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  • They purport that the poll is unbiased and shows that Americans who are acquainted with the facts support the legislation.
  • They point to the purported original document as evidence of their ownership.
    purported = claimed
  • The manufacturer purports that the supplement wards off colds.
    purports = claims
  • They purport that the video is of a flying saucer.
    purport = claim
  • They purport to support the legislation out of concern for the environment, but many suspect profit is their primary motive.
  • McCandless's apparent sexual innocence, however, is a corollary of a personality type that our culture purports to admire, at least in the case of its more famous adherents.   (source)
    purports = claims
  • I caution you that everything you've just seen and heard from Ancil might not be all that it purports to be.   (source)
  • "It is, my lord," the boy said, "but some of the histories were penned by their maesters and some by ours, centuries after the events that they purport to chronicle."   (source)
    purport = claim
  • I have also received similar emails from a sender who purports to be "centraled" at SMP.   (source)
    purports = claims
  • I received a letter with a signature that was not very easy to read. It purported to be from a woman I had met at a certain summer resort two or three years ago.   (source)
    purported = claimed
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  • Most of these are lost; but I find one purporting to be the substance of an intended creed, containing, as I thought, the essentials of every known religion, and being free of every thing that might shock the professors of any religion.   (source)
    purporting = claiming
  • The Protocols, published in 1903, purported to be a record of a secret meeting of powerful Jews planning world domination.†   (source)
  • "If it's any comfort to you, Mrs. Wexler," Judge Ford remarked with biting dignity, "I am just as appalled by our purported relationship."†   (source)
  • It's got that sweet and spicy scent to it — some kind of cinnamon room spray — and it offers many things: jars of jam with cotton-print fabric tops, heart-shaped pillows stuffed with desiccated herbs that smell like hay, clumsily hinged boxes carved by "traditional craftsmen," quilts purportedly sewn by Mennonites, toilet-cleaning brushes with the heads of smirking ducks.†   (source)
  • He then delivered a note to McMillian, purportedly written by Karen Kelly.†   (source)
  • The legend is complicated, but the important thing to remember is that the Priory guards the proof, and is purportedly awaiting the right moment in history to reveal the truth.†   (source)
  • In recent months, the primary target of this group had been a well-dressed man who had arrived in Savannah purporting to be a Palm Beach millionaire.†   (source)
  • Ben manages to get the bottle underneath his robe without showing us the world's purportedly largest balls, and then we all sit and wait, too disgusted to look.†   (source)
  • We hereby certify that the vinegar in this bottle is warranted to be of the nature and quality which it purports to be.†   (source)
  • From someone purporting to be your attorney out there, requesting a transfer of funds.†   (source)
  • And therefore we purported not to know about it.†   (source)
  • He had a deep distrust of technology and believed the modern farming and gardening methods sweeping the country, nearly all of them relying on chemical pesticides and fertilizers, were not the saviors of American agriculture they purported to be.†   (source)
  • They saw even more ungodly things—the first zipper; the first-ever all-electric kitchen, which included an automatic dishwasher; and a box purporting to contain everything a cook would need to make pancakes, under the brand name Aunt Jemima's.†   (source)
  • The technique purports to create imaginary characters who perfectly fit the targeted age group's level of cognitive and neurological development.†   (source)
  • Although the sermon was purported to be addressed to us, he used the occasion to speak to backsliders, gamblers and general ne'er-do-wells.†   (source)
  • As I recall it now, it ran five pages and rape was only a muddled metaphor that I tried to contain inside a wordy albatross that purported to be about society and violence and the difference between television and reality.†   (source)
  • But if someone else were to produce a thesis which purported to be a major breakthrough between Eastern and Western philosophy, between religious mysticism and scientific positivism, he would think it of major historic importance, a thesis which would place the University miles ahead.†   (source)
