When I was perplexed about any question," he says in an autobiographical fragment, "I went to the mosque and prayed God to resolve the difficulty.
Hearing this, Habib became more confirmed than ever in his resolve to give up the world and to live to God.
This made him resolve for the future to learn everything by heart.
Spiritualism came to reform death, to resolve it into life; came to reform fear, to resolve it into trust and knowledge; came to reform the darkness which rests upon humanity concerning the nature of man’s existence.
Saying which, Mr. Winkle retraced his steps in the direction of the coffee-room, with the gloomy and dreadful resolve of accepting the challenge of the warlike Dr.
The old man seemed gradually blending into the chair, the damask waistcoat to resolve into a cushion, the red slippers to shrink into little red cloth bags.
In these he tells of the spirit of the men, their fire of enthusiasm, their imperious sense of duty, their resolve to carry 'an undefiled conscience as far as their feet may lead.
During all these minutes I never relaxed in my resolve to see how it was.
During all those minutes I never relaxed in my resolve to see 'how it was.
The six months might possibly resolve themselves into twelve, one never knew!
In the fight against these illusions, as well as with the complicated problems of housekeeping and management, life began to resolve itself into something very like Swinburne's "Ballad of Burdens.
Out of it all came a resolve that the next day she would tell Westenra the whole story of her life of strange adventure and misery.
But the intellectual resolve was one thing, the moral aptitude another.
Not till half-past ten did Daniel resolveto tear himself away.
At heart he knew that he would not present himself for the Civil Service examination; but he durst not yet put the resolve into words.
The one certainty by which he had lived, his delight in books, his resolveto become erudite, now of a sudden vanished.
But at this moment she did not wear a look of unhappiness; there was a glow in her fine eyes, a tremour of resolve on all her features.
It was equally a spot to relax in or to work, and although now more disposed for the former, he planned in himself to come back here, at some future day, and labour with all the zest that a strong resolve to succeed inspires.
Then I must protest; and I beg you to remember that I have protested against thisresolve on your part.
My intention is to be his fellow-traveller, and with this resolve I shall take the Austrian steamer to Corfu, and come up with my friend at Alexandria.
For until his death, the enemy did not resolve to display the audaciousness that they have since shown here, nor even to conduct their commerce, except with great caution.
Smith informed the Brethren that, in conformity to the resolve of this Grand Lodge, he had, in company with the Grand Officers and the Rev.
The human eye can't resolve any object that subtends less than three minutes of arc.
The human eye wouldn't resolve an object that size, at such a distance and height.
Bitterly the solitaries denounce him, and resolve to select a more reliable man among the first candidates for liberty.
At last I resolve to take the decisive step, and next day I reveal the secret to Tony.
I consider the situation, andresolve to "break up housekeeping.
Distraught with anxiety and yearning to see my sick friend, I resolve upon a way to visit the hospital.
Is it possible you should resolve never to profess that religion which, in your conscience, you do believe to be true, nor to move your lord thereunto, for any human respect, however dear and sacred?
If ever a look planted an undying resolve in a man's heart it was that.
Then if he resolve to leave town, she maketh not much ado till they have rode twenty or thirty miles out of London.
I repeated the words again and again, till the resolve burnt itself into my heart.
But all this does not prevent distractions and drowsiness from troubling me, and not unfrequently I resolve to continue my thanksgiving throughout the day, since I made it so badly in choir.
Each morning I resolve to be humble, and in the evening I recognise that I have often been guilty of pride.
She made the momentous resolve that she would learn to know herself a little, as a step to enabling other people, Robert Gault and Aunt Hitty in particular, to understand her.
In such a melting mood Barbara would resolve not to be horrid any more, but to send for Robert the first thing in the morning, and tell him just how glad she was to see him.
That this advice of Bob Cross was the best that could be given to one in my position there could not be a doubt; and that I did resolve to follow it, is most certain.
It was still possible that some fanatical and devoted adherent of Zouroff might resolve to avenge his defeated chief.
Well, in a way he was a monarch himself--one of the half-dozen undisputed kings of finance, who are the power behind titular potentates and taken into their counsels before they resolve upon decided action.
Resolve me, if thou look'st for Bent knees in adoration?
You may read The edict to that purpose, publish'd by him; That will resolve you.
Heaven So prosper me, as I resolve to do it To all men, and in every place: scorn'd by A tit of ten-pence!
This is our sun, and when he's set we must not Expect or spring or summer, butresolve For a perpetual winter.
Son,' answered the Sultan of the Indies, 'I cannot refuse you the leave you ask me; but I would much rather you would resolve to stay with me.
After being shipwrecked five times, and escaping so many dangers, could I resolve again to try my fortune, and expose myself to new hardships?
One could easily resolve rather to drink water and eat dry crusts and follow the bidding of one's genius in a garret.
They insist on scrutinising the moral world afresh; they resolve the magniloquent vocabulary of abstract ethics into the small realities from which it has come; they break the complacent repose of opinion and usage by a graphic irony.
And our Abbe was the more inclined to encourage her in this resolve that he did not love the Jansenists, and had a mind sufficiently imbued with theology to understand their errors.
One result of this affair was Kateri's resolve never again to exchange the life of the village for that of the hunting-camp, even at the cost of starvation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "resolve" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
