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Sentences starting with reason

Reason made a valiant but hopeless effort to assert itself. [9]
Reason cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason--must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense. [7]
Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world. [6]
Reason is the mind--it leaps to the stars without realizing always how it gets there. [9]
Reason has fled from the Prince Pasha, the Inglesi has bewitched him. [11]
Reason and revelation coincide with this statement, and support its proof every hour, for nothing is harmonious or eternal that is not spiritual: the realization of this will bring out objects from a higher source of thought; hence more beautiful and immortal. [5]
Reason had fled, and he only saw in O'Ryan the frustrator of his revenge. [11]
Reason had returned. [9]

Sentences ending with reason

But perhaps the young lady had the reason. [8]
The blows that wound the affections can only be healed by the affections, and not by the intellect and considerations of reason. [10]
They do it without regard to rhyme or reason. [5]
Mr. Vane himself will not listen to reason. [9]
Several times his wife asked him the reason. [5]
That is the whole reason. [5]
Not a few were grateful to him for another reason. [9]
But a heavy weight has fallen on my spirits, my good friend, and the sadness that gathers over me, will yield to neither hope nor reason. [12]
How often do we deliberately weigh such a choice as we would that of another person, testing our inclination by solid reason? [4]
We estimate that we are within seven hundred miles of the Sandwich Islands, and that our average, daily, is somewhat over a hundred miles, so that our hopes have some foundation in reason. [5]

Short sentences using reason

It don't reason, you see. [5]
I should reason with him. [5]
Philip had listened to reason. [10]
Do you guess the reason? [12]
What is that reason? [7]
That ain't any reason. [9]
This is one reason. [6]
And with good reason. [6]
There was good reason. [5]
That is the reason. [5]

Sentences containing reason two or more times

It is vain to seek reason outside ourselves; the highest to which we can attain is for reason to behold itself in us! [10]
They were impossibilities to my reason, but to my heart they rang true; and so, while my reason doubted, my heart believed--believed, and held fast to the belief from that day. [5]
You had reason to hurt me, but you had no reason for hurting Egypt, as you have done. [11]
Let us double-column the twelve; then we shall see at a glance that each little reason is in turn answered by a retorting reason of a size to overshadow it and make it insignificant: 1. [5]
Titianus falls before the dancer Theocritus, the noble Papinian before the murderer Caracalla, our splendid Alexander before such a wretch as Zminis; and divine reason lets it all happen, and allows human reason to proclaim the law. [10]
I tell him that, as he did it, and knows why he did it, if it was done for a reason different from this, he knows what that reason was and can tell us what it was. [7]
I fancy, now, that Mr. Henderson tolerates the good--that is the reason we get on so well together; and Mr. Lyon tolerates the evil--that's the reason he likes New York. [4]
There's not a reason why I shouldn't champion him and every reason why I should. [13]
There was no reason why he should not go; therefore there might be a reason why he should go. [11]
Even if that reason were insufficient, there would still be a sufficient reason left, in the fact that Mr. Carlton seems to be the publisher of the magazine in which it is proposed to publish this horse-car matter. [5]