  • ...We now show you an old composite photograph from Interpol's files produced by a consensus of those who purportedly had seen Bourne at close range.†   (source)
  • The justification of sacrifice, that your morality propounds, is more corrupt than the corruption it purports to justify.†   (source)
  • A key element in this purported plot were migrant children.†   (source)
  • Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who had purportedly come here to speak on behalf of Sen.†   (source)
  • This is your final communication with a man you loved," Dina added, waving a piece of paper that purported to contain the text of the e-mail exchange.†   (source)
  • Then he read the purported year of the bottle's nativity and softly repeated his first words.†   (source)
  • She purports to have no memory of the murders; or at least of the Montgomery woman's.   (source)
    purports = claims
  • And how do I know she is what she purports to be?   (source)
  • From then on he scrupulously avoided contacting either his parents or Carine, the sister for whom he purportedly cared immensely.   (source)
    purportedly = apparently or presumably
  • Tenzing Norgay and other eminent Sherpas signed a petition demanding that the government of Nepal conduct an official inquiry of the purported ascent.   (source)
    purported = claimed
  • During that time Carlsson on the culture pages had received an ugly email purportedly sent by Berger.   (source)
    purportedly = supposedly
  • For instance, Mal Duff-who charged his clients considerably less than the $65,000 fee requested by Hall and Fischer-provided leadership and the essential infrastructure necessary to climb Everest (food, tents, bottled oxygen, fixed ropes, Sherpa support staff, and so on) but did not purport to act as a guide; the climbers on his team were assumed to be sufficiently skilled to get themselves safely up Everest and back down again…   (source)
    purport = claim
  • This purports to be from an old friend of mine, Lady Constance Culmington.   (source)
    purports = claims
  • Seems as though a lawyer in Clanton hustled over to the courthouse late yesterday afternoon and filed a handwritten will that Mr. Hubbard purportedly wrote last Saturday, the day before he died.†   (source)
    purportedly = something claimed or assumed
  • And it is purportedly one of the cornerstones of the Sangreal documents.†   (source)
  • WE ALL WENT HOME for Christmas break—even purportedly homeless Alaska.†   (source)
  • Sufficiently high to catch the last of the evening sun, the cross shone as if magic ....purportedly containing relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified.†   (source)
  • The dusty wooden floor creaked as I made my way to the counter, and I saw a large barrel filled with brackish water that purported to contain LIVE BAIT, but in fact contained a veritable school of dead, floating minnows.†   (source)
  • Or they could watch alibooboo.com, with various supposed thieves having their hands cut off and adulterers and lipstick-wearers being stoned to death by howling crowds, in dusty enclaves that purported to be in fundamentalist countries in the Middle East.†   (source)
  • Because," he said, when I kept looking at him, "we can't have even one of these things out there purporting to be real.†   (source)
  • Still others claimed that X rays of the Mona Lisa revealed she originally had been painted wearing a lapis lazuli pendant of Isis—a detail Da Vinci purportedly later decided to paint over.†   (source)
  • Lillian glanced about the office; her glance had the same style of amusement as her hat: an amusement purporting to express maturity by the conviction that life could be nothing but ridiculous.†   (source)
  • The file purported to prove that her real name was Natalie Mizrahi, that she was obviously Jewish, that she was an agent of the Israeli secret intelligence service who had been trained at a farmhouse in the Valley of Jezreel.†   (source)
  • According to Callicrate, the suit will demonstrate that the company's purported efficiency in production is really "an efficiency in stealing."†   (source)
  • She could not believe that she was supposed to feel respect for the dreary senselessness of the art shows which his friends attended, of the novels they read, of the political magazines they discussed-the art shows, where she saw the kind of drawings she had seen chalked on any pavement of her childhood's slums-the novels, that purported to prove the futility of science, industry, civilization and love, using language that her father would not have used in his drunkenest moments-the magazines, that propounded cowardly generalities, less clear and more stale than the sermons for which she had condemned the preacher of the slum mission as a mealy-mouthed old fraud.†   (source)
