Word: intentions
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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From room to room, on news intent...
...passed him, all intent...
...twenty feet high. Last year the buoys were so small as to be almost invisible to coxswains, and therefore valueless as guides. The first-mentioned method of buoying would distinctly mark the course, and make it impossible for one crew to get into its opponent's water, except by intent...
...donors turn, asking them to aid in extending the beneficent influences of education. "We have means," say they, "you have the natural endowments; together we can accomplish what we have most at heart, singly we must all fail." Is assistance given in this spirit and with this intent an alms? Most decidedly, No! It is rather a mutual helping toward a common end. Or, on the part of the donors, it was at most a loan, not repayable to the lenders, - they do not want it again, - but to the cause whose friends and representatives they were, whose interests they...
...moral is short, with a double intent...