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Sentences ending with purposes

A brighter person would have seen what the trouble was, earlier than I did, perhaps, but I saw it early enough for all practical purposes. [5]
But I come without my family, and with no fell purposes. [11]
In England as well as in France, as we have said, it was the period of the classic revival; but in England the energetic reality of the time was strong enough to break the classic fetters, and to use classic learning for modern purposes. [4]
No, that goes to you, Padre, for hospital purposes. [11]
Rawley had trusted to the inspiration of the moment; he had had no clearly defined plan; he had believed that he could frighten the old man, and by force of will bend him to his purposes. [11]
It was wise to sacrifice the transitory pleasures of earth to loftier purposes. [10]
If it prove to be true, as is probable, that the people of Utah are in open rebellion to the United States, then Judge Douglas is in favor of repealing their territorial organization, and attaching them to the adjoining States for judicial purposes. [7]
We met you then, and if there was anything yielded, it was for practical purposes. [7]
History, that is, the unconscious, general, hive life of mankind, uses every moment of the life of kings as a tool for its own purposes. [2]
Yet he felt the time had come when he might use Dyck for his own purposes. [11]

Sentences containing purposes two or more times

I have always intended, and still intend, to vote supplies; perhaps not in the precise form recommended by the President, but in a better form for all purposes, except Locofoco party purposes. [7]

