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  • She's always been resourceful, and might have found a good place.†   (source)
  • Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers.†   (source)
  • She was a resourceful little thing.†   (source)
  • Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire were intelligent children, and they were charming, and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife with misfortune, misery, and despair.†   (source)
  • I'm sure you'll continue to show your incredible resourcefulness and get through this.†   (source)
  • Bobby Lee Cook, for all his guile and resourcefulness, had not been able to free himself from a conflict in court dates.†   (source)
  • But the Illuminati are obviously highly resourceful.†   (source)
  • You're all gifted children who passed my 'boring' tests — in one way or another — and you've all shown yourselves to be unusually resourceful.†   (source)
  • I don't know how much he knew about what my father did each day, but Schindler certainly realized he was a skilled, resourceful worker.†   (source)
  • had never been intelligent enough to persecute Andy and me in any kind of focused or resourceful way.†   (source)
  • The champion should be one who has earned the camp's respect, who has proven resourceful in the char-iot races and courageous in the defense of the camp.†   (source)
  • And how can I be a better fighter than myself, if she knows the same strategies I know, and is exactly as resourceful and clever as I am?†   (source)
  • But you are resourceful.†   (source)
  • Happily, Mameha was very resourceful and did manage to find engagements from time to time that were safe for me to attend.†   (source)
  • Friends who valued his cultural qualities advised him to join the Jewish police, as most young men from the intelligentsia did; you could be safe there, and if you were resourceful you could earn quite well.†   (source)
  • She is a resourceful woman, she enlisted a disembodied spirit to pass on a message to me.†   (source)
  • Thus Architecture died in the land of the free and the home of the brave—in a land declaring its fervid democracy, its inventiveness, its resourcefulness, its unique daring, enterprise and progress.†   (source)
  • I thought I'd learned resourcefulness, but Elisabet has given me a higher education in making soup out of stones.†   (source)
  • Somewhat more resourceful.†   (source)
  • She, too, wore boots; but as if she was trying to be resourceful and fashionable at the same time, she had on leggings and a skirt constructed from the same material as the male's pants.†   (source)
  • They met at the cinema, during the intermission of a film about a resourceful princess.†   (source)
  • She was an extremely resourceful cook and could make delicious dishes from anything, except dried yams.†   (source)
  • The only Refus who make it that far are, by definition, the ones who were agile enough to make it out to the Raft in the first place, resourceful enough to survive the agonizingly slow passage through the arctic waters, and tough enough not to get killed by any of the other Refus.†   (source)
  • She denied it but said that it was her impression that you were extremely resourceful, with an innovative way of thinking.†   (source)
  • For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.†   (source)
  • She did not know how to be resourceful.†   (source)
  • They are looked after, smiled upon, admired for their resourcefulness and pluck.†   (source)
  • There are times for resourceful hands to be busy with survival tasks— pickling, preserving, gardening, drying and smoking food.†   (source)
  • Matron, even though she is getting old, is tough and resourceful.†   (source)
  • "You will find him dependable, brave, resourceful, and loyal," continued Azaz, and the Humbug was so overcome by the flattery that he quite forgot to object again.†   (source)
  • They were all resourceful men—he knew that, if they didn't—and yet at certain times they became like children, wanting to be led.†   (source)
  • On his drive home, he thought that he had never met anyone braver or stronger or more resourceful.†   (source)
  • Resourceful, handy with tools, they could drive a yoke of oxen or "hove up" a stump or tie a proper knot as readily as butcher a hog or mend a pair of shoes.†   (source)
  • He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.†   (source)
  • Salladhor Saan was a resourceful old pirate, and his crews were born seamen, fearless in a fight.†   (source)
  • Who knew that my extroverted, mercurial, overcaffeinated boyfriend would be so patient, so capable, and so resourceful?†   (source)
  • You're resourceful.†   (source)
  • But Cowslip was encouraging and he was determined to keep up his position as the resourceful leader of the newcomers.†   (source)
  • And in our battle just concluded, you again proved yourself to be resourceful, courageous, and a more than worthy adversary.†   (source)
  • Yes, that's right, we are quite resourceful.†   (source)
  • Elias is resourceful—he might still find a way to avoid death.†   (source)
  • How resourceful of her.†   (source)
  • You proved yourselves to be quite resourceful.†   (source)
  • I'm a skilled, resourceful ...vegetable!†   (source)
