All 7 Uses of
resolute
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- A more remarkable face in its quiet, resolute, and guarded struggle with an unseen assailant, was not to be beheld in all the wide dominions of sleep, that night.†
Chpt 2.17
- Madame's resolute right hand was occupied with an axe, in place of the usual softer implements, and in her girdle were a pistol and a cruel knife.†
Chpt 2.21 *
- Stooping down beside him, the road-mender tried to get a peep at secret weapons in his breast or where not; but, in vain, for he slept with his arms crossed upon him, and set as resolutely as his lips.†
Chpt 2.23
- But, an affectionate glance at his wife, so happy and busy, made him resolute not to tell her what impended (he had been half moved to do it, so strange it was to him to act in anything without her quiet aid), and the day passed quickly.†
Chpt 2.24
- "Where are the papers of this prisoner?" demanded a resolute-looking man in authority, who was summoned out by the guard.†
Chpt 3.1
- And when Jarvis Lorry saw the kindled eyes, the resolute face, the calm strong look and bearing of the man whose life always seemed to him to have been stopped, like a clock, for so many years, and then set going again with an energy which had lain dormant during the cessation of its usefulness, he believed.†
Chpt 3.4
- He always resolutely answered: "Nothing can happen to him without my knowledge, and I know that I can save him, Lucie."†
Chpt 3.5
Definition:
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(resolute) firm in purpose or belief