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Example sentences for "resoluteness"

Lexicographically close words:
resold; resolue; resolued; resolute; resolutely; resolution; resolutions; resolvable; resolvd; resolve
  1. He had crippled his enemy, it is true, but he had lost more than three men to that enemy's one, and that enemy still lay between him and Richmond in a mood of resoluteness and defiance.

  2. She admired that resoluteness which was so like him and herself as they used to be in those happy times before her marriage.

  3. Besides, he had no longer the same inducements; his strong convictions, the resoluteness of youth, and the ambitious desire to do something unusual were gone.

  4. The true church of Christ has a firm grasp of what it believes and is aiming at, and by its resoluteness it bears on human society.

  5. He was able to get through the other crises of dressing with comparative resoluteness and calm.

  6. Together with a full share of the Wollstonecraft sensitiveness, she derived from the Wollstonecrafts the disposition to melancholy, that qualified her to do in mild resoluteness what her mother essayed in tempestuous rage.

  7. She knew that when he was gone the resoluteness would remain with him; the weakness would leave him with his departure from her presence.

  8. Her little head, with the intent resoluteness of its look, had never been more beautiful.

  9. During a long experience in war he had learned well the lesson that numbers count for less than morale, and that with skill and resoluteness a small force may easily overcome and destroy a larger one.

  10. But the resoluteness of General Grant's administration soon suppressed them.

  11. Lord Canning earned for himself the nickname of "Clemency Canning" by his perfect resoluteness to hold the balance of justice even, and unweighted by the mad passion of the hour.

  12. The resoluteness with which, in the midst of these difficulties, he worked at the self-imposed task proves a lofty and unselfish love.

  13. Of course we of the south stood by our side, fighting to the last against increasing odds with the resoluteness of hereditary freemen.

  14. His voice was almost a snarl, but there was a resoluteness in the tone that awed them more than violence would have done.

  15. She was looking full at him now with all the Barrett resoluteness shining in her eyes.

  16. Of that same resoluteness of the lieutenant's I was to have a yet more signal proof.

  17. And it seemed that the game was in his hands, for this officer's resoluteness showed how implicitly my cousin was obeyed.

  18. But he saw soberness coming into Jack's eyes and with it the pressure of a certain resoluteness of purpose.

  19. But it is just against revolutionary resoluteness that Kautsky's whole book is directed.

  20. The problem is to make a civil war a short one; and this is attained only by resoluteness in action.

  21. Such were, after her last interrogatory and the suffering produced by her illness, the spells of resoluteness and faint-heartedness that wrestled with each other and alternately exalted and again cast the heroine down.

  22. At intervals her wonted courage and resoluteness resumed the ascendancy.

  23. We must find it," said Raeburn, his lips forming into the curve of resoluteness which they were wont to assume when any difficulty arose to be grappled with.

  24. And though feeling ill-prepared for remonstrance or argument, she was in her place when the gong sounded for prayers, looking white and weary indeed, but with a curve of resoluteness about her mouth.

  25. The man smiled a little in the shadow, and the look of innate strength and resoluteness of purpose deepened on his face.


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