Reasons; motives

Usage examples of causes.

Nature of the experiments--Effects of boiling water--Warm water causes rapid inflection--Water at a higher temperature does not cause immediate inflection, but does not kill the leaves, as shown by their subsequent reexpansion and by the aggregation of the protoplasm--A still higher temperature kills the leaves and coagulates the albuminous contents of the glands.

For the first time I felt that kind of happiness which makes forgiveness compulsory upon the being who enjoys it, and causes him to forget all previous unpleasantness.

Her husband was a giddy young fellow, who perhaps felt very deep affection for his wife, but who imagined that, through good breeding, he ought to appear very indifferent, and whose vanity found pleasure in giving her constant causes for jealousy.

Does an hypochondriac affection, which causes sadness and lowness in all those who suffer from it, render you cheerful?

I gave way to that feeling of false pride which so often causes the ruin of young men, and after losing four sequins I expressed a wish to retire, but my honest friend, the Jacobin contrived to make me risk four more sequins in partnership with him.

In my turn, I want to know what causes this general laughter, and at last Nanette, putting on an air of anxiety, tells me that they have no more candle, and that in a few minutes we shall be in the dark.

I feel that no misfortune has befallen me save by my own fault, whilst I attribute to natural causes the blessings, of which I have enjoyed many.

Most likely the reading of a certain class of novels causes the ruin of a great many young girls, but I am of opinion that from good romances they acquire graceful manners and a knowledge of society.

Juliette are often guided by a spirit of contradiction which causes them to act against their own interests.

I was on the point of losing that treasure, the remembrance of which causes me, even now, a delicious trembling.

Gatta wine is like champagne, it causes merriment without intoxicating, but it cannot be kept for more than one year.

The deep affection I have for you causes me to grieve for what the public voice says about you.

That doubt causes all my anxiety, and I entreat from you an answer, yes or no.

Immersion for several hours in water causes some degree of aggregation.

Thus a particle of sugar added to the secretion round a gland causes a much greater increase of secretion, and much less aggregation, than does a particle of carbonate of ammonia given in the same manner.