on purpose

• “But when he reflected from thence upon himself, and how I seemed to have been preserved there on purpose to save his life, the tears ran down his face, and he could not speak a word more.”

  Robinson Crusoe

• “Two days after that, Frank Chambers accidentally on purpose ran into Nick Papadakis on the street, and Nick tries to get him to go back to work for him.”

  The Postman Always Rings Twice

• “And in very many of these cases the name is printed with a hyphen, “Shake-speare,” as if on purpose that there might be no mistake about it.”

  Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters

• “I believe she will be an old maid, on purpose to bring me to my grave," said Lady Baldock.”

  Phineas Finn

• “Thence after dinner to the office, and there did a little business, and so to see Sir W. Pen, who I find still very ill of the goute, sitting in his great chair, made on purpose for persons sick of that disease, for their ease; and this very chair, he tells me, was made for my Lady Lambert!”

  Diary of Samuel Pepys, May 1668

• “When she was done, she bowed again and accidentally on purpose knocked her butt into the godfather, laughing as he dropped, unresisting, to the mat.”

  Simon & Schuster: Slice Of Cherry

• “I came on purpose to find you, Jane Eyre," said she; "I want you in my room; and as Helen Burns is with you, she may come too.”

  Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I.

• “We are glad to let these men see that we are about in these seas, watching what they do; and the Bishop said, "Mr. Patteson is come from England on purpose to look after these islands," as much as to say, Now there will be a regular visitation of them, and outrages committed on the natives will probably be discovered.”

  Life of John Coleridge Patteson

• “Why, there's that old bombazin cloak, that you keep on purpose to put over me when I take my afternoon's nap; you might as well give her that, -- she needs clothes.”

  Uncle Tom's cabin, or Life among the lowly

• “I never had one, replied the stranger, looking back to the centinel, and putting his hand up to his cap as he spoke — I carry it, continued he, thus — holding up his naked scymetar, his mule moving on slowly all the time — on purpose to defend my nose.”

  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

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