"Yes, but it possesses great
resistance. I will now ask our worthy secretary to calculate the weight of a cast-iron gun with a bore of nine feet and a thickness of six feet of metal."
The obstacles to usurpation and the facilities of
resistance increase with the increased extent of the state, provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.
The faculties are locked up, and offer no
resistance. Perhaps that is the universal law.
It was one of those rigid principles, and no petty egoistic feeling, which had been the ground of Nancy's difficult
resistance to her husband's wish.
The French, although they had gone through the ceremony of hoisting their colours for a few hours at all the principal places of the group, had not as yet visited the bay of Typee, anticipating a fierce
resistance on the part of the savages there, which for the present at least they wished to avoid.
The work of excavation was not difficult: the earth with which the grave had been loosely filled a few hours before offered little
resistance and was soon thrown out.
She had always additional strength of
resistance when Philip was present, just as we can restrain our speech better in a spot that we feel to be hallowed.
He was told that his predecessors had been hindered from discovering it by the demon that guarded it, but that the demon was now at a great distance from his charge, and was grown blind and lame; that having lost his son, and being without any children except a daughter that was ugly and unhealthy, he was under great affliction, and entirely neglected the care of his treasure; that if he should come, they could call one of their ancient brothers to their assistance, who, being a man of a most holy life, would be able to prevent his making any
resistance. To all these stories the prince listened with unthinking credulity.
Those who are best acquainted with the last successful
resistance of this country against the British arms, will be most inclined to deny the possibility of it.
Men are called healthy in virtue of the inborn capacity of easy
resistance to those unhealthy influences that may ordinarily arise; unhealthy, in virtue of the lack of this capacity.
"Has he any friends?" Then he added aloud, "Did he make any
resistance?"
"What will happen," said he to Porthos, when everybody was gone home, "will be that the anger of the king will be roused by the account of the
resistance; and that these brave people will be decimated or shot when they are taken, which cannot fail to take place."