  • You wrote to him-a typed letter purporting to be from the same firm offering him a good salary and commission.†   (source)
  • And there was another called Palaces of Sin, or The Devil in Society, purporting to be the work of a pious millionaire, who had drained his vast fortune in exposing the painted sores that blemish the spotless-seeming hide of great position, and there were enticing pictures showing the author walking in a silk hat down a street full of magnificent palaces of sin.†   (source)
  • In some manner Carley did not seek to analyze, the purported advent of this Lee Stanton pleased her.†   (source)
  • But after a while, I received a reply, which purported to be written by her younger brother.†   (source)
  • It was a tall lean shabby structure, three stories of yellow-streaked wood, the corners covered with sanded pine slabs purporting to symbolize stone.†   (source)
  • But the occasional frank air and pleasant word went for what they purported to be, the young sailor never having heard as yet of the "too fair-spoken man."†   (source)
  • Nicholas understood the tone of triumph in which this interrogatory was put; but remembering the necessity of supporting his assumed character, produced a scrap of paper purporting to contain a list of some subjects for drawings which his employer desired to have executed; and with which he had prepared himself in case of any such contingency.†   (source)
  • The signatures to this instrument purporting to be executed by Mr. W. and attested by Wilkins Micawber, are forgeries by — HEEP.†   (source)
  • The Doctor occupied two floors of a large stiff house, where several callings purported to be pursued by day, but whereof little was audible any day, and which was shunned by all of them at night.†   (source)
  • A susceptible observer, at any rate, might have regarded it as affording very little evidence of the general benignity of soul whereof it purported to be the outward reflection.†   (source)
  • I wished all this done that I might resign myself, if not to sleep, at least alternately to the contemplation of these pictures, and the perusal of a small volume which had been found upon the pillow, and which purported to criticise and describe them.†   (source)
  • Now, by all odds, the most ancient extant portrait anyways purporting to be the whale's, is to be found in the famous cavern-pagoda of Elephanta, in India.†   (source)
  • But quitting all these unprofessional attempts, let us glance at those pictures of leviathan purporting to be sober, scientific delineations, by those who know.†   (source)
  • In this book is an outline purporting to be a "Picture of a Physeter or Spermaceti whale, drawn by scale from one killed on the coast of Mexico, August, 1793, and hoisted on deck."†   (source)
  • A hard, cold man, thus unfortunately situated, seldom or never looking inward, and resolutely taking his idea of himself from what purports to be his image as reflected in the mirror of public opinion, can scarcely arrive at true self-knowledge, except through loss of property and reputation.†   (source)
  • Each of us inevitable,
    Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth,
    Each of us allow'd the eternal purports of the earth,
    Each of us here as divinely as any is here.†   (source)
  • All my emprises have been fill'd with Thee,
    My speculations, plans, begun and carried on in thoughts of Thee,
    Sailing the deep or journeying the land for Thee;
    Intentions, purports, aspirations mine, leaving results to Thee.†   (source)
  • death exhilarating,
    Give me your tone therefore O death, that I may accord with it,
    Give me yourself, for I see that you belong to me now above all, and
    are folded inseparably together, you love and death are,
    Nor will I allow you to balk me any more with what I was calling life,
    For now it is convey'd to me that you are the purports essential,
    That you hide in these shifting forms of life, for reasons, and that
    they are mainly for you,
    That you beyond them come forth to remain, the real reality,
    That behind the mask of materials you patiently wait, no matter how long,
    That you will one day perhaps take control of all,
    That you will perhaps dissipate this entir†   (source)
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purport as in:  The purport of the letter was...

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  • The second letter was from another witness and of the same purport as the first.
  • The purport of the legislation is to improve health care.
