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Example sentences for "intended"

Lexicographically close words:
intend; intendancy; intendant; intendants; intende; intendency; intendente; intendere; intendest; intendeth
  1. If the good Lord intended those worthless niggers to be my equals, He'd have bleached them out," retorted Miss Metoaca, the light of combat in her eyes.

  2. I intended going at once to see Colonel Baker, but, as he is away, I will let you apply for the necessary papers to arrest her.

  3. But information of our armies' intended movements is still being carried out of Washington right under Baker's nose.

  4. Will you allow me to ask you, sir, of what materials it is intended that the magistrates' heads shall be composed?

  5. The tall postilion then delivered another letter, in which Nicholas Tulrumble informed the corporation, that he intended repairing to the town-hall, in grand state and gorgeous procession, on the Monday afternoon next ensuing.

  6. I have been over the outhouses intended to be devoted to the reception of the various sections, both here and at the Boot-jack and Countenance, and am much delighted with the arrangements.

  7. Yet another response to the enquiry will almost certainly be that by religion is intended simply an attitude to life, a sense of relationship with a Reality that transcends material existence.

  8. A commonplace of popular discourse is that by “religion” is intended the multitude of sects currently in existence.

  9. Not surprisingly, such a suggestion at once arouses protest in other quarters that by religion is intended rather one or another of the great, independent belief systems of history that have shaped and inspired whole civilizations.

  10. He was not a hard man, and had meant to do his duty when he heard Bolger speak of Adair's intended escape; but a hundred guineas was a large sum to him.

  11. And later on I was told that thirteen of my surviving comrades had taken service with Finau, and were then engaged with him in preparing for an expedition intended to conquer the large neighbouring island of Tongatabu.

  12. They had intended boarding the ship the moment she anchored, but abandoned the idea as soon as they saw the teacher going off.

  13. He liked the free, open life among the pearlers, and intended to go back after a month or so of idleness in the southern city.

  14. I know I have got a good man in you; but at the same time, God never intended these damned saucy niggers to be coddled and petted.

  15. And seeing us leave such a parcel of Goods, tho, God knowes, but of little account in themselves, yet of considerable value in that Land, he could not suppose otherwise but that we were intended to return again.

  16. Which place we never intended to come at more: the River along which we intended to go, laying on this side of it.

  17. They told us moreover, that the King was intended to send us either with the Dutch Embassadour, or by the Boat which Sir Edward Winter had sent; and that it was his Majesties good will to grant us our choice.

  18. Who intended them to Sail the next day to Jafnapatan.

  19. In case any had come after us, and seen us sitting there and gotten no further, we intended to tell them, That one of us was taken Sick by the way, and therefore not able to go.

  20. And so all things stood until the five and twentieth of December, at which time they intended to march and fall upon the old King.

  21. The King intended a Dutch-man, who had been an old Servant to him, to be Captain over them all.

  22. So being encouraged by the old Father, they went on boldly in their intended Business.

  23. All whom the King immediately upon the News of the Dutche's Invasion, sent order to bring up out of the danger of the War into Cande Uda, fearing that which we were indeed intended to do, viz.

  24. Lewis Tisséra served as he intended to serve the King.

  25. After the Rebellion, when the People that lived at a further distance, saw that the King intended to settle himself near the Mountain to which he fled, Viz.

  26. Craik nodded, after the manner of one who had formed his own opinion and intended to abide by it.

  27. We intended to live almost entirely in Majorca.

  28. I hope that nothing is wrong," she said, in a tone that was intended to disclaim all intention of discussing such matters with a menial.

  29. She almost told my mother that she intended to leave all her money to one of them.

  30. I was not intended for a literary calling.

  31. The needle was deflected to a part of the dial which the intelligent young planter had hitherto considered to be merely ornamental and not intended for practical use.

  32. I was merely wondering whether Miss Challoner intended to live in the Casa d'Erraha or to let it?

  33. She evidently intended to ignore Captain Bontnor systematically and completely.

  34. In the latter, there were many dark hints that were intended to be appropriate to my case, and were, to all appearance, well understood by the congregation at large.

  35. Lost as I was in the indiscriminate host, a few observations fell upon my ear that were not, I presume, especially intended for it.

  36. He had seen the other spur in his hand, and heard him say that he intended throwing it in the river.

  37. An atrocious gang of thieves, who adopted the unnecessary brutality of burning the unfortunate victims they intended to rob.

  38. It was more probably intended for Akbar's own gaddi, or throne.

  39. The one towards the west was intended for prayers only; the floor is panelled into separate spaces for each worshipper.

