Resolving

Examples

• She closed with this offer, resolving to break with me entirely, and wrote the next day to tell me that we never were to meet again. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I dare say I am resolving against the very things that have given me the most trouble just now. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Well, I have been resolving I won't, off and on, these ten years, said St. Clare; but I haven't, some how, got clear. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Thus the great masses,--earth, a ir, fire, water,--assumed as simple by many philosophers from the earliest times, were resolving in to their constituent parts. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Elinor resolving to exert herself, though fearing the sound of her own voice, now said, Is Mrs. Ferrars at Longstaple? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Resolving to go at once to Knowlesbury on foot, I led the way out of the vestry. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• By resolving not to set right the wrong he did you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I trembled with rage and horror, resolving to wait his approach, and then close with him in mortal combat. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

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