intentions

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Bad Ambassador - good to know I'm in good company towny - so long as the intentions are there - that's a start I reckon … I have the same thing with my sister - only I have four of them hehe travelling - I'm doomed, DOOMED I tell ya

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  1. noun A course of action that one intends to follow.
  2. noun An aim that guides action; an objective.
  3. noun Purpose with respect to marriage: honorable intentions.

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  • They wouldn't see anything to raise their hackles, because his intentions were all they might wish The notion of enlisting their aid in his campaign to win her swam into his mind; he blinked, then metaphorically shook it from his head. —  Stephanie Laurens - A Fine Passion
  • I have spoken as best I could from a distance; and, especially with regard to Berlioz, my intentions are the best. —  Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1
  • I do not like having a man with a family hanging on one Believe me Yours sincerely C. G. GORDON Burton then wrote to Gordon, urging him to write a book on his experiences in Equatorial Africa, and asking what his intentions were about returning. —  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II
  • Bad Ambassador - good to know I'm in good company towny - so long as the intentions are there - that's a start I reckon … I have the same thing with my sister - only I have four of them hehe travelling - I'm doomed, DOOMED I tell ya —  WordPress.com News
  • Come along, Paul; let's fade away Not just yet, boys, please," said Mr. Clausin. "Your intentions were all right, and for that I'm a thousand times obliged. —  The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain
 

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