"Intentional" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he answered with intentional abruptness; "then the servants' room—you won't make a noise, will you? or you'll wake them up. Bathroom, spare room, my own room, smoking-room. No, the limits of my unconventionality are soon reached; you can finish your soda-water ...
— The Education of Eric Lane • Stephen McKenna
... was false from the start, because the overlapping was intentional. The idea was to prevent any one man from becoming too strong and too independent. The result was to keep governors and intendants at perpetual loggerheads and to divide every station into opposing parties. Did the governor want money and ...
— The Great Fortress - A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 • William Wood
... a mite o' intentional cruelty in them; it's jes' that life is held cheap. Most o' them begun over some small ...
— The Boy With the U.S. Census • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... that followed the words, on the part of Dr. Stahl at any rate, was intentional. O'Malley held his peace. The men shifted their places oil the coil of rope, for both were cramped and stiff with the lengthy session. For a minute or two they leaned over the bulwarks and watched the phosphorescent foam in silence. The blue mountainous shores slipped past in shadowy ...
— The Centaur • Algernon Blackwood
... of the Old.—In the annals of savage life we find many gruesome tales of intentional disposal of the aged. The use of the old grandmother as a target for the training of young boys in the art of slaying one's enemy is an extreme example. The pathetic couple left behind when the tribe migrated, often with a small supply of food saved for them by some pitiful ...
— The Family and it's Members • Anna Garlin Spencer
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