I remember being anxious about it twenty years ago, because I thought it was the Truth (as if my telling it could mend the matter!
One Evening he was in a Stew becauseof some nasty Paragraph in a Newspaper about his not allowing Mr. Longfellow to quote from his Poems.
I doubt not that I shall find Emerson's Letters the more interesting, because the newer, to me.
MY DEAR LADY, I answer you thus directly because I would stick in a Bit of a Letter from Thompson of Cambridge: which relates to a question I asked him weeks ago, as I told E.
I also want to have your exact Address because I want to send you the Dryden and Crabbe's Life I promised you.
If I do not write, it is because I have absolutely nothing to tell you that you have not known for the last twenty years.
I delight in them because of their fearless Truthfulness as well as for their Genius.
And in London I went to see my dear old Donne, because of wishing to assure myself, with my own eyes, of his condition; and I can safely say he looked better than before his Illness, near two years ago.
I should believe Lucretius more likely to have expedited his Departure because of Weariness of Life and Despair of the System, than because of any Love-philtre.
I sent it to you directly I got it, because I thought you would be as pleased as I was with C.
Partly because I really have so little to say; and also because saying that little too often puts you to the shame you speak of.
It was because of these two children that he came to Jefferson, where they were then living.
Yet the teaching was not constructive, because the ideal man was not made truly social.
These sounding contrasts are mere deceits, because if you look nearly into the results of this science of which we talk so proudly, you will perceive that they confirm the results of induction from history.
But in spite of ourselves, God gives answer to our conscience, 'I made thee too weak to come out from the pit, because I made thee strong enough to avoid falling into it.
I can only know that Rome and Sparta existed, because contemporaries assure me that they existed.
But it is bad, because it is at bottom a superstition, and because it makes a people sanguinary and intolerant.
Kindness in its genuine forms is a testimony of good feeling, and conventional speech is perhaps a little too hard, as well as too shallow and unreal, in calling the recipient evil names because he is unable to respond to the good feeling.
Rousseau thought and talked about the state of nature because all his world was thinking and talking about it.
They are also displeased with him, because they think he over-abounds in religion; and it is indeed remarkable that the philosopher of this age who has been most persecuted, is by far the most devout.
The minority submit to obey laws which were made against their will, because they cannot avoid the necessity of undergoing worse inconveniences than are involved in this submission.
Immediately his cat sat up on her hind legs, and fell to rubbing him and purring.
Then the squire went and lay down to sleep, and Ivan cried with a loud voice: "Where is my Bulat, the Brave Companion?
We cannot leap back over the wall, but shall strike against it and wake everyone up.
As you say," replied the Tsarevich Malandrach; "I am a merchant from India, and have come hither in a ship with my wares.
But the fool did not know that he should cry out: "Make way!
And Tsarevich Malandrach told his father the whole truth.
Instantly Prince Daniil sent his servant Mursa to enquire who had been in the prison.
Because my son the North Wind is very cold, and you would be frozen," said the old woman.
Ivan; "I have lost my favourite arrow, and can find it nowhere, and my sorrow is the greater because I can not discover a steed to please me.
Yesterday the grumbling was because I put my head out of the door to look at a dog-fight and the bread got a little burned.
We know that his favor is no less with you becausetrouble has come on his hands.
Eric of Brattahlid had the Huntsman for his steward, because they found pleasure in talking evil together about Christianity; but that was all the friend I ever heard of his having.
I have not brought my news forward in the hall because I do not want the chiefs to take the power out of my hands.
I remember overhearing you say to Faste that the reason you would not bring your news forward in the hall was because you did not want the chiefs to take the power out of your hands.
I suppose it was because he got bitter that I did not help him, that he comes back to haunt me.
The reason I have the appearance of a dead man is because I can not, more than others, get fat and color-full on fish and raw eggs and water.
When the tale was finished and the teller had sunk down in tears upon Biorn's footstool, Alrek lifted a face that seemed pale because such black misery was in his brown eyes.
Slipped away, because my back was turned, and got all the sport for yourself?
And the reason he stood in need of you was because it was necessary that he should have some one to fight under him, and until yesterday the men would not listen to him.
