"Don't take any stock in her nonsense," the Fraction King warned, "She just does it a-purpose to get me mad." ❋ Unknown (2010)
"Done it a-purpose," Jed sneered as I scrambled to my feet. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Gate had been shut down a-purpose, but by a purely Sidhe negation of its working. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2005)
"In the Bright Court we are sometimes careless and thoughtless in a way that is cruel," Aleneil said, "but it is not our way to be cruel a-purpose, just to hurt another." ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2005)
No more of this, miss! and done for you a-purpose! ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
The Hunters were a fearsome group, whose fantastic armor, costumes, and weaponry were designed a-purpose to strike terror into the hearts of the mortal humans foolish enough to have earned their attention. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2004)
In 1840, the Canadian novelist Thomas Haliburton, in his dialect-rich The Clockmaker, had his Yankee character named Sam Slick say: All that talk about her timper was made out of whole cloth, and got up a-purpose…. ❋ William Safire (2003)
And so they let their horses run, and Sir Tristram missed of him a-purpose, and Sir Dinadan brake a spear upon Sir Tristram, and therewith Sir Dinadan dressed him to draw out his sword. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He'd sent for her a-purpose once he'd turned over his commission to Lord Kyndreth while the Council debated. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2002)
"Er ... have you come a-purpose to see Sir Walter?" ❋ Unknown (1997)
If the one ahead of him had been a fellow page, he would immediately have suspected he'd been tripped a-purpose. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1988)
Ikan and I have something of the kind, but we're spell-bound and we had it done a-purpose; useful when scouting. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1988)
I don't know why they bother, for they'll never get it right until they go back to the old law which said that if you put your leg in front of the ball a-purpose to stop it hitting the stumps, you were out, and damned good riddance to you. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1977)
‘Why, it might have been put there a-purpose!’ he said to himself. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954)
Mr. Pelly swears she lets them out a-purpose before he's awake in the morning and Mr.. Dudley says that if he don't mend his fence and hurts a feather of a single one of her animals she'll have him before Judge Hewitt. ❋ Katharine Reynolds (N/A)
"My goodness gracious! you don't think I did that a-purpose, do you?" exclaimed the small boy, rubbing his elbows as though they tingled after coming in such rough contact with the floor. ❋ John Luther Langworthy (N/A)
