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Sentences ending with purposely

And that is, to assure Mr. Duncan, from me, that I did not detain him purposely. [9]
I wondered if he had done that piece of brutality purposely. [5]
Everybody lies--every day; every hour; awake; asleep; in his dreams; in his joy; in his mourning; if he keeps his tongue still, his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude, will convey deception--and purposely. [5]

Sentences containing purposely two or more times

The charges that General Schofield has purposely withheld protection from loyal people and purposely facilitated the objects of the disloyal are altogether beyond my power of belief. [7]

More example sentences with the word purposely in them

And Tikhon, purposely writhing and making faces, pretended to be angry and swore at the French with the funniest curses. [2]
I saw my white friend come in, and I felt that he had come there purposely to help me. [5]
At times we were good friends, and then something he would say or do would infuriate me, and I would purposely make him angry. [9]
This fact it was, which more than anything else, convinced me that by plan and plot I was purposely made powerless in Mr. Winters' hands, and that he did not mean to allow me that advantage of being afoot, which he possessed. [5]
There is a very loose primary law in this State, purposely kept loose by the politicians of the Northeastern Railroads, in order that they may play such tricks on decent men as they have been playing on me. [9]
We paid it, too, for we were purposely spread very far apart over the vast side of the Pyramid. [5]
Presently they began to taunt him and mock at him, purposely to goad him into a higher and still more entertaining fury. [5]
She smiled meaningly to herself, as she sent a quick quizzical look at the American, and said, purposely misinterpreting his exclamation: "I am not envious, Mr. [11]
She had purposely thrown him in the way of General Duncan Pasha, who, making a reputation in Egypt, had been rewarded by a good command in England and a K.C.B. [11]
Count Landrassy had thought at first, when Ian Stafford came to Glencader, that this meeting had been purposely arranged; but through Byng's frankness and ingenuous explanations he saw that he was mistaken. [11]
In the house they were met by Horapollo, but Joanna and Pulcheria returned his greeting with a cold bow, while Mary purposely turned her back on him. [10]
He did not suppose you gave him so much money purposely, so he hurried back to return you the coin lest you might get away before you discovered your mistake. [5]
I tripped over some fool's foot purposely, just beside a bench against the wall, and I come down on that bench hard. [11]
The old prince said that if he was ill it was only because of Princess Mary: that she purposely worried and irritated him, and that by indulgence and silly talk she was spoiling little Prince Nicholas. [2]
Two years the remnant remained there, while Brigham and a small party crossed the country and founded Great Salt Lake City, purposely choosing a land which was outside the ownership and jurisdiction of the hated American nation. [5]
We went, not purposely, but accidentally, to see various poor people in our distant walks. [14]
He did not purposely say things to please her, but whatever he was saying he regarded from her standpoint. [2]
This authority has purposely been exercised but very sparingly. [7]
In unfolding the paper Laflamme purposely dropped it in the mud. [11]
But, though she noticed it, she was herself in such high spirits at that moment, so far from sorrow, sadness, or self-reproach, that she purposely deceived herself as young people often do. [2]
In her letters Mrs. Temple had never mentioned Antoinette, and now she read the question (perchance purposely put there) in my eyes. [9]
Yet I purposely mixed that up with other things, hoping to make it obscure--and I did. [5]
She had purposely let him play beyond the time set for their being together. [11]
I have purposely led up to it, in order that there might be no misunderstanding. [9]
I changed her language purposely, for she was Commander-in-Chief and entitled to call herself so, and it was becoming and proper, too; and who was going to surrender anything to the King?--at that time a stick, a cipher? [5]
He did not know Kitty was purposely stinging Crozier's unhappy little consort, so that she should be put upon her mettle to do the thing without bungling. [11]
This Relic is kept in a solid silver box made purposely for it. [5]
To Rosalie the invasion of her beloved retreat was as hateful as though the woman had purposely intruded. [11]
He was met in the avenue by coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow. [2]
I had laid in an extra force of chaplains, purposely to be prepared for emergencies like this, but by some unaccountable oversight had come away rather short-handed in the matter of barkeepers. [5]
No one would hurt Jeannette Gilder purposely, and no one would want to run the risk of doing it unintentionally. [5]
It is seven hundred years old, but neither history or tradition say whether it was built as it is, purposely, or whether one of its sides has settled. [5]
I was not, however, able to annul the influence of my former belief, then almost universal, that each species had been purposely created; and this led to my tacit assumption that every detail of structure, excepting rudiments, was of some special, though unrecognised, service. [1]
Xerxes crossed his host of five millions of men on it, and if it had not been purposely destroyed, it would probably have been there yet. [5]
Better quarters could have been found him, but Marshal Davout was one of those men who purposely put themselves in most depressing conditions to have a justification for being gloomy. [2]
For Miss Thorn had displayed, purposely or not, a reticence which my short acquaintance with her compelled me to respect; and, besides, I was bound by a promise not to betray the Celebrity's secret. [9]
Ingolby had purposely given the warning about the fiddle, in the belief that it might break the unwelcome intensity of the scene. [11]
I saw that face, so situated, every night for a long time afterward; and I believed myself as guilty of the man's death as if I had given him the matches purposely that he might burn himself up with them. [5]
You are either dense, or purposely irritating. [11]
Not purposely, my dear--I did not mean that. [9]
I went one day to the king's ball the same as the rest of the world, and I went purposely in dress contrary to the regulations. [11]
Shelley moved to Bracknell, July 27th (this is still 1813) purposely to be near this unwholesome prairie-dogs' nest. [5]
It may have been guessed, although the language we have used has been purposely delicate, that Cynthia was already in love with--somebody else. [9]
It deserves especial attention that Von Fischer has never seen any species purposely exhibit the hinder part of its body, if not at all coloured. [1]
Clark had had acumen once, and lost it; St. Gre was a fool; Nick Temple was leading purposely a reckless life; the Citizens Sullivan and Depeau had, to say the least, a limited knowledge of affairs. [9]

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