Perhaps you think, because you see sun through the door, that the whole sky is like that; but you should see the clouds ahead of us!
Will you allow your kinsman to die because of your slowness?
I knew that we should have luck to-day, because I heard a wolf howl last night," Gard added, with a hitch to his belt.
But these animals affect the forest, indirectly, in a still more important way, because the extent of cleared ground required for agricultural use depends very much on the number and kinds of the cattle bred.
These remains are memorials of races which have left no written records, becausethey perished before the historical period of the countries they occupied began.
The first roads in those States ran along the ridges, when practicable, because there only was the earth dry enough to allow of their construction, and, for the same reason, the cabins of the first settlers were perched upon the hills.
Secondly, because wild madder grows here in abundance; and why may not tame madder if cicurated by art.
Chagrined at my folly, I returned home: I had nothing but a pair of pistols left, for which, because of their workmanship, General Woyekow had offered me twenty ducats.
This gave Frederic time to recover, and the more effectually because the Austrians had the imprudence to permit the return of deserters.
Firing of guns and pistols was heard throughout the town, because of the festival, and I, in imitation of the rest, went to the window and fired mine.
Meantime I found opportunity to speak to some of the sentinels, among whom was an old grenadier called Gelfhardt, whom I here namebecause he displayed qualities of the greatest and most noble kind.
There were at this time about five- and-twenty officers in Vienna who had laid complaints against him, and who considered me as their greatest enemy because I had laboured earnestly in his defence.
We suffered much this day because of the snow, and that the lightness of our dress was ill suited to such severe weather.
The prize was great, not so much because of the estates themselves, as of the personal property upon them.
My misfortune was the greater on this occasion, because that General Fouquet was then governor of Glatz.
He professes that Frederick the King owed him a grudge, because Frederick the Trenck had, when eighteen years old, fascinated the Princess Amalie at a ball.
Further, we had quarrelled during our first campaign, because he had beaten one of my servants; we even were proceeding to fight with pistols, had not Colonel Winterfield interfered, and amicably ended our quarrel.
The peasant knew Schell, because his son served in his company, and had often spoken of him when he was quartered at Habelschwert.
My own history is so connected with his that this is necessary, and the more so because there are many ignorant or wicked people at Vienna, who believe, or affirm, Trenck had actually taken the King of Prussia prisoner.
I gave Schell a most affectionate welcome, who had been very ill-used when led to prison, because he endeavoured to defend himself with his left hand, and follow me.
The friends of Trenck all became distrustful of him because of his ingratitude to me.
So he took the eight-mule team and amazed the multitude by hauling heavier loads than any other team, because he knew how to handle his whip and lines, and because he was careful and determined to succeed.
It is a volume of sketches that is well worth reading, not only because they are well written and full of action, but for the pictures they give of a life that the world really knows very little about.
Voilà," said Jaquis, "because of that she gave to you the Belle of Athabasca.
And yet this restless traveller fretted and grievedbecause we promised to get into Toronto five minutes late.
There was not a man on the first division but grieved because he was going, but no man would dare say so to Henry.
Every day women who are not ready to be widowed come here and cry on the carpet because their husbands are going away with 'Captain' Jewett's company.
No," the President replied, "I told him we would not do it at once, because there was no business or prospect of business to justify the expense.
Because they considered it the best claim in the camp, they called it Le Roi.
Bradford wore a beard always now, not because a handsome beard makes a handsome man handsomer, but because it covered and hid the hideous scar in his chin that had been carved there by the Sioux chief.
And must this peece of ignorance be popt up, Because 't can Kisse the hand, and cry sweet Lady?
And must this piece of ignorance be popt up, because 't can kiss the hand, and cry, sweet Lady?
It got its name becausestraw served them for beds and furniture.
This biography of him will be highly esteemedbecause of the grace and vigour with which Miss Haldane has done her work.
Nobody is concerned in his burning, in his shipwrack, in his ruine, or in his death; and that because he hitherto hath lent nothing, and would never thereafter have lent anything.
This night all ye shall be offended because of me, for it is written, 'I shall smite the shepherd and the sheep of his flock shall be scattered abroad.
Jesus answered, "Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or only because others have told it to thee?
Jesus said, "Because she hath not known the day of her visitation.
