Resolves

Examples

• Is there not love in my heart, and constancy in my resolves? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• That very night, while yet full of gratitude and good resolves, this whole sum, and its amount doubled, was lost at the gaming-table. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But even if his resolves had forced the two images into combination, the useful preliminaries to that hard change were not visibly within reach. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The price of flax resolves itself into the same three parts as that of corn. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The choice of Hercules is a pretty fable; but Prodicus makes it easy work for the hero, as if the first resolves were enough. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• That part which resolves itself into rent is less affected by them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Evadne's feminine prudence perceived how useless any assertion of his resolves would be, till added years gave weight to his power. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• To affirm, that we paint them out to ourselves as extended, either resolves all into a false idea, or returns in a circle. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He will sacrifice all to his long-framed resolves, she said: natural affection and feelings more potent still. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• And this night she was from the beginning sleepless, excited by resolves. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• When they returned to town, Margaret fulfilled one of her sea-side resolves, and took her life into her own hands. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

Typist: Loretta