Some lies are told for a good purpose, as when one lies in order to please (jocose lie) or to serve another (officious lie).
Hence, the latter is not bound to give back the money, but may keep it and use it for a good purpose.
Recovery of virginity is made in the one case by the retractation of contrary intention and in the other case by repentance and renewal of good purpose.
All the trouble we had to go through, as it seems to me, will have been endured to good purpose.
I passed nearly twenty years on this stormy sea, falling and rising, but rising to no good purpose, seeing that I went and fell again.
The treatment is simple; an injection of lead-water and laudanum or of sulphate of zinc answers a good purpose.
Passing fragments of ice into the bowel while holding a lump of ice upon the sacrum sometimes answers a good purpose.
An enema of milk of asafoetida answers a good purpose.
It should be followed by a purgative, for which a dose of castor oil answers a good purpose.
Reflections of this kind could answer no good purpose.
He thought that some laws had been passed which answered no good purpose, nor indeed any purpose, but that of irritating the public.
For this reason, he was convinced that to enlarge the pay would answer no good purpose.
This open hostility of the Chinese, during the operation of a truce, could not be permitted to continue; and, moreover, it was evident that no good purpose could be attained by merely dispersing these irregular bodies of the Chinese.
But it was not thought prudent to follow them within range of the ginjals upon the city walls, as no good purpose could be effected by it, and some loss might have been suffered.
It served them no good purpose whatever; and after the ports were taken possession of, nothing was easier than to remove this impediment to the navigation.
Even in the capture of large game the spring pole often serves to good purpose.
For the capture of woodchucks, muskrats and house-rats, the wire noose may also be adapted to good purpose.
Although the foregoing varieties often serve to good purpose, the Steel Trap is the principal device used by professional trappers, and possesses great advantages over all other traps.
Page 128] Many of the devices described throughout this work may be adapted for domestic use to good purpose.
And concerning those that have indeed come to him, and that have effectually closed with him, and that name his name to good purpose; yet how hath iniquity hurt and abused many of them.
Improving," not in quality but by extending the benefits, employing to good purpose; turning to profitable account.
There are six signs of a fool, and they do all meet in that same man that concerns not himself, and that to good purpose, for the salvation of his soul.
Mrs. Naldret said something of that sort to me this very night--not unkindly, but with a good purpose.
We agreed not to mention what had occurred to Blade-o'-Grass, as it could serve no good purpose.
Complaint and disgust can answer no good purpose, but may be productive of many disagreeable consequences.
And if the knowledge is in his head, and the virtue in his heart, he will never fail to find a way of communicating his sentiments to good purpose.
Pen's, which reminded me of my own former times, and then I began to read to my wife upon the globes with great pleasure and to good purpose, for it will be pleasant to her and to me to have her understand these things.
But here I saw his great window in his dining room, where there is the two Terrestrial Hemispheres, so painted as I never saw in my life, and nobly done and to good purpose, done by his own hand.
Coventry, and with good intent; and it was to good purpose, whatever the success be, for the men would have but spent the King so much the more in wages, and yet not attended on board to have done the King any service.
And when they are at their best they do this not with stoic intrepidity, as though trouble's usefulness were but their fancy, but joyfully, as though a good purpose in the world included trouble, even though not intending it.
There is a Mind behind the universe, and a good purpose in it.
So joyful living depends on man's conviction that this life is not a hapless accident, that a good purpose binds it all together, and that our labor for righteousness is not expended on a futile task without a worthy outcome.
The water of wells should be boiled and passed through charcoal; and even then it might be mixed to a good purpose with a few drops of proof spirit.
Then came Yusuf Dera with a smiling countenance and smooth manners, bringing the stolen dagger and many excuses for the mistake; he was accompanied by a knot of kinsmen deputed by the Gerad as usual for no good purpose.
In the minds of men who have been using the world's unrighteous methods and living for the world's selfish ends, the conviction is to be wrought that no good can come of all that--that sin is sin and not valid for any good purpose.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good purpose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