    purport = purpose or intent
  • Sir, if I rightly understand the purport of your message ... 'this post is to be immediately surrendered or the garrison put to the sword.'   (source)
    purport = the general meaning
  • The second and third pages purport to be his last will and testament.   (source)
    purport = are claimed
  • The men of rank and dignity, who stood more immediately around the clergyman, were so taken by surprise, and so perplexed as to the purport of what they saw—unable to receive the explanation which most readily presented itself, or to imagine any other—that they remained silent and inactive spectators of the judgement which Providence seemed about to work.   (source)
    purport = meaning
  • I should not have understood the purport of this book had not Felix, in reading it, given very minute explanations.   (source)
    purport = meaning or significance
  • Such is the general purport of this legendary superstition, which has furnished materials for many a wild story in that region of shadows; and the spectre is known at all the country firesides, by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.   (source)
    purport = essence or gist
  • The principal purport of his letter was to inform them that Mr. Wickham had resolved on quitting the militia.   (source)
    purport = purpose
  • "Read it aloud, Conrade," said the Grand Master,—"and do thou" (to Isaac) "attend to the purport of it, for we will question thee concerning it."   (source)
    purport = meaning
  • The six concluding lines I remember, though I have forgotten the two first of the stanza; but the purport of them was, that his censures proceeded from good-will, and, therefore, he would be known to be the author.   (source)
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  • Yet such must be the impression conveyed to you by what appears to be the purport of my actions.   (source)
    purport = purpose
  • They little guessed what deadly purport lurked in those self-condemning words.   (source)
    purport = meaning or significance
  • The purport of Cedric's speech was repeated to him in French.   (source)
    purport = essence or gist
  • This is what I said, the purport of it; but, as you may imagine, not spoken so collectedly or methodically as I have repeated it to you.   (source)
    purport = meaning
  • You can hardly doubt the purport of my discourse, however your natural delicacy may lead you to dissemble; my attentions have been too marked to be mistaken.   (source)
  • Fanny had by no means forgotten Mr. Crawford when she awoke the next morning; but she remembered the purport of her note, and was not less sanguine as to its effect than she had been the night before.   (source)
    purport = message
  • Coming as he did from such a purport fulfilled as had taken him away, he would have expected anything rather than a look of satisfaction, and words of simple, pleasant meaning.   (source)
    purport = purpose
  • "My little Pearl," said Hester, after a moment's silence, "the green letter, and on thy childish bosom, has no purport."   (source)
    purport = meaning
  • Were I worthy to be quit of it, it would fall away of its own nature, or be transformed into something that should speak a different purport.   (source)
  • And Edmund, silenced, was obliged to acknowledge that the charm of acting might well carry fascination to the mind of genius; and with the ingenuity of love, to dwell more on the obliging, accommodating purport of the message than on anything else.   (source)
  • The feeling that it so evidently manifested, rather than the direct purport of the words, caused it to vibrate within all hearts, and brought the listeners into one accord of sympathy.   (source)
  • The whole gang of sailors, likewise, observing the press of spectators, and learning the purport of the scarlet letter, came and thrust their sunburnt and desperado-looking faces into the ring.   (source)
  • All around, there were monuments carved with armorial bearings; and on this simple slab of slate—as the curious investigator may still discern, and perplex himself with the purport—there appeared the semblance of an engraved escutcheon.   (source)
  • "I profess, madam," answered the clergyman, with a grave obeisance, such as the lady's rank demanded, and his own good breeding made imperative—"I profess, on my conscience and character, that I am utterly bewildered as touching the purport of your words!"   (source)
  • There was, moreover, a boldness and rotundity of speech among these matrons, as most of them seemed to be, that would startle us at the present day, whether in respect to its purport or its volume of tone.   (source)
    purport = general meaning or significance
  • Therefore, first allowing her to pass, they pursued her at a distance with shrill cries, and the utterances of a word that had no distinct purport to their own minds, but was none the less terrible to her, as proceeding from lips that babbled it unconsciously.   (source)
    purport = meaning or significance
  • There was a murmur among the dignified and reverend occupants of the balcony; and Governor Bellingham gave expression to its purport, speaking in an authoritative voice, although tempered with respect towards the youthful clergyman whom he addressed: "Good Master Dimmesdale," said he, "the responsibility of this woman's soul lies greatly with you."   (source)