  • Walter is a diplomat and extremely resourceful.†   (source)
  • You proved yourselves to be smart and brave and resourceful.†   (source)
  • But the call to Renault had required the right moves, resourcefulness and a little touch of Archie in the night.†   (source)
  • You're smarter, faster, more resourceful than you think you are.†   (source)
  • There was a time, she thought, when his mind, his energy, his inexhaustible resourcefulness had been given to the task of a producer devising better ways to deal with nature; now, they were switched to the task of a criminal outwitting men.†   (source)
  • Evil's resourceful that way.†   (source)
  • Knowing what every native loves to hear, he would have offered the classic immigrant story, casting himself as the heroic newcomer, self-sufficient, resourceful.†   (source)
  • But the twenty-two-year-old Herold, recruited to the conspiracy for his knowledge of Washington's backstreets, is intelligent and resourceful.†   (source)
  • She was her resourceful self, but she was also an instinctive counterweight to Ralph's activity — a fixed center.†   (source)
  • She stared at him for a moment, and then, slowly, a new look gathered in her eyes—resourceful, crafty, and a trifle desperate.†   (source)
  • That optimistic baby had come on so like the private eye in any long-ago radio drama, believing all you needed was grit, resourcefulness, exemption from hidebound cops' rules, to solve any great mystery.†   (source)
  • It is extremely resourceful.†   (source)
  • Walter, resourceful and practical in his childish fury as in everything else, was locked into the basement once by Edward who had grown tired of being followed around; but our little brother found the ax and made a good start on chopping himself a hole through the bottom of the door before rescue came.†   (source)
  • At a time like this you need shrewd, resourceful people like myself.†   (source)
  • Freckles, I think; irreverent, resourceful.†   (source)
  • Weren't only children supposed to be precocious and resourceful?†   (source)
  • Count Fenring turned to his lady, said: "Ah-h-h-um-m-m, a resourceful um-m-m-m young man.†   (source)
  • Grover and Tyson are very resourceful, however.†   (source)
  • But he's particularly resourceful and a good problem-solver.†   (source)
  • —I could see what a resourceful girl you were even then.†   (source)
  • You know perfectly well how resourceful Hatsumomo is.†   (source)
  • Our enemies are more resourceful than I imagined.†   (source)
  • Whatever went on here tonight, you have to understand that Salander is exceptionally resourceful.†   (source)
  • I have a feeling you're quite resourceful.†   (source)
  • Americans really did have a kind of uncommon resourcefulness when pressed.†   (source)
  • Your patient is proving to be quite the resourceful vagabond, Father.†   (source)
  • We Medusans were always resourceful, weren't we?†   (source)
  • Call's mind was on Wilbarger, a resourceful man if ever he had seen one.†   (source)
  • He has proved himself valiant, loyal, and resourceful.†   (source)
  • But she was an oddly resourceful young woman.†   (source)
  • As we've agreed, I'm resourceful-more than I like to think about.†   (source)
  • Maysilee Donner turns out to be pretty resourceful herself, for a girl who leaves the Cornucopia with only a small backpack.†   (source)
  • I remembered Grover as being quite resourceful, but if he was dealing with California's natural disasters, he was unlikely to be back anytime in the next decade.†   (source)
  • Resourceful girl, that one.†   (source)
  • Austin—resourceful boy!†   (source)
  • Louie had demonstrated that if they were persistent and resourceful, they could catch food, and both he and Phil felt inspired.†   (source)
  • If you could for a moment rise up out of your own beloved skin and appraise ant, human, and virus as equally resourceful beings, you might admire the accord they have all struck in Africa.†   (source)
  • It needed a lot of fixing before he could ride it, but he was a resourceful handyman and could fix anything.†   (source)
  • Although Glick's first monthly review had come back filled with superlatives-resourceful, sharp, dependable-here he was in Vatican City on "Pope-Watch.†   (source)
  • From earliest childhood, Louie had regarded every limitation placed on him as a challenge to his wits, his resourcefulness, and his determination to rebel.†   (source)
  • Langdon peered around the side of the column to see a workman's lunchbox splayed on the floor, apparently knocked off a sawhorse by the resourceful rodent.†   (source)
  • The Atreides is young and resourceful, yes — but he is also tired from long effort and he'd be no match for you, anyway.†   (source)
  • How the boy could be so clearheaded and resourceful in battle and so confused at all other times Tyrion could never comprehend.†   (source)
  • As Ang Dorje's reputation for being a strong and resourceful climber spread among Western climbers, he was promoted to the role of sirdar, and in 1992 he went to work for Rob Hall on Everest; by the launch of Hall's 1996 expedition, Ang Dorje had climbed the peak three times.†   (source)
  • That the Arabs had managed to bring life out of this desolate land served as a testament to their resourcefulness.†   (source)
