1 I only entertained the intention for a moment; for, not being insane, the crisis of exquisite and unalloyed despair, which had originated the wish and design of self-destruction, was past in a second.
2 He accounted it a pity that so fine and talented a young man should have formed the design of going out as a missionary; it was quite throwing a valuable life away.
3 But these are not Jane's feelings; she is not acting by design.
4 "I see your design, Bingley," said his friend.
5 I am far from attributing any part of Mr. Bingley's conduct to design," said Elizabeth; "but without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error, and there may be misery.
6 That he had been concerned in the measures taken to separate Bingley and Jane she had never doubted; but she had always attributed to Miss Bingley the principal design and arrangement of them.
7 He left Netherfield for London, on the day following, as you, I am certain, remember, with the design of soon returning.
8 Since such were her feelings, it only remained, he thought, to secure and expedite a marriage, which, in his very first conversation with Wickham, he easily learnt had never been his design.
9 I am perfectly satisfied, from what his manners now are, that he never had any design of engaging my affection.
10 The people had notice, by proclamation, of my design to visit the town.
11 The author, being informed of a design to accuse him of high-treason, makes his escape to Blefuscu.
12 I set up my sail, the wind being fair, with a design to reach the nearest of those islands, which I made a shift to do, in about three hours.
13 Their design was to turn pirates and, plunder the Spaniards, which they could not do till they got more men.
14 His design in publishing this work.
15 He came to the university with the design of making himself complete master of the oriental languages, and thus he should open a field for the plan of life he had marked out for himself.