Jo, whose immediate object seems to be to get away on any terms, gives a shuffling nod.

The sedan chair was the immediate object of interest for all in the lobby area, and there was quite a crowd by this time.

His immediate object was that his mother might see Miss Warren.

We can reason about particulars; and the immediate object of all our reasonings is nothing but particular ideas.

Now that the immediate object of his wrath had fled, the younger man was embarrassed.

In Cree, the recipient is considered the immediate object.

"Is it the immediate object of this confidence, that you may at once ascertain that, with my knowledge?"

Indeed, control of the television returns is the immediate object of all the warring factions.

"My good Joe, if you were the immediate object of this chewing, you wouldn't find it so excellent."

In some way they must have put the more immediate objects of desire into a secondary place, and that means renunciation.