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Sentences starting with resolution
- Resolution came to her as she walked. [9]
Sentences ending with resolution
- I had resolved, when the administration came in, not to take an appointment; and I had kept my resolution. [4]
- In the eyes was the darkness of the well of despair; but at his lips was iron resolution. [11]
- I now proceed to the resolution. [7]
- Ought he not to examine once more the reasons which had led him to this last resolution? [10]
- His glance caught the picture of the Great Napoleon, and his eyes met hers again with new resolution. [11]
- The spectacle of the brilliant honour bestowed upon Duke Ottavio Farnese had sowed in her heart the seeds which had now ripened to resolution. [10]
- From May to September McGilveray kept to his resolution. [11]
- The desire to rid himself of troublesome debts had only hastened the Emperor's resolution. [10]
- His brother, perishing of consumption, hunger, thirst, blazing heat, drowning rains, loss of sleep, lack of exercise, was persistently faithful and circumstantial with his diary from the first day to the last--an instance of noteworthy fidelity and resolution. [5]
- Sorrow and pain never felt before filled her heart after making this resolution. [10]
Short sentences using resolution
- Is your resolution still unshaken? [10]
- With sudden resolution Druse turned. [11]
- I need resolution. [2]
- What a resolution! [10]
Sentences containing resolution two or more times
- Here he has introduced a resolution embracing ninety-nine printed lines across common writing paper, and yet more than one half of his opening speech has been made upon subjects about which there is not one word said in his resolution. [7]
More example sentences with the word resolution in them
- And yet, and yet!--Where shall I find resolution enough to ask of her who excites me to the height of passion no more than a kind glance, a clasp of the hand, an intelligent interest in what I say? [10]
- He rose up, with a great resolution upon his lips: this secret life should be revealing, and confessed; no longer would he live it clandestinely, he would go and tell her All. [5]
- One or two wise men, however, were able to secure order long enough to have the resolution passed for forming a Local Interests Committee whose duty it would be to see that the people were not sacrificed to a "soulless plutocracy. [11]
- With a sudden wild resolution he raised the pistol to his head. [11]
- They are men whose measure of resolution is not guessed at. [9]
- Casper Eysvogel, on whom the resolution bore most heavily, submitted in silence, shrugging his shoulders. [10]
- In that instant were fused in one resolution all the discordant elements within me of aspiration and discontent. [9]
- During the ensuing weeks, Senora Petra prepared Coello many bad days and still worse nights; but the painter persisted in his resolution to give Isabella to Ulrich, if in a year and a half he returned from Italy a skilful artist. [10]
- Yet his resolution was instantly formed. [10]
- The Executive approval was given by me to the resolution mentioned, and it is now by a closer attention and a fuller knowledge of facts that I feel constrained to recommend a reconsideration of the subject. [7]
- To her, it was a resolution which, in anyone else's life, would have seemed abnormal; in Carnac's life it had naturalness. [11]
- By a general view of the resolution, it will be seen that a principal object of the committee is to examine into, and ferret out, a mass of corruption supposed to have been committed by the commissioners who apportioned the stock of the Bank. [7]
- Once more he ventured to protest, but I told him my resolution was fixed, and that I would at all costs secure escape from my six years' misery. [11]
- He remarked, somewhat unsteadily, that to prolong the controversy would be useless and painful to all concerned, and he infinitely regretted the necessity of putting his suggestion that the rector resign in the form of a resolution . [9]
- When I was two years of age she asked me not to drink, and then I made a resolution of total abstinence. [5]
- While it is true that the adoption of the proposed resolution would be merely initiatory, and not within itself a practical measure, it is recommended in the hope that it would soon lead to important practical results. [7]
- But the great triumph of the microscope as applied to anatomy has been in the resolution of the organs and the tissues into their simple constituent anatomical elements. [3]
- And the resolution, translated into many tongues, was adopted amidst an uproar of enthusiasm. [9]
- The secretary was told to write down the resolution of the Moscow nobility and gentry, that they would furnish ten men, fully equipped, out of every thousand serfs, as the Smolensk gentry had done. [2]
- Out-doors was terrible to those who looked out of windows, and heard the raging wind, and saw the commotion in all the high tree-tops and the writhing of the low evergreens, and could not summon resolution to go forth and breast and conquer the bluster. [4]
- Suddenly he seemed to have formed a resolution and ordered all the courtiers, except Prexaspes, to leave the hall. [10]
- The one resolution to escape rose stronger and stronger within me, and I determined neither to eat nor sleep until I had got away. [9]
- It proposes simply to co-operate with any State by giving such State pecuniary aid"; and he thought that the resolution, as proposed by him, would be considered rather as the expression of a sentiment than as involving any constitutional question. [7]
- Some, even in those early days of the strike, were frauds; were hiding their savings; but for the most part investigation revealed an appalling destitution, a resolution to suffer for the worker's cause. [9]
- But, aside from this view of the subject, I would ask, if the committee which this resolution proposes to appoint are to examine into the Constitutionality of the Bank? [7]
- In pursuance of this resolution, he now drew a little table to his bedside, and arranging the light and a small oblong music-book to the best advantage, took his flute from its box, and began to play most mournfully. [12]
