1 The father of Safie had been the cause of their ruin.
2 I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it.
3 You have hope, and the world before you, and have no cause for despair.
4 I commit my cause to the justice of my judges, yet I see no room for hope.
5 This passion is detrimental to me, for you do not reflect that YOU are the cause of its excess.
6 My first thought was to discover what I knew of the murderer, and cause instant pursuit to be made.
7 I dared not ask the fatal question, but I was known, and the officer guessed the cause of my visit.
8 She weeps continually, and accuses herself unjustly as the cause of his death; her words pierce my heart.
9 Some hours passed thus, while they, by their countenances, expressed joy, the cause of which I did not comprehend.
10 Now I was led to examine the cause and progress of this decay and forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel-houses.
11 He might dissect, anatomize, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him.
12 I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred.
13 After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.
14 I reflected on this, and by touching the various branches, I discovered the cause and busied myself in collecting a great quantity of wood, that I might dry it and have a plentiful supply of fire.
15 The injustice of his sentence was very flagrant; all Paris was indignant; and it was judged that his religion and wealth rather than the crime alleged against him had been the cause of his condemnation.
16 He soon perceived that I disliked the subject; but not guessing the real cause, he attributed my feelings to modesty, and changed the subject from my improvement, to the science itself, with a desire, as I evidently saw, of drawing me out.
17 It was to be decided whether the result of my curiosity and lawless devices would cause the death of two of my fellow beings: one a smiling babe full of innocence and joy, the other far more dreadfully murdered, with every aggravation of infamy that could make the murder memorable in horror.
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