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Sentences ending with resisted

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]
Her imperious determination was not to be resisted. [6]
They may be to some extent avoided, to some extent diverted from their aim, to some extent resisted. [6]
He was not to be resisted. [9]
From time to time the offer of one office or another tempted him, but he wisely, or luckily, resisted. [5]
He conspired with the Indians to seize the Fort and stores, and kill me if I resisted. [11]
Something told me that the book was done when I got to that point--and so the strong temptation to put Huck's life at the Widow's into detail, instead of generalizing it in a paragraph was resisted. [5]
I suppose the remark was not to be resisted. [9]
And yet the Puritan resisted. [9]
But some strange obstinacy in him resisted. [9]

Short sentences using resisted

He resisted Ferrol's blarney. [11]
But she resisted. [9]
But I resisted. [9]
I resisted that. [5]

More example sentences with the word resisted in them

I listened to you, but I resisted you. [9]
McDowell can reach you by land sooner than he could get aboard of boats, if the boats were ready at Fredericksburg, unless his march shall be resisted, in which case the force resisting him will certainly not be confronting you at Richmond. [7]
And if true, would Chiltern resist, even as she, Honora, had resisted, loyally? [9]
It seemed too wonderful to be true--a free hand in Egypt, and under Imshi Pasha, the one able Minister of them all, who had, it was said, always before resisted the irrigation schemes of the foreigners, who believed only in the corroee and fate! [11]
I asked her why she had so long resisted me, accusing her of having loved me all the time. [9]
Cilo told me what they were called, and where they lived; he then added that one day they would all belong to me; that I must learn the art of fighting, in case they resisted me, and should require suppressing. [10]
During his first weeks of pain and weakness, Ruth was unceasing in her ministrations; she quietly took charge of him, and with a gentle firmness resisted all attempts of Alice or any one else to share to any great extent the burden with her. [5]
A woman who was not property, who resisted the attempt to be turned into property, was an anomaly in Ditmar's universe. [9]
Much newly-erected woodwork was already removed, but the rich longest resisted having the axe put to theirs. [10]
Where yesterday her warlike temper had defied or resisted, to-day she retired with lowered weapons. [10]
Majestic as all-conquering Venus she had resisted him for the second tune, and now how touching did she appear in her tears and weakness! [10]
Joshua's frame, inured to fatigues of every kind, resisted the tortures of this hurried march; but his weaker companion, who had grown grey in a scribe's duties, often gave way and at last lay prostrate beside him. [10]
In the mean time he felt the need of some present solace, such as only unqualified worship could give him; a cruel wish to feel his power in some direction where, even if it were resisted, it could not be overcome, drove him on. [8]
He resisted all thought of that. [13]
But he resisted this weakness and kept mechanically about his work, opening the letters and the manuscripts before him with that curious double action of the mind common in men of vivid imaginations. [8]
You have resisted them, and have threatened them with their own pistols. [11]
He had resisted the seductions which always beset solitary men with restless brains overwrought by depressing agencies. [6]
The whole of the laws which were required to be faithfully executed were being resisted and failing of execution in nearly one third of the States. [7]
Venters stubbornly resisted the entering into his mind of an insistent thought that, clearly realized, might have made it plain to him that he did not want to leave Surprise Valley at all. [13]
Still, he was sufficiently touched by his aunt's grief to long to rush out from under the bed and overwhelm her with joy--and the theatrical gorgeousness of the thing appealed strongly to his nature, too, but he resisted and lay still. [5]
We resisted and still resist your innovation; and thence comes the greater prominence of the question. [7]
Who has, in spite of the decision, declared Dred Scott free, and resisted the authority of his master over him? [7]
The others lay slain in the streets, and with them Count Oberstein's soldiers, the only ones who had stoutly resisted the Spanish mutineers and their allies to the last man. [10]
Yet even when she heard voices close by the house, among which she distinguished Countess Cordula's and--if she was not mistaken--her father's, she resisted the impulse to rise from her knees. [10]
Nobody resisted or retorted; the conductor tried soothing words and moral suasion, but the toughs only called him names and laughed at him. [5]
At first he resolutely resisted, declaring that he should lose his senses alone in the close cabin. [10]
At moments I resisted wildly, as though my survival depended on it; at other moments he seemed to bring me peace. [9]
He had stubbornly resisted the press, but had been knocked on the head, and there was an end on it. [11]
I couldn't have resisted such a righteous chance of making her feel bad. [4]
The patriarch had resisted stoutly and held out long, but at last he had been forced to sacrifice almost half the convents for monks and nuns. [10]
The strong oak resisted his shaking and pulling. [10]
Here they were resisted by a few eunuchs, headed by Boges, but these were overpowered and killed to a man. [10]
He had even resisted accepting Siebenburg's reckless stake, but his obstinate persistence and demand could not be opposed. [10]
