Reasons

Examples

• 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.
• Yes, but I can't dismiss him in an instant without assigning reasons, my dear Chettam. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There are reasons now known to me, reasons in which you have no part, rendering it far better for you that you should not remain here. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• That he had his reasons for this, he knew full well. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• But across that long distance these currents for many reasons grew still weaker. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It would seem that the manuscript is here imperfect, for we do not find the reasons which finally induce the curtal Friar to amend the King's cheer. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Can you not clear up the last point in this mystery, and tell us the reasons for your action? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I still have enjoyment in the company of my friends; and, being easy in my circumstances, have many reasons to like living. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• There were other reasons for the antagonism of Plato to poetry. Plato. The Republic.
• The reasons for this alteration were at the same time related, and they were such as to make further entreaty on his side impossible. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I should like to know your reasons for this cruel resolution. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Yes, that is what I say, and I have given you my reasons. Plato. The Republic.
• I had my own reasons for being dismayed at this apparition; too well I remembered the perfidious hints given by Mrs. Reed about my disposition, &c. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I tell you there are secret reasons. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Coleridge said, I attend Davy’s lectures to increase my stock of metaphors, and there were many others who went to hear the young chemist for other reasons than a liking for science. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• For reasons worth analyzing later, these representative American citizens desired both the immediate taboo and an ultimate annihilation of vice. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There were reasons why all should be silent regarding her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Yes, the actual facts are very plain, and I shall be surprised if by the afternoon I cannot give you the reasons for them as well. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for satisfaction than his words alone would imply. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• These are reasons justifying the assault. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Because I have particular reasons for wishing to know something of him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• If he renewed it (and I had reasons, shortly to be mentioned, for anticipating that he would), I might be certain of his not escaping me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And your reasons, Rose,' he said, at length, in a low voice; 'your reasons for this decision? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• To have got the whole Barnacle family together would have been impossible for two reasons. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Various reasons conspired to cause the departure from Menlo Park midway in the eighties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Upon examination, I find only one of the reasons commonly produced for this opinion to be satisfactory, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• For these reasons Mr Boffin passed but anxious hours until evening came, and with it Mr Wegg, stumping leisurely to the Roman Empire. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I told her the reasons which induced me to think of hastening my departure, exactly as I have told them here. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He has humoured me for good reasons. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• For these sufficient reasons I resolve to fight the butcher. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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