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John swore he wouldn't walk back, so we rolled a drift log apiece into the Lake, and set about making paddles, intending to straddle the logs and paddle ourselves back home sometime or other. [5]
I think, Ruth, when I die," said Philip, intending to be very grim and sarcastic, "I'll leave you my skeleton. [5]
Then, when she was fully intending to go, he rose to take his leave. [9]
On reaching the village he dismounted and went to the nearest house, intending to rest if but for a moment, eat something, and try to sort out the stinging and tormenting thoughts that confused his mind. [2]
It was in vain that I resorted to subterfuge: that I went to bed early intending to be away before the Celebrity's rising hour. [9]
Snow mountains are too dear at the price .... For several years I have been intending to stop writing for print as soon as I could afford it. [5]
It is put together in solid blocks of honest brick and stone, and has the air of intending to stay. [5]
But not listening to what Firhoff was saying, he was gazing now at the sovereign and now at the men intending to dance who had not yet gathered courage to enter the circle. [2]
I was intending to occupy it with the whole command, but that is not necessary now. [5]
I was intending to go home on the 13th of this month, but I look upon that in a different light now. [5]
Though they proposed to cure those oppressions and remove them, still remaining under the Crown, they were not intending a revolution. [5]
He had turned, the moment he had closed the door, and had pushed it open a little, intending to re-enter and ask what ill-advised thing he had done or said, and apologize for it. [5]
I find that the Count Angelo Capello is opposed to our creed--is a teetotaler, in fact, and was not intending to apply for membership with us. [5]
In May of that year he embarked for England to visit his brother, intending only a short sojourn. [4]
Americans intending to spend a year or so in European hotels will do well to copy this bill and carry it along. [5]
General Grant got slowly up from his table, put his pen down, and stood before me with the iron expression of a man who had not smiled for seven years, and was not intending to smile for another seven. [5]
It is long since I touched a pen (3 1/2 years), and I was intending to continue this happy holiday to the gallows, but--there are things that could beguile me to break this blessed Sabbath. [5]
Ever since I received your very agreeable letter of the 22d of May, I have been intending to write you an answer to it. [7]
Some of our party have gone to England, intending to take a roundabout course and rejoin the vessel at Leghorn or Naples several weeks hence. [5]
Pierre took an open cab intending to drive straight home. [2]
When Orion went on to tell him that he was intending to travel for a short time, and had, in fact, come to take leave of him, the Arab was much annoyed. [10]
I bet heavily on Flamingo, intending it for my last fling, and, to save what I had left, to get back what I had lost. [11]
The noble figure of the crucified Saviour, carved by an artist's hand in ivory, hung from an ebony cross, and he thrust the image back, intending to turn proudly way, he gazed at the face and found there only pain, quiet endurance, and touching sorrow. [10]
For the sake of that he had already done many things which he regretted, and the man who steals one sheep out of the flock is followed by others without intending it. [10]
She started homeward, now, intending to find Tom and tell him; Tom would be thankful and their troubles would be healed. [5]
He made some notes on two points, intending to mention them to Bagration. [2]
This Spaniard is not deaf and dumb; you've let that slip without intending it; you can't cover that up now. [5]
Both of these neighbors run considerable to cats, and so I warned them about the trap, because their cats were pretty sociable around here nights, and they might get into trouble without my intending it. [5]
Then she glided nearer to the gentlemen at the table, intending to return Lienhard's gift; but the landlord of The Pike followed her suspiciously, and drove her back to her companions. [10]
Why does the lady intending suicide always throw on a waterproof when she steals out of the house to drown herself? [4]
Without intending it--hardly knowing it--I fell to listening intently to that sound, and even unconsciously counting the strokes of the mouse's nutmeg-grater. [5]
A. I brought it home and hid it in a secret place in my observatory, intending to find the owner if I could. [5]
Hoping to make it appear that I hadn't noticed anything, I dropped my voice a little and went on, intending, however, to stop at the end of the verse: "'Malbrouck has gone a-fighting, Mironton, Mironton, Mirontaine! [11]
He had gone into the Pelican House intending to tell Jethro of his determination to agree to the marriage. [9]
She had been intending to wake her, to make her her confidant and to ask her advice. [10]
Where are you intending to sleep? [10]
I worked swiftly, intending to keep him interested. [5]
He was indeed intending to follow her with Heliodora; but, by the time they were ready to set out, Susannah, too, had fallen a victim to the pestilence and the authorities had forbidden all egress from her house. [10]
They were evidently intending to attempt that treacherous passage, which culminated in a series of eddies, a menace to even the best oarsman ship. [11]
Dear Benny--I was intending to answer your letter to-day, but I am away down town, and will simply whirl together a sentence or two for good-fellowship. [5]
Hurriedly he approached, intending to advise her to lie down again, to tell her that perhaps she might overtax her strength. [13]
When he was in College, and the singing-master was gathering his pupils, Emerson presented himself, intending to learn to sing. [6]
About ten o'clock I chanced to be talking about a merchant friend of mine, and without really intending it, the remark slipped out that he was a little mean and parsimonious about paying his workmen. [5]
Upon one occasion he declined to go to a wedding with her, and when she got other company, lay in wait for the couple by the road, intending to make them go back or kill the escort. [5]
His determination may have been strengthened by the confession of Mrs. Benson that her family were intending an extensive summer tour. [4]
When a person has a poor ear for words, the result is a literary flatting and sharping; you perceive what he is intending to say, but you also perceive that he doesn't say it. [5]
They are bitter hard to bear because there is nothing tangible to take hold of; and the insulter can always say, if called before the railway officials, that he never dreamed of intending any offence. [5]
I lived in Hannibal fifteen and a half years, altogether, then ran away, according to the custom of persons who are intending to become celebrated. [5]
He ran his hand through the letters and papers, intending to classify them immediately, according to such handwriting as he recognised and the dates on the envelopes. [11]
Ergo, if you had married Edwitha accidentally, and without really intending to do it, you would not actually be married to her at all, because the act of marriage could not be complete without the intention. [5]
Meanwhile the Vekeel had become aware of what was going forward on the platform; he leaped in fury from his seat to restore order, intending to seize Orion whom he fancied he had seen, or, if necessary to cut him down with his own hand. [10]
The Captain had gone to Hagerstown, intending to take the cars at once for Philadelphia, as his three friends actually did, and as I took it for granted he certainly would. [6]
It is truly deterrent, because it is a notification to any one intending to enter upon that method of living that his career ends with his first felony. [4]
I left my companions there one Saturday morning, to return to Keene Valley, intending to fish down the Au Sable River. [4]
The man's friends are pressing me, but I refer them to you, intending to take no further action myself. [7]
To such as are intending to come here in the Wagner season next year I wish to say, bring your dinner-pail with you. [5]
The adjutant looked angrily at him, evidently also intending to shout at him, but on recognizing him he nodded. [2]
He satirized her, and she waited at his door with a case-knife in her hand, intending to stick him with it. [6]
Immediately he commenced an assault upon King's character, intending, as I suppose, to defeat his appointment, and thereby secure another chance for himself. [7]
He had conceived a tremendous admiration for Victoria, which had been shaken a little by the suspicion that she might be intending to marry Mr. Crewe. [9]

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