    purport = general meaning or significance
  • This is the purport of what I remember as urged by both sides, except that…   (source)
    purport = meaning
  • The letter then which arrived at the end of the preceding chapter was from Mr Allworthy, and the purport of it was, his intention to come immediately to town, with his nephew Blifil, and a desire to be accommodated with his usual lodgings, which were the first floor for himself, and the second for his nephew.   (source)
    purport = the general meaning
  • The words of Anselmo struck Lothario with astonishment, unable as he was to conjecture the purport of such a lengthy preamble;   (source)
    purport = purpose or intent
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  • The Orders for deportation purport to be based on alleged requests to be sent to Japan.†   (source)
  • They were not slaves nor did they purport to sell themselves as slaves within the borders of the United States.†   (source)
  • It doesn't purport to tell everything about nu shu or explain all its nuances.†   (source)
  • Their relations were peaceable enough, being on the son's part a cold, humorless, automatically respectful reserve, and on the father's a bluff, direct, coarsely vivid humor which lacked less of purport than wit.†   (source)
  • Like her son-in-law they misunderstood her: the Conde delighted in her letters, but he thought that when he: had enjoyed the style he had extracted all their richness and intention, missing (as most readers do) the whole purport of literature, which is the notation of the heart.†   (source)
  • He made a rambling speech, the purport of which was to inform them that one of them had won the prize, but to conceal the winner's name.†   (source)
  • Duane heard whispering, the purport of which he could not catch.†   (source)
  • Differing accounts were given of its history and purport.†   (source)
  • I have here four letters which purport to come from the missing man.†   (source)
  • We must first understand what the purport of society and the aim of government is held to be.†   (source)
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  • 'May I now venture to confide to Mr. T. the purport of my letter?†   (source)
  • I had thought beforehand that I knew its purport, and I did.†   (source)
  • But how did they observe their oath, and what was its purport?†   (source)
  • Neither his brief consideration, nor its purport, was lost on his companion.†   (source)
  • Beasley had not presented himself or any claim upon Helen; and she, gathering confidence day by day, began to believe all that purport of trouble had been exaggerated.†   (source)
  • Then, suddenly realising the full purport of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face.†   (source)
  • Suddenly he made a particularly vehement pronouncement, the purport of which eluded Nicole, but she saw the young woman turn dark and sinewy, and heard her answer sharply: "After all a chep's a chep and a chum's a chum."†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, the purport of the remark, which was either jealousy or admonition, haunted him with the possibility of its meaning.†   (source)
  • Marguerite, impulsive, thoughtless, not calculating the purport of her words, still smarting under the terrible insult her brother had suffered at the Marquis' hands, happened to hear—amongst her own coterie—that the St. Cyrs were in treasonable correspondence with Austria, hoping to obtain the Emperor's support to quell the growing revolution in their own country.†   (source)
  • We must not stain our page with any contemporary scandal, to a similar purport, that may have been whispered against the Judge.†   (source)
  • After receiving an assurance from both, that she might safely do so, she proceeded in a voice so low that it was often difficult for the listener to discover even the purport of what she said, to describe, by name and situation, the public-house whence she had been followed that night.†   (source)
  • I certainly have been misunderstanding you, if you feel in doubt as to the purport of your answer.†   (source)
  • The whole purport of his remarks now was evidently to exalt himself and insult Alexander—just what he had least desired at the commencement of the interview.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, he did render the purport of his letter sufficiently clear, to enable Mr Merdle to make a decent pretence of having learnt it from that source.†   (source)
  • He delivered him his letters from Copenhagen, and then followed a short conversation in the Danish language, the purport of which I was quite ignorant of, and for a very good reason.†   (source)
  • Capitulation—that was the purport of the simple reply, guarded as it was—capitulation, unknown to herself.†   (source)
  • 'Why do you think you had once?' asked Nicholas, turning quickly upon him as though the answer in some way helped out the purport of his question.†   (source)
  • Being at liberty, I lost no time in seeking the old servant; who, having gathered by degrees the purport of my hasty tale, hurried below, gasping, as he descended the steps two at once.†   (source)
  • But I am anticipating now the purport of our conversation on the ride home instead of first marrying Caddy.†   (source)
  • As soon as Rivenoak was made acquainted with the purport of her address he answered it in his own dialect; the interpreter conveying it to the girl in English.†   (source)
  • Isabel judged best not to show this letter to her uncle; but she acquainted him with its purport, and, as she expected, he begged her instantly to assure Miss Stackpole, in his name, that he should be delighted to receive her at Gardencourt.†   (source)
  • He had suppressed the letter I wrote to grandmother, and prepared a substitute of his own, the purport of which was as follows:— Dear Grandmother: I have long wanted to write to you; but the disgraceful manner in which I left you and my children made me ashamed to do it.†   (source)
  • It was true that the Scud had, once or twice, been sent across the lake to land men of this character, or to bring them off; but then the part played by Jasper, to his own certain knowledge, was very secondary, the master of the cutter remaining as ignorant as any one else of the purport of the visits of those whom he had carried to and fro; nor did he see why he alone, of all present, should know anything of the late visit.†   (source)
  • As the purport of the conversation was merely an engagement to hunt during the remainder of the day, in order to provide the chief necessary of life, we shall not stop to record it.†   (source)
  • The knight muttered faintly a few words, which were lost in the hollow of his helmet, but their purport seemed to be a desire that his casque might not be removed.†   (source)
  • The summons had not been unexpected, since it had followed a letter from Mr. Bulstrode, in which he stated that he had resumed his arrangements for quitting Middlemarch, and must remind Lydgate of his previous communications about the Hospital, to the purport of which he still adhered.†   (source)
  • Pravdin was a well-known Panslavist abroad, and Countess Lidia Ivanovna described the purport of his letter.†   (source)
  • Duncan caught the letter from the ground, and without apology for the liberty he took, he read at a glance its cruel purport.†   (source)
  • In the third category he included those Brothers (the majority) who saw nothing in Freemasonry but the external forms and ceremonies, and prized the strict performance of these forms without troubling about their purport or significance.†   (source)
  • On this singular gorget was engraved, in Saxon characters, an inscription of the following purport:—"Gurth, the son of Beowulph, is the born thrall of Cedric of Rotherwood."†   (source)
  • But Mr. Brooke had been right in predicting that Dorothea would not long remain passive where action had been assigned to her; she knew the purport of her husband's will made at the time of their marriage, and her mind, as soon as she was clearly conscious of her position, was silently occupied with what she ought to do as the owner of Lowick Manor with the patronage of the living attached to it.†   (source)
  • Arthur was in the greatest anxiety to explain the object of his visit; but was put off for the moment, in spite of himself, by what he understood of the reproachful purport of these words, and by the genuine pleasure she testified in seeing him.†   (source)
  • Then he and Hurry pursued the subject; but, as the purport of all that was material in this discourse will appear in the narrative, it need not be related here in detail.†   (source)
  • The French general smiled, as Duncan gave him the purport of this reply, and observed: "What is now so freely accorded to approved courage, may be refused to useless obstinacy.†   (source)
  • Other Powers Granted To American Judges The United States all the citizens have the right of indicting public functionaries before the ordinary tribunals—How they use this right—Art.75 of the French Constitution of the An VIII—The Americans and the English cannot understand the purport of this clause.†   (source)
  • It was very faint and low; so indistinct that there seemed but half a will to shape out the words, and too undefined a purport to be intelligible.†   (source)
  • But as Inez sat before him, reserved and imposing in air, utterly unconscious of his object, and least of all suspecting the true purport of so extraordinary a visit, the savage felt the influence of a manner to which he was unaccustomed.†   (source)
  • And he put one hand in his breast and stood upright in a martial attitude as I informed little Miss Flite, in her ear, of the purport of his kind errand.†   (source)
  • As there truly was no reason why he should have the least interest in it, Arthur Clennam went on to the present purport of his visit; namely, to make Plornish the instrument of effecting Tip's release, with as little detriment as possible to the self-reliance and self-helpfulness of the young man, supposing him to possess any remnant of those qualities: without doubt a very wide stretch of supposition.†   (source)
  • It may be as you say," he continued, reverting to the purport of Heyward's last remark; "and the greater the reason why we should cut our steaks, and let the carcass drive down the stream, or we shall have the pack howling along the cliffs, begrudging every mouthful we swallow.†   (source)
