In fact, whatever be the subject of song, the gods are recognised as the rulers of the destinies of men, and the causes of all their joys and sorrows.
It is a belief of the villagers that such a devil child, when born and brought in contact with the air, rapidly grows, and causes great trouble, usually killing the mother, and sometimes killing all the inmates of the house.
On this crime being proved against any of the caste, the Gotugaru applies to Amildar, or civil magistrate, and having obtained his leave, immediately causes the delinquent to be shot.
Even more alarming to the people than the ending of appeals to the Assembly was an order from the King that certain causes arising in the courts be referred to England for decision.
They are by custom, but without commission, the supreme judges (together with the Governor who presides) in all causes .
The Committee on Private Causes prior to 1680 was in effect the supreme court of Virginia, to which appeals were made, for the House invariably accepted its findings.
But he realized that something had to be done, not only to restore order, but to remove at least some of the causes of discontent.
They did their best to block the commissioners in their inquiry into the causesof the rebellion.
He wanted no investigation of the causes of the rebellion, he wanted no interference with his hangings and seizures.
Besides, the sudden and violent impulse on the blood, occasioned by these surprizes, causes frequently such an alteration in the countenance, that the man is obliged to give evidence against himself.
Chapter iv -- In which the arrival of a man of war puts a final end to hostilities, and causes the conclusion of a firm and lasting peace between all parties.
He then begged her to forget both the causes of her confusion.
In strong and healthy constitutions love hath a very different effect from what it causes in the puny part of the species.
In which the arrival of a man of war puts a final end to hostilities, and causes the conclusion of a firm and lasting peace between all parties.
On the present occasion, however, we shall have the peculiar satisfaction of knowing that we communicate the truth, or that those, which we unfold, are the true causes and means.
Nor were they like diseases, which from local causes attack a village or a town, and by the skill of the physician, under the blessing of Providence, are removed, but they affected a whole continent.
It may be presumed, therefore, that this title is not always, if it be ever, founded in any of the causes above assigned.
To do this I shall begin with the causes which led to the production of this great event.
And here I may observe that, in doing this, we shall have advantages, which historians have not always had in developing the causes of things.
He tried to discover the causes of the singular excitability which, on two occasions, had betrayed itself in the best citizens of the town.
If the facts were clear, the causesescaped the sagacity of the magistrates.
Aubert tortured his mind in vain to discover the causes of the evil.
It takes but little encouragement and a minimum of material to supply legends in this desolate and weird region, where every sound seems unnatural and the trembling of a leaf causes the nerves to tingle.
Hereditary influence and generations of poverty and privation are the generalcauses of insanity.
The superintendent of the insane asylum at Killarney asserts that the most prolific causes of insanity here are the imagination, the superstitions, and the habitual use of strong tea.
A few years, or even a few months, in America causes an extraordinary change in the dress and the manners of a European peasant.
The women cover their heads with thick shawls that are often greasy and torn, and their faces show evidences of sorrow and privation, and perhaps other causes have left a mark.
The backward movement of the Moon’s Nodes combined with the apparent motion of the Sun in the ecliptic causes the Moon in its monthly course round the Earth to complete a revolution with respect to its Nodes in a less time (27.
Truly those times were the “Dark Ages” in which ignorance and folly were rampant, seeing that more than 1000 years previously the Greeks knew all about the causes of eclipses.
This is an instance of the simultaneous operation of those causes (whatever they may be) which result in a totally-eclipsed Moon being sometimes wholly invisible and sometimes entirely visible as a copper-coloured disc.
We know also that the apparent motion of the Sun causes that body to traverse the whole of the ecliptic in the course of the year.
There are other causes likely to co-operate in bringing this about.
Upon his answering in the negative, he said, ‘Where is the difference, then between this and the other, except that something bigger than my cloakcauses the eclipse?
We are the more perplexed by the question, whether the provision of a bed for ourselves causes other people to go without a bed, and, perhaps, without supper, or how far we are bound to take such consequences into account.
The wider and deeper thecauses of progress, the more confidently we can derive hope from the past, and accept with comparative equanimity even the most painful catastrophes.
Society, it is sometimes said, has no right to punish, because it ought to have suppressed the causes of crime.
I agree, indeed, fully, that the causes are not exclusively intellectual.
I therefore hold that in many cases the causes of progress are "primarily intellectual".
Buckle, who argued that progress was due to intellectualcauses exclusively, always assumed that human nature was constant, or that the faculties did not change.
It is the Pisgah sight of the promised land whichcauses a burst of energy.
North River, at this place, is several miles broad, and the opposite shore is so low that the snow causes it to appear but a slight undulation of the frozen bed of the river.
The small red myriapod (kanvêyâ) causes death by entering the ear.
