This was far beyond any experience he had ever had, but there was such a purposefulness in the bird's actions, strange and unusual though they were, that he felt this little drama should be played out without interruption.
"Man of Many Minds"
E. Everett Evans
She was girlish, and delighted him, in her expression of her enormous sense of the compliment he paid her; she was a woman of uncommon purposefulness, and increased his admiration for her by the directness and decision with which uncompromisingly she said him no.
"This Freedom"
A. S. M. Hutchinson
There was a solemnity, a wrapped-up purposefulness about him this morning; she dared not ask him what he was going to do.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard