of any stranger as a 'gene'. [6]
The strongest and the ablest men have found it impossible to resist the impression produced by the most insignificant object, by the most harmless sight or sound to which they had a congenital or acquired antipathy. [6]
He is one that runs in that direction, and as such I resist him. [7]
Don't you think that if some one went among them, and tried to make them see how perfectly hopeless it was to resist the companies and drive off the new men, he might do some good? [8]
King never could tell why he consented to this arrangement, but he knew in a vague way that it is useless to attempt to resist feminine power, that shapes our destiny in spite of all our rough-hewing of its outlines. [4]
If we each take calmly whatever befalls us our masters try to heal our wounds, but if we resist may the gods have mercy on us! [10]
Like a torrent suddenly swelled by a storm it rushed on, surging and growing at each moment, and carrying with it even those who tried to resist its force. [10]
Here, too, we strolled; and here I could not resist the temptation to lie an unheeded hour or two, soaking in the benignant February sun, above every human concern and care, looking upon a land and sea steeped in romance. [4]
With all her strength she made it her own, and soon she felt absolutely sure that when he knew she was so near him he had been unable to resist the desire to gaze once more into her face. [10]
We resisted and still resist your innovation; and thence comes the greater prominence of the question. [7]
And when he still had tried to resist she had rushed into his arms, had stopped his lips with burning kisses, and whispered in his ear all the flattering words of love he once had held so dear. [10]
Knowing what he sought, she could no longer resist the impulse of her heart, but stepped forth from the shadow of the sycamore and gave Hosea a cordial and tender welcome. [10]
Be you ever so set against me--and I do not think you are--you should not be so strong to resist the shock of feeling. [11]
But it is so hard to resist the temptation, notwithstanding that the terrible line beginning "Superfluous lags the veteran" is always repeating itself in his dull ear! [6]
He was so shrewd, so keen, so full of practical sense, and so good-humored as long as things went on to his liking, that few could resist his fascination. [6]
And, seeing that she did not resist, he drew her to him and kissed her. [9]
The lottery-houses were set up early, and, to the last, attracted crowds, who could not resist the tempting display of goods and trinkets, which might be won by investing six kreuzers in a bit of paper, which might, when unrolled, contain a number. [4]
Your social orders seem able to resist Darwin's theory, but in a republic natural selection has a better chance. [4]
She was surely seeking protection and aid from him, to keep her promise and resist her lover's passionate appeal. [10]
Generally a man says, 'Well, I can resist, but I'll have my fun just this once. [9]
She did not resist, marvelling rather at his own steadiness, nor did she then resent a tenderness in his voice. [9]
She did not resist, but lifted her face to him, and he kissed her. [9]
She ceased to resist, as one submitting to the fatality of a superior will. [9]
She did not resist, and her smile I shall always remember. [9]
She would not resist this summons, for she had often made her way to the government building, and took special pleasure in the society of the aristocratic Spaniards. [10]
How could he resist the temptation? [6]
I could not resist the temptation to add, "I had an idea Asquith rather suited your purposes just now. [9]
I could not resist the sight of the grandeur and glory with which he has covered France. [2]
They could not resist the lively wiggle of the worm before their very noses, and we lifted them out one after an other, gently, and very much as if we were hooking them out of a barrel, until we had a handsome string. [4]
Philip could not resist the inclination to pay a visit to Fallkill. [5]
How could he resist the dictate of humanity which called him to make his visits more frequent, that her intervals of rest might be more numerous? [6]
Nor can I resist the desire to prophesy any more than you can do, knowing that I may prove utterly mistaken. [6]
Nor could he resist the desire of contemplating the portrait bust, which--it was foolish to talk about ideals--was not Liberty, but Myrtle Hazard. [6]
No man could resist the charms of this woman, and Orion had succumbed. [10]
Rockwell could not resist the audacity. [11]
I could not resist showing him where it was ripped. [5]
I cannot here resist quoting a most just remark by Sir J. Lubbock ('Prehistoric Times,' 1865, p. 479) in reference to this paper, namely, that Mr. Wallace, "with characteristic unselfishness, ascribes it (i.e. [1]
He could not resist looking at them once more. [2]
She did not resist her desire for Ditmar because she believed, in the orthodox sense, that it was wrong, but because it involved a loss of self-respect, a surrender of the personality from the very contemplation of which she shrank. [9]
She could not resist going to the window and smiling at them, though they appeared but dimly--little dancing figures in a mist. [9]
Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. [4]
Man can long resist conditions which appear extremely unfavourable for his existence. [1]
Alexander seemed to resist Caesar's demands; but presently the despot must have proposed something which pleased the artist, for Melissa heard the low, musical laugh which had often cheered her in moments of sadness. [10]
It would be repugnant to us to repeat all the tales of barbarous cruelties, which are told of Cambyses at this insane period of his life; but we cannot resist mentioning a few which seem to us especially characteristic. [10]
There was no preparation to resist the onset. [11]
Somehow again the plebeian quality in that hein grated on her, and she could not resist the retort. [11]
When Ahieser, the overseer, dragged her out, her wailing made one's heart sore, yet when the time for departure came, the longing to go seized upon her also, and she found it as hard to resist as the others. [10]
Some might, while others would not, resist that temptation. [7]
This we can only resist by the constant assertion of the rights, the power, the dignity of the individual State, all that it has not surrendered in the fundamental constitution of the Republic. [4]
For the whole of that portion of my subject in which Holland and England were combined into one whole, to resist Spain in its attempt to obtain the universal empire, I have very abundant collections. [6]
If the spirit of prophecy had not deceived Miriam, and the Lord had indeed commanded Hosea to wield His sword, how dared he resist, what higher position could earth offer? [10]
It is a not uninteresting question whether Emerson has bequeathed to the language any essay or poem which will resist the flow of time like "the adamant of Shakespeare," and remain a classic like the Essays of Addison or Gray's Elegy. [6]
Still she did not speak, but her lip trembled, and the love leaping in his eyes kindled a yearning in hers,--a yearning she was powerless to resist. [9]
Apparently she did not resist, she did everything she was told to do. [4]
Consequently he could not resist the temptation, of letting Frau Schimmel inhale the elixir. [10]
But he could not resist the solemn assertions respecting its efficacy; he gave way before the outcry of facts, and therefore, instead of denying all their pretensions, he admitted and tried to account for them upon supernatural grounds. [6]
And I could not resist the impulse to mount the steps once more. [9]
But I could not resist a worrying anxiety about the future of the British Provinces, which not even the remembrance of their hostility to us during our mortal strife with the Rebellion could render agreeable. [4]
Still he could not resist a temptation. [11]
The Colonel could not resist a retort. [9]

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