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Sentences ending with purpose

So that is your purpose! [10]
I think of your great hate toward him who--I think of your life's implacable purpose. [13]
It shows what you can do when you band together for a definite purpose. [5]
Privileges like these would render the possession of such securities to the amount limited most desirable to every person of small means who might be able to save enough for the purpose. [7]
Perhaps also he would have starved others for the same purpose. [11]
Her fingers, her whole body, trembled; but there was no mistaking the strong will, the indignant purpose. [11]
Which of you who owns a garden can say in future, 'It is mine,' if, during the absence of the Queen, it is allowable to take it away to be used for any other purpose? [10]
The day passes while one is deciding how to spend it, and the sun over Heiligenberg goes down on his purpose. [4]
The war in which we are engaged is for no meanly ambitious or unworthy purpose. [6]
Do you remember when you told me that I was good for nothing, that I lacked purpose? [9]

Short sentences using purpose

His purpose was sufficiently obvious. [10]
And for what purpose? [10]
This answers every purpose. [5]
Barrow had a purpose. [5]
My purpose is other. [5]
They do it on purpose. [5]
Can you guess its purpose? [12]
That had been his purpose. [11]
The elixir of High Purpose. [9]
That will answer every purpose. [5]

Sentences containing purpose two or more times

In all these things, I think that we ought to keep in view our real purpose, and in none do anything that stands adverse to our purpose. [7]
The fear of the combination of the press for any improper purpose, or long for any proper purpose, is chimerical. [4]
Hours before this she had read and re-read Ian's letter, that document of pain and purpose, of tragical, inglorious, fatal purpose. [11]
This is, and shall be, the purpose of my life, a purpose to which I will remain all the more faithful, because it is one of those to which a woman rarely dares devote her life. [10]
I do not say or believe that to serve the enemy is the purpose, of Mr. Durant, or that he is conscious of any purpose other than national and patriotic ones. [7]
But if thy purpose is now Harrik's purpose, then Europe should know, and Egypt also should know. [11]
It was my purpose and expectation that this canvass would be conducted upon principle, and with fairness on both sides, and it shall not be my fault if this purpose and expectation shall be given up. [7]
If the purpose of dinner is to nourish the body, a man who eats two dinners at once may perhaps get more enjoyment but will not attain his purpose, for his stomach will not digest the two dinners. [2]
They are not now the chief danger to the purpose of the Republican organization; but the most imminent danger that now threatens that purpose is that insidious Douglas popular sovereignty. [7]
It's as if it had been done on purpose, on purpose. [2]

More example sentences with the word purpose in them

You huddle to yourselves already in all countries, but you huddle to no sufficient purpose, politically speaking. [5]
I say that you can't work the sacred rites of hospitality in a better cause, and what I propose is a little dinner for the purpose of recognizing the hit we've made with this thing. [8]
As old as you are and as wise, can you take pleasure in a love-match and even speed it forward as you have done, and yet purpose in your soul to hinder it at last? [10]
It made distinct, yet with no obvious purpose, how good were friendship and confidence--which might be the most unselfish thing in the world--between two men. [11]
Not having as yet seen occasion to change, it is now my purpose to pursue the course marked out in the inaugural address. [7]
Faithful and sincere, yet loving power, curious and adventurous, she must needs, without intention, without purpose, stray into perilous paths. [11]
He does not yet know of my purpose, but I am sure that he would help us if a thousand deaths threatened him. [10]
It was sensitive, yet firm, as with some purpose deep as her nature was by creation and experience, and always deepening that nature. [11]
Although we struggle, yet by habit, by self-indulgence, by lack of a sustained purpose, we have formed a character from which escape seems hopeless. [9]
She said she would say good-by to her father and uncle in the morning if it should still be their purpose to go, instead of tarrying awhile to see the city. [5]
The cunning woman would have perceived his purpose and betrayed it to the Regent. [10]
This resemblance to words may be purely accidental, of course, and may have no purpose or meaning; but even in that case it is still extraordinary, and is a thing which no other bear can do. [5]
It was the word 'Album' that frightened me I thought she wished me to write a sonnet on purpose for it, which I could not do. [14]
Before this radiant witness he was ashamed to carry out his dark purpose, and he said, addressing the sun: "For thy sake, Phoebus Apollo, I spare the man. [10]
I do it without purpose and without ambition; merely for the love of it. [5]
She set herself with redoubled vigour to the work before her; and denied herself pleasure for the purpose of steady labour. [14]
I was bored with myself; and I had some purpose in coming, or I should not have had the impulse. [11]
Thus I listened with increasing fascination to these gentlemen in evening clothes calmly treating the United States as a melon patch that existed largely for the purpose of being divided up amongst a limited and favored number of persons. [9]
Was it not with a divine purpose that this measureless force of patriotism and high ideal had been given to this youngest of the nations, that its high mission might be fulfilled? [9]
I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself. [7]
And that she, who was apparently her friend, and who had Stanhope's welfare so much at heart, did so feel was an added reason why Irene was drifting towards a purpose of self-sacrifice. [4]
The Russian Revolution, which we must seek to understand and not condemn, the Allied defeats that are its consequences, can only make our purpose the firmer to put forth all our strength for the building up of a better world. [9]
Admitting the paper which he has filed in the suit to be genuine, it is clear that it cannot answer the purpose for which he designs it. [7]
In busy places, where each man has an object of his own, and feels assured that every other man has his, his character and purpose are written broadly in his face. [12]
He drew ashore whatever he wanted that would serve his purpose. [6]
She now understood what the bishop's purpose was in calling on her. [10]
Ann likewise understood what had brought her sickly friend to her, and she whispered to me that albeit she was deeply thankful for the abundant goodness my aunt had ever shown her, yet could she never swerve from her well-considered purpose. [10]
The alternate sections were to be given for the purpose of constructing roads, and the reserved sections were to be enhanced in value in consequence. [7]
Not because they were not interesting--for they were; but inasmuch as the man was not found, after all, it did not seem wise to harass and excite the reader to no purpose. [5]
His only pauses were for the worthy purpose of filling the detective's or the captain's glass, and these he watched with a hospitable solicitude. [9]
Even if there were a difference, that would not disprove their identity, for the initials of patients whose cases are reported by their physicians are often altered for the purpose of concealment. [6]
Yates haunted Stephen week after week, to no purpose, and at last gave it up. [5]
Hand in hand we will walk hence to the grave, helping each other in all ways, living for each other, being and remaining one in heart and purpose, one in hope and aspiration, inseparable to the end. [5]
For this purpose we placed Cleopatra in the centre of a larger group of people, whom she influences, and who enable her personality to be displayed in the various relations of life. [10]
The highest energy we know, the soul of man, the unit in which meet intelligence, imagination, memory, hope, love, purpose, insight,--this agent of immense resource and boundless power,--this has not been subdued by its instrument. [6]
Meditating on this, we hailed at sundown the spires of Abingdon, and regretted the end of a journey that seems to have been undertaken for no purpose. [4]
Let's go where we can forget the world, where we can lift the banner of freedom and beat the drums of purpose. [11]
He guessed the way to bring down the gusto and pride of this Goliath, but, for a purpose, he took his own time, nodding indolently to Macavoy when he met him, but avoiding talk with him. [11]
Whatever the feeling was, it was an open thing, which had neither motive nor purpose behind it--just a thing almost feminine in its nature. [11]
The large enclosure was wanted during the next few days for a special purpose, and there were new things for Coello to do. [10]
His purpose now was to wrest from Philip the duchy of Bercy. [11]
If his purpose was to lecture in the East, he was in no hurry to begin. [5]
My first purpose was to have the man make a collection of caves and afterwards of echoes; but perceived that the element of absurdity and impracticability was so nearly identical as to amount to a repetition of an idea..... [5]
Her first impulse was to call to him; her next to wonder who his associates could be, and for what purpose they were together. [12]
How painful, too, was the feeling that she was being examined to discover whether the Abbess Kunigunde had any share in her change of purpose! [10]
In his eyes was purpose definite, strong. [11]
I think it was not what she wanted; but I had a purpose, and I began: "Every one at St. Luke's admired and respected Professor Valiant's wife, she was so frank and cordial and prettily downright. [11]
He knew he was not spoken to now with any indolent purpose. [11]
But his purpose was not fulfilled, for suddenly, flaming with passionate wrath, she thrust the purse aside, groaning: "Not an obol of the accursed destruction of souls shall come back to Hanno, nor even into the family store. [10]
If the cave was inhabited, it must be by strangers, and by men who had some secret purpose in seeking this seclusion and eluding observation. [4]
In Massachusetts there was from the beginning a steady purpose to make a permanent settlement and colony, and nearly all those who came over worked, with more or less friction, with this end before them. [4]
His sinful eye was dazzled and he hid himself behind an altar, with an evil purpose in his heart, but a priest discovered him and turned him out. [5]
Yet my justice was but darkness of purpose, the hidden terror to them all. [11]
Its declared purpose was "simply to instruct the young, reform the old, correct the town, and castigate the age. [4]
She heard the warning voice of her companion, she saw the crowd staring at her, she had, no doubt, a brief struggle with her maidenly shyness, but she carried out her purpose. [10]
A voice within warned him against making common cause with those who had robbed the family of which he had become a member, yet he again used the remembrance of his innocent darlings to palliate his purpose. [10]
The preparations for war required large sums; all vessels suitable for the purpose were seized for the fleet, and all residents of the city and country shared the same fate as Pyrrhus. [10]
What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong. [6]
Hitherto she had walked on without goal or purpose, but here the question where to seek shelter confronted her; for the torchbearers who had lighted the way disappeared one after another in the various houses. [10]
Fluctuations in the value of currency are always injurious, and to reduce these fluctuations to the lowest possible point will always be a leading purpose in wise legislation. [7]
It is alike valuable for my purpose. [7]
I was not using that passage for the purpose for which he infers I did use it. [7]
It is considered useful as "a pick me up," and it serves an admirable purpose in the social system. [6]
They can be used and can circulate and fulfill their purpose without harm to anyone and even advantageously, as long as no one asks what is the security behind them. [2]
I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose. [3]
All this was urged with excessive vehemence and bore the stamp of a hostile purpose. [10]
Panic emotion was uppermost, while desperate and reckless purpose was in his eyes. [11]
Yet he insisted upon his purpose of not entering Alexandria again until he had resigned his office, and to do this at present was impossible, since he was bound just now, as if with chains, to the important frontier fortress. [10]
Chintz curtings,--jest put up,--o' purpose for the party, I'll lay ye a dollar.--What a nice washbowl! [6]
An' I give up my purpose! [13]
Often does she unfold herself in all her fascinating loveliness, presenting the most captivating charms; yet we find man frequently treats such purity of purpose with indifference. [5]
What they both understood was that Dryfoos was endeavoring to get at Beaton through Conrad's memory; but with one this was its dedication to a purpose of self sacrifice, and with the other a vulgar and shameless use of it. [8]
Now I easily understand that the old man couldn't go, because you have a purpose in sending Lyddy by herself: but you could send the old man over in another ship, and we particularly want him along. [5]
She only saw troubled depths, lighted by a soul of kindling purpose. [11]
Mrs. Armour had tried to influence her through Mackenzie, but to no purpose. [11]
Then some one tried the door, peered in through the glass, perceived Jethro, shook the knob, knocked violently, all to no purpose. [9]
There was no tremor in the long, thin fingers nor at the lips--the thin, ascetic lips, as of a secret-service man--but in his eyes was a dark fire of purpose. [11]
There was one trembling instant when he would have taken her hungrily into his arms, but as if some evil spirit interposed with malign purpose, there came the sound of feet on the gravel outside, and the figure of a man darkened the doorway. [11]
Wyndham could not travel the sinuosities of their minds, and it would not have affected his purpose if he could have done so. [11]
His face became transformed, alive with a passion uncanny in its recklessness and purpose. [11]
Did they purpose training them up as Thugs? [5]
He moved slowly towards his purpose. [11]
Moses and Aaron, too, had gone away, taking Hur's grandson with them; but no one had deemed her, who lived and breathed solely for her people and their welfare, worthy to learn whither their journey led or what was its purpose. [10]
I have already told you that I am here for a very different purpose. [5]
Again he whispered, to what purpose had I gained my liberty, if now I renounced it? [9]
It was telegraphed to Washington City, and published in the Union, that he was framing his plan for the purpose of going to Illinois to pounce upon and annihilate the treasonable and disunion speech which Lincoln had made here on the 16th of June. [7]
His purpose was to trick her into heedless sayings that could indicate that the Voices had sometimes given her evil advice--hence that they had come from Satan, you see. [5]
Not far off to the left of him and his mounted infantry there were coming on for this purpose two batteries of artillery and three thousand infantry--Leary's brigade, which had not been in the action the day before at Wortmann's Drift. [11]
I am going to the city for that purpose. [6]
They used them to such dire purpose that all parliamentary business was paralysed. [5]
It frightens me to see how much I have written without having yet said a word of what I began this letter on purpose to say. [6]
The public purpose to re-establish and maintain the national authority is unchanged, and, as we believe, unchangeable. [7]
He was unable to procure the Greek fire, but he constructed a vicious torpedo which would have answered the purpose, but the first one prematurely exploded in his wood-house, blowing it clean away, and setting fire to his house. [5]
A conscientious purpose to perform this duty is the key to all the measures of administration which have been and to all which will hereafter be pursued. [7]
Our purpose is to note some of the tendencies of the dogma as it is at present understood by a considerable portion of mankind. [4]
I still adhered to my purpose of non-aggressive defence, and made no other use of my arms than to defend my head and face from further disfigurement. [5]
It is plain to me that Heaven, in its inscrutable wisdom, has seen fit to move this defendant's ranch for a purpose. [5]
His purpose was to make some arrangement with Heinz Schorlin about the lost estate and obtain definite knowledge concerning his quarrel with him, of which he remembered nothing except that intoxication and jealousy had carried him further than would have happened otherwise. [10]
Confiding my purpose to Luke, we secretly made our preparations, and stole away from the shanty one morning at daybreak. [4]
It is customary to lend nearly anybody money to start a bank with especially if you have not the money to lend him and have to borrow it for the purpose. [5]

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