More example sentences with the word purposes in them

I know not your purposes, but I trust you will not push your advantage"--he waved towards our muskets--"against a private gentleman. [11]
Perhaps, however, he would have hesitated to carry his purposes to immediate conclusions, were it not that the very gods seemed to play his game with him. [11]
I think this would develop Lee's real condition and purposes better than the cavalry alone can do. [7]
And now my wits came back to me, my purposes, the power to act, which for a couple of hours had seemed to be in abeyance. [11]
She had purposes which she must carry out, and she steeled herself. [11]
His lofty purposes were unsettled, and he began to seek diversion for his mind, especially at the fencing-school with Sanchez Coello. [10]
He succeeded pretty well, but the failure of Page, Bacon & Co. relieved him of six thousand dollars, and then, to all intents and purposes, he was a bankrupt in his old age and he resumed service in the pulpit again. [5]
It takes a very masculine man for that--a man who combines the most subtle and refined sympathies with the most forceful purposes and the most ferruginous will-power. [8]
Beetles stridulate under various emotions, in the same manner as birds use their voices for many purposes besides singing to their mates. [1]
It is to utilize the spots on the sun--get control of them, you understand, and apply the stupendous energies which they wield to beneficent purposes in the reorganizing of our climates. [5]
The interest to us now in the observation of this phase of modern life is not in the least for purposes of satire or of reform. [4]
It was agreed upon at length by the trustees, that the Cynthia Badlam Fund for Educational Purposes should be applied for the benefit of the two foundlings, known as Isosceles and Helminthia Hopkins. [6]
She had built up, after each invasion, her defences more carefully and solidly than before, only to be again astonished and dismayed by the next onslaught, until at length the question had become insistent--the question of an alliance for purposes of greater security. [9]
I have been trying, ever since I have been here, to ascertain the price of oranges; not for purposes of exportation, nor yet for the personal importation that I daily practice, but in order to give an American basis of fact to these idle chapters. [4]
I am not trying to keep the lovers apart for any mere purposes of fiction,--this is a true chronicle, and they stayed apart most of that winter. [9]
It seemed like treason, like a rejection of his pure and pious purposes, that Heaven itself barred the path along which he was wearily wandering to win it a soul. [10]
The Scarabee had too much respect for science to answer such a question as that; and the book, having served its purposes, was passed back to the Lady. [6]
Life, we are told, is full of incompletion, of broken destinies, of failures, of romances that begin but do not end, of ambitions and purposes frustrated, of love crossed, of unhappy issues, or a resultless play of influences. [4]
To be allowed to stay and paint with him, become absorbed in conversation about art, its problems, means and purposes, afforded her the highest, purest happiness. [10]
It is needless to say that he refrained from making use of Mr. Wetherell politically, although no poorer vessel for political purposes was ever constructed. [9]
Whether he meant to leave her in the lurch after using her for his selfish purposes, she also desired to learn from the sorceress. [10]
He likened himself to Joseph, son of Jacob; and at once the fineness of his first purposes became blunted. [11]
It was important to Dicky, in the first place, that this Mahommed Yeleb be kept quiet, by being made a confidant of his purposes so far as need be, an accomplice in his efforts whatever they should be. [11]
Nothing now occurs to add or subtract to or from the principles or general purposes stated and expressed in those documents. [7]
The enduring of this habit will have a confirming influence on her purposes, and help to keep her up to them. [4]
There was water, there was good air, and for purposes of drill--or defence--it was excellent. [11]
They especially forbade the use of wood in house-fronts and windows, both on account of the danger from fire, and because all the timber in the kingdom, which was needed for shipping and other purposes, was being used up in building. [4]
That for all the purposes of this act, the jurisdictional limits of Washington are extended to all parts of the District of Columbia not now included within the present limits of Georgetown. [7]
In such cases the purposes of men are much more easily understood than in cases of ordinary crime. [7]
But to say the farm shall no longer belong to the owner, or his heirs forever, and this as well when the farm is not needed for military purposes as when it is, is purely political, without the savor of military law about it. [7]
Lady Aylestone and the duchess are photographed in every conceivable pose for political purposes. [9]
So also, obeying the dictates of prudence, as well as the obligations of law, instead of transcending I have adhered to the act of Congress to confiscate property used for insurrectionary purposes. [7]
I also directed the commandant of the navy-yard at Boston to purchase or charter and arm as quickly as possible five steamships for purposes of public defense. [7]
The soil of the boiler deck was thin and rocky, but good enough for grazing purposes. [5]
The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. [7]
The court knew that one of Joan's purposes had been the deliverance of the exiled Duke of Orleans, and they were curious to know how she had intended to manage it. [5]
The morning after that combat, Hugo got up with a heart filled with vengeful purposes against the King. [5]
I cannot discern that by this plan he purposes any more. [7]
Of course that taint, that reverence for rank and title, had been in our American blood, too--I know that; but when I left America it had disappeared--at least to all intents and purposes. [5]
He had never sung since, however; his voice of silver was locked away in the cabinet of secret purposes which every man has somewhere in his own soul. [11]
It might have sufficed, accepted as a book of revelation, for all the purposes of moral guidance, spiritual consolation, and systematized authority, if it had been a collection of precepts, a dry code of morals, an arsenal of judgments, and a treasury of promises. [4]
As, however, these structures are not more interesting than others adapted for the ordinary purposes of life I shall pass them over almost entirely, giving only a few instances under each class. [1]
It was a strange and terrible surprise to Dudley Veneer to find that his nephew, who had been an inmate of his house and the companion of his daughter, was to all intents and purposes guilty of the gravest of crimes. [6]
There was no stove, but the fire-place served all needful purposes. [5]
He thinks of stationary dwellings as Long Tom Coffin did of land in general; a house may be well enough for incidental purposes, but for a "stiddy" residence give him a "kerridge. [6]
As the thing stands now, I went to Europe for three purposes. [5]
She had indeed soothed a pride wounded of late beyond endurance, suspecting, as she did, that Leicester had played his long part for his own sordid purposes, that his devotion was more alloy than precious metal. [11]
He had yet some cards to play, and Achmet and Higli--and another very high and great--might be delivered over to Kaid's deadly purposes rather than himself tomorrow. [11]
The chief arteries so frequently run in abnormal courses, that it has been found useful for surgical purposes to calculate from 1040 corpses how often each course prevails. [1]
