Because

Examples

• Perhaps you had better go after my friends at once, because the weather is warm, and I can not 'keep' long. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I can't very well do it myself; because my back's so bad, and my legs are so queer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Often, indeed, when pressed by Hortense to come, she would refuse, because Robert did not second, or but slightly seconded the request. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The family don't want her here, and they'll say it's because I've been ill, because I'm a weak old woman, that she's persuaded me. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Firstly, because I say so; and secondly, because discretion and reserve are a girl's best wisdom. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Attach a closely wound coil to a sensitive galvanometer (Fig. 237); naturally there is no deflection of the galvanometer needle, because there is no current in the wire. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• And then I asked him if I might come to see you; because I felt so much for his trouble and yours. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We treat it simply as a privation because we are measuring it by adulthood as a fixed standard. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I say this here for two reasons--because I hope to avoid the critical attack of the genuine Marxian specialist, and because the observation is, I believe, relevant to our subject. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She had been surprised at first, because she had not thought Edmund a marrying man. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• A cocoanut shell always has a soft spot at one end because this is the provision nature has made to allow the embryo of the future tree to push its way out of the hard shell. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If for a generation or so machinery has had to wait its turn in the mine, it is simply because for a time men were cheaper than machinery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I asked Mr. Farebrother to talk to her, because she had forbidden me--I didn't know what else to do, said Fred, apologetically. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This was a class of plant which the inquirers desired to purchase outright and operate themselves, usually because of remoteness from any possible source of general supply of current. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Because, said I, his is an uncommon character, and he has resolutely kept himself outside the circle, Richard. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• You think so because I am a little rambling. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I felt I might, without indelicacy, because the evening she dined with us she rather suggested . Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I will discipline my sorrowing heart to sympathy in your joys; I will be happy, because ye are so. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I have heard reputable physicians condemn a certain method of psychotherapy because it was immoral. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• What a wrong, to cut off the girl from the family protection and inheritance only because she had chosen a man who was poor! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Yet the father must be garnished and tricked out, said the old lady, because of his deportment. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Because I saw it only looking out from under the blinds of a window in the house which stood on the corner where the arc light was. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• A party that tried to answer every conflicting interest would stand still because people were pulling in so many different directions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Because you always wanted things that wouldn't do. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Because it is decidedly the case with us. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It can seldom happen that much can be spared from the circulating money of the country; because in that there can seldom be much redundancy. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I was puzzled, because I could not make the glimpses of furniture I saw accord with my knowledge of any of these apartments. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I have thrown these few notes together, because the subject of them was well known to me for many years. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But it was possible to part with her, because Susan remained to supply her place. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.

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