with the purpose that

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The passing of thirty or more years made of this light-hearted young midshipman a well-known writer, with the purpose that his next book should tell of this unforgettable region of the great lakes.

From James Fenimore Cooper by Phillips, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth)

I would think nothing about this person, as man or woman, but would fill my thought with the purpose that had brought me to the beaver lands.

From Montlivet by Smith, Alice Prescott

Then comes the conflict of our lesser man with our greater man, of our wishes with our will, of the desire for things affecting our senses with the purpose that is within our heart.

From Sadhana : the realisation of life by Tagore, Rabindranath

Caesar, however much he felt that he had been abandoned by his colleague with the purpose that he should face the difficulties of the war alone, nevertheless showed no anger openly.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 3 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus by Foster, Herbert Baldwin

Presently I went on with the purpose that had brought me upstairs; lifting a portfolio to the table and beginning to unpack the work which I had been doing in New York.

From The Thing from the Lake by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)