"Now I must disclose to you the chief aim of our Order," he said, "and if this aim coincides with yours, you may enter our Brotherhood with profit.
The important mystery mentioned by the Rhetor, though it aroused his curiosity, did not seem to him essential, and the second aim, that of purifying and regenerating himself, did not much interest him because at that moment he felt with delight that he was already perfectly cured of his former faults and was ready for all that was good.
Thus did he fall with his bronze-dight armour ringing harshly round him, and Teucer sprang forward with intent to strip him of his armour; but as he was doing so, Hector took aim at him with a spear.
Deiphobus then came close up to Idomeneus to avenge Asius, and took aim at him with a spear, but Idomeneus was on the look-out and avoided it, for he was covered by the round shield he always bore--a shield of oxhide and bronze with two arm-rods on the inside.
His finger pressed the cock before he had taken a good aim at the bird.
Oblonsky aimed deliberately at another, still flying low in the reeds, and together with the report of the shot, that snipe too fell, and it could be seen fluttering out where the sedge had been cut, its unhurt wing showing white beneath.
Malbihn, sore hit, took longer in aiming, nor was his
aim as sure as formerly.
The stranger looked at me again - still cocking his eye, as if he were expressly taking
aim at me with his invisible gun - and said, "He's a likely young parcel of bones that.
The nerves of the wood-chopper were not so easily shaken, and he took his
aim with the utmost deliberation.
When we're chock full and the Travellers is all a-bed I come out for my 'elth.' Then withdrawing into the road, and taking
aim, he resumes:-
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and
aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
As Professor Muirhead continues to lend the distinction of his name to the Library of Philosophy it seemed not inappropriate to allow him to recall us to these
aims in his own words.