All 31 Uses of

resolve

in

War and Peace

The princess, holding her little dog on her lap with her thin bony hands, looked attentively into Prince Vasili's eyes evidently resolved not to be the first to break silence, if she had to wait till morning.†
Chpt 1

More than ever was Boris resolved to serve in future not according to the written code, but under this unwritten law.†
Chpt 3

He resolved to go away next day and leave a letter informing her of his intention to part from her forever.†
Chpt 4

"Whatever happens to you," he said, "you must bear it all manfully if you have firmly resolved to join our Brotherhood."†
Chpt 5

"If you are resolved, I must begin your initiation," said the Rhetor coming closer to Pierre.†
Chpt 5

Pierre tried several times to speak, but, on one hand, Prince Vasili did not let him and, on the other, Pierre himself feared to begin to speak in the tone of decided refusal and disagreement in which he had firmly resolved to answer his father-in-law.†
Chpt 5

This expression suggested that she had resolved to endure her troubles uncomplainingly and that her husband was a cross laid upon her by God.†
Chpt 5

After the Austerlitz campaign Prince Andrew had firmly resolved not to continue his military service, and when the war recommenced and everybody had to serve, he took a post under his father in the recruitment so as to avoid active service.†
Chpt 5

He received ten thousand rubles a year, but now resolved to take only two thousand and leave the rest to repay the debt to his parents.†
Chpt 5

At that very time Prince Andrew was sitting with Pierre and telling him of his love for Natasha and his firm resolve to make her his wife.†
Chpt 6

He asked his sister to forgive him for not having told her of his resolve when he had last visited Bald Hills, though he had spoken of it to his father.†
Chpt 6

Once, when in a room with a lamp dimly lit before the icon Theodosia was talking of her life, the thought that Theodosia alone had found the true path of life suddenly came to Princess Mary with such force that she resolved to become a pilgrim herself.†
Chpt 6

But afterwards, when she saw her father and especially little Koko (Nicholas), her resolve weakened.†
Chpt 6

On the way back Nicholas drove at a steady pace instead of racing and kept peering by that fantastic all-transforming light into Sonya's face and searching beneath the eyebrows and mustache for his former and his present Sonya from whom he had resolved never to be parted again.†
Chpt 7

Soon after the Christmas holidays Nicholas told his mother of his love for Sonya and of his firm resolve to marry her.†
Chpt 7

Firmly resolved, after putting his affairs in order in the regiment, to retire from the army and return and marry Sonya, Nicholas, serious, sorrowful, and at variance with his parents, but, as it seemed to him, passionately in love, left at the beginning of January to rejoin his regiment.†
Chpt 7

The plan for Natalie Rostova's abduction had been arranged and the preparations made by Dolokhov a few days before, and on the day that Sonya, after listening at Natasha's door, resolved to safeguard her, it was to have been put into execution.†
Chpt 8

Which?" asked Petya in a tearful voice, of those around him, but no one answered him, everybody was too excited; and Petya, fixing on one of those four men, whom he could not clearly see for the tears of joy that filled his eyes, concentrated all his enthusiasm on him—though it happened not to be the Emperor—frantically shouted "Hurrah!" and resolved that tomorrow, come what might, he would join the army.†
Chpt 9

He ordered the militiamen to be called up from the villages and armed, and wrote a letter to the commander in chief informing him that he had resolved to remain at Bald Hills to the last extremity and to defend it, leaving to the commander in chief's discretion to take measures or not for the defense of Bald Hills, where one of Russia's oldest generals would be captured or killed, and he announced to his household that he would remain at Bald Hills.†
Chpt 10

And again all the faces in that crowd bore an identical expression, though now it was certainly not an expression of curiosity or gratitude, but of angry resolve.†
Chpt 10

From the moment she had been told that morning of Prince Andrew's wound and his presence there, Natasha had resolved to see him.†
Chpt 11

Under the influence of this feeling Sonya, whose life of dependence had taught her involuntarily to be secretive, having answered the countess in vague general terms, avoided talking with her and resolved to wait till she should see Nicholas, not in order to set him free but on the contrary at that meeting to bind him to her forever.†
Chpt 12

She set herself a task on her stocking and resolved not to turn round till it was finished.†
Chpt 12

When Grekov returned, Count Orlov-Denisov, excited both by the abandoned attempt and by vainly awaiting the infantry columns that still did not appear, as well as by the proximity of the enemy, resolved to advance.†
Chpt 13

Pierre unfolded his cold table napkin and, resolving to break the silence, looked at Natasha and at Princess Mary.†
Chpt 15

Though she had firmly resolved not to call on the Rostovs again and to forget the whole matter, she felt herself all the time in an awkward position.†
Chpt 15

Her first glance at Nicholas' face told her that he had only come to fulfill the demands of politeness, and she firmly resolved to maintain the tone in which he addressed her.†
Chpt 15

If the purpose of food is nourishment and the purpose of marriage is the family, the whole question resolves itself into not eating more than one can digest, and not having more wives or husbands than are needed for the family—that is, one wife or one husband.†
Chpt 15

Definition:

(resolve as in: I resolved to stop drinking.)
to decide -- typically a firm or formal decision

editor's notes: In modern writing resolve is typically used to emphasize a firm or formal decision. In classic literature, it is used more frequently and often simply replaces decide or determine.