  40. The carving was intended as a groundwork for painting and gilding which were never added, for the Fatehpur Palace was abandoned even before it was finished.

  41. The great quadrangle in front of the Khas Mahal is the Anguri Bagh, surrounded on three sides by arcades, probably built by Akbar and intended for his zenana.

  42. It is just possible that the Delhi elephants were intended to be copies of those placed by Akbar at Agra.

  43. Though on a much smaller scale, it is of the same type as Akbar's splendid palace in the Agra Fort, and was evidently intended for one of the highest rank in the imperial zanana.

  44. The terraces to the right and left of it end in two fine pavilions of red sandstone, intended for the accommodation of the custodians of the mausoleum and for storehouses.

  45. Preface This little book is not intended for a history or archæological treatise, but to assist those who visit, or have visited, Agra, to an intelligent understanding of one of the greatest epochs of Indian Art.

  46. The ground-floor, which was divided into cubicles by screens between the columns, may; as Keene suggests, have been intended for the royal children and their attendants.

  47. It is said that Shah Jahan had intended to construct a mausoleum for himself opposite to the Taj, on the other side of the Jumna and to connect the two by a great bridge.

  48. All these plots were intended for the eventual advantage of her younger son, Dom Miguel, an arrogant youth, who was commonly believed to be illegitimate.

  49. But these royal factories were intended not only to establish and guard trade, but also to spread Christianity, and for that purpose they included from the first not only soldiers, but missionary priests.

  50. Stories of the Nations A Series of Historical Studies intended to present in graphic narratives the stories of the different nations that have attained prominence in history.

  51. Portuguese that he intended to desert them for the Brazilians, and invert the position of the two nations, by his obstinate refusal to leave Rio de Janeiro.

  52. Otto Marburg said No; not he but Caesar, who, it was clear, intended to be Alexander's successor.

  53. At this moment arrived those friends of Messer Cipriano's, who had intended to have been present for the excavation, but who had lost their way.

  54. The painter crossed the bridge, the other running by his side, talking of Michelangelo, and trying to force Leonardo into some adverse criticism of his rival, which no doubt he intended to repeat at the earliest opportunity.

  55. The duke intended to disembarrass himself of his victims that very night by strangling them in a secluded part of the palace.

  56. As for the shells, by them you intended the philosopher's stone, the alchemist's secret, composed of what?

  57. Drawn and etched by John Thomas Smith, intended as an Accompaniment to the celebrated Histories of Stow, Pennant, and others.

  58. Am I to be told that his sensitive skin was ever intended by Nature to have rashes brought out upon it, by the premature and incessant use of those formidable little instruments?

  59. Was Augustus George intended to have limbs, or to be born a Torso?

  60. I had gone not unwillingly, for the men were clearly, by their dress, Dacoits of the Deccan, and I had no doubt that it was intended either to ransom or exchange me.

  61. We have not of late come across a historical fiction, whether intended for boys or for men, which deserves to be so heartily and unreservedly praised as regards plot, incidents, and spirit as Dick o' the Fens.

  62. Nature had not intended him for the work, for he was a delicate, timid lad; what spirits he originally had having been years before beaten out of him by a brutal father.

  63. It had first been intended that Captain Stewart, R.

  64. The Druzes were in rebellion, and the Hauran, which I had intended first to enter, was surrounded by a cordon which we could not pass.

  65. He ran over the first page of typewritten matter in his usual quick, business-like manner, before he saw that what he was reading was not intended for his office but for the superintendent of the freight department.

  66. Bruce came into his pulpit and announced his resignation, the sensation deepened all over the city, although he had advised with his board of trustees, and the movement he intended was not a matter of surprise to them.

  67. He had intended to go right to his study, but on his way home he passed by one of Milton Wright's stores.

  68. This letter is neither signed nor addressed, but there is no doubt the person for whom it was intended was John Paston the eldest, who possessed property at Mautby in right of his wife.

  69. It was therefore certainly written after the preceding number, though the latter is probably not the letter to which it was intended to serve as a postscript.

  70. Although the name seems to be written Brele, it was probably intended for Friar Brackley of Norwich, of whom we have several letters of a later period.

  71. The intended order of the list is ambiguous.

  72. This is written 'sanyth' but there is a stroke through the a, which was perhaps intended to have been carried through the s also.

  73. This is a rough draft of a Petition which seems to have been intended for presentation to Parliament in the beginning of the year 1451.