  • From this mood, too, he partially rallied for an instant, and looked at Hepzibah with a smile, the keen, half-derisory purport of which was a puzzle to her.†   (source)
  • Phoebe went accordingly, but perplexed herself, meanwhile, with queries as to the purport of the scene which she had just witnessed, and also whether judges, clergymen, and other characters of that eminent stamp and respectability, could really, in any single instance, be otherwise than just and upright men.†   (source)
  • Duncan, who interpreted this speech to express a wish for some additional pledge that the promised gifts should not be withheld, slowly and reluctantly repaired to the place where the sisters were now resting from their fatigue, to communicate its purport to Cora.†   (source)
  • It is unnecessary to dwell upon the evasive though polite manner with which the French general had eluded every attempt of Heyward to worm from him the purport of the communication he had proposed making, or on the decided, though still polished message, by which he now gave his enemy to understand, that, unless he chose to receive it in person, he should not receive it at all.†   (source)
  • Not this the world,
    Nor these the universes, they the universes,
    Purport and end, ever the permanent life of life,
    Eidolons, eidolons.†   (source)
  • Thy body permanent,
    The body lurking there within thy body,
    The only purport of the form thou art, the real I myself,
    An image, an eidolon.†   (source)
  • L. of G.'s Purport
    Not to exclude or demarcate, or pick out evils from their formidable
    masses (even to expose them,)
    But add, fuse, complete, extend—and celebrate the immortal and the good.†   (source)
  • The soul, its destinies, the real real,
    (Purport of all these apparitions of the real;)
    In thee America, the soul, its destinies,
    Thou globe of globes!†   (source)
  • To the East and to the West
    To the East and to the West,
    To the man of the Seaside State and of Pennsylvania,
    To the Kanadian of the north, to the Southerner I love,
    These with perfect trust to depict you as myself, the germs are in all men,
    I believe the main purport of these States is to found a superb
    friendship, exalte, previously unknown,
    Because I perceive it waits, and has been always waiting, latent in all men.†   (source)
  • that the eyesight has another eyesight, and
    the hearing another hearing, and the voice another voice,
    I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths of young men are
    provided for, and that the deaths of young women and the
    deaths of little children are provided for,
    (Did you think Life was so well provided for, and Death, the purport
    of all Life, is not well provided for?)†   (source)
  • Thoughts
    Of ownership—as if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter
    upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself;
    Of vista—suppose some sight in arriere through the formative chaos,
    presuming the growth, fulness, life, now attain'd on the journey,
    (But I see the road continued, and the journey ever continued;)
    Of what was once lacking on earth, and in due time has become
    supplied—and of what will yet be supplied,
    Because all I see and know I believe to have its main purport in
    what will yet be supplied.†   (source)
  • a long while for Intentions,
    For a clew to the history of the past for myself, and for these
    chants—and now I have found it,
    It is not in those paged fables in the libraries, (them I neither
    accept nor reject,)
    It is no more in the legends than in all else,
    It is in the present—it is this earth to-day,
    It is in Democracy—(the purport and aim of all the past,)
    It is the life of one man or one woman to-day—the average man of to-day,
    It is in languages, social customs, literatures, arts,
    It is in the broad show of artificial things, ships, machinery,
    politics, creeds, modern improvements, and the interchange of nations,
    All for the modern—all for the average man o†   (source)
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    The sun and stars that float in the open air,
    The apple-shaped earth and we upon it, surely the drift of them is
    something grand,
    I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it is happiness,
    And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation or
    bon-mot or reconnoissance,
    And that it is not something which by luck may turn out well for us,
    and without luck must be a failure for us,
    And not something which may yet be retracted in a certain contingency.†   (source)
  • aged sire, whose venerable locks Proclaim thee spokesman of this company, Explain your mood and purport.†   (source)
  • And now this proclamation of today Made by our Captain-General to the State, What can its purport be?†   (source)
  • The purport of the answer that the God Returned to us who sought his oracle, The messengers have doubtless told thee—how One course alone could rid us of the pest, To find the murderers of Laius, And slay them or expel them from the land.†   (source)
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