The reason for Henshaw's prolonged and rather puzzling stay in the place was now accounted for.

In 1862, the oldest record of life was in the Cambrian rocks; but if the Eozoon be, as Principal Dawson and Dr. Carpenter have shown so much reason for believing, the remains of a living being, the discovery of its true nature carried life back to a period which, as Sir William Logan has observed, is as remote from that during which the Cambrian rocks were deposited, as the Cambrian epoch itself is from the tertiaries.

There is really no reason for my remaining here, now that you are well.

I feared to show my real heart, my real fears, my real reason for not hailing my release, as every one evidently expected me to!

'You may depend upon it, a four-legged creature, unlike a two-legged one, has a reason for everything he does.'

Peel, after the Duke was gone, regretted his having taken the line of expressing his anxiety to relieve himself from the obloquy cast upon him, and his having put that desire forward as his reason for pressing the second reading of the Bill on Thursday.

He understood it, thought it inevitable; but that was not a reason for loving it.

In your next you must assign some reason for this neglect.

The time involved in the "proceedings" was viewed as a penitential season during which it behoved the family of the persons concerned to behave as if they were dead; yet any open allusion to the reason for adopting such an attitude would have been regarded as the height of indelicacy.

The oppression of the Israelites in Egypt, and the wonders wrought for their deliverance, proclaim the reason for such a law at such a timewhen the body politic became a theocracy, and reverently waited for the will of God.

There is every reason for believing that the prehistoric Egyptian expected to eat, and to drink, and to lead a life of pleasure in the region where he imagined his heaven to be, and there is little doubt that he thought the body in which he would live there would be not unlike the body which he had while he was upon earth.

"I have a very good reason for doing so," said the Bird: "it was once when I was singing in the daytime that a fowler was attracted by my voice, and set his nets for me and caught me.

It is maddeningand I have a special reason for wanting to know.

It is well known that he claims to have shot the Constable of Bourbon dead with his own hand, and to have wounded the Prince of Orange; nor does there seem to be any adequate reason for discrediting his narrative.

There was no explanation of the reason for this hurried journey,a strange omission between men who were on terms of such perfect confidence as obtained with these two.

He has no reason for deceiving me.

There was certainly ample reason for objection and disquietude.

There was, however, another reason for my frequent refusal to take food, in my belief that the detectives had resorted to a more subtle method of detection.

Tell me the truth; I have a reason for asking you.

Aristotle has given no reason for this Precept; but I presume it is because the Mind of the Reader is more awed and elevated when he hears Æneas or Achilles speak, than when Virgil or Homer talk in their own Persons.

This was not the only reason for failing to make more extensive use of American soldiers in police duty.

And this brings me to my reason for believing that society will soon be compelled to make a serious survey of the opinions and ideals of women.

If the Israelites did not sacrifice to ancestors (as we have shown that there is very scant reason for supposing that they did), how could they transfer to Jehovah the rite which, by our hypothesis, they are not proved to have offered to ancestors?

She had a reason for the hungry pain in her blood when the kind-faced old cobbler passed her.

Going to fetch the doctor might be accepted as a valid reason for missing the evening exhortation and prayer, but there were mistrustful looks that galled him.