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Example sentences for "being resolved"

  • They declared that they would not submit to the usurped authority of Cortes, being resolved to return to Cuba, according to the orders and instructions of Velasquez.

  • O'Neil's return, being resolved to take care of Number One, obliged the captain to set sail directly, lest he should be taken and should lose his precious life.

  • However Duncan had no mind to make use of that protection, being resolved to return to France.

  • The state of being resolved or firm in opinion or thought; conviction; assurance.

  • Defn: Admitting of being resolved; resolvable; as, bodies resoluble by fire.

  • Defn: Incapable of being resolved; not separable into component parts.

  • Stubbs gave me a hard look when I bade him good-night, as though he would fain question me on the present posture of the affair; but I told him nothing, being resolved first to hear what Jean had to say.

  • I forbore to ask consent of the Queen to my absence, being resolved to hazard my place rather than my design.

  • Being resolved not to seek admittance until I had learnt somewhat of the inmates, I clambered upon the window-sill, the which being very wide gave me good foothold, and setting my eyes to the chink, I peered into the room.

  • Soto would not take away any of these, being resolved to continue his march.

  • Warm with this idea, I hurried after Charleworth Doone, being resolved not to harm him now, unless my own life required it.

  • Phormio anchored his ships just outside the strait, being resolved, if it were in any way possible, not to fight the Peloponnesians in the narrow waters.

  • As for Alcidas, he fled in wild haste, keeping the open sea, being resolved not to touch land, if he could help it, until he reached the shelter of a Peloponnesian harbour.

  • Incapable of being resolved; not separable into component parts.

  • At the door the sultan commanded the vizier to mark it, so that he might know it again, being resolved, when the nuptial festivities should be concluded, to send for the ladies and hear their story.

  • While the elder thief was being dragged through the streets, his body was getting dreadfully scratched and bruised, but he held his peace, being resolved to act his part out, and thus escape giving the share of the gold mohur.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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