Querist's word

Usage examples of why.

We wondered for a long while why Kadra was so adamant about evacuating Tenua to the Abesse and sending her people straight into Volan hands.

Why, Abigail could best nearly any boy in the county at what were deemed masculine pursuits: hunting, riding and climbing trees.

We had suddenly switched our allegiance from India to Aboriginal Australia and I guess, in their eyes, they could see no reason why we would do that except for the money.

The people hauled in to testify about why they voted absentee offered a vivid picture of the fierce loyalties, rough politics, and economic pressures that shaped the lives of Arkansas hill people.

Why has the Primal not remained self-gathered so that there be none of this profusion of the manifold which we observe in existence and yet are compelled to trace to that absolute unity?

I mean, why take his word for it that he caught your father abusing you?

There was no reason why the Hotchkiss cottage should be so abuzz with activity, no reason whatsoever.

And the reason why he hesitated to do that which his body ached for-Steven of Gravely.

They soon made introductions and Acies explained to the elf why they were in the mines.

That is why he had me arrange to send a different, kind of primrose to the Acme Florists.

Why did you wish information about this box of aconitine pills prescribed for Mrs.

The reason why I did not acquaint you last night that I professed this art, was, that I then concluded you was under the hands of another gentleman, and I never love to interfere with my brethren in their business.

Let me ask you why many of us who are opposed to slavery upon principle give our acquiescence to a Fugitive Slave law?

And why should this power of acquiring languages be greater at two years than at twenty, but that for many generations we have learnt to speak at about this age, and hence look to learn to do so again on reaching it, just as we looked to making eyes, when the time came at which we were accustomed to make them.

On my view of characters being of real importance for classification, only in so far as they reveal descent, we can clearly understand why analogical or adaptive character, although of the utmost importance to the welfare of the being, are almost valueless to the systematist.