- Well, Pamela, after thinking it over for a day or so, I came near inquiring about a state-room in our ship for Sam, to please you, but my wiser former resolution came back to me. [5]
- He knew that they contained important news for him; but he loved to do violence to his curiosity, to test his resolution, and like an epicure to reserve the best dish till the last. [10]
- The whistle of the up-train served to strengthen his resolution, for he was reminded thereby that his mill often had occasion to ask favors of the Truro Railroad. [9]
- Yet even had the tempest continued to rage with full fury, Barbara would not have been dissuaded from the resolution which she had once formed. [10]
- But how long the servitor's already narrow face became when Heinz, with a grave resolution new to Biberli, answered positively that no ducats would stray from these bags to Schorlin Castle. [10]
- On the road the man pulled his resolution together, and began the march with a steady gait, but there was no eagerness in it. [5]
- The resolution in the language above quoted was adopted by large majorities in both branches of Congress, and now stands an authentic, definite, and solemn proposal of the nation to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. [7]
- The captain of the guards perceived this and, touched by the horror of the man whose resolution had hitherto seemed peerless, called to him: "They don't all come home like that, no indeed! [10]
- From this to the end of the resolution, there is nothing that merits attention--I therefore drop the particular examination of it. [7]
- That Dilworthy had the effrontery to offer such a resolution will surprise no one, and that the Senate could entertain it without blushing and pass it without shame will surprise no one. [5]
- Despite the fact that Hugh Chiltern had with such apparent resolution set his face towards literature and the tillage of the land, it was as the Viking still that her imagination pictured him. [9]
- The priest feigned that her desire harmonized with a resolution which he had himself formed. [10]
- Suddenly her sight swam, she swayed and would have fainted, but resolution steadied her, and a low exclamation broke from her lips. [11]
- I will neither support nor oppose the resolution presented; I will content myself with pointing the way to a greater national self-respect. [11]
- Was this a sudden resolution of mine, forced by events, precipitated by a failure to achieve what of all things on earth I had most desired? [9]
- I've got no strength left," he added, with sudden resolution turning to the sergeant major. [2]
- He had no sooner adopted this resolution, than he conveyed as much honesty into his face as it was capable of expressing, and sympathised with Mr Swiveller exceedingly. [12]
- But his resolution shook for one little instant, and the chance was lost--the master opened the volume. [5]
- By and by she turned; her countenance had cleared; the dreamy look was gone out of her face, all indecision had vanished; the poise of her head and the firm set of her lips told that her resolution was formed. [5]
- Her resolution taken, she sewed the piece of gold into her dress, and going to bed with a lighter heart sunk into a deep slumber. [12]
- Yet, had the shaft of Eros really struck him, how was it possible that the longing to win Ledscha back stirred so strongly within him that he finally reached a resolution concerning her? [10]
- When I was seven years of age she asked me not to drink, and then I made a resolution of total abstinence; and that I have adhered to it through all time I owe to my mother. [5]
- Kaid's face had set into fierce resolution, but as he took the amulet his eyes softened. [11]
- Nothing in life seemed to him of much importance, and under the influence of the depression that possessed him he valued neither his liberty nor his resolution to punish his wife. [2]
- Few countenances lacked ruddy color, and strong vitality, clear intellect, immovable will and firm resolution flashed from many blue eyes around the table. [10]
- Obeying a hasty resolution, he rang the bell and ordered Adrian to call Quijada and command Barbara to sing in the Golden Cross that afternoon. [10]
- Hastily forming his resolution, he again turned to his friend, saying: "You have shown yourself a father to me. [10]
- An expression of resolution, emblematic of a determination to die, if necessary, in the performance of duty, was on her face as the machinery started; and her breath was not quite normal when, in an incredibly brief period, they descended at the ferry. [9]
- He carried his resolution within himself in terror and haste, like something dreadful and alien to him, for, after the previous night's experience, he was afraid of losing it. [2]
- And so her resolution was taken. [5]
- By the third resolution the meeting indicate their opinion that military arrests may be constitutional in localities where rebellion actually exists, but that such arrests are unconstitutional in localities where rebellion or insurrection does not actually exist. [7]
- With a sudden resolution the ex-sergeant put his own pistol in his pocket, then pushed Halbeck's pistol over towards him on the table. [11]
- And yet her resolution should not be water. [9]
- With a firm resolution not to betray herself and not show her agitation, she sent for Mademoiselle Bourienne and went with her to the drawing room. [2]
- But the resolution required a two-thirds vote, and was lost. [9]
- I intend no reproach or complaint when I assure you that, in my opinion, if you all had voted for the resolution in the gradual-emancipation message of last March, the war would now be substantially ended. [7]
- Now, you all remember that was a resolution censuring the President for the manner in which the war was begun. [7]
- It was a remarkable march, and shows what men can do when they have a leader with a determined purpose and a resolution that never flags. [5]
- At first the regiment was unbelieving, and his resolution to drink no more was scoffed at in the non-com mess. [11]
