They were alike too, in a general benevolence of temper, and a strong habit of regard for every old acquaintance.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Nicholas hazarded one or two further remarks, but it was evident that Tim Linkinwater had his own reasons for evading the subject, and that he was determined to afford no further information respecting the fair unknown, who had awakened so much curiosity in the breast of his young friend.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

He only reasons from evidence and on this occasion he has not got the evidence.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Were the experiment to be seriously made, though it required some effort to view it seriously even in fiction, I leave it to be decided by the sample of opinions just exhibited, whether, with all their enmity to their predecessors, they would, in any one point, depart so widely from their example, as in the discord and ferment that would mark their own deliberations; and whether the Constitution, now before the public, would not stand as fair a chance for immortality, as Lycurgus gave to that of Sparta, by making its change to depend on his own return from exile and death, if it were to be immediately adopted, and were to continue in force, not until a BETTER, but until ANOTHER should be agreed upon by this new assembly of lawgivers.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

“I have one rule for every land; do as the natives do.
— from Riddle of the Storm A Mystery Story for Boys by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

To be sure, the precept of "Don't spit," as applied in cities, has other reasons for enactment than to prevent tuberculosis.
— from Rural Hygiene by Henry N. (Henry Neely) Ogden

Mrs. Hardy, who met her in the hall, and took her to her own room for elaborate explanations, was herself a most puzzling and unsatisfactory feature in the case, for she made it evident to her daughter's keen perception that something more had happened than was accounted for in her rather disconnected narrative, and that she did not intend to disclose what it was.
— from A Mere Chance: A Novel. Vol. 2 by Ada Cambridge

Desiring to see the worst of the city I went to the prostitute quarter in company with Mr. Blackstone, a missionary from the Door of Hope, a house of refuge for escaping girls.
— from Margaret Sanger: an autobiography. by Margaret Sanger

[42] This was Richard Shuttleworth of Gawthorp, Esq., who married the daughter and heiress of R. Fleetwood, Esq., of Barton, and died June 1669, aged 82.
— from Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster by Potts, Thomas, active 1612-1618

Loneliness and a dearth of amusement had developed her own resources for entertainment, and taught her to find something of interest in every [313] object and person about her.
— from Mary Ware in Texas by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

They reported that Mary looked very melancholy, and Darnley was not present, it was supposed for fear the officers of Elizabeth should not give him the homage of royalty; for Elizabeth had still refused to acknowledge his title as King of Scotland.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

Let them dance and amuse themselves as long as they do not thrust their noses into the Councils of the Government; besides, Bourrienne," added he, "I have other reasons for encouraging this, I see other advantages in it.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

But sometimes also, very early on a summer morning, when the dawn was barely beginning to break, all things locked in sleep, and only some uneasy murmur or cock-crow, at a faint distance, giving a hint of resurrection for earth and her generations, I have heard in that same chanting of the little mountain river a more solemn if a less agitated admonition—a requiem over departed happiness, and a protestation against the thought that so many excellent creatures, but a little lower than the angels, whom I have seen only to love in this life—so many of the good, the brave, the beautiful, the wise—can have appeared for no higher purpose or prospect than simply to point a moral, to cause a little joy and many tears, a few perishing moons of happiness and years of vain regret!
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey

You may be sure the Chief has his own reasons for everything ."
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 29th 1893 by Various