More example sentences with the word reason in them

You can judge yourselves whether the tottering reason ever recovered its throne. [5]
It is said, your Excellency, that this Moray did not fire the shot that wounded you, but one who has less reason to love you. [11]
I quite understand you; and until I feel that you have good reason once more to respect the maniac who lost you by his own fault, I, who fought you like your most deadly foe, will not even speak the final word. [10]
Still, I ask you, do you think there is a reason why from her height she should stoop down to rescue you or give you any joy? [11]
For some reason you wish to deprive me of our former friendship. [2]
Yes, those among you who have not been in the penitentiary, if such there be, are better than your fathers and grandfathers were; but is that any sufficient reason, for getting up annual dinners and celebrating you? [5]
Was it because you thought she deserved it, and that you had given her reason to expect it? [7]
Subsequently I wrote you that, for a private reason, I had concluded to transpose them. [7]
Can any of you tell any reason why it should not have come into the Union at once? [7]
I will tell you my reason for suspecting it. [6]
For some reason, you haven't been down at Leith much this summer. [9]
And I think you have a self-deluding reason for that. [5]
What's the reason you couldn't get us up a paper on the strike? [8]
I could surprise you about him--and there isn't any reason why I should keep the thing to myself. [11]
The sight of yonder shining steeples and roofs seems to make your heart laugh, Sir Wolf, and, by Our Lady, you have good reason to bestow one or more candles upon her, for, besides other delightful things, a goodly heritage is awaiting you in Ratisbon. [10]
Thou hast reason yet, though thy blood is hot. [11]
For thirty long years he had been in one sense homeless, his wife having lost her reason three years after they were married. [11]
The last twenty-odd years' efforts to reduce the price of the lands, and to pass graduation bills and cession bills, prove the assertion to be true; and if there were no experience in support of it, the reason itself is plain. [7]
If anything went wrong, I never wasted any time in telling him about it, and I guess it was one reason he liked me. [9]
He said he would get a glimpse of that document or know the reason why. [5]
If possible, I would be very glad of another movement early enough to give us some benefit from the fact of the enemy's communication being broken; but neither for this reason nor any other do I wish anything done in desperation or rashness. [7]
The letter is worth reading today, if for no other reason, to show the absurdity of copyright conditions which prevailed at that time. [5]
She was miserably worn and tired, by the long day's struggle and by illness, or she must have noticed the effect of that speech and divined the reason of it. [5]
He enjoyed the world--a sufficient reason why the world should like him. [4]
In natural, simple words, the learned man, skilled in the art of language, represented to the imperial widower how little reason he had to mourn his devout wife. [10]
Without reason his words startled her. [11]
Gentlemen, do you wonder if this woman, thus pursued, lost her reason, was beside herself with fear, and that her wrongs preyed upon her mind until she was no longer responsible for her acts? [5]
It was a woman's reason, and it was not without a certain exquisite egotism and vanity, for she remembered so well the letter she had written him--every word was etched into her mind; and she knew by heart every word of his reply. [11]
You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns. [5]
They all gazed with the same dissatisfied and inquiring expression at this stout man in a white hat, who for some unknown reason threatened to trample them under his horse's hoofs. [2]
They did not wish to admit foreign troops within the walls, for during the first siege they had proved far more troublesome than useful, and there was little reason to fear that a city guarded by water, walls and trees would be taken by storm. [10]
But he was wise in his own way, which was not the way of those who had reason to bless him for ever, and who forgot him, though he had served them through so many years. [11]
He could surely win over the abbess in the course of the voyage, and Paula might be brought to reason, perhaps, this very evening. [10]
For a woman will reason thus," said his Lordship, winking wisely. [9]
So, if you will put up with my acid tongue, there's no reason why we shouldn't hit it off. [11]
The stir for wider freedom in religion and government increased with the activity of exploration and colonization, and one reason why James finally annulled the Virginia, charter was because he regarded the meetings of the London Company as opportunities of sedition. [4]
There's no reason why you shouldn't. [11]
There's a reason why they want this case hushed up, the way they've be'n actin'. [9]
One reason, perhaps, why they do not care to go to places of worship is that they are liable to hear the questions they know something about handled in sermons by those who know very much less about them. [6]
There's no reason why religion oughtn't to be fun, is there? [9]
That's one reason why Mustafa and all our friends here are so sweet on us now. [11]
The only reason why I write is that I want another letter from you, and because I have a whole afternoon for the job. [5]
There's no reason why I shouldn't say, for I wish you to be very frank with me. [8]
There's no reason why I shouldn't be allowed to build a railroad if I've got the money to do it. [9]
That's the reason why I hate to write. [6]
Knew no reason why he could not be an impartial juror. [5]
He scarcely knew why a thought flashed into his mind--as though by some telepathic sense; for it had never been there before, and there was no reason for its being there now. [11]
He regarded his whole life as a continual round of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him. [2]
He regarded the whole business of the war not with his intelligence or his reason but by something else. [2]
I read the whole book twice through and some of the chapters several times, and the reason that that was as far as I got with it was that I lent it to another admirer of yours and he is admiring it yet. [5]
Are the people who, by reason of a competence or other accidents of good-fortune, have most leisure, becoming more agreeable? [4]
And that she, who was apparently her friend, and who had Stanhope's welfare so much at heart, did so feel was an added reason why Irene was drifting towards a purpose of self-sacrifice. [4]
