A vague purpose seemed to animate the hand groping with the levers.

At first she had some vague purpose, which she hoped might eventually work out into a plan.

Only a vague purpose moved him.

She gained the esplanade, with a vague purpose of walking into the city, of taking the train for Wisconsin.

That was why, instinctively, she had put on her old homespun with a vague purpose of reparation to them.

A vague purpose, dimly shaping itself, was in his brain, but he was in no hurry to see it take definite form.

In his room he passed the day alone, drifting on an ocean of remorse, full of vague purposes of repentance and restitution.

It was in the neighbourhood of Holborn, and, from the place it occupied in the map, seemed central enough for his vague purposes.

"Where do you live?" I asked, with some vague purpose of showing the Altrurian the kindliness that exists between our upper and lower classes.