  74. Fenn assigns it to the year 1454, when Lent began very late, as it is evident the herrings and eels referred to were intended as provision for that season.

  75. This letter has no address, but there can be no doubt from the contents it was intended for John Paston.

  76. For now the third poultice, most powerful of all, was in place, and Mrs. Squaw was binding it on as though she intended it never to come off.

  77. He intended to remain pleasant---until he was quite ready to act.

  78. The 'Flour of Curtesye' is intended as a portrait of one whom the poet honours as the best of womankind.

  79. No serious crusade was intended at this time; however, the author affirms that the rival popes discouraged the idea; for each wanted men to fight for him.

  80. But some sentences remain in which the sense is not obvious; and one is almost tempted to think that the author did not clearly know what he intended to say.

  81. The sense intended is clear enough; we should now write 'base.

  82. This poem really consists of twelve precepts, intended to redress twelve abuses.

  83. Very frequently he gave as an excuse for his absence that he intended to go in search of manzanita berries or hunting in some distant locality, sometimes announcing a stay of several days.

  84. He then danced four times up toward and back from the place on the practice ground where he intended to temporarily place this object, so using another four counters.

  85. He was telling the count a remarkable dream he had had; this was his interest at present, for he intended to write a treatise on the theory of dreams, and the count was giving him the material which he too had once gathered on this subject.

  86. He drew out his pocketbook and looked into it; but besides some bills there was nothing in it but the proof-sheets of a story, which he had intended to correct at his journey's end.

  87. He walked through the sparsely peopled, draughty streets, lowering his head against the wind, and moved like a somnambulist in the direction of the hotel, the best in the city, where he intended to spend the night.

  88. Then he went to the town hall, exhibited his papers, and declared that he intended to settle down in the place.

  89. That is real: what is it to me that I may perhaps look at it tomorrow through a telescope, that is through an eye which was not intended for me, and find that it then looks very different.

  90. He who wrote verses and could not even answer the question what in all the world he intended to become .

  91. This idol was intended as a family fetich, to protect the family at night, and to kill any one who would attempt to injure any of the members.

  92. Like all government intended for the benefit and protection of the governed, Ukuku, when it happened to throw its power on the side of right, was occasionally an apparent blessing.

  93. So his owners intended to get rid of him by selling him out of the country.

  94. The prayers of the earliest stage are offered on emergencies, and often appear to be intended to attract the attention of the god who may be engaged in another direction.

  95. For every pin stuck into a wax figure intended to represent the person to be injured, some sickness or other evil will fall on him.

  96. But really, in her coming she was not simply a visitor and sightseer; she intended to stay and share in the husband.

  97. A phrase or a cabalistic word, intended as an adjuration or a protestation in the nature of a prayer for protection or blessing, is very commonly ejaculated by one who sneezes and sometimes when one stumbles.

  98. A well-intended Ed[16] may readily become a schismatic Mecca.

  99. Though the native name for God, Anyambe, is improperly used in names of persons (which is not intended for disrespect), it is not often actually blasphemed.

  100. The institution of Inda, like that of Mwetyi, is intended to keep the women, children, and slaves in subjection.

  101. In one they were represented as drinking wine and playing the lyre; in the other, as engaged in acts of worship--both appropriate decorative subjects for a room intended for sacrificial banquets.

  102. Other airy apartments, with a large window in addition to the wide door, may well have been intended for summer triclinia.

  103. Sometimes we find near the hearth a bake oven, not large enough to have been used for bread, and evidently intended for pastry; bread must ordinarily have been obtained from the bakers.

  104. The small cella was evidently intended for but one statue.

  105. It was doubtless intended that a similar tablet should be affixed to the pillar at the left, but perhaps none happened to be available; statuettes of divinities were probably placed on the pillars.

  106. The five inscriptions evidently date from the siege of Sulla; they were intended for the information of the soldiers, belonging to the army of the Allies, who were quartered in the city to assist in its defence.

  107. It weighs twenty-two ounces; to judge from the size, it must have been intended for the upper arm.

  108. The middle room was obviously intended to be the most richly ornamented of the three, and was further distinguished from the others by the elevation of its floor, which was more than two feet above the pavement of the colonnade.

  109. It was probably intended to bury the cinerary urn either in the floor of the niche or in the ground at the rear.

  110. The square footstool at the middle implies that the seat was intended for a single person.

  111. I mean that he intended that some one should be seriously hurt.

  112. If the raiders had intended coming over this caused them to change their minds.


  113. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intended" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.