Emily went home with a determined twist to her mouth.
She was determined to regain ascendancy and Emily must be thoroughly humbled.
Then and not till then Emily ran too, and scrambled over the shore fence just as the bull started back across the pasture, evidently determined to catch somebody.
She determined that she would never have anything to do with Lofty John again after his diabolical cruelty.
Her head was quite turned and she went home from school determined to ask Aunt Elizabeth to cut her hair in a bang.
She knew nothing about cows; still, she was determined that the Murrays should not suspect a Starr was scared.
" "There's one thing I'd advise you to do," said Ellen, determined to lose no chance of doing her duty, "and that is to kneel down and pray to God to make you a good and respectful and grateful child.
Her heart was melted now, and she determined to win aunt Miranda's approval by some desperate means, and to try and forget the one thing that rankled worst, the scornful mention of her father, of whom she thought with the greatest admiration, and whom she had not yet heard criticised; for such sorrows and disappointments as Aurelia Randall had suffered had never been communicated to her children.
Whether it were a question of fact, of spelling, or of date, of going swimming or fishing, of choosing a book in the Sunday-school library or a stick of candy at the village store, he had no sooner determined on one plan of action than his wish fondly reverted to the opposite one.
At first he thought it was a cricket, a tree toad, or a bird, but having determined the direction from which it came, he turned his head over his shoulder and saw a small shape hanging as far out of the window as safety would allow.
He was quite short of breath, but he was hopping along in the most determined way as if he were in a great hurry to get somewhere.
Farmer Brown's Boy Is Determined Farmer Brown's boy had made up his mind.
He determined to demand more rent at a very early date.
Anna brushed her hair and determined not to put on the apron which she usually wore in the house.
He went amiably about in the manner of a veteran determined to enjoy the brief existence of life's winter.
I deemed myself the steward of his property, and determined, God willing, to render a good account.
"The disposal of my large teaching connection put me in possession of a handsome sum with part of it I determined to give myself the richest treat that I have known or shall know.
" I heard her mutter more than once; and at last, as if determined to have an answer to her question—which hitherto none seemed to mind, she spoke aloud this phrase—a phrase brief enough, simple enough, but it sent a shock through me—"Messieurs et mesdames," said she, "où donc est Justine Marie?
For some time the abuse of England and the English found and left me stolid: I bore it some fifteen minutes stoically enough; but this hissing cockatrice was determined to sting, and he said such things at last—fastening not only upon our women, but upon our greatest names and best men; sullying, the shield of Britannia, and dabbling the union jack in mud—that I was stung.
Bretton failed not to tell me why he was so kind: "To keep away the nun," he said; "he was determined to dispute with her her prey.
