Both Uses of
resolute
in
Gulliver's Travels
- I therefore let go the cord, and leaving the looks fixed to the ships, I resolutely cut with my knife the cables that fastened the anchors, receiving about two hundred shots in my face and hands; then I took up the knotted end of the cables, to which my hooks were tied, and with great ease drew fifty of the enemy's largest men of war after me.†
Chpt 1resolutely = with firm purpose or belief
- Once a kite, hovering over the garden, made a stoop at me, and if I had not resolutely drawn my hanger, and run under a thick espalier, he would have certainly carried me away in his talons.†
Chpt 2 *
Definition:
firm in purpose, belief, or action