Niu-t'ou, where his sanctity reportedly caused birds to appear with offerings of flowers.
Out of resentment the jealous dhyana master reportedlycaused Hui-k'o to undergo official persecution.
However, the idea that truth can be approached gradually was disputed by the other major pupil of Kumarajiva, whose insistence that enlightenment must arrive instantaneously has caused some to declare him the ideological founder of Zen.
This celebrated question--which dramatizes the Zen concept of an original nature in every person that precedes and transcends artificial values such as good and evil--caused the pursuer to be enlightened on the spot.
The legends say his kindly nature caused him sometimes to secretly release animals from the hunters' traps and that he would accept only vegetables from their stewpots.
Although this impertinence caused the master to immediately recognize Hui-neng's mental gifts, he said nothing and simply put him to work threshing and pounding rice.
The legends say that this exchange, in the typical harsh style of Ma- tsu, caused Huai-hai to confront his original nature.
Nay, she did not believe in its having any self-caused or God-caused existence.
The abundance of her curling hair caused her much trouble, and she once cut it off, as Maggie Tulliver did, because it would not "lie straight.
I know, I feel the terrible extent of suffering this sin of Arthur's has caused to others; but so does every sin cause suffering to others besides those who commit it.
Romola grew out of a genius so large and original that it can well endure the criticisms caused by any defects it may have.
There is something to be said in behalf of George Eliot's attitude towards religion, which caused her to hold it in reverence, even when rejecting the objective validity of its dogmas.
His emotions he believes are caused by these objective beings, and he thinks he is inspired, that the gods are at work within him.
As quick as he opened we ate, and the laughter of the girls, who talked of how we had eaten them before, caused my anger to gradually disappear.
She delighted me by telling me of the confusion which the new regulations had caused in the house.
I constrained myself, and said nothing, but I was getting tired of his insolence; and as he might imagine that my resentment was caused by fear, I determined on disabusing him.
For the loss which you have caused your lives are forfeit, and I call upon you to come down to us and suffer the penalty.
That Li Sung was alarmed there could be no doubt, for he had spent some time on the river in the service of the men of Paddi, and he well knew of the danger of the bore caused by the tide as it swept into the upper reaches.
Then with faltering steps, and gait which would have caused him to reel from side to side had it not been for their help, they led him across the dock to a shed some little distance away.
But the aspect of affairs had suddenly changed, and as Christian van Sonerell had remarked, his unexpected appearance had caused them to alter their determination.
And now to give him what is due, to return in full the trouble which he has caused me.
But this they had shown no inclination to do; and that fact, combined with the resolute air with which they faced the tide of pirates rushing down upon them, caused a few of the more faint-hearted to hold back.
But news gathered in Singapore caused him to change his mind, and therefore he came to Sarawak, anchoring at the very spot where the two vessels are now moored.
As for Tyler, with a shout to attract John Marshall's attention, and a wave of his arm, he had caused the latter to throw the schooner into the wind, a movement which was at once imitated by those in command of the other vessels.
Both sat up and listened eagerly, only to turn to one another in perplexity, for neither could fathom the nature of the sound which had caused them alarm.
Then, too, the dread lest a clearing should suddenly bring them face to face with the Malays filled their minds, and caused them to halt every few minutes.
This solid sense caused Mrs. Gibbs to lie in wait for the chaplain in his verandah, armed with a coarse cotton handkerchief soaked in patchouli, and an assertion that Aggie's absence from the choir was due to unsuitable clothes.
Sudden a crash (will be heard) like the fall of a spacious palace, and a dusky gloominess (will supervene) such as is caused by a lamp about to spend itself!
His face was seamed with smallpox marks, and he had seven or eight black patches on it the first time I saw him, caused by the splintering of his flint when he let off his antediluvian gun.
Full of importance and blowing like a porpoise, he came and caused the child to be brought to him, under a tree near the village.
Numbers of them are afflicted in some districts with goitre, caused probably by bad drinking water; all have a pinched, withered, wan look, that tells of hard work and insufficient fare.
While we were talking over these things, a frenzied shout from the driver of our naka elephant caused us to look in his direction.
This answer caused the ranchman to sit up straight and again scrutinize the boy's features, as he asked: "Got any folks?
Heretofore he had always possessed a home to which to go, unpleasant as it was, but now he had no place, and the contemplation of his loneliness caused him to grow very sober.
The thought of earning such a sum of money so easily evidently caused the boy to forget all discretion.
The tone in which the question was asked now caused the other passengers, who had hitherto been too busy getting themselves comfortably settled to notice Bob, to turn their gaze upon him.
But if the hearing of his name had caused Bob surprise, his response created more in the man.
Bob Chester's Grit Page 24] The strangeness of the scene and lack of familiarity with the procedure of a court caused Bob to remain silent.
This question served Bob's purpose better than he could have desired, for it caused the grizzled plainsman to start suddenly.
