All 5 Uses of
resolution
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- He got home pretty late that night, and when he climbed cautiously in at the window, he uncovered an ambuscade, in the person of his aunt; and when she saw the state his clothes were in her resolution to turn his Saturday holiday into captivity at hard labor became adamantine in its firmness.†
Chpt 1
- The basin was refilled, and this time he stood over it a little while, gathering resolution; took in a big breath and began.†
Chpt 4
- Tom, wiping his eyes with his sleeve, began to blubber out something about a resolution to escape from hard usage and lack of sympathy at home by roaming abroad into the great world never to return; and ended by hoping that Joe would not forget him.†
Chpt 13
- But his resolution shook for one little instant, and the chance was lost—the master opened the volume.†
Chpt 20 *
- The steps came creaking up the stairs—the intolerable distress of the situation woke the stricken resolution of the lads—they were about to spring for the closet, when there was a crash of rotten timbers and Injun Joe landed on the ground amid the debris of the ruined stairway.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
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(resolution as in: a New Year's resolution) a firm decision to do something