There is no valid reason why Mr. Chambers should not ultimately be remembered as the novelist who left behind him a comprehensive human comedy of New York.

And I can think of no other valid reason, excepting that she doesn't care enough for me.

To such I would reply, Do so, if you please; there is no valid reason why you should not try.

For this devotion they certainly had valid reason.

In my chief work I have explained the only valid reason existing against suicide on the score of mortality.

We do not know upon what these statements rest, but there ought to be some valid reason before we dismiss them entirely.

Very few of this variety have appeared at field trials for several years past, but that cannot be considered a valid reason for stigmatising them as "old-men's dogs," as some narrow-minded faddists delight in calling them.

Several politicians are of opinion that this was not a valid reason.

There is no valid reason why an intelligent woman should not be permitted to carry the weight of her judicious influence beyond the charmed circle of her home, any more than that she should not be permitted to exercise it there.

"That women of mature age should be under guardianship," writes the great jurist Gaius in the second century, "seems to have no valid reason as foundation.

Captivity of either party for a prolonged period of time was always a valid reason.

But there does not appear to be a single valid reason for thus diminishing his fame.

Occasionally there was, for some valid reason, an exception to his disapproval; as in the case, for instance, of Jack McMillan.

Our Vienna Correspondent truly says that "there is no valid reason to believe war between Austria-Hungary and Russia to be inevitable, or even immediately probable."

We entirely agree, but wish we could add that the absence of any valid reason was placing strict limitations upon the scope of "precautions."

But there is no excuse for trying to depict his hero's toe-nails, unless there is a very valid reason for doing so.

Several politicians are of the opinion that this was not a valid reason.

There was no valid reason why the negroes along the Mississippi would not be just as valuable in the army, as the men of the same race in other parts of the country.

A valid reason for this attitude was found in the extremely limited manhood suffrage and in the aristocratic class government of most European countries, especially of Germany; so that, as the party socialists saw it, multiplying state enterprises but increased the power of the ruling, and eventually of the militarist, class.

You can't give a single valid reason why you don't like them.

If so,and there is no valid reason to doubt the statement,Giorgione left unfinished a picture on which he was at work some years before his death, for the style clearly indicates that the artist had not yet reached the maturity of his later period.

That the execution in this respect is not equal to the supreme conception of the whole, is no valid reason for the belief that this "Judith" is only a copy of a lost original, a belief that could apparently only be held by those who have never stood before the picture itself.

I confess the matter is not thus lightly to be disposed of; there is no valid reason to doubt the antiquity of the inscription, which, on the analogy of the Cobham Hall picture, may well have been added in Titian's own lifetime, and for the same reason that I there suggestedviz.

"It is of course," Dr. Parkinson remarked in conclusion, "as unfortunate for the company as it is strangely lucky for Andrews; but there is no valid reason for refusing payment.

They were not really husband and wife, and as long as she did nothing to disgrace the Tancred honor he had no valid reason for questions or complaints.