1 You see," said the young man, with an air of sorrowful resignation, to Faria, "that God deems it right to take from me any claim to merit for what you call my devotion to you.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 19. The Third Attack. 2 Morrel raised his two hands to heaven with an expression of resignation and sublime gratitude.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 29. The House of Morrel & Son. 3 The young man reflected for a moment, then an expression of sublime resignation appeared in his eyes, and with a slow and sad gesture he took off his two epaulets, the insignia of his rank.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September. 4 To form the slightest idea of his feelings, one must have seen his face with its expression of enforced resignation and its tear-moistened eyes raised to heaven.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September. 5 I tendered my resignation, for when you have gained your epaulets on the battle-field, you do not know how to manoeuvre on the slippery grounds of the salons.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 41. The Presentation. 6 You are a woman at once full of spirit and resignation; I have become simple in my tastes, and am without passion, I hope.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 106. Dividing the Proceeds. 7 He went on speaking and there was a quality in his voice, a sadness, a resignation, that increased her fear until every vestige of anger and disappointment was blotted out.
8 He hastily and secretly decamped, arranging that his resignation would not become public until he was safely in the North.
9 The Gelerts and Hundons, evidently apprised of Bullock's departure before his resignation became public, left town abruptly, disappearing into that oblivion from which they had come.
10 She handed her feelings over to the actors with a kind of fatalistic resignation.
11 His attitude was one of hopeless resignation as he looked toward a distant bird winging its flight away from him.
12 They listened like those who knew the meaning of the strange words, and appeared as if they felt the mingled emotions of sorrow, hope, and resignation, they were intended to convey.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 33 13 Her countenance expressed the deepest sorrow that is consistent with resignation.
14 What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation: of all the conflicts and all the sacrifices that ennoble us most.
15 Eternal rigidity had seized upon it in a momentary transition between fervour and resignation.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together