The shadow of a desperate resolve settled upon Blucher's countenance like a cloud, and he rose up and said: "Landlord, this is a low, mean swindle, and I'll never, never stand it.

To see dull apathy and hopelessness slowly give way to resolution, albeit a kind of numbed and desperate resolve, was to see something that baffled the understanding.

With desperate resolve, she let her right hand go and thrust it in under her cloak.

With a coach and a team fighting for their basketball lives, St. John's kept playing insistent defense and held on to win, 52-50, never losing the lead or its desperate resolve.

Gordon forced the answer to that out of strained, desperate resolve.

For months, Amaral continued to train in her bare feet, or in street shoes, with a desperate resolve.

Resigned to the more merciful death of combat, the northern armies marched with desperate resolve.

But desperate resolve made her squirm out from under him, her breath rasping in her throat.

After defeat in 310 BC he took the desperate resolve of breaking through the blockade and attacking the enemy in Africa.

Leonard could bear it no longer, and in the interests of their common safety he came to a desperate resolve.