Pilate sent him hither, because being a Galilean he is thy subject.
I cannot pronounce the death sentence upon him, because I find nothing in him which according to the laws upon which I have to act is deserving of death.
Driven by ignoble passion ye persecute him because the people are more devoted to him than they are to you.
Then said Pilate, "I have sent him because he is a Galilean to Herod.
Yes," said Caiaphas, "but Herod would not judge the case because thou art in authority here.
And I begin by calling your attention to the morality of Jesus of Nazareth, not because He is divine, but because He was a great master of the human heart, and more than others "knew what was in man.
In just the same way the diseases of vice, though no one can say how they first came into the world, continue and flourish, notbecause of human nature, but because we violate some law of our own nature in what we do.
Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
It is not easy to define "immorality," because morality is one of the fundamentals which defy definition; but though it is not easy to define, it is not hard to recognize.
And--for the sake of clearness--what I am concerned to show is that a woman is not necessarily asexual or cold becauseshe will not use an appeal to sexuality in order to get what she wants.
It is useless for you to act wrongly and to affirm that you do it "because human nature is what it is.
No one will quarrel with a great artist becausehe lives by his art, or because he will sometimes turn aside to amuse himself, his public, or his friends.
Very many ladies do not eat oysters at dinner simply because they do not like them, while others refuse them under the impression that it is more ladylike not to eat them.
But 'tis the Prince's death which I want first; because of this my hatred of the rascal must lie dormant just a few days.
I remember when you were quite a tiny boy what contempt you had for little Jakob Steyn because he told lies, and how you thrashed Frans van Overstein because he ill-treated a dog.
The Lord of Stoutenburg's honeyed words fell unheeded on her ear; his presence near her filled her with horror; she only kept up a semblance of interest in him, because he held the fate of another man in the hollow of his hand.
Despite--or perhaps because of your harsh estimate of me--you made me feel to-night almost a gentleman.
There was apparently a good solid partition between his room and the shop because as soon as the watchmen were settled at their post their voices only reached Diogenes' ear like a muffled murmur.
Being a woman she cannot pay for her knowledge with her life; but her honour and her freedom are forfeit to mebecause I am a man and she a woman.
But remember that I give it you only because to my mind one innocent woman has already suffered quite enough because of you, without having to mourn the man whom she loves and being widowed ere she is a wife.
I have named a higher sum than the one which you have offered me, not with any desire to squeeze you, sir, butbecause obviously I cannot do this work single-handed.
I would not assert that order was restored because of these unconscious gestures on the part of the insolent rabble aforesaid, but certain it is that within the next few seconds decorum once more prevailed as if magic had called it forth.
She tried to hold his glance, but he would not look at her; she felt that his wrath of her almost bordered on hatred because he believed that she had betrayed them all.
I have called him Loveliness because it was the pet name, the "little name," given to him by this person.
Because I never can help crying when I speak of him, and that will not make you happy.
It is becauseno man ever did it that it is worth doing.
Because they had taken you away from her, and she was in terror lest they should take me too.
Folks say so because my brows grow together and I have little feet.
Because then I could carry you in my arms and shelter you in my bosom from wind and weather and every danger.
But there is still a power that you know not of--because you have never felt as men feel, and that is a father's vengeance; neither death nor damnation can terrify that!
You have dedicated him to Heaven, and Heaven will accept him--because the gift is pure.
Because we must live--live and work, my son; work for our neighbour and for future generations.
Only one there present understood it; he who stood silent, his nails dug into his crossed arms--and yet of pity he knew nothing, that unsparing zealot who had no mercy on others because he knew of no mercy on himself.
They have carried me in their arms, they have sheltered and tended me, and watched over me all my life; and shall I leave them and follow a stranger only because an accidental tie of blind nature binds me to him?
The children used to call me Hairy-owl when they saw me combing it, because I could cover myself all over with it like a cloak; here, feel my plaits, they are as long as I am tall.
Crevel was deputy mayor because his predecessor had been; he was Major because he coveted Cesar Birotteau's epaulettes.
In allowing myself to say so much, my dear friend, it is because your personal interest is far more deeply implicated than any concern or vanity of mine.