It contained a request that he would visit Myrtle Hazard, who seemed to be in a very excitable and impressible condition, and who might perhaps be easily brought under those influences which she had resisted from her early years, through inborn perversity of character. [6]
And though he possessed the means to follow his friends and erstwhile neighbours into the newer paradise five miles westward, he had successfully resisted for several years a formidable campaign to uproot him. [9]
They crowded them out, and down the steps and across the House, past the Polish benches; and all about them swarmed hostile Poles and Czechs, who resisted them. [5]
But the lady of the manor seated herself at the speaker's table, singling out Scotch wits in the audience--for whom she was more than a match--while the sculptor and I looked on and grinned and resisted her blandishments to make speeches. [9]
But under the most careful nursing her strong constitution resisted even the most violent attacks of the fever, and when June was drawing toward an end all danger seemed over. [10]
He had resisted more vigorously than most men the progress of revolutionary sentiments in Ireland. [11]
They had made many changes and popular concessions, but they resisted parliamentary reform. [4]
To the last man, so far as known, they have successfully resisted the traitorous efforts of those whose commands, but an hour before, they obeyed as absolute law. [7]
Some fortunate recovery leads him to believe he has hit upon a preventive or a cure for a malady which had resisted all known remedies. [6]
In this as in the other cases, the disease resisted all remedies, and she died in great distress on the 22d of the same month. [3]
Nay, that was impossible; her every impulse resisted the belief. [10]
On the day his memory came back he had resisted the idea in this very room. [11]
His wife added her entreaties and tears; but a sudden chill had gripped Agne's heart; dry-eyed and rigid she resisted their prayers, and took leave of her benefactors and of Papias. [10]
As the fatalist he had resisted it then. [11]
When Grier's men had tried to force his hand also, he had resisted. [11]
Until then the good city had resisted the accursed new religious doctrines which had gained a victory in Nuremberg and the other cities of the empire. [10]
A polite note from Messrs. Bumpus and Crane, requesting our attendance at their Physiological Emporium, was too tempting to be resisted. [6]
The brown-skinned young fellows resisted bravely; but Don Juan turning to Alexander Farnese, said: "What a superb animal! [10]
The quarrel was ended by the powerful seaman's taking in his arms his lithe, slender wife, who resisted him with all her strength and had already touched the side of the boat with her foot, and putting her down on the deck of his ship. [10]
He felt himself drowning, even wished to drown, --and yet strangely resisted. [9]
When the master discovered his loss, he was mad with despair, and threw himself upon his people with his heavy stick, who resisted and brake his back and in other and divers ways did give him hurts that brought him swiftly to his end. [5]
Fate itself was constrained to do her will and fulfil the last desire of the great Queen, the victorious woman, whom no heart resisted. [10]
Although they were conscious of a certain pressure, which they gently resisted, they did not divine that the radiating and rugged young man cherished serious designs upon them. [9]
Pentaur resisted this command, asserted his right to govern in this temple, and with a trembling voice requested Septah to quit the place. [10]
He resisted argument, but ultimately yielded to insult and abuse. [5]
It was a brain-storm indeed, but it had behind it a normal power, a moral force which was not to be resisted. [11]
The jester listened attentively, without interrupting him, until Ulrich finished his story with the words "And while I was gone, the bailiffs and dogs tracked them, but my father resisted, and they killed him and the doctor. [10]
She stooped down and was going to kiss him, but Cambyses resisted her caresses, saying: "It is rather a doubtful honor, mother, to be one of your favorites. [10]
This sudden transition and shifting of power was resented at the South, resisted at first, and finally it has generally been evaded. [4]
Cleopatra as Queen, and Rome--that is Caesar, the dictator, her friend, as guardian--meant their removal from power, their destruction, and they resisted violently. [10]
When he complained and resisted, she was quietly firm with him, and said in a low voice: "No-no, that won't do; you mustn't talk, and you mustn't retch and gag that way, either--you'll wake up your poor brother. [5]
The boat resisted, and refused to answer for a while, and next she came surging to starboard, mounted the reef, and sent a long, angry ridge of water foaming away from her bows. [5]
When he resisted and avoided her she had threatened him. [5]
I resisted with all my strength, but the flesh was weak. [5]
The wretched mother again opened her heart to Barbara and, when she still resisted her lamentations and entreaties, threw herself on her knees and sobbing besought her to let her heart be softened. [10]
The massive door, adorned with brass figures in relief, would have resisted a battering-ram. [10]
I could make a very interesting volume of the letters I have received from correspondents unknown to the world of authorship, but writing from an instinctive impulse, which many of them say they have long felt and resisted. [6]
They passed within a few feet of Victoria, who resisted an almost uncontrollable impulse to rise and confront them. [9]

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