1
Everything that Mary says to the Bertrams is with an ulterior purpose.
2
Indeed, Italy might even encourage Austrian expansion, for that ulterior purpose.
3
But an ulterior purpose, which I'm saving for later, may thus be better served.
4
He found his plain proposition probed and searched for some ulterior purpose behind it.
5
On this occasion, however, some ulterior purpose kept her from taking up his taunt.
6
Had fate or chance some ulterior purpose behind this episode?
7
Even the good was done with an ulterior purpose.
8
He suspected some ulterior purpose behind this apparent amiability.
9
Could there be any ulterior purpose in all this?
10
But the expression of this unity itself is not the end; it ever indicates an ulterior purpose.
11
But they had also an ulterior purpose.
12
Probably because he had some ulterior purpose to serve, which would have been thwarted by my immediate apprehension.
13
But why those subsequent operations, or a change of base with a view to any such ulterior purpose?
14
Did the poor devil believe in himself; or did he have some ulterior purpose, unknown to any but himself?
15
The older woman may have intentionally led the conversation in that direction for some ulterior purpose she had in view.
16
Whatever ulterior purpose he had in view, he listened as attentively as if her artless chronicle was filled with practical information.
