Intending

Examples

• She has given a faint indication of intending to speak. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• My aunt and I were at that time vacating the two cottages at Highgate; I intending to go abroad, and she to return to her house at Dover. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• And now, after only ten minutes noticeGone too without intending to return! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Peggotty is ready to go to church, intending to behold the ceremony from the gallery. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He was often hoping, intending to comebut was always prevented. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I was intending to remove my headquarters to Pittsburg, but Buell was expected daily and would come in at Savannah. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Mr. Franklin has hurt Rosanna cruelly, without intending it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I got a copy of tactics and studied one lesson, intending to confine the exercise of the first day to the commands I had thus learned. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I trust you are intending to pursue the same course? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I took with me six cows and two bulls alive, with as many ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own country, and propagate the breed. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Did he know of their intending to go off? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Eustacia remained within the bank looking at the fire, intending to go indoors, yet lingering still. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Some of our party have gone to England, intending to take a roundabout course and rejoin the vessel at Leghorn or Naples several weeks hence. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Caroline rose, and made her way noiselessly through the dark passages to the kitchen, intending to appease him with a piece of bread. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• His most particular friend, you see by Jane's account, was persuaded of his never intending to marry her. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I beg your pardon, said Lily, intending by her politeness to convey a criticism of the other's manner. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He had come, intending to spend only a few days with them; but Mansfield promised well, and there was nothing to call him elsewhere. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Then Nancy fainted, and I caught up the key of the door from her hand, intending to unlock it and get help. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I have unfortunately startled her without intending it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• My guardian intending to go back immediately, we appointed, on our way down, a day when my dear girl should come. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Lydia's going to Brighton was all that consoled her for her melancholy conviction of her husband's never intending to go there himself. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• This, Twemlow is so kind as to promise, with every appearance of most heartily intending to keep his word. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Plato expressly says that he is intending to found an Hellenic State (Book V). Plato. The Republic.
• And Mrs. Garth knew that this was a sign of his not intending to speak further on the subject. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But as you, though inadvertently and without intending so unreasonable a question, asked me 'what for? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I mean, not a long time on the journey; a long time intending the journey. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It has occurred to him that he may, without intending it, have been a tie upon you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• He was not intending, however, by such action, to be conveying to her that unqualified approbation and encouragement which her hopes drew from it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.

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