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Example sentences for "had resolved"

  • He was now nearly sure that the fellow was an accomplice of Daly's, and the line he had resolved on would be difficult.

  • The man in the next car was Hulton's detective or a police official who had known that Daly was on the train, and feeling sure of him, had resolved to watch them both.

  • Now he had resolved to leave the city, Foster felt its charm and half resented being, in a manner, forced to go, but walked on, musing on the way women had recently meddled with his affairs.

  • Mr. Clifford, with considerate kindness, had resolved to defer all conversation with Amy relating to her bereavement and the scenes that had ensued.

  • Her mirthful question and the glance accompanying it had put him on his guard again, and he at once became the gay cavalier-general he had resolved on being throughout the day.

  • No; he had resolved to wait till her heart awoke by its own impulses, and he would keep his purpose even through the witchery of that moonlight drive.

  • Do you wish to remind me that I had resolved to wait four weeks before I decided upon a permanent course of action?

  • I had resolved to do so, for the convent is less repulsive to me than a home in your palace; but I could not bring myself to the sacrifice.

  • Joseph, and trembling lest his reforms should end in a total subversion of religion, had resolved, in the extremity of his distress, to become a pilgrim himself, and to visit the enemy in his own stronghold.

  • By and by, however, he would be brave and would say what he had resolved to say.

  • And finally he had resolved to be supreme pontiff, annexing religious to civil power, and thus by a stroke of genius attaining to the most complete dominion to which man can climb.

  • He had been the companion of my travels; he was not only faithful to me, but sincerely affectionate to the last degree; and I had resolved to do something considerable for him if he out-lived me, as it was probable he would.

  • The young man himself was aghast at the sudden quarrel which he had dared to raise at the very moment when he had resolved to speak words of gentleness, love and submission to Christine.

  • The weltering sun at length compelled me to quit the wood, but not before I had resolved to return the next morning and seek for the spot where I had met with so enchanting an experience.

  • Part of that night and the next morning was spent in curing the flesh over a smoky fire of green wood and in manufacturing a rough sack to store it in, for I had resolved to set out on my journey.

  • Relying on the services which he had rendered and at the same time on oracles which had been communicated to him, he had resolved to come forward as a candidate for the consulship.

  • Two small Celtiberian tribes in the neighbourhood of the powerful Arevacae (about the sources of the Douro and Tagus), the Belli and the Titthi, had resolved to settle together in Segeda, one of their towns.

  • After the loss of Egypt, the capital was afflicted by famine and pestilence; and the emperor, incapable of resistance, and hopeless of relief, had resolved to transfer his person and government to the more secure residence of Carthage.

  • But instead of listening to their timid counsels, Belisarius commanded them to follow him to Europus, where he had resolved to collect his forces, and to execute whatever God should inspire him to achieve against the enemy.

  • Having settled this between ourselves, we called him to let him know what we had resolved.

  • That as we had resolved to go to Europe with the caravan, we were very willing he should go with us; and that we called him to know his mind.

  • I had resolved to render her speedy and full justice; and if I sometimes recurred to the disadvantages to myself, I always had pleasure in thinking that they were sacrifices to her.

  • He had resolved to keep it and do his best with it.

  • He had resolved, however, that the performance should be in substance wholly an English one, and that the Scots should be involved in it but indirectly and sparingly.

  • After a long period of judicious quiet, Hyde and the other Councillors of Charles abroad, in advice with the Royalists at home, had resolved on testing the King's improved chances by a general insurrection.

  • Duc de Bourgogne ('twas thus he named him) had resolved, as shown by papers found in his bureau.

  • They are all the more interesting because they show what an unlimited power Madame de Maintenon exercised by subterranean means, and with what patient perseverance she undermined her enemies when once she had resolved to destroy them.

  • This explains, I fancy, the joy of the King at the death of his minister; for it saved him from executing the plan he had resolved on.

  • I had replied to all this before; but as I had resolved to surrender to the Prince (after the authority of the Duc de Beauvilliers had vanquished me), I complied with his wish.

  • But he was always a man for immediate action as soon as he had resolved on the course to be taken; and he knew that 'some must watch, while some must sleep; so runs the world away.

  • And I had resolved never to give Molly a hint of what I felt till I returned,--and then to try and win her by every means in my power.

  • Morgan, at least, knew of it and, while he was not likely to trouble me at once, I had resolved to guard every point in our pleasant game.

  • I had resolved to practise deception in running away from Glenarm House to keep my promise to Marian Devereux.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    awfully kind; had begun; had gained; had intended; had learned; had looked; had married; had meant; had met; had much; had never; had not been able; had not been long; had promised; had reached; had received; had risen; had spoken; had suffered; had the; had with; had written; had you; secret place; slice them; whole holiday