And the failure of his attempt to get the letter and thus destroy all evidence of the trust fund, had caused him to be seized with a great fear lest retribution should be visited upon him.
After having met with unmerited neglect for more than a hundred years, Spinoza has, in general, become too much esteemed in this century through the reaction caused by the swing of the pendulum of opinion.
We can recollect the extraordinary excitement the news caused on this continent.
Without the influences which caused the rush of population to the Fraser, New Caledonia might have remained undisturbed for half a century.
Lord Selkirk had now before him the evidence of such of his people who had suffered at Seven Oaks to confirm the opinion that the trouble had been caused by the North-West Company.
To have been attacked by the whole colony on so narrow a path might have caused serious disaster, so we abandoned the trail and traced a new route for ourselves to avoid that which we were following, and thus escaped the dilemma.
Our rubber caused no regret on the part of the loser, for the winner had nothing to receive.
Judging from the age of the timber the movement must have taken place a considerable time back, and was probably caused by the breaking off of a huge mass of the glacier.
The sun came out with unusual power; our day’s effort has caused no little of a strain, and the perspiration is running from us like water.
A dose of laudanum was given to an Indian, and caused his death.
Even where suffering is not caused by evil doing, he is helped over it by his individual point of view; because this prevents his ever regarding it as distinct from the personal compensations which it so often brings into play.
Which of these two has been the sinner: he who sinned unwillingly, or she who caused the sin?
The first-named "voice" alludes to the voice of lamentation caused by Hadrian, who had at Alexandria in Egypt massacred twice the number of Jews that had come forth under Moses.
I will proclaim it to all that come into the world that it was thy tongue that caused thee all this.
Before he ascended he caused the trumpet to be sounded through the camp.
To this they replied, "He indeed causedeighty women to be hanged, though two criminals are not to be condemned in one day.
We learn," he replied in a whisper, "that God wrapped Himself with light as with a garment, and He has caused the splendor thereof to shine from one end of the world to the other.
Tradition says that Manasseh caused Isaiah to be sawn asunder with a wooden saw.
But God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, so that all knew he was only a man.
He then caused them to pass before Adam, and asked him, "What is the name of this and the other?
This caused a great laugh and uproar in the market, and the stranger was driven from it in derision and his shoes thrown after him.
What caused such a learned man as Elishah to turn to evil ways?
On the day before the Day of Atonement he was taken to the East Gate when they caused oxen, rams, and lambs to pass before him, that he might become well-versed and expert in his official duties.
We are also taught that the painscaused by a female child are greater than those caused by a male.
Why, you have caused to spring up here a regular city, in the solitude of mountains and forests.
She took her little dog upon her arm and caused it to make a comical bow.
Finally Dernburg began to speak: his voice was loud and firm, and the deep silence round about caused every word to be distinctly heard.
From his very infancy Eric had been puny and delicate, and that fall into the water, caused by his own imprudence, brought on him a dangerous illness, that lasted for months.
To the surprise of both of the others, the girl threw her arms about the old woman's neck and clung to her, sobbing as though in great sorrow, but Nann knew that the tears werecaused by the sudden shock of the joyful revelation.
Never before had three words caused those young people so much rejoicing.
Nann noted with real pleasure that her friend's first reaction had been pity for the old woman and not rebellion because of the act that had caused her to be brought up in poverty.
She had decided that if you were so rude as to ignore her invitation, you were not the kind of a girl she wished to know, even if you are her niece, but your letter caused her to change her mind.
A cry from Dories caused the speaker to pause and turn toward her.
She forgot the awful Mrs Gaskell and all the terrors that punctuality caused in the St Just establishment.
There were currants in it, so few that to search for them was most exciting and caused "Hurras!
Had a bombshell burst in the midst of that eager, animated group, it could not have caused greater consternation.
O'Donovan thought that the lay succession to this title was a consequence of the disorder caused by the Norse wars; in any case, it was merely an assimilation of the temporal government of church lands to the ordinary civil polity.
Sir Piers de Bermingham caused three of the Irish ruling family of Offaly and twenty-nine nobles of their people to be murdered at a banquet to which he had invited them in his own castle.
This recent occupation caused the feudal newcomers to extend the name Oriel to the whole region between Oriel and the Boyne.
The rapid development of these raiding enterprises has been explained as caused by political changes in Norway.
The incident of the green book had passed with no apparent result of grave importance, but the spirit of mischief which had caused this book to be found was by no means asleep in the school.
Annie took the little one in her arms, kissed her tenderly, whispered some words in her ear, which caused the little face to light up with some smiles and the round arms to clasp Annie with an ecstatic hug.
Something in Hester's tone caused the stranger to look at her attentively; he jumped off the dog-cart and came to her side.
Half your loneliness is caused by want of food--I know it, my love; I am a very practical person.
