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"How many are you?" inquired the General Manager, with a note of purposefulness in his voice. "Three? That's good. You get in with me. Tie your horse behind. Two can ride abreast more comfortably than three, and you and I can talk. I've never felt so lonesome in my life."
She rose to her feet, moved distractedly about the room, and then, with a purposefulness that put into his stare that terrified cold enmity with which the sane look upon even the beloved mad, she swept two rulers off her desk on to the floor. But she knelt down and set them cross-wise, and then straightened herself and crooked her arms above her head, and began to dance a sword-dance.
The phrase "out for blood" had taken on its literal primitive meaning. The second rounding-up was less simple than the first, because the tiger had more choice of hiding places; but again our shikaree displayed his wonderful intuition, and in about an hour we had ringed the creature in. That this was to be the end was evident from the electrical purposefulness which animated the old hands.
Booth was one of the most striking personalities, and one of the mightiest spiritual forces, of the nineteenth century. To the piety of a Saint Teresa she added the passion of a Josephine Butler, the purposefulness of an Elizabeth Fry, and the practical sagacity of a Frances Willard. The greatest in the land revered her, trusted her, consulted her, deferred to her.
Many riddles and apparent contradictions could be fitted in with this view of things: the unity of the world, and yet the gradations; the relationship of all living creatures, the unity of all psychical life, and yet the uniqueness of the rational spirit; causal concatenation, yet guidance by means of the highest ideas and purposes; the tentativeness, illogicalness, and ineffectiveness of nature, unconsciously pressing forward along uncertain paths, yet the directness and purposefulness of the main lines of evolution in general.
Then Blake paused, stepped back, returned his sword to its scabbard, and bending himself but whether to bow or not was not quite plain he took some paces backwards, then turned and went out by the window as he had come. But there was a sudden purposefulness in the way he did it that might have warned them this withdrawal was not quite the retreat it seemed.
But this man was different, grave and abrupt of speech, with an air of tired suffering, and a grim purposefulness in his determination to ignore his friend's warning that conveyed an impression of underlying sinister intent that set the Arab wondering what sting had poisoned his life even to the desire to sacrifice it.
It seemed that he understood; for he faced the painted curtains with sudden purposefulness. He held his arms aloft and all the curtains began to ascend. The result was almost bewildering. In one place was the great shoe, just as we have seen it before, and all about it were the Old Woman's sons and daughters, seemingly the happiest children in the world. Their mother was smiling contentedly.
Jack followed aimlessly, his hands in his pockets, his new Stetson that did not look so unusual here in Quincy pulled well down over his eyebrows and giving his face an unaccustomed look of purposefulness.
Something of the old boyishness and impetuosity was gone, a new purposefulness not of the will but rather of the spirit had supplanted it and engendered an unwonted serenity.
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