resolute

Under the fixed and inquiring gaze levelled at him from under those beautiful black eyebrows, he prudently turned away, and calmed himself immediately, daunted by the power of a resolute mind.

The Ox took under his patronage the next term of life, and therefore man in his middle age is fond of work, devoted to labor, and resolute to amass wealth and to husband his resources.

Its light shone upon his strong, resolute, clean-shaved face and his menacing eyes.

“A most dangerous conspirator, a man we are ordered to keep the most strict watch over, as he is daring and resolute.”