I entreat younot to suppose that I moved this way in order to beg for a partner.
It would surely be muchmore rational if conversation instead of dancing were made the order ofthe day.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) His arrival was soon known at the Parsonage; for Mr. Collins was walkingthe whole morning within view of the lodges opening into Hunsford Lane,in order to have the earliest assurance of it, and after making hisbow as the carriage turned into the Park, hurried home with the greatintelligence.
Hewas coming to us, in order to assure us of his concern, before he hadany idea of their not being gone to Scotland: when that apprehensionfirst got abroad, it hastened his journey.
Kitty, run down and order the carriage.
She wasgoing to the butcher's, she told me, on purpose to order in some meat onWednesday, and she has got three couple of ducks just fit to be killed.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) The state of the case having been formally explained to Mr. Snodgrass,and a case of satisfactory pistols, with the satisfactory accompanimentsof powder, ball, and caps, having been hired from a manufacturer inRochester, the two friends returned to their inn; Mr. Winkle to ruminateon the approaching struggle, and Mr. Snodgrass to arrange the weapons ofwar, and put them into proper order for immediate use.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'We want to know,' said the little man solemnly; 'and we ask thequestion of you, in order that we may not awaken apprehensionsinside--we want to know who you've got in this house at present?Who there is in the house!' said Sam, in whose mind the inmates werealways represented by that particular article of their costume, whichcame under his immediate superintendence.