"On purpose" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... go on as you are going. Mary—I took you to Colin's to-night on purpose, so that you could see the picture of the little saint in red, the ...
— Contrary Mary • Temple Bailey
... prairie on fire,' he answered. 'I don't think they did it on purpose, for they will chance to suffer more than we do; but we must push onwards, or the flames will anon be ...
— The Trapper's Son • W.H.G. Kingston
... she was furious with me because I had the luck to get into the bombardment at Dixmude and she hadn't. She talked as if I'd done her out of her shelling on purpose, whereas it only meant that I happened to be on the spot when the ambulances were sent out and she was away somewhere with her own car. She really is rather vulgar about shells. Dicky says it's a form of war snobbishness (he hasn't got a scrap of it), ...
— Anne Severn and the Fieldings • May Sinclair
... tractable pupil; while Maggie, emerging ere long from the stable, clears the fence with one leap of her high-mettled pony, which John, the coachman, had bought at an enormous price, of a traveling circus, on purpose for his young mistress, who complained that grandma's horses were all too lazy and aristocratic ...
— Maggie Miller • Mary J. Holmes
... which there is a certain neatness; and whether such words have cases the terminations of which are similar, or whether one word is matched with another which resembles it, or whether contrary words are opposed to one another, they are harmonious of their own nature, even if nothing has been done on purpose. In the pursuit of this sort of neatness Gorgias is reported to have been the leader; and of this style there is an example in our speech in defence of Milo: "For this law, O judges, is not a written one, ...
— The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 • Cicero
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