  • These demigods are resourceful.†   (source)
  • That merely poisons the birds which are their natural enemies, whereas they themselves, being insects and therefore resourceful, more resourceful than humans in fact, will merely develop a resistance to the sprays, so all you get is dead birds and more caterpillars later on.†   (source)
  • "No offense, young man," he added, "but over the years my old friend and driver has become highly resourceful in these situations.†   (source)
  • This meant they had to come up with a resourceful means of disposal and build a social structure to carry it out—workers, managers, haulers, scavengers.†   (source)
  • A resourceful pair.†   (source)
  • Not only was d'Anjou a consummate liar when it counted most and an opportunist of the first rank, but he was extraordinarily resourceful.†   (source)
  • Monday morning, thinking of Theresa (There must be something you can do, she'd said, you're so resourceful.†   (source)
  • For rabbits, winter remains what it was for men in the middle ages—hard, but bearable by the resourceful and not altogether without compensations.†   (source)
  • I should've admired their resourcefulness, their ability to manufacture their own intravenous fluid, their own sulfa, penicillin, and paracetamol tablets stamped out by a handpress.†   (source)
  • Fiks, who was working toward a law degree, was a bright, resourceful fellow who had become the head of the prisoners' committee in our section.†   (source)
  • And you know it yourself—I've proven myself to be braver and more resourceful than you thought I'd be.†   (source)
  • And the system pretends to go along, to become more supple and resourceful, less dependent on rigid categories.†   (source)
  • He was resourceful, energetic, probably the best engineer in the British army, and with experience in America to equal any.†   (source)
  • The actress was eminently resourceful, however, and left America to barnstorm through England before returning in 1869 to manage the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia.†   (source)
  • She was extraordinarily resourceful.†   (source)
  • Even when the stage is halted and searched by Union soldiers miles outside the capital, nobody suspects that the simple-witted Atzerodt is capable of being resourceful enough to take part in the conspiracy.†   (source)
  • Cunning and resourceful in adversity, he had nearly succeeded in hurting the gull when he leaped at him out of the close cover by the plank bridge.†   (source)
  • But she'd come to value the intangibles: the position she had grown to in the city where she was "Matron" to everyone, even to herself; the resourcefulness she'd discovered that allowed her to make a cozy hospital—an East African Eden, as she thought of it—grow out of a disorganized jumble of rudimentary buildings; and the core group of doctors whom she'd recruited and who by long association had evolved into her Cherished Own.†   (source)
  • He'd proven to be quite resourceful.†   (source)
  • But prisoners are resourceful and I was soon receiving secret notes and other communications from some of the ANC people there.†   (source)
  • A resourceful lieutenant colonel who had directed the work on the fortifications at Roxbury, Rufus Putnam— a farmer and surveyor in normal times, and a cousin of Israel Putnam—had suggested the idea after seeing an unfamiliar term in a text on artillery, Muller's Field Engineer, by a British professor named John Muller.†   (source)
  • They are cunning and resourceful.†   (source)
  • You're resourceful, Monsieur Bourne.†   (source)
  • In 1753, at twenty, he had been sent by the governor of Virginia to the wilds of western Pennsylvania, to challenge French claims to the Allegheny River valley, and publication of his diary of the venture, The journal of Major George Washington, made his daring and resourcefulness known throughout the colonies and in Europe.†   (source)
  • Mac Maharaj and Eddie Daniels, both brave and resourceful men, were always hatching plans and discussing possibilities.†   (source)
  • Many we employed were runaways or fugitives from the States, a number well-educated, all resourceful.†   (source)
  • But, worse, Captain Charlock—a brave and resourceful rabbit—while leading the pursuit of the fugitives, had been run down on the iron road by a train: a further proof, if any were needed, of the wicked malice of men.†   (source)
  • "Then," said Dandelion, "Frith felt himself in friendship with El-ahrairah, because of his resourcefulness, and because he would not give up even when he thought the fox and the weasel were coming.†   (source)
  • I'm resourceful," agreed Jason.†   (source)
  • But it was certainly true, as Groundsel said, that no one ever found his body, so it may perhaps be that, after all, that extraordinary rabbit really did wander away to live his fierce life somewhere else and to defy the elil as resourcefully as ever.†   (source)
  • But I knew that on the one hand he was nobody's fool; he was resourceful, shrewd, strangely sentimental over the damnedest things; and on the other hand, his word wasn't worth the spit behind it, and he'd probably sell my corpse to the medical school of his choice if he could get much for it.†   (source)
