firm-minded

“Well, if anything else should happen, he loves a firm-minded girl who can take charge, if you catch my meaning.”

Haunted Honeymoon Marta Acosta 2010

‘I wonder at you, Foxley,’ said his firm-minded acquaintance; ‘how can you render the young man justice unless you know who he is?’

Redgauntlet 2008

Hannah in her firm-minded way had convinced me that I should not take the tapes and notepads with me into the Brinkley house.

the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

Hannah in her firm-minded way had convinced me that I should not take the tapes and notepads with me into the Brinkley house.

The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

Yet, though many wooed her, Kriemhild was firm-minded to wed none.

The Fall of the Niebelungs Margaret [Translator] Armour

Vaisampayana continued, "Having said this to his brother, Vrikodara the virtuous, the highly energetic and firm-minded son of Kunti, Yudhishthira versed in the particulars of (the science of) profit, ceased, and began to reflect on that matter."

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

I was much too firm-minded and too reasonable to murmur or complain.

The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

"Pray," said Mr. Repton (who had grown-up children of his own and could not help speaking with a touch of sarcasm -- he thought it good for boys in the lunatic stage), "pray," said he, looking quizzically down at the unhappy but firm-minded George as he sat there in his chair, "is there any form of work for which you do feel an aptitude?"

On Something Hilaire Belloc 1911

To a firm-minded cat this alone gave the counter a value difficult to overestimate, and sometimes an obsequious customer fell into raptures over its beauty.

The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant 1903

Though sweet, innocent, and intensely charming, yet there was a reverse side of her character, strong, firm-minded, almost stern in its austerity.

The Seven Secrets William Le Queux 1895