Intentions

Examples

• We acted with the best intentions. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• You don't get on with your account of your matrimonial intentions, answered Carton, with a careless air; I wish you would keep to that. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He knew better than to be satisfied with loose thinking and fairly good intentions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It may be advisable to superadd to the above, the statement that Mrs. Micawber is not in confidential possession of my intentions. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I have been so unlucky already in giving you pain without having any such intentions, before the holy Heavens! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Tal Hajus arose, and I, half fearing, half anticipating his intentions, hurried to the winding runway which led to the floors below. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• For I am of no mind to be shot by Agustín with his belly full of good intentions. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I could not help expressing something of my wonder and regret that his benevolent, disinterested intentions had prospered so little. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• That Colonel durst no more take leave of him, than that turnkey durst ask him his intentions respecting a case. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Which of my daughters am I to understand is thus favoured by the kind intentions of Mr Boffin and his lady? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In the passion of their good intentions they have not hesitated to conceal facts, suppress thought, crush disturbing initiatives and apparently detrimental desires. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• When you know that she only does it out of kindness and the best intentions! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Ah, but I don't suppose that: haven't I told you that your genius lies in converting impulses into intentions? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• That's about your intentions, if I understand you? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Theerfur 'tan't my intentions to moor Missis Gummidge 'long with them, but to find a Beein' fur her wheer she can fisherate for herself. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I have been superseded as to some slight intentions I had, and I may say that I have now to begin life. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Rulers are simply interested in such training as will make their subjects better tools for their own intentions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• No word left they of their intentions, but it is always thus with those who go upon the voluntary pilgrimage from which none returns. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• That I had much to learn, myself, before I could teach others, and that I could not confide in my good intentions alone. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I know that your intentions are evil, said Miss Pross, and you may depend upon it, I'll hold my own against them. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• A short, a very short time however must now decide what Willoughby's intentions were; in all probability he was already in town. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The teachers, animated solely by good intentions, had no idea of execution, and a lamentable jumble was the upshot of their kind endeavours. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My intentions were not always wrong. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• She is very sensible of your handsome intentions, and wishes you good evening, and wishes you well. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The shock of this retort had the effect of crystallizing Selden's wavering intentions. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Then, turning to me, What are your intentions concerning me? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I am overwhelming you with money--in my expansive intentions--if you only knew it! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You are so secure of your own intentions? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• There has been some villainy here, said Holmes; this beauty has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim off. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I know better than that, I trust, and I have mentioned what the intentions of Providence are. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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