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Example sentences for "principal object"

  • Oh, I have no special business; my principal object was to make your acquaintance.

  • My principal object is to beg you to fix an hour for a most important conversation--that is my great hope, prince.

  • A principal object in his late political movements, the gentleman himself tells us, was to unite the entire South; and against whom, or against what, does he wish to unite the entire South?

  • And yet the honorable member comes forth and tells Mexico that the principal object of the bill is to frighten her!

  • As to the second, public good must have been his principal object.

  • SMITH agreed with gentlemen that the principal object of the House was to legislate; but it did not follow that they were to be confined merely to legislation.

  • Mr. Speaker, it is not my intention to detain you long; my principal object in rising is to conjure gentlemen to bring this debate to a close.

  • The fortress of Malbosquet, on the same point, he also recommended as a principal object of attack.

  • Mr. Villard asserts that Brown's greatest or principal object was to assault slavery, and so entitles an important chapter in the recent biography.

  • Consistent with the speculative instinct so distinctly characteristic of his life, his greatest or principal object was to get money, and to get it quickly.

  • We can almost lay it down as a law of this Republic, that no man who makes the Presidency the principal object of his public life will ever be President.

  • General Jackson's principal object--the object nearest his heart--appears to have been to wound and injure Henry Clay.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always going; dead man; extent that; first story; found themselves; golden ball; good grip; great disadvantage; headed serpent; her arrival; more brilliant; necessary implication; never even; other states; principal chief; principal crops; principal meridian; principal object; principal part; principal parts; principal products; principally used; restore peace; vessel containing; wild bull; wireless operator