166 examples of ulterior in sentences

If the mind were to die, while the body continues extant (not indeed in the form of a human body, but in various phases of ulterior development), then the mind would resemble a sword which, by the action of lightning, is consumed (molten, dissolved) within its sheath, while the sheath itself remains unconsumed.

To prevent their suspecting anything ulterior and consequently causing trouble they ordered them to help in building homes for the men once driven out of Vienna (in Gallia Narbonensis) by the Allobroges and then located between the Rhone and the Arar, at their confluence.

That, as Lanyard had suspected all along, the Monk party had been visited upon the Château de Montalais through no vagary of chance whatever but as part of a deliberate design whose ulterior motive had transpired only with the disappearance of the jewelsto Dupont's vast but understandable vexation of spirit.

She asserted that her enterprise was economic, and had no ulterior political gains.

Rhoda had given her hand to young Mervyn, of ulterior consequences we say nothingthe nursery is above our province.

He never varied in rating intellectual enjoyments above all others, even in value as pleasures, independently of their ulterior benefits.

She knew that Livius was keeping watch on her, and how he did it, having shrewdly guessed that a present of eight matched litter- bearers was too extravagant not to mask ulterior designs.

One of the most striking passages in the report of Dr. Ray, before mentioned, is that in which he explains that, 'though study at school is rarely the immediate cause of insanity, it is the most frequent of its ulterior causes, except hereditary tendencies.'

The policy of this nation is not to be influenced by saw-logs, but by these manifest, important, and ulterior interests.

And what I thus wrote was for no ulterior use; it was written consciously for practice.

that, although I consented to restore the work, while Lord Byron should be alive to direct the ulterior disposal of it, I would by no means consent to place it after his death at the disposal of any other person.

" "What ducks of hounds those are!" says Tom, trying, for ulterior purposes, to ingratiate himself.

Which last words were spoken with an ulterior object, well understood by the hearer; for between Clara and Bowie there was one of those patient and honourable attachments so common between worthy servants.

If this Society has ulterior objects of which I know nothing, of these I can be expected to speak only when I know something.

Nothing in his position or in his character gives them the slightest pretence for supposing that his bold advocacy of liberal views is connected with any ulterior designs or any "fatted calf" of theory or office.

The example of the savages, most of whom have been found in this condition, seems to confirm that mankind was formed ever to remain in it, that this condition is the real youth of the world, and that all ulterior improvements have been so many steps, in appearance towards the perfection of individuals, but in fact towards the decrepitness of the species.

If it be "for the sake of something ulterior" alsoif for the sake of inducing the slaveholders of the slave states to emancipate their slavesthen we should not seek for it.

Tragedies early began to be written on the strictly Senecan model, and generally, like Seneca's, with some ulterior intention.

If ever I had a noble impulse, aroused by wrongs that came to my knowledge during those years, a good cause to defend, or a public abuse to attack, "The Times" has never refused to give me room to tell my story, nor have I ever been expected to conform my views to those of the office, or shape my correspondence to any ulterior purpose; nor have I ever done so.

"Scotland forever!" So far as I know the young man had no ulterior motive in claiming to be a fellow Scot.

For it is an unparalleled example for a man to undertake and go through what you have done for us, without any interest, without any ulterior object.

"I had an ulterior object.

When therefore he saw himself and the others hanging so long on the drying-line, he stood up and said with dignity: Every one who had read his printed works knew for a certainty that he carried a heart in his breast, which needed to repress such holy tokens as tears areso as not thereby to deprive any fellowman of somethingrather than laboriously to draw them to the surface with an ulterior motive.

He did not have any conscious intent to flatter each person with some ulterior design in view, but only a general disposition to keep everybody cheerful, and an impression that it was quite profitable as a rule to stand well with one's neighbors.

The principle of imposing taxation not for revenue, but for some ulterior or ethical purpose, such as the destruction of swollen fortunes, is liable to constitutional objection in this country, though the courts may not look behind the tax to the motive, unless the latter is expressed upon the face.

166 examples of  ulterior  in sentences