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If we may judge from the half-relenting expression of his countenance, we can safely conclude that the wife will not sue in vain, although he still resistingly grasps his musket with one hand.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

It was fearlessly and resistingly across the path of his advance that Lady Sandgate had thrown herself, and indeed with such success that he soon connected her demonstration with a particular motive.

From The Outcry by James, Henry

And then he said resistingly, “I will go to London.”

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

The whole nation was turning again toward soldiering, drifting slowly and resistingly, but helplessly, into the very things it had long denounced as Prussianism and conscription.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

He resistingly succumbed before the inherent jovial charm.

From The Voice of the People by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson