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They asserted that it was of the same character as those meteoric stones which had been found in every part of the world, and that I had merely procured a piece of one of these for the purpose of deception.
With this purpose in view, I loaded one of the shotguns, carefullychoosing it, as being more deadly than a rifle, at close quarters; and then, after a final scrutiny of the grounds, from the tower, I called Pepper to follow me, and made my way down to the basement.
Fate seems to have arranged this on purpose for usdon't you know, dear, how I'd be good to the children?
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The earth answers the same purpose to half the inhabitants of the moon, that the moon does to the inhabitants of the earth.
how was she to work out her purpose by such auxiliaries as these?
All sorts of slurs and gossip were reported to him by busybodies, until it became a settled purpose with Boone to make the Sprague family feel heavy heart-burnings for the sum of the affronts he had endured.
I came to England for this purpose as a labour of love.
" [Footnote 32: Different woods were adopted for this purpose at the various seasons.
Again the shadow of her first fearagain the dread of some malevolent purpose on her father's partchoked her speech.
We are bound first to obey orders, even though a dozen of our best friends were bein' led to the stake, an'" "Then you will obey them without me," Jacob said, in a tone which I knew full well betokened a purpose from which he would not be turned by words.
[While he is looking, Charmante goes to the Door to Scaramouch, who waited on purpose without, and takes a Glass with a Picture of a Nymph on it, and a Light behind it; that as he brings it, it shews to the Audience.
" He was just about to put this purpose into executionin which event it was quite likely that Beaumaroy, hearing his approach or his call to the Sergeant, would have sprung out upon him, only to find himself assailed the next instant by another and far more formidable antagonist in the person of big Neddy, and thus in sore peril of his lifewhen the hum of Captain Alec's engine became audible in the distance.
Is there any clear purpose before our new leaders, and how does it differ from mankind's former purposes?
"'To everything'," said my father, "there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
alas!so determined was her purpose against this foreign allianceshe has thrown herself into the stream, and perished!
The total amount of land available for this purpose within the limit of our route I should estimate at not less than two or three millions of acres, and of this I may safely say 200,000 are suitable for agricultural purposes, the greater portion of which lies on the two flanks of the Hamersley Range, on the banks of the DeGrey and its tributaries, and on the Lower Sherlock.
He therefore prepared to retreat, and effected this purpose like a good soldier.
"For what purpose?" "Trading purposes between Japan and China," Phipps explained.
Those forms and institutions, the safeguards of liberty and property, which had been suspended during the contest, had not been restored; the committees in every county continued to exercise the most oppressive tyranny; and a monthly tax was still levied for the support of the forces, exceeding in amount the sums which had been exacted for the same purpose during the war.
The total subscriptions raised among the Southern Slavs of the Monarchy in aid of the allies far exceeded any sums previously raised for charitable purposes among so poor a population.
Clearly they were moving slowly, and from the frequent halts and turnings I gathered that the rider had not much purpose about the road.
It would be almost impossible to particularise the positions or define the limits of country adapted for grazing purposes beyond the reference already made to them.
Some hidden purpose through the ages!
and I hereby require all or any person or persons whatsoever holding or pretending to hold any such papers, to produce them to me within thirty days from the date hereof, shewing their authority for holding the same, or they will be considered fictitious and fraudulently obtained or raised, by some person or persons for base purposes after my death.