  • These resourceful, selfconfident, masterful characters-in practical things they are invaluable, but in matters of feeling I can think of nothing more horrible than all this impertinent, male complacency!†   (source)
  • The men sent out to turn back the refugees often missed them, and the women flooded into the forest, chopping down trees, building roads and bridges, and achieving prodigies of resourcefulness.†   (source)
  • In the sudden silence the observers heard their own hearts pounding as if they were in Antipov's place, had brought their men to the edge of the enemy trench, and were expected within the next few minutes to perform wonders of resourcefulness and courage.†   (source)
  • Behind this business, I am convinced, there is a cool, intelligent, resourceful brain.†   (source)
  • No, you're not," retorted the old man resourcefully.†   (source)
  • But for all her labor and sacrifice and resourcefulness, her small beginnings purchased at so great a cost might be snatched away from her at any minute.†   (source)
  • A daring and resourceful young woman.†   (source)
  • If he was to be believed, he had always thought that perseverance would win through, inevitably, and, as he pointed out, resourcefulness in emergency was up his street, in a manner of speaking.†   (source)
  • The difficulty of obtaining an interesting and varied diet on a naked rock seemed only to whet his appetite and tempt his resourcefulness.†   (source)
  • He is clever and resourceful.†   (source)
  • I had to deal with an intensely clever, resourceful murderer-reckless, daring and a thorough gambler.†   (source)
  • Well, you see, he was an exceedingly gifted and resourceful youth, and we had great confidence in him.†   (source)
  • It gave him a snug, adventurous feeling to be alone in a whole house with someone so resourceful as Leo.†   (source)
  • She must indeed have been agile and resourceful, for to carry on such a liaison undetected in that age and place must have been a problem.†   (source)
  • Two people were involved-the real murderer, cunning, resourceful and calculating-and the pseudo murderer, stupid, vacillating and suggestible.†   (source)
  • He had been a dashing and resourceful officer during the war, but two severe wounds and four years of fighting seemed to have drained him of all his resourcefulness, leaving him to face the rigors of peace as bewildered as a child.†   (source)
  • of that had been a long time before, and Annabelle Trice and Cass Mastern were long since deader than mackerel, and Mrs. Miller, who came down to give Jack Burden a cup of tea (she was flattered by the "historical" interest in her house, though she didn't guess the exact nature of the case), certainly was not "agile" and didn't look "resourceful" and probably had used up all her energy in the Ladies Altar Guild of St. Luke's Episcopal Church and in the D.A.R. The period of the intrigue, the second phase of the story of Cass Mastern, lasted all of one academic year, part of the summer (for Cass was compelled to go back to Mississippi for his plantation affairs and to attend the wedding o†   (source)
  • The Bishop of Leavenworth begged him to send a priest there as soon as possible,—an able one, by all means, not only devoted, but resourceful and intelligent, one who would be at his ease with all sorts of men.†   (source)
  • It is a crime that shows traces of a cool, resourceful, deliberate brain-I think an Anglo-Saxon brain—" He picked up the last two passports.†   (source)
  • Happily it grew no worse, for otherwise, it may well be believed, the resourcefulness of our administration, the competence of our officials, not to mention the burning-capacity of our crematorium, would have proved unequal to their tasks.†   (source)
  • He conducted excursions, suggested occupations, recommended books, talked with his slow, careful fluency whenever there was an awkward pause at meals, and was on every occasion benign, courteous, and resourceful.†   (source)
  • She was, he says, "of a warm nature, reckless and passionate of disposition, hating all mention of the future (she would never let me mention times to come), agile, resourceful, and cheerful in devising to gratify our appetites, but with a womanly tenderness such as any man might prize at a sanctified hearth-side."†   (source)
  • He had been a dashing and resourceful officer during the war, but two severe wounds and four years of fighting seemed to have drained him of all his resourcefulness, leaving him to face the rigors of peace as bewildered as a child.†   (source)
  • He was a knowing man, was Mr. Wadgers, and very resourceful.†   (source)
  • She looked bold and resourceful and unscrupulous, and she was all of these.†   (source)
  • He is clever and cunning and resourceful, but he be not of man stature as to brain.†   (source)
  • He looks resourceful — Well, good night, Mr. Rainsford; I hope that you have a good night's rest.†   (source)
  • Milly found in the situation a development of her own resourcefulness.†   (source)
  • 'Ha!' said Hurree Babu, resourceful as Puss-in-Boots.†   (source)
  • And you know I'm simply struck, amazed at your resourcefulness, your good sense in such affairs.†   (source)
  • His look passed from timidity to absolute distress: for a young man of his usually resourceful mien it would have been difficult to appear more disarmed and defenceless.†   (source)
