All 7 Uses of
resolute
in
Bleak House
- For more than a week she lay there, little altered outwardly, with her old handsome resolute frown that I so well knew carved upon her face.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- I was to be informed, under his own hand, of all his labours and successes; I was to observe how resolute and persevering he would be; I was to be Ada's bridesmaid when they were married; I was to live with them afterwards; I was to keep all the keys of their house; I was to be made happy for ever and a day.†
Chpt 13-15
- But a stir in that direction, a gathering of reverential awe in the rustic faces, and a blandly ferocious assumption on the part of Mr. Boythorn of being resolutely unconscious of somebody's existence forewarned me that the great people were come and that the service was going to begin.†
Chpt 16-18
- "Because," said I, "his is an uncommon character, and he has resolutely kept himself outside the circle, Richard."†
Chpt 37-39
- If you had ever seen her sister, you would know her to have been as resolute and haughty as she.†
Chpt 43-45
- I began with my overshadowed childhood, and passed through those timid days to the heavy time when my aunt lay dead, with her resolute face so cold and set, and when I was more solitary with Mrs. Rachael than if I had had no one in the world to speak to or to look at.†
Chpt 43-45
- In short," says the trooper, folding his arms more resolutely yet, "I mean—TO—scratch me!"†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(resolute) firm in purpose or belief