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Example sentences for "resolutely"

Lexicographically close words:
resky; resold; resolue; resolued; resolute; resoluteness; resolution; resolutions; resolvable; resolvd
  1. Madame Krasinska hurried though the long black corridor, with its slippery bricks and typhoid smell, and went slowly but resolutely up the black staircase.

  2. Resolutely she told herself that Peter was at perfect liberty to fall in love with Meg if he liked, and set herself to listen intelligently to the Vicar's sermon.

  3. Resolutely she put the subject from her and began to consider what her own best course would be with Fay, her nephew and niece, and, very shortly, a new baby on her hands.

  4. He looked very hot and ruefully distressed as he repaired his error, and would not, could not meet the laughing eyes of his comrades, nor yet the polite glances of his guests resolutely seeing naught amiss.

  5. Very likely it is accounted a great success; but Christ has not spoken: He is resolutely mute to those who follow religion in this spirit.

  6. Though the practice of the ladies of Jerusalem was a benevolent one, the gift mixed by their charitable hands appeared to our Lord a cup of temptation, and He resolutely put it aside.

  7. The latter looked resolutely at the Prince, and with energy which nothing could henceforth soften, added: "You will have to deal with me in future!

  8. She looked coldly and resolutely at Pierre, and threw back her head to avoid the contact of his eager lips.

  9. But he now explained gravely and resolutely that the obedience he exacted from them he intended to practise rigidly himself.

  10. Mrs. Caldwell looked as if she were being mesmerised to sleep by the two pairs of bright eyes so resolutely and patiently fixed upon her.

  11. She answered none of these letters, and, by dint of resolutely banishing all thought of them and of the writers, she managed in time to obliterate the impression; but she had to live through some terrible hours before she succeeded.

  12. This I resolutely refused: desertion was of itself bad enough, without adding to it the crimes of breach of trust and theft.

  13. He refused the assistance of both Capuchins and Jesuits, and as no member of the Unity was allowed to assist the dying brethren, he walked resolutely and alone to the scaffold.

  14. His first allusion to Aquinas, Colet had resolutely shunned.

  15. He saw the small, white fingers clasping and unclasping, and knew that she was resolutely keeping back her tears.

  16. Blount knew neither the honorers nor the honored ones, and had resolutely refused the chance offered him by Mrs. Beverley to amend his ignorance.

  17. One of the two crucial days of suspense was outworn, but there was another coming; and after he had read for an hour he went to bed, resolutely determined to get the rest necessary to carry him through the dreaded Saturday.

  18. But he pushed her away and turned his face resolutely towards the door before him.

  19. Moreover, he did not kiss her fingers now, and he resolutely looked at the wall opposite him.

  20. But she was tired, and could not put him resolutely out of her mind, and she looked a very weary, faded little creature, on the very verge of old age, as she toiled up the steps and opened the door.

  21. The pallor made her in the moonlight look almost unearthly, and he was obliged to bend his eyes resolutely away from her, during the pause that ensued.

  22. She told herself resolutely as she went that this was perfectly ridiculous; that she must go to bed but she didn't want to go to bed, and, moreover, she suddenly realised that she was hungry.

  23. He resolutely refused to pay for the boat till her work was done.

  24. The boatswain resolutely but good–naturedly refused to let the visitor pass him, or to disturb the lecture by sending to the saloon for some one to act as interpreter.

  25. Ethics shows how to realize internal freedom by resolutely pursuing rational ends in opposition to those of natural inclination.

  26. After 1856 Espartero resolutely declined to identify himself with active politics, though at every stage in the onward march of Spain towards more liberal and democratic institutions he was asked to take a leading part.

  27. She walked resolutely around to the door which Susy, in her flight, had left half-open.

  28. Suddenly Susy pulled at Robin's hand and, still sobbing, dragged her resolutely toward the door.

  29. Since that time, ten years back, when he had resolutely put behind him his precious ambitions and had taken the first job he could find, he had been the recognized head of the family.

  30. Out in the air she leaned for a moment weakly against the door jamb--then resolutely pulled herself together, and carefully closed the door behind her.

  31. He had crawled through the fence, near the barn, descended the declivity to the horse-path by the river, turned his face eastward, and trudged resolutely on with Rover at his heels.

  32. For, in spite of all the precautions taken by the government, the affair had been begun so warmly and resolutely that, after the contest had continued for three hours, it was impossible to say on which side the advantage would remain.

  33. But we easily got away, and the restless animal discontinued its mad and purposeless chase so soon as we stopped resolutely before it.

  34. Then you don't get any skin tomorrow," Dale turned resolutely on his heel.

  35. When fear tugs at a fellow's heart (and without fear there would be no courage) he is courageous who walks resolutely into every uncertainty if duty chances to be there calling.

  36. The love he had felt for her was slight to the passion now demanding utterance; yet his lips set resolutely to suppress any word of endearment.

  37. He will plead his right resolutely with gravity and simplicity, without personal animosity, and yet, at the same time, fearlessly.

  38. The masqueraders, who were not above ten or twelve, could not believe in such an exhibition of force; consequently they marched resolutely upon the grenadiers, who fixed their bayonets.

  39. He was exhausted by fatigue and hunger, yet advanced more resolutely than ever, with less strength and an added burden.

  40. The Matutina, as we have seen, plunged resolutely into the great hazard of the night, a hazard increased by the impending storm.

  41. Attempts were made repeatedly to use its power to punish enemies or to avenge private grievances, but its members adhered resolutely to the straightforward course originally marked out as the path of its duty.

  42. In no Western State had financial heresy ever been as resolutely grappled with and as thoroughly beaten, and his prominent share in this battle must rank among Mr. Chandler's most unselfish and honorable public services.

  43. The attempt to secure the reversal of this verdict and the re-instatement in the army of the dismissed officer aroused his sternest indignation, and he fought it resolutely at every stage--and successfully, while he remained in the Senate.


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