Sentence Examples

1. Alec felt his father gathering energy, and he felt his hopes for a peaceful resolution fade.
2. By the time Cervantes had got his volume of novels off his hands, and summoned up resolution enough to set about the Second Part in earnest, the case was very much altered.
3. When I heard him say so, even if his resolution had not been so good a one I should have hailed it as one of the happiest that could be imagined, prompted by my affection, seeing what a favourable chance and opportunity it offered me of returning to see my Luscinda.
4. This offer, and their sound advice strengthened my resolution, and I never gave Don Fernando a word in reply that could hold out to him any hope of success, however remote.
5. Your Excellencies will bear in mind that distressed circumstances in Rotterdam had at length driven me to the resolution of committing suicide.
6. If I had encouraged him, I should be false if I had gratified him, I should have acted against my own better resolution and purpose.
7. He, though he remonstrated with me for my boldness, and condemned my resolution, when he saw me bent upon my purpose, offered to bear me company, as he said, to the end of the world.
8. If he thought that by these means he could break the spirit or shake the resolution of his prisoner, he was soon undeceived, for Cervantes contrived before long to despatch a letter to the Governor of Oran, entreating him to send him someone that could be trusted, to enable him and three other gentlemen, fellow-captives of his, to make their escape intending evidently to renew his first attempt with a more trustworthy guide.
9. The resolution taken, it remained to carry it out.
10. It seemed that the resolution was off on him, as if the camera or the lighting was somehow off, or someone was trying to deliberately mask who it was.