  • Her resourcefulness in searching out hidden objects was greeted with much applause and admiring laughter, and that might have been the end of it; but when she began guessing her complicated task, people slowly fell silent.†   (source)
  • He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American — that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work or rigid sitting in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games.†   (source)
  • Their escape in each instance was planned, organized and effected by this society of young English jackanapes, headed by a man whose brain seems as resourceful as his identity is mysterious.†   (source)
  • She was daring, resourceful, used to horses and trails and taking care of herself; and she did not need anyone to tell her that she had gone far enough.†   (source)
  • Having been accustomed to take herself at the popular valuation, as a person of energy and resource, naturally fitted to dominate any situation in which she found herself, she vaguely imagined that such gifts would be of value to seekers after social guidance; but there was unfortunately no specific head under which the art of saying and doing the right thing could be offered in the market, and even Mrs. Fisher's resourcefulness failed before the difficulty of discovering a workable vein in the vague wealth of Lily's graces.†   (source)
  • Any unwounded creature, strong and resourceful, was safe when he had glided under the low, rustling green roof of this wild covert.†   (source)
  • "Don't all stop talking on my account," he ventured, with a smile, which caused most of those present to conceive of him as at his ease and resourceful.†   (source)
  • Before Alexandra was twelve years old she had begun to be a help to him, and as she grew older he had come to depend more and more upon her resourcefulness and good judgment.†   (source)
  • I told him last month when he first came to me to try a certain medicine that usually works"—this to impress Short with his own personal wisdom and resourcefulness in such situations and hence by implication to clear his own skirts, as it were—"But I guess he didn't handle it right.†   (source)
  • Blakeney had evidently guessed that much, and no doubt his resourceful brain had already formed some plan by which he could turn this unexpected interview to account.†   (source)
  • She had heard Desgas giving orders to his men, and then starting off towards the fort, to get a reinforcement of a dozen more men: six were not thought sufficient to capture the cunning Englishman, whose resourceful brain was even more dangerous than his valour and his strength.†   (source)
  • No wonder that Chauvelin's spies had failed to detect, in the apparently brainless nincompoop, the man whose reckless daring and resourceful ingenuity had baffled the keenest French spies, both in France and in England.†   (source)
  • She looked through the tattered curtain, across at the handsome face of her husband, in whose lazy blue eyes, and behind whose inane smile, she could now so plainly see the strength, energy, and resourcefulness which had caused the Scarlet Pimpernel to be reverenced and trusted by his followers.†   (source)
  • He made her eyes glow with enthusiasm by telling her of his bravery, his ingenuity, his resourcefulness, when it meant snatching the lives of men, women, and even children from beneath the very edge of that murderous, ever-ready guillotine.†   (source)
  • Pierre maintained the contrary, and as his mental faculties were greater and more resourceful, Nicholas felt himself cornered.†   (source)
  • Well, he's simply a genius of hypocrisy and resourcefulness in disarming the suspicions of the lawyers—so there's nothing much to wonder at, I suppose!†   (source)
  • Up they stood, huge Aias Telamonios, then Odysseus, the calculating and resourceful man.†   (source)
  • Odysseus, the resourceful man, replied: "O Nestor, son of Neleus, light of Akhaians, a god might easily give still better horses, gods being so much stronger than ourselves.†   (source)
  • She saw that he was nervous and bashful and decidedly unresourceful in her presence and it pleased her to think that she could thus befuddle and embarrass him so much.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unresourceful means not and reverses the meaning of resourceful. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • If ever, here in his halls,
    resourceful King Odysseus
    burned rich thighs of sheep or oxen in your honor,
    oh remember it now for my sake, save my darling son,
    defend him from these outrageous, overbearing suitors!†   (source)
  • In other words, the greater pliability and resourcefulness of American is a fault to be corrected by the English tendency to hold to that which is established.†   (source)
  • Let American confront a novel problem alongside [Pg027] English, and immediately its superior imaginativeness and resourcefulness become obvious.†   (source)
  • In particular, the generation born in the New World was uncouth and iconoclastic;[16] the only world it knew was a rough world, and the virtues that environment engendered were not those of niceness, but those of enterprise and resourcefulness.†   (source)
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