296 examples of good cause in sentences

Kennedy and Jacobs were at once declared innocent, and instead of being looked upon as outcasts, came to be regarded as martyrs who had suffered in a good cause.

My cousin Tom and I have not seen each other these three years, and have a hundred things to say;" and so I walked off with her, my head in the air, and my heart beating madly, the proudest man in the colony, I dare say, and with as good cause, too, as any.

The church was built in a little recess from the road, in the midst of a grove of ancient trees, cruciform, as so many others were throughout the colony, and stands today just as it stood then,as I have good cause to know, for 't was in that church, before that

But afterwards, when the papers had duly explained that the Germans were mere barbarians and savages, bent on reducing the whole world to military slavery, they began to take sides and feel there was good cause for fighting.

Then, so fighting for what it knows to be a good cause, the wounds and death endured and the national losses and depletion are not such sad and dreadful things as they at first appear.

It has made men, shut up in prison for long weary years for doing what was right and saying what was true, endure manfully for the sake of some good cause, and say,- - "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage.

I've too much Quaker blood in me for that; but it's a good cause, and I'll do the best I can, and I'll do it now, for Angela's sure to be at home now;" and suiting her action to her word, Mary started off then and there upon her errand.

The view that a State wishing to withdraw from the Union might for good cause do so was the prevalent one till long after the War of 1812, yielding, thereafter, at the North, less to Webster's logic than to the social and economic development just mentioned.

[Footnote 2: Journals, 1649, April 7, Aug. 1, Dec. 7; 1650, May 21, Nov. 26; 1651, April 15, Sept. 1, Dec. 19; 1652, Dec. 10; 1653, Nov. 24.] good cause in which they had originally embarked.

I have now and then done harm to a good cause by speaking for it in public, and have discovered too late that my attitude on the occasion would more suitably have been that of negative beneficence.

Good cause had Vulcan to do as he did, for she was no honester than she should be.

We have myriads of examples in this kind amongst those rigid Sabbatarians, and therefore not without good cause, [6603]Intolerabilem pertubationem Seneca calls it, as well he might, an intolerable perturbation, that causeth such dire events, folly, madness, sickness, despair, death of body and soul, and hell itself.

And because we think Mrs. Jameson's book especially Protestant, both in manner and intention, and likely to do service to the good cause, we are setting to work herein to praise and recommend it.

He wished he might have sent her a linestill she would know that her boy had fallen in a good cause, as his father had fallen.

It is, however, impossible but that, as the attention tends strongly towards one thing, it must retire from another; and he that omits the care of domestick business, because he is engrossed by inquiries of more importance to mankind, has, at least, the merit of suffering in a good cause.

The keeper assured him that there was sufficient warranty and very good cause for his confinement.

"I reckon he hates me," thought Hiram, pouring vitriol into his own wounds, "and I reckon he's got good cause to.

But on this occasion, the good cause prevailed, and the bold resistance of this small district compelled the Emperor disgracefully to recall his mandate of conversion.

IN A GOOD CAUSE.

" "Oh, Raoul, do not think of this rash act!" whispered Ghita; "the vice-governatore or the podestà will recollect you; and then all will be lost!" "Fear nothing, Ghitaa good cause and a keen wit will carry me through; while the least hesitation might, indeed, ruin us.

I have felt, however, that Mr. Goschen has worked with such zeal and energy for so many years on behalf of this good cause, that anybody whom he considered able to render him any co-operation owed it to him in its fullest extent.

Our fathers were not ashamed to be dull in a good cause.

CHAPTER V THE GOOD CAUSE "Why can't you leave me alone?

"Yes," answered George; "and if they were enlisted in a good cause, I would off with my hat and give them three cheers.

"No one would think the poor child fourteen years old," he observed, "yet did he not speak of a second seven?" "True," said Mrs. Woodford, "he was born after the Great Fire of London, which, as I have good cause to know, was in the year '66.

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