Is it those who resist the measure, or those who causelessly brought it forward, and pressed it through, having reason to know, and in fact knowing, it must and would be so resisted? [7]
Why should you, who have every reason to be satisfied, materially, with things as they are, be troubling yourself with thoughts of others who are less-fortunate? [9]
The poor woman, who had no cause to doubt her son, but every reason for relying on his honesty and truth, was staggered, notwithstanding, by his not having advanced one word in his defence. [12]
But the woman who gives only one person reason to despise her signs the death-warrant of her own dignity. [10]
For a little while, hope made a show of reviving--not with any reason to back it, but only because it is its nature to revive when the spring has not been taken out of it by age and familiarity with failure. [5]
Kathleen, that name which had haunted her--ah, whoever Kathleen was, or whatever Kathleen had to do with him or his life, she had no reason to fear Kathleen now. [11]
There was nothing which gave the least reason to suspect insanity on the part of the writer, whoever he or she might be. [6]
A time came when the occurrence appeared to me in the light of prescience, but that was when I began to understand that all ideas, all reason and philosophy, are the result of outer impression. [11]
I don't know what's the reason, but these material tokens of a social decay afflict me terribly; a tipsy woman isn't dreadfuler than a haggard old house, that's once been a home, in a street like this. [5]
And as for what we'll think of this in another year, why, doesn't it hold to reason that we'll think it the best day of our lives-- as it is, Guida? [11]
Let me explain what the five did--you would not be able to reason it out for yourself. [5]
When she saw what she had done, she knew the reason of it and the meaning of it; and she put her work away from her and said she would accept the sign. [5]
I have forgotten what reason you assigned for not printing it; I cannot think of any sufficient one. [6]
Now, I ask, what is the reason Judge Douglas is so chary about coming to the exact question? [7]
I know not what has poisoned thy mind, and driven thee from reason and from justice. [11]
But men never were so created and born, so far as we have any record of them, and by analogy we have no reason to suppose that they ever will be. [4]
The new papers were more aggressive than the earlier ones, and for that reason found a heartier welcome in some quarters, and met with a sharper antagonism in others. [6]
I thought you were in your room," she said, for some reason blushing and dropping her eyes. [2]
The municipal geese were gone, but it was impossible to prove that this particular fox had used his enlightened reason in their procurement. [9]
Some searching questions were asked, when it turned out that these lads were as glib as parrots with the "rules," but could not reason out a single rule or explain the principle underlying it. [5]
The reason she went over thus is her starboard wheel was not working. [7]
You see," he went on, "one great reason why I've been so successful is because I've been practical. [9]
One might as well reason with a bee as to the form of his cell, or with an oriole as to the construction of his swinging nest, as try to stir these creatures from their own way of doing their own work. [6]
You may laugh, weep, reason, sing, sneer, or pray, according to your genius. [6]
Thrice within a week the Queen had sent for De la Foret--what reason was there for that, unless the Queen had a secret personal interest in him? [11]
During a whole week my head was in a turmoil night and day fierce enough and exhausting enough to upset a stronger reason than mine. [5]
The reason why we teach so much that is not practical and in itself useful, is because we find that the easiest way of teaching what is practical and useful. [3]
That's the reason we have so much poetry that impresses one like sets of faultless cabinet-furniture made by machinery. [4]
What's the reason we couldn't get somebody else to take us just as well? [8]
What's the reason we couldn't get one of the strikers to write it up for us? [8]
We are sorry we cannot make her a faultless heroine; but we cannot, for the reason that she was human. [5]
That is the way my reason works, and I can't help it. [9]
Coniston, too, was watching the drama, and had had a better view of the stage than Brampton, and saw some reason presently for the change in Jethro Bass. [9]
Weak as he was, there was every reason to fear the issue of this return of his threatening symptoms. [6]
Whatever the reason was, he furnished her with means, not only for her necessary expenses, but sufficient to afford her many of the elegances which she would be like to want in the fashionable society with which she was for a short time to mingle. [6]
Now the letter was to say that they had both played him false; the former in obedience to the stern behest of his father, the town-councillor; the second by reason that his Duke commanded his attendance. [10]
Her first impulse was to rise, yet for some inexplicable reason she remained. [9]
That private reason was the request of an old personal friend who himself desired to be receiver, but whom I felt it my duty to refuse a recommendation. [7]
The old man was startled and full wroth yet, by reason of all the fine folk about us, he was bound to refrain himself, and he presently departed. [10]
And now there was reason to believe that, at last, Kaid was turning against the Inglesi. [11]
The practical faculty was powerful in Bacon; but not, like his wit, so powerful as occasionally to usurp the place of his reason and to tyrannize over the whole man. [5]
The whole court was out of patience; and with good reason. [5]
What troubled him was only the consciousness that he had given her and innocent little Taus every reason to curse their meeting. [10]
I--I think that was one reason why he was so reckless. [9]
Or rather, that was one of the reason why it failed, but there was another and better one. [5]
The big fellow was often seen with the little fellow, but it was for the same reason that the bull is often seen with the gnat. [5]
Colonel Woodburn, who was not yet in the secret of their love, perhaps failed for this reason to share their satisfaction with a result so unexpectedly brought about. [8]
Even Mrs. Holt was not wholly proof against the charms of Trixton Brent when he chose to exert himself; and for some reason he did so choose. [9]

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