It is a significant fact, as shewing the purposes of the above- described projections and excrescences, that these were covered with blood, and were scored and abraded in an extraordinary manner. [1]
He might be shorn of limb and scarred of body, but with eye sight still direct the courses of great schemes, in whatever sphere of life his purposes were at work. [11]
In that book she has planned out her system, and classified and defined its purposes and powers. [5]
The Mexican army shall not make any other delay on its march than that which is necessary to take up their hospitals, baggage, etc., and to cross the rivers; any delay not necessary to these purposes to be considered an infraction of this agreement. [7]
The heat they sent forth answered several purposes at the same time. [10]
I can only say again that I am placed improperly--altogether improperly, in spite of all I can say--when it is insisted that I entertain any other view or purposes in regard to that matter. [7]
Then he would saunter slowly down to the Planters' House bar, which served the purposes of a club in those days, in search of an argument with other prominent citizens. [9]
If I had said, 'You must not speak to me again,' you would have guessed my secret, and all my purposes would have been defeated. [11]
I could not resist the temptation to add, "I had an idea Asquith rather suited your purposes just now. [9]
If one would realize how colossal it is, and of what dignity and majesty, let him contrast it with the purposes and objects of the Crusades, the siege of York, the War of the Roses, and other historic comedies of that sort and size. [5]
Morgan liked to raise questions of casuistry, such as that whether money dishonestly come by could be accepted for good purposes. [4]
In Canada, Frontenac quarreled with his Intendant and his Council, set a stern hand upon the Church when she crossed with his purposes, cajoled, treated with, and fought the Indians by turn, and cherished a running quarrel with the English Governor of New York. [11]
Even for these purposes, that novel is the best which shows us the best possibilities of our lives--the novel which gives hope and cheer instead of discouragement and gloom. [4]
Unfortunately for biographical purposes, Smith's life is pretty much a blank from 1609 to 1614. [4]
As for eating purposes, I have seen better. [4]
Each had his place, and all were influenced by the great schemes of Rhodes and their reflection in the purposes and actions of Wallstein. [11]
Papias had been out, but the young man did not deem it necessary to ask his consent, for he and the other assistants had often used the things for similar purposes with his full permission. [10]
We lent them our physician Michael Servetus in fair condition, and they returned him so damaged by fire as to be quite useless for our purposes. [3]
I have been on expenses so long without earning anything that I am absolutely without money now for even household purposes. [7]
I am too old a traveler to hamper myself with deliberate purposes. [5]
In the course of the dozen years or so of its unravelling the grandmother had died, and Peter had become, to all intents and purposes, a member of Uncle Tom's family. [9]
If he does not he is too ignorant to be placed at the head of the committee which his resolution purposes and if he does, his neglect to mention it shows him to be too uncandid to merit the respect or confidence of any one. [7]
Their physiognomy is not adapted to the display of the emotions; the lateral movement of their jaws being effective for alimentary purposes, but very limited in its gamut of expression. [6]
He came as near as anybody ever did to marrying common sense to literature: he had it in him to make it sufficient for journalistic purposes. [4]
Usually are for my purposes the bridges of the city long enough; when I but Potzl's writings study will I ride out and use the glorious endless imperial bridge. [5]
I think it my duty to invite your special attention to this subject, and also to that of establishing a yard and depot for naval purposes upon one of the Western rivers. [7]
Nay, more and more since I am raised to such fortune as thousands may envy me; inasmuch as my granduncle purposes to make me his heir by form of law. [10]
Yet, pause a moment before you infer that your teachers must have been in fault when they furnished you with mental stores not directly convertible to practical purposes, and likely in a few years to lose their place in your memory. [3]
Dyck had seen many people, representing the gaiety and deviltry of life; but it was as though many doubtful people, many reckless ones, all those with purposes, fads, and fancies, were there. [11]
For with every man present deeply gone in liquor round me--every man save Doltaire--I was sane and steady, and settling into a state of great alertness, determined on escape, if that could be, and bent on turning every chance to serve my purposes. [11]
Last night her love alone seemed strong enough to hold him, to bring him back to the purposes and the aspirations that only last summer had appeared to transform him. [4]
They expect a literary man or a scientific expert to furnish them materials for symposia and similar articles, to be used by them for their own special purposes. [6]
A few hours later a messenger arrived from Croesus with news that the innocence of Bartja and his friends had been proved, and that Nitetis was, to all intents and purposes, cleared also. [10]
Shall I at last whisper, and follow, and evade, believe in no one, much less in myself, steal in and out of men's confidences to use them for my own purposes? [11]
She must not know, and they must start again, begin life again together, a new understanding in his heart, new purposes in their existence. [11]
He did not know till afterwards that it was this very nobility and unselfishness which Penelope saw could be turned to account for her own purposes. [4]
I believe, I know (and am especially grateful to know) that General Grant has not been jostled in his purposes, that he has made all his points, and to-day he is on his line as he purposed before he moved his armies. [7]
Eliphalet Pemberton and Jacob Penhallow, Esq., to be by them employed for such charitable purposes as they should elect, educational or other. [6]
And yet it is easy to underestimate the influences that, unconsciously to him, were expanding his mind and nursing in him heroic purposes. [4]
The suggestion, put into language that could be more easily comprehended than defended, illuminated Mrs. Mavick's mind in a flash, seeming to disclose the source of an opposition to her purposes which secretly irritated her. [4]
Inside, to all intents and purposes, it was Germany. [9]
Irregular methods once indulged in for one purpose, and towards one class, so sap the moral sense that they come to be used for all purposes. [4]
Fashion has never in the least influenced my writing or my literary purposes. [11]
Her error was in arguing their attitude from her own temperament, and endowing them, for the purposes of argument, with her perspective. [8]
I was ruined if she gave an alarm: all Quebec would be at my heels, and my purposes would be defeated. [11]
One lady, who, I take it, was rich and well brought up, advertised a dwelling or so to rent, with baths and all the modern improvements, and several hundred shops, stipulating that the dwellings should not be put to immoral purposes. [5]
The higher the human intellect rises in the discovery of these purposes, the more obvious it becomes, that the ultimate purpose is beyond our comprehension. [2]
He purposes moving his whole force to that point. [7]
The Almighty has His own purposes. [7]
The Parson composes himself for critical purposes. [4]
I'm sure of him where he is, whenever I want him for my own purposes, and, besides, he's a good unconscious spy on Brass, and tells, in his cups, all that he sees and hears. [12]

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