In the first, place, it seemed quite the middle of the night when Hester was awakened by a loud gong, which clanged through the house and caused her to sit up in bed in a considerable state of fright and perplexity.
Hester's words were true, but they were uttered in an unkind spirit, and the very flavour of truth which they possessed caused them to enter Annie's heart and to wound her deeply.
She came into the room, however, with a slight hesitation of manner, and a clouded brow, which caused Mrs Willis to watch her with anxiety, and Dora with triumph.
By doing so, the girl who hascaused all this misery will at least show me that she is trying to repent.
This announcement caused intense wonder and was certainly carrying the interest of all the little ones.
She sat now before her desk, little guessing how she had caused Hester's small heart to beat by her patronage, and little suspecting the mischief she had done to the girl by her injudicious words.
Perhaps it was merely this that caused her to dislike the look of some of these other people?
But the Machine that caused this noise was beating her metal thews against invisible air.
These were caused by currents of air entering some of the apertures and vibrating through the passages, provoking notes as if these galleries were organ pipes.
The chieftain thereupon caused his people to divert the course of a rill of water, which, falling over the mouth of the cave, would have prevented his purposed vengeance.
The Christians charged Julian with having caused the fire so as to get rid of the Sibylline oracles hid under the statue of Apollo.
At last a gross outrage on morals was attributed to him, and caused his flight.
He was allowed to reascend it, and he occupied it for seven years; and the cave in which he did penance for his frailties and the scandal he had caused is intact to this day.
No doubt the irregularity is partly caused by the numerous islands which would naturally cause a deviation.
The great sickness amongst the diggers was causedby turning up the virgin soil in the workings and so releasing the malarial germs.
The Government, immediately upon hearing of their outrageous conduct, arrested McNeil and Williams, and at the same time caused the unwilling immigrants to be returned to their island homes.
The Hopeful massacres have undoubtedly caused reprisals on the part of the Normanby Islanders, and not without excuse.
Had I been a native of New Guinea I should have accounted for the unfortunate circumstance by the interference of some evil spirit who had purposely and with malicious intent caused an unfavourable wind.
What had become of the miscreant who had caused all this ruin and misery?
His late appearance to-night was caused by the fact that he had been attending a dance at the Splendide, principally in the hope of finding there some kind-hearted friend of his prosperity from whom he might borrow.
The slight depression caused by the contemplation of Sally's troubles left Mr. Abrahams as mist melts beneath a sunbeam.
The lethargy and dispiritedness, caused by their week of inaction, fell from them like a cloak.
It was not the manner of Sally's acceptance that caused this.
His white waistcoat alone was a silent reproach to honest poverty, and had caused an awkward constraint right through the soup and fish courses.
Red hair flashed into view, tousled and disordered: and, as she saw it, Sally uttered an involuntary gasp of astonishment which caused many eyes to turn towards her.
There is something almost of religious ecstasy in the deportment of the spectators at a table where anyone is having a run of luck at roulette, and if she had guffawed in a cathedral she could not have caused a more pained consternation.
What had caused it and why it should have expended itself so abruptly, Sally was not psychologist enough to explain; but that it had existed there was ocular evidence of the most convincing kind.
A few bombs had been dropped upon the town some days before, and caused considerable excitement--about all that most bombs ever succeed in doing, as we afterwards discovered.
As we stood in the upper ward, it was difficult to believe that so much damage could have been caused by a single shell.
He caused two small vessels to be built, and set out in search of some of the French vessels on the fishing stations.
To those who have aided him with information and documents, the extreme slowness in the progress of the work will naturally have caused surprise.
And, in proof of his declaration, he caused articles plundered from Fort Caroline to be shown to the unhappy petitioners.
Having rid himself of the ministers, he caused three of the more zealous Calvinists to be seized, dragged to the edge of a rock, and thrown into the sea.
And, first, he caused the two larger vessels to be towed for safe harborage within the mouth of the St. Charles.
The crafty Englishman seized his chests, caused the locks to be picked, searched till he found the royal letters and commissions, withdrew them, replaced everything else as he had found it, and again closed the lids.
A sensation was caused at the Circle last night when an old man jumped unannounced into the ring and offered to fight anyone living to a finish for five pounds and a pint of beer for the sheer fun of the thing.
All the usual results follow, even to the acquisition by Mark of a faithful hound, which the least experience of sentimental fiction would have caused any insurance company to refuse on sight.
These buildings are still standing, an ornament to the town, and an honor to the sovereign who caused them to be erected, as well as to the artist who planned, and to the age which produced them.
The Coccus, too, which hascaused so much destruction among our orchards at home, is fortunately still unknown here.
The place was inaccessible to an invading enemy, when these fosses were filled with the waters of the Epte; but Philip Augustus caused the protecting element to become his most powerful auxiliary.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caused" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: done; executed; grown; made; raised
