intending
noun B1- The process by which one intends something; intention.
Plural intendings
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He took his chance, intending, no doubt, to make some excuse if he met anyone.
“I have them,” said Lestrade, producing a small white box; “I took them and the purse and the telegram, intending to have them put in a place of safety at the Police Station.
He took the papers to London to sell the secret, intending, no doubt, to have the plans themselves back in the safe next morning before they were missed.
Bell’s spruce grove as usual, fully intending to stay only long enough to “pick a chew.” But spruce groves are seductive and yellow nuts of gum beguiling; they picked and loitered and strayed; and as usual the first thing that recalled them to a sense of the flight of time was Jimmy Glover shouting from the top of a patriarchal old spruce “Master’s coming.”
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