All 20 Uses of

resolve

in

The Mayor of Casterbridge

But first he resolved to register an oath, a greater oath than he had ever sworn before: and to do it properly he required a fit place and imagery; for there was something fetichistic in this man's beliefs.
Chpt 2

resolved = decided

She finally resolved to undertake the search without confiding to the girl her former relations with Henchard, leaving it to him if they found him to take what steps he might choose to that end.
Chpt 4

Nobody would have conceived from his outward demeanour that there was no amatory fire or pulse of romance acting as stimulant to the bustle going on in his gaunt, great house; nothing but three large resolves—one, to make amends to his neglected Susan, another, to provide a comfortable home for Elizabeth-Jane under his paternal eye; and a third, to castigate himself with the thorns which these restitutory acts brought in their train; among them the lowering of his dignity in public…†
Chpt 13

She formed curious resolves on checking gay fancies in the matter of clothes, because it was inconsistent with her past life to blossom gaudily the moment she had become possessed of money.†
Chpt 15

In an hour the slight moisture resolved itself into a monotonous smiting of earth by heaven, in torrents to which no end could be prognosticated.†
Chpt 16

Nance glanced triumphantly at Henchard, and sailed into the barn; for assuming that she was to be discharged on the instant she had resolved to make the most of her victory.
Chpt 20

resolved = decided

But Elizabeth had tempted her to make free, and a deliberately formed resolve had been broken.†
Chpt 22

For my part, I have resolved that all my servants shall have lovers if they want them!
Chpt 23

resolved = decided

Henchard, backed by Jopp, read a disastrous garnering, and resolved to base his strategy against Farfrae upon that reading.
Chpt 26

resolved = decided

As soon as she saw Elizabeth-Jane after her return indoors she told her that she had resolved to go away from home to the seaside for a few days—to Port-Bredy; Casterbridge was so gloomy.
Chpt 28

I was so desperate—so afraid of being forced to anything else—so afraid of revelations that would quench his love for me, that I resolved to do it offhand, come what might, and purchase a week of happiness at any cost!
Chpt 30

Yet, on the other hand, his subordinate position in an establishment where he once had been master might be acting on him like an irritant poison; and she finally resolved to caution Donald.
Chpt 33

He resolved to wait till the funeral was over ere he moved in the matter.
Chpt 42

For the first time he felt a little hurt by what he thought her extravagance, and resolved to say a word to her about it.
Chpt 42 *

And being an old hand at bearing anguish in silence, and haughty withal, he resolved to make as light as he could of his intentions, while immediately taking his measures.†
Chpt 43

It seemed to her that this resolve of his had come on account of her attachment and its probable result.†
Chpt 43

But how to initiate this reversal of all his former resolves without causing husband and wife to despise him for his inconsistency was a question which made him tremble and brood.†
Chpt 44