- The seventh resolution recommends the holding of district conventions in May next, for the purpose of nominating candidates for Congress. [7]
- The sixth resolution recommends the adoption of the convention system for the nomination of candidates. [7]
- The fifth resolution recommends that a Whig candidate for Congress be run in every district, regardless of the chances of success. [7]
- But the true reason was doubtless the resolution formed the night before, and which now by day seemed more difficult to execute than he had thought at the priedieu. [10]
- It is no pleasure to me to triumph over any one, but I give thanks to the Almighty for this evidence of the people's resolution to stand by free government and the rights of humanity. [7]
- The hardest, and perhaps the wisest, resolution of his life was to abandon the provinces which it would have exhausted the power of the Empire to retain. [10]
- I leave this part of the resolution and proceed to the remainder. [7]
- It was Lincoln's own resolution and act; but practically it bound the nation, and permitted no step backward. [7]
- We must admit our mistakes, both social and political, and set about the solution of our problem with intelligent resolution and a large charity. [4]
- We framed in our minds the usual resolution of thanks and admiration and gratitude, and took the first opportunity to vote it, and put it in writing and present it to the captain, with the customary speech. [5]
- I saw him once again in a cheap restaurant, whispering a resolution to another delegate, but he did n't appear in the con-vention. [4]
- After much consideration of this point, I came to the resolution of writing truly, if I wrote at all; of withholding nothing, though some things, from their very nature, could not be spoken of so fully as others. [14]
- After the departure of Newport, Smith, with his accustomed resolution, set to work to gather supplies for the winter. [4]
- After the study of form and composition follows close that of action, and this leads us along back to the first moment of the germ, and forward to the resolution of the living frame into its lifeless elements. [3]
- A certain gravity of demeanour had early taken possession of him, and while his close-shut lips showed his ability to cling tenaciously to a resolution, his bright eyes sparkled with the glow of enthusiasm. [10]
- As it was now evident that the future was to be one of renunciation, of self-forgetting, an oblivion tinged with bitterness, he formlessly reasoned in favor of reconsidering his resolution against Fulkerson's offer. [8]
- If he does not he is too ignorant to be placed at the head of the committee which his resolution purposes and if he does, his neglect to mention it shows him to be too uncandid to merit the respect or confidence of any one. [7]
- She frowned upon no lover when he made his first advances, but by and by when she was hopelessly enthralled, he learned from her own lips that she had formed a resolution never to marry. [5]
- Used to bold moves, in this affair of love he was living up to his custom; and the encounter with Detricand here added the last touch to his resolution, nerved him to follow his strong impulse to set all upon one hazard. [11]
- He has given me to understand that you have hitherto persistently refused to accept him because I have withheld that consent, and I take this opportunity of expressing my admiration of this praiseworthy resolution on your part. [9]
- Nothing can shake me from that resolution. [9]
- I sat in marble resolution, with my eyes fixed upon vacancy, for in spirit I was already wrestling with the perils of the mountains, and my friend sat gazing at me in adoring admiration through his tears. [5]
- How difficult he made it for her to maintain the resolution which she had formed during the mass for the dead, since he remained aloof, without giving even the slightest token of remembrance. [10]
- There was infinite love and tenderness, but there was also resolution, confidence, possession, mastery. [4]
- For this trivial loss she had suffered intense anxiety and been faithless to her resolution to seek death, which ends all fears. [10]
- I thought a long time, and then suddenly felt that strange feeling which comes to a man with a good resolution, and I took up that watermelon and took it back to its owner. [5]
- She wondered a little wickedly what he would say when he knew the truth about her, and this was the birth of a resolution that his interest should not flag. [9]
- I care but little for the vanity of those who would chide me, and am unwilling as well as shamed to be guilty of anything that would lead you to think 'all is not gold that glitters'; so be not rash in your resolution. [5]
- I care but little for the vanity of those who would chide me, and am unwilling as well as ashamed to be guilty of anything that would lead you to think 'all is not gold that glitters'; so be no rash in your resolution. [5]
- He was a little ashamed afterward of the resolution it had cost him to do so. [8]
- We cannot, as life is arranged, be perfectly happy, but we can be true to ourselves, and there is scarcely anything that resolution and patience cannot overcome. [4]
- They were no less important personages than Don Carlos himself and Alessandro Farnese, John's nephew, the son of that Ottavio at whose admission as Knight of the Golden Fleece Barbara had made at Landshut the most difficult resolution of her life. [10]
- Immediately following this last charge, there are several insinuations in the resolution, which are too silly to require any sort of notice, were it not for the fact that they conclude by saying, "to the great injury of the people at large. [7]
- He had never lacked courage and resolution, but he felt that this time he would have to resist a power with which he had never coped. [10]
- This aim he kept constantly in view; his spirit hungered for peaceful days in which he might act on the resolution he had formed in church and fulfil the task set before him by the Arab governor. [10]
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