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Usage examples of motives.

Will you suffer me therefore to beg, unless any consideration restrains you, that you would be pleased to acquaint me what motives have induced you thus to withdraw from the society of mankind, and to betake yourself to a course of life to which it sufficiently appears you were not born?

The noble bumtrap, blind and deaf to every circumstance of distress, greatly rises above all the motives to humanity, and into the hands of the gaoler resolves to deliver his miserable prey.

His bloodlust shatters all the conventional wisdom surrounding the motives and mechanics of how serial killers operate.

Matrimony, therefore, having removed all such motives, he grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiness and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

For though the facts themselves may appear, yet so different will be the motives, circumstances, and consequences, when a man tells his own story, and when his enemy tells it, that we scarce can recognise the facts to be one and the same.

Worldly motives were the wicked and base reasons of my concealing this from you so long: to reveal it now I can have no inducement but the desire of serving the cause of truth, of doing right to the innocent, and of making all the amends in my Power for a Past offence.

I scanned the back cover for a hint of the motives driving the couple into such a public display of lust.

Mildred went home to weep, everyone else stormed away with murderous expressions and lovely motives, and Mr.

Smithfield Meat Market, a man claiming to be the killer distributed a FLYER to the waiting hacks that outlined his motives for the series of gruesome killings.

And in this case, the victimology yielded clues that this was not a stranger crime and that perhaps more easily discernible motives applied.

In the Ripper examination we discussed general motives of the lust murderer.

My purpose here is neither to defend or condemn John or Patricia Ramsey, nor to justify the actions or positions for which, in certain circles, I have been roundly criticized and my motives challenged.

Any participants and motives we attempt to plug into the scenario must work with those facts.

But he did not wish to be left in complete ignorance of his projects for the future, or of his motives in the past.

She could understand this desire, and she knew too well this man, upon whom she had lavished her young affection, to attribute any bad motives to his visit.