She was still so far from perceiving the real situation, that some one came towards her out of the group of people aboutsome one whom she recognizedwith the evident intention of explaining to her how it was.

We were immediately carried before their governor, or chief magistrate, who ordered our baggage to be searched, and finding that it consisted principally of silver, he had no doubt of our hostile intentions.

If he had had the slightest intention of permitting me to go free, he would have bargained.

The personality of the player forced itself upon her with a curious insistence, and she had an odd feeling that he did it by deliberate intention.

Whatever evil intentions Noaks might have cherished towards them were destined to be checkmated by a fortunate circumstance, the possibility of which neither side had yet foreseen.

A score of good people had visited him with the kindest intentions, but without making the smallest impression upon him.

She declared her firm intention of remaining here until she died.

Those who deceive us, do not always suppress any truth of which they are convinced, nor set facts before us in any other light, than that in which themselves behold them; they for the most part err with an honest intention, and propagate no mistakes but those which they have themselves admitted.

It might not be improper, my lords, to publish to the people, by a formal proclamation, the benevolent intentions of their governours; and inform them, that licensed murderers are to be appointed, at whose shops they may infallibly be destroyed, without any danger of legal censures, provided they take care to use the poison prescribed by the government, and increase, by their death, the publick revenue.

At another island, as he returned to the boat, he saw one of the natives draw a bow with the apparent intention of shooting him, and then unbend it at the entreaty of his comrades.

"Our trump card at presenta rather small one, I am afraidis the obvious intention of the testator that the bulk of the property should go to his brother.

A man from civilization would have said that the dog was approaching the lynx with friendly intentions.

With the development of epic intention, and the subsequent choosing of themes larger and subtler than what common experience is wont to deal in, a certain duplicity becomes inevitable.

Addressing himself to the fallen monarch, he demanded his reasons for entertaining a project so unjust, and beyond his power to execute, and what were his ultimate intentions if he had succeeded.

But such an express, actual intention is not necessary; a virtual intention, which finds expression in the opening of the Breviary to recite the office, suffices.

" Basilio now understood Spanish and answered the questions with the plain intention of making no one laugh.

I accorded both Of them most pure intentions.

'Charity may be persuaded to think that it might be written by a man of a peculiar [opinions] character, without ill intention.

We want Germany to become a democratically controlled State, such as is the United States to-day, with open methods and pacific intentions, instead of remaining a clenched fist.

The rooms were dimly lighted, many of the walls had been stripped of the most precious of their pictures, and in other respects a jealous eye might have detected evidence of a secret intention, on the part of its owner, not to make a permanent residence of the dwelling.

This fond intention.

Thinking, therefore, that it was really the second, or else knowing the truth but not caring to heed it, he followed the order of the arrival of the two, but not their manifest intention.

Well, I suppose that anyone with criminal intentions could submit gracefully to that much blackmail.

In that case is it not reasonable to suppose that the prisoner would arm himself, I do not say with the definite intention of committing murder, but for the purpose of threatening Sir Horace if necessary in order to make good his escape?

The murderous attempt made by these savages against the life of Ludovico proved but too clearly that the destruction of Rodolph's children was their object, and banished every hope that lingered in Helen's breast; and this conviction of their cruel intentions was still further confirmed by Janet's account of the look and gesture of the warrior who attended his Chief when the Nausetts first assailed the settlement.