All 9 Uses of
resolute
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- A most dangerous conspirator, a man we are ordered to keep the most strict watch over, as he is daring and resolute.†
Chpt 13-14 *
- "Oh dear, yes, sir; the abbe's dungeon was forty or fifty feet distant from that of one of Bonaparte's emissaries,—one of those who had contributed the most to the return of the usurper in 1815,—a very resolute and very dangerous man."†
Chpt 27-28
- Calm and resolute, he treated any peril as he would an adversary in a duel,—calculated its probable method of approach; retreated, if at all, as a point of strategy and not from cowardice; was quick to see an opening for attack, and won victory at a single thrust.†
Chpt 31-32
- The rest of Mademoiselle Eugenie's person was in perfect keeping with the head just described; she, indeed, reminded one of Diana, as Chateau-Renaud observed, but her bearing was more haughty and resolute.†
Chpt 53-54
- The young man stood before her, sorrowful and resolute.†
Chpt 73-74
- "Forgive me, sir," said Franz in a resolute tone.†
Chpt 73-74
- Under the fixed and inquiring gaze levelled at him from under those beautiful black eyebrows, he prudently turned away, and calmed himself immediately, daunted by the power of a resolute mind.†
Chpt 95-96
- "Yes," resolutely replied Noirtier.†
Chpt 103-104
- Madame de Villefort shuddered at the sight of that cold countenance, that resolute tone, and the awfully strange preliminaries.†
Chpt 107-108
Definition:
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(resolute) firm in purpose or belief