1 I think he is one of the most resolute men I ever saw, and yet the most calm.
2 It took all my courage to hold to the wise resolution of keeping her out of our grim task.
3 He was never so resolute, never so strong, never so full of volcanic energy, as at present.
4 All the resolution has gone out of his dear eyes, and that quiet dignity which I told you was in his face has vanished.
5 I am glad we made our resolution in time, as with such a feeling as this, our growing knowledge would be torture to her.
6 Well, I saw I must try to help the medicine to its work with my will, if it was to do me any good, so I resolutely set myself to sleep.
7 The face, clean-shaven, shows a hard, square chin, a large, resolute, mobile mouth, a good-sized nose, rather straight, but with quick, sensitive nostrils, that seem to broaden as the big, bushy brows come down and the mouth tightens.
8 Whether it was the purifying of the deadly atmosphere by the opening of the chapel door, or the relief which we experienced by finding ourselves in the open I know not; but most certainly the shadow of dread seemed to slip from us like a robe, and the occasion of our coming lost something of its grim significance, though we did not slacken a whit in our resolution.