1 It went off at a jump and she felt the wheels pass over something soft, something resistant.
2 She perceived that her will had blazed up, stubborn and resistant.
3 Moreover to light a fire is the instinctive and resistant act of man when, at the winter ingress, the curfew is sounded throughout Nature.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 4 For the first time he stole his arm about her, and she did not resist.
5 Besides, she had a childish love of surprise packages and could not resist opening his gifts.
6 There were few ladies who could resist his charms when he chose to exert them, and finally even Mrs. Merriwether unbent and invited him to Sunday dinner.
7 He could no more resist pricking the conceits, the hypocrisies and the flamboyant patriotism of those about him than a small boy can resist putting a pin into a balloon.
8 For a moment the expression Mammy was wont to describe to herself as "bullheaded" flitted over her young mistress' face and then it passed into a smile, so difficult for Mammy to resist.
9 Southerners can never resist a losing cause.
10 With Yankee soldiers everywhere, the state officials could do little but protest and resist.
11 Protests and efforts to resist accomplished nothing, for the state government was being upheld and supported by the power of the United States Army.
12 "I wanted to see you," he said; and she could not resist observing in reply that he had kept his wishes under remarkable control.
13 It was the temptation she was always struggling to resist.
14 The next day was exceedingly still and sultry, and with nothing special to engage them, the Pequod's crew could hardly resist the spell of sleep induced by such a vacant sea.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale. 15 In fact I could not have resisted, and had no desire to resist.