It is because my good old boy is afraid of being caught by Samanon.
You are nicknamed Combabus, because you love but one woman, and in Paris, that is the same as loving no one at all.
Madame de la Chanterie's fund, founded to restore poor households to their religious and legal status, hunts up such couples, and with all the more success because it helps them in their poverty before attacking their unlawful union.
It is because I am so strongly in favor of the middle course that I should like to see the middle of Paris in a better condition.
He had never married, because he hoped to find a second Adeline, though he had vainly sought for her through twenty campaigns in as many lands.
Because you not only fed me, lodged me, cared for me in my poverty, but you also gave me strength.
He shouted, notbecause he had to give a necessary order to the steersmen, but because his soul was full of life and strength, and this life and strength wanted to find free expression, so it rushed forth in that thunderous and forceful sound.
They played without Martyanoff because he could not play honestly.
But this enemy could not be captured becauseit was invisible.
But then he would think twice before turning him out, because of the five roubles a month.
Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.
His family name was Kiselnikoff, but they called him Paltara Taras, because he was a head and shoulders taller than his friend, Deacon Taras, who had been degraded from his office for drunkenness and immorality.
Gratitude must be encouraged because it is seldom met with.
But the loyal Englishman obeys the upper classes becausehe has forgotten that they are there.
It seems a great pity to have to leave a place to which one is accustomed, though it will be necessary to go, simply because some merchant or other thinks of manufacturing candles and soap.
Because the plant is low, the days between seed and sheaf are few and short; because the bird is higher, months stand between egg and eagle.
And because the seed they have sown is not physical, but mental and moral, the fruition is long postponed.
Similarly of the young men in Parliament who to-day have charge of the destinies of the English empire, it may be said that they have saved their lives, because the fathers lost theirs.
The Greek poet says men knew when the goddess came to Thebes because of the blessings she left in her track.
To all patriots and Christian men who seek to use occupation and profession so as to promote the world's upward growth comes the reflection that henceforth society's progress must be slow, because its institutions are high and complex.
The author of "Robert Elsmere" exhibits that polished scholar and brilliant student as one who gave up teaching because he could find no audience on a level with his ability or worthy of his instruction.
One youth was an English visitor who saw the portraits of Otis and Hancock, yet saw them not; heard the words of Phillips, yet heard them not, and because his heart was in London believed not unto patriotism.
Perhaps the idea was suggested to the Prince because his soul already fulfilled the thought, for one drop of sin always shatters the cup of joy and wastes life's precious wine.
Because the King's heart felt no woes to be cured, his hand pushed away the engine.
Because the law of sacrifice is the law of the Savior, man gains life through death and renown through self-renunciation.
Because man hath with patience toiled long upon this republic, how rich and complex its institutions!
Towards man, the death of Christ has atoning efficacy because it delivers from sin, bestows the divine gift of life and conveys the assurance of pardon.
Nor were other labourers, more nearly connected with the producing interests, satisfied with a reduction of wages because produce had fallen in price all round.
At Oxford he was as conspicuous a failure as he had been at Carlisle, and it was said by his enemies that he was made a bishop because he was so bad a dean.
He even contemplated cutting a canal through the Isthmus of Corinth, but was afraid to carry out his plan because the same thing had been unsuccessfully attempted before by the emperor Nero.
He was a moralist in the great sense, the sense in which the term can be applied to Moliere and the great dramatists--a moralist because of his large and sane outlook on life.
It was hard indeed for a carter drawing coal to a gasworks to recognize the necessity which compelled a reduction in his wages because wool had fallen 20%.
The low stage of culture of the Australians when they reached their new home is thus accounted for, but their stagnation is remarkable, because they must have been frequently in contact with more civilized peoples.
The conclusion that each element had a definite atomic weight, peculiar to it, was the new idea that made his speculations fruitful, because it allowed of quantitative deduction and verification.
The bill, however, fell absolutely dead, not because it was not a good bill, but because the movement out of which it arose had not popular initiative, and therefore failed to reach the popular imagination.
Spirit is life because of righteousness, the body is still dead because of sin; and the result is, as you read ver.
Let no one think lightly of such a moment, or suppose that because there may be perfect peace there is no deep solemnity in the approaching change.
If Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness.
From the imputation, because the curse is gone; and from the dominion, for we are not under the law but under grace.
And because as they were enrolled as being His in the national register, so are we in the book of life?
Do they not teach us that he was assured of that redemption, not because it had seen it accomplished, but because it was made sure by the truth of God?
The Christian’s obedience, therefore, is full of hope, because it is all founded on faith, and so was the obedience of Jeremiah.
The sinner sold himself, and the Lord Jesus gave Himself as a ransom, and because He has done so, God said by the prophet, ‘Ye shall be redeemed without money.
You'll see little settlements, two or three palm thatched cabins along the river, deserted because of him.
Because of its very intensity the following darkness had appeared quite complete.
Was Johnny being thought of as a hero because of having saved the life of that beautiful Indian girl, and was this march given in his honor?
I have no doubt but that he will die" is incorrect because his death is expected.
Verbs in the passive voice have no objects because the subject, being acted upon, is itself in the place of an object.
A which is used before consonantal sounds and an which is used before vowel sounds are called indefinite articles because they individualize without specializing.
You ought to obey the rules of the office, indicates that it is your duty to obey because it is the right thing to do even though no penalty is attached.
Due should not be used for owing to or because of.
It is used here because it indicates roughly the order of the appearance of the nine families in the logical development of language.
The is called the definite article becauseit both individualizes and specializes.
The verb ought, when used to express past duty or obligation, is followed by what is called the perfect infinitive--a use peculiar to itself because ought has no past form.
They were her own studies of some of her pupils and friends, and one face especially attracted me because of its delicate and spiritual beauty.
They need a peace of reconciliation for their own sakes, because no new frontiers may save them from sharing the ruin of those they destroy, nor the disease of those they starve.
God will be kinder to my people than to you, because now we cry out for His mercy, and you are still arrogant, with the name of God on your lips but a devil of pride in your hearts.
So I'm stopping in Kensington and trying to hate the English, but can't because I love them.
He had read thousands of German letters as an intelligence officer afterwards, but he remembered those because of the night's adventure.
They were put into separate cells of the civil prison, crowded with the vilest women of the slums and stews, and suffered something like torture because of the foul atmosphere, the lack of sanitation and unspeakable abomination.
They fell back, not because of their own failure but because the heart of the German people was sapped by the weakness of hunger, caused by the infamous English blockade, which starved our women and children.
He was filled with hope and gladness, and with a humble pride because his efforts had borne fruit.
For gradually more holy-days were made, fasts appointed, new ceremonies and services in honor of saints instituted, because the authors of such things thought that by these works they were meriting grace.
Therefore it would be befitting the clemency of the Pontiffs to mitigate them now, because such a modification does not shake the unity of the Church.
Hence it may be readily seen that this doctrine is not to be charged with prohibiting good works, but rather the more to be commended, because it shows how we are enabled to do good works.
First, concerning such as contract matrimony, they teach on our part that it is lawful for all men who are not fitted for single life to contract matrimony, because vows cannot annul the ordinance and commandment of God.
To the laity are given Both Kinds in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, because this usage has the commandment of the Lord in Matt.
Nevertheless, on account of the great benefit of absolution, and because it is otherwise useful to the conscience, Confession is retained among us.
And because through faith the Holy Ghost is received, hearts are renewed and endowed with new affections, so as to be able to bring forth good works.
And because the division of the Sacrament does not agree with the ordinance of Christ, we are accustomed to omit the procession, which hitherto has been in use.
Also they teach that this faith is bound to bring forth good fruits, and that it is necessary to do good works commanded by God, because of God's will, but that we should not rely on those works to merit justification before God.
The Canons themselves say that the old rigor ought now and then, in the latter times, to be relaxed because of the weakness of men; which it is to be wished were done also in this matter.
The most part have an excuse for leaving the monasteries, because most of them have taken the vows before they reached these ages.
Yea, they added that the monastic life not only merited righteousness before God but even greater things, because it kept not only the precepts, but also the so-called "evangelical counsels.
Furthermore, it is taught on our part that it is necessary to do good works, not that we should trust to merit grace by them, but because it is the will of God.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "because" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
