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"Mr Butterfield evidently intends that I should go into his counting-house. Dreadful work to have to set on a high stool, to dot and carry one, and to scribble away all day. I could not stand it. It would kill me.
The declaration that you will give to your people a practical constitution, more free even than that which the late Assembly professed an intention to establish, cannot considering the spirit which now pervades South America have the effect of averting impending evils, unless your Imperial Majesty shall be pleased to dissipate all doubts by at once declaring before the news of the recent events can be dispersed throughout the provinces, and before the discontented members of the late congress can return to their constituents what is the precise nature of that constitution which your Imperial Majesty intends to bestow.
Clerke, Monk's secretary, about getting some soldiers removed out of Huntingdon to Oundle, which my Lord told me he did to do a courtesy to the town, that he might have the greater interest in them, in the choice of the next Parliament; not that he intends to be chosen himself, but that he might have Mr. G. Montagu and my Lord Mandeville chose there in spite of the Bernards.
He hasn't had the services all summer, and when he resumes them next Sunday I gathered that he intends to make his new position clear." Mr. Goodrich thrust his hands in his pockets and gave a low whistle. "I guess I won't go shooting Saturday, after all," he declared. "I wouldn't miss Hodder's sermon for all the quail in Harrington County."
Since then, she had not borrowed more than nine thousand francs of him; but she intends confessing to him some day how greatly she is annoyed by her upholsterer, by her dressmaker, by three linen drapers, and by five or six other tradesmen. Ah, well, she is all the same a worthy woman; she never says anything against her son-in-law!
"She says that when she marries she she intends to have her house to herself." There was a pause. "I see," said Lady Mary. She was silent; not, as Peter thought, with mortification; but because she could not make up her mind what words to choose, in which to tell him that it was freedom and happiness he was thus offering her with both hands; and not, as he thought, loneliness and disappointment.
But no military student can consider efficient a force so limited, in quantity or in quality, that it must await attack before it can act. Now admitting this view as to the scope of the word "defence," what is the best method of defending your interests when you know that another intends to attack them?
"Whether she had any guns or not, she has plenty of men on board; and it is easy enough to see what she intends to do." "What do you think she intends to do?" asked the captain. "Of course she came out here after the Bellevite, as the Belle did also; but her people have seen what the Leopard has been about for the last hour, and they intend to dispose of us before they hunt for the bigger game."
The President in association with the heads of departments, regardless of present-day conditions or controversies, has long been giving a great deal of consideration to the preparation of a reasonable and adequate naval programme, which he intends to propose to Congress at the proper time. That is one of the things he is now considering in the quiet of Cornish.
Nicholas presents must be hidden and disguised as much as possible, and be accompanied by rhymes explaining what the gift is and for whom St. Nicholas intends it.
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