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1  He found me unsuitable to his purpose.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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2  She now stood fair for his infernal purpose.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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3  He would, for this purpose, leave his horse tied up in the woods.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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4  His wife used to insist upon our calling him so, but to no purpose.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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5  It had almost ruined me for every good purpose, and fitted me for every thing which was bad.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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6  He who sells my sister, for purposes of prostitution, stands forth as the pious advocate of purity.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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7  No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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8  I had lived with him nine months, during which time he had given me a number of severe whippings, all to no good purpose.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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9  I was absent from Baltimore, for the purpose of valuation and division, just about one month, and it seemed to have been six.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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10  He resolved to put me out, as he said, to be broken; and, for this purpose, he let me for one year to a man named Edward Covey.
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11  After crossing her hands, he tied them with a strong rope, and led her to a stool under a large hook in the joist, put in for the purpose.
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12  Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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13  On our arrival at the head of the bay, a distance of seventy or eighty miles from where we lived, it was our purpose to turn our canoe adrift, and follow the guidance of the north star till we got beyond the limits of Maryland.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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