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Example sentences for "this purpose"

  • The fifty associates had to pay about fifty dollars each for this purpose.

  • By the elders and leaders, who have been chosen and nominated to this purpose by God.

  • In this purpose I am still further encouraged by the great help which the Lord has hitherto given me in this blessed service.

  • This evening I received still further 4 half-crowns, with very encouraging words and expressions of joy, that I have been led to this purpose of building another Orphan House for 700 more Orphans.

  • One thousand dollars were raised for this purpose by our auxiliary societies, and forwarded to the Oregon Woman Suffrage Association.

  • Meantime, this purpose of ours with regard to Herodotus was defeated.

  • This purpose he effected in a few days, by retreating into Austria, from which territory he issued his final order of the day, taxing his army, in violent and unmeasured terms, with cowardice and disobedience.

  • These must work together for the same general purpose, and, in the accomplishment of this purpose, must practice the division of labor.

  • This information is supplied by the chemist, who has made extensive analyses for this purpose.

  • The air passages are kept clean by cells especially adapted to this purpose, known as the ciliated epithelial cells.

  • In the accomplishment of this purpose a nutrient fluid is provided for the cells and proper relations between the body and its surroundings are established.

  • Each bone serves some special purpose, and to this purpose it is adapted by its form and structure.

  • The wonderful intelligence which Oates conveyed both to Godfrey and the council, and afterwards to the parliament, was to this purpose.

  • Seventeen peers presented a petition to this purpose.

  • Little Neck clams are best for this purpose, and the smaller they are the better.

  • If it did, more land would soon be turned to this purpose.

  • There are several different sorts of paper money; but the circulating notes of banks and bankers are the species which is best known, and which seems best adapted for this purpose.

  • The laws of a country, when properly constructed, apply to this purpose.

  • There yet remain twenty thousand pounds out of the four millions of surplus taxes, which with another fund hereafter to be mentioned, amounting to about twenty thousand pounds more, cannot be better applied than to this purpose.

  • About one hundred and twenty thousand pounds applied to this purpose, will put all those salaries in a decent condition.

  • They were not agriculturists in a proper sense of the term; true, they cultivated in some degree the soil, but it was not the prime pursuit of these people, nor was the location sought for this purpose.

  • This Bible is still in existence; it was brought by my grandfather from Europe, and is now covered with the skin of a fish which he harpooned on his return voyage, appropriating the skin to this purpose in 1750.

  • But she said she heard that there was persons spoke of that were as innocent as she was, she believed; and, after much to this purpose, we told her we heard that she was spoken of also.

  • Somewhat I have spoken already in the former use, to this purpose viz.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    this account; this battle; this bird; this body; this continent; this date; this earth; this kind; this last; this mode; this occasion; this office; this passage; this planet; this plant; this proposition; this region; this remarkable; this school; this series; this should; this situation; this time; this trip; this vessel; this word