Resolve

Me, alone, go to the Crack of Doom and all?’ He quailed still, but the resolve grew.

Within this little while you have been praying, in your own breast, that God of his grace would resolve that doubt, even if the doing of it must show you that no kingly right is lodged in you.” It was that that amazed the King, for it was as she had said: his prayer was the secret of his own breast, and none but God could know about it.

You will not think of quitting it in a hurry I hope, though you have but a short lease.” “Whatever I do is done in a hurry,” replied he; “and therefore if I should resolve to quit Netherfield, I should probably be off in five minutes.

Pray harder.” No burnings today, and none tomorrow … but if the snows continue, how long before the king’s resolve begins to weaken?

VI So said he one fair morning, and all day His heart beat awfully against his side; And to his heart he inwardly did pray For power to speak; but still the ruddy tide Stifled his voice, and pulsed resolve away— Fever’d his high conceit of such a bride, Yet brought him to the meekness of a child: Alas!

“A battle is won by those who firmly resolve to win it!

He was calm; he had written it all out of him; he had translated his terror and his fury to the page and his resolve remained strong.

That she had all the abstracted and nervous manner of one who is on the eve of some bold and hazardous step, which it has required no common struggle to resolve upon, would have been obvious to the lynx-eyed Fagin, who would most probably have taken the alarm at once; but Mr. Sikes lacking the niceties of discrimination, and being troubled with no more subtle misgivings than those which resolve themselves into a dogged roughness of behaviour towards everybody; and being, furthermore, in an unusually amiable condition, as has been already observed; saw nothing unusual in her demeanor, and indeed, troubled himself so little about her, that, had her agitation been far more perceptible than it was, it would have been very unlikely to have awakened his suspicions.

I stopped to look at them, drawing a lesson from their stout resolve to live.

Then there are things which so afflict him that he has no power, as the garlic that we know of; and as for things sacred, as this symbol, my crucifix, that was amongst us even now when we resolve, to them he is nothing, but in their presence he take his place far off and silent with respect.

Can you not see that the task is your task—yours to dream, yours to resolve, yours to execute?

Himself without delay A jav’lin seiz’d, and singly took his way; Then gain’d a rising ground, and call’d from far: “Resolve me, strangers, whence, and what you are; Your bus’ness here; and bring you peace or war?” High on the stern Aeneas took his stand, And held a branch of olive in his hand, While thus he spoke: “The Phrygians’ arms you see, Expell’d from Troy, provok’d in Italy By Latian foes, with war unjustly made; At first affianc’d, and at last betray’d.

Without thought, with the simple resolve that had made him the last of them all, the last to continue marching on and on long after Cuthbert and the others had died or given up, committed suicide or treachery or simply recanted the whole idea of the Tower; with the single-minded and incurious resolve that had driven him across the desert and all the years before the desert in the wake of the man in black, the gunslinger stepped through the doorway.

Yet these, perhaps, instead of being the unsuppressable symptoms of some latent weakness, or fright at his own resolve, were but the plainest tokens of its intensity.

Resolve quickly.” “No, no, no, and again no.

Dantès followed him; his features were no longer contracted, and now wore their usual expression, but there was that in his whole appearance that bespoke one who had come to a fixed and desperate resolve.

Don’t cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve, with all your soul, that you will never know another like it.

If you resolve on that once for all, you may subdue the whole world.

After he had thoroughly verified the fact that this young man was at the bottom of this situation, and that everything proceeded from that quarter, he, Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had so labored over his soul, the man who had made so many efforts to resolve all life, all misery, and all unhappiness into love, looked into his own breast and there beheld a spectre, Hate.

It is said that Mirabeau took to highway robbery “to ascertain what degree of resolution was necessary in order to place one’s self in formal opposition to the most sacred laws of society.” He declared that “a soldier who fights in the ranks does not require half so much courage as a footpad”—“that honor and religion have never stood in the way of a well-considered and a firm resolve.” This was manly, as the world goes; and yet it was idle, if not desperate.

Melt, melt away ye armies—disperse ye blue-clad soldiers, Resolve ye back again, give up for good your deadly arms, Other the arms the fields henceforth for you, or South or North, With saner wars, sweet wars, life-giving wars.

I need only to think of Prim and all my resolve disintegrates.

He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.

The column of light begins to flow up and down and resolve itself into a human form.

It was not to impress upon men that their will must actively second the officer’s, for then there would have been, as in the Arab Army and among irregulars, that momentary pause for thought transmission, or digestion; for the nerves to resolve the relaying private will into active consequence.

I resolved in my future conduct to redeem the past; and I can say with honesty that my resolve was fruitful of some good.

During his shepherdhood an average of almost a hundred sin-weary persons per year have declared their resolve to lead a new life and have found a harbor of refuge and peace.

The thought of having possibly to give evidence which might incriminate his wife made him resolve at all costs to—to—” I hesitated, and Ralph filled up the gap.

Hold; get you gone, be strong and prosperous In this resolve.

Observing her now, the way she waited so patiently for his thoughts to resolve, Teg reflected that it often was said with truth that Reverend Mothers no longer were completely members of the human race.

There were steps in front of him; Richard began to ascend, and, as he did so, the world began to resolve, to take shape and to re-form.

You tell the applicant to go away, and if his resolve is so strong that he waits at the entrance without food or shelter or encouragement for three days, then and only then can he enter and begin the training.

For let thy efforts be—116 In everything always observe what the thing is which produces for thee an appearance, and resolve it by dividing it into the formal, the material, the purpose, and the time within which it must end.

"Right well (replied the king) your speech displays The matchless merit of the chief you praise: Heroes in various climes myself have found, For martial deeds and depth of thought renown'd; But Ithacus, unrivall'd in his claim, May boast a title to the loudest fame: In battle calm he guides the rapid storm, Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

They stood about muttering, half with blades to hand, each looking to the others for resolve.

Something about that flight of steps up to the shop, something about the quietude and quaintness of the restaurant, roused all the detective’s rare romantic fancy and made him resolve to strike at random.

The sight seemed to stiffen his resolve, and he nodded.The Gryffindor common room was always very crowded these days, because from six o’clock onward the Gryffindors had nowhere else to go.

Sin and Death, sitting till then at the gates of Hell, by wondrous sympathy feeling the success of Satan in this new World, and the sin by Man there committed, resolve to sit no longer confined in Hell, but to follow Satan, their sire, up to the place of Man.

Basilio, however, reviving slightly, said in a weak voice, as though in pain, “If thou wouldst consent, cruel Quiteria, to give me thy hand as my bride in this last fatal moment, I might still hope that my rashness would find pardon, as by its means I attained the bliss of being thine.” Hearing this the priest bade him think of the welfare of his soul rather than of the cravings of the body, and in all earnestness implore God’s pardon for his sins and for his rash resolve; to which Basilio replied that he was determined not to confess unless Quiteria first gave him her hand in marriage, for that happiness would compose his mind and give him courage to make his confession.

All I’m doing is trying to look at things objectively and arrive at a solution to a very difficult situation.’ ‘I didn’t create the situation.’ ‘But you can resolve it.

They frequently resolve, therefore, to live bachelors, and having neither any families of their own, nor much regard for those of their relations, whom they are not always very fond of acknowledging, they desire only to live in splendour during their own time, and are not unwilling that their fortune should end with themselves.