There are seven varieties of vipers; of these the bite of the nidi polangâ causes a deep sleep, and of the le polangâ a discharge of blood.
Any injury however slight to the spot where it residescauses death.
Kalu Kumâra Yakâ is a young devil of a dark complexion who is seen embracing a woman; he prevents conception, delays childbirth and causes puerperal madness.
Riri Yakâ has a monkey face, carries in one hand a cock and a club in the other with a corpse in his mouth, is present at every death bed, haunts fields and causes fever flux of blood and loss of appetite, and has a crown of fire on his head.
Tenants unable to attend by reason of distance or other causes make a payment in lieu called Gamanmurakasi.
While they sleep, we must tell something more of the story of the little Agnes,--of what she is, and what are the causes which have made her such.
There is a petulant and meddlesome industry which proceeds from spiritual debility, and causes more; it is like the sleeplessness and tossing of exhausted nervous patients, which arises from weakness, and aggravates its occasion.
A revolving body is not hindered, but the same impulse which begot its movement causes this perpetually to return into itself.
In this search after more profound causes of action, they reject whatever is natural and obvious.
A sudden jolt, or a nervous finger, often causes a premature discharge.
It is simply the application which causes difficulty--in the one case an appeal with bow and arrows to our pockets, in the other to our bodies.
There are local causesand effects to be considered, such as permanently affect certain localities favorably or the contrary.
Concealed in ravines, the hunter causes terrible havoc with such weapons before the herd takes flight.
More serious causes of resentment came to aggravate a situation already so uncomfortable.
Good order, politically, is indispensable if liberty, intellectually, is to develop itself regularly and do the community more good than it causes of trouble and embarrassment.
France, and bring clearly to view the causes of her greatnesses and her weaknesses.
This old man, worn down by fever, endured all these causes of anguish and many others that came to rack him more painfully than his grievous wound.
Causes she never considered, because she knew nothing about them.
The difficulties of my situation, moreover, were from various causes extremely perplexing.
The movement seems to be difficult of execution, as it causes them to perspire profusely; they, however, keep excellent time, and the blending of the voices of the men and women in symphony has an agreeable effect.
For when the water increases in bulk, because the cavities cannot contain it, in its struggles it causes an earthquake.
The steam causes this eruption, then rushes out with a roar, and the geyser eruption is over.
And when the earth becomes partially dried up, the water being drawn from the full reservoirs into those which are empty, in passing from one to the other, by its movements it causes an earthquake also.
Or, possibly, a submarine volcanic eruption causes the water to lift suddenly under pressure of steam generated by escape of the lava and other hot volcanic products.
There has been considerable discussion as to the exact causes of the tornadic incandescent blast that caused the awful destruction of life.
There still remains to be discussed the most curious of all possible causes that have been suggested for the presence of the local heated areas at comparatively short distances below the earth's crust; namely, radio-activity.
As to the probability of the extensive exterminations that have occurred during these times being produced by earthquake waves, Dana speaks thus: "The causes of the extermination are two.
There are various causes that produce earthquake sounds.
In tracing the causes of these disappearances, Dana points out that, perhaps, the principal cause was a decrease in the temperature of the ocean, since the destructions were limited in large measure to marine life.
In like manner, when the general statement takes the form of an effect, we want to know what the causes are that produce such an effect.
The second sentence causes us to ask, what was it?
We are better satisfied with our understanding of a thing if we know the causes which have produced it or the effects which follow it.
The use of two principles causes an overlapping of divisions, thus producing what is called cross division.
Which sentences state causes and which state effects?
The coherent order is usually that which proceeds from causes to effects rather than that which traces events backward from effects to causes.
This causes paleness of the skin, often noticed in the face of the young smoker.
If two or three possible causes exist, our argument becomes conclusive only by considering them all and by showing that all but one did not produce the observed effect.
We can furnish details or instances, originate comparisons, or state causes and effects.
Which sentences state causes and which state effects in the following paragraphs?
The statement of the causes of an event or condition may be used as a fifth method of development.
Write a theme of three or more paragraphs, stating causes and effects.
If several causes contribute to the same effect, each may be given a separate paragraph, or several minor ones may be combined in one paragraph.
What may seem to be causes and effects at first may, upon further investigation or inquiry, prove to be merely chance coincidences.
But a little consideration will show that there are special causes for the rancor of theologians for which word-criticism has no parallel.
The glaring exposure of matters usually kept close, and not even talked about, formed in fact the great fascination of these causes célèbres.
There is one other point to which Mr. Froude's attention ought to be called, as likely seriously to diminish the political weight of his exposition of the causes of Irish discontent.
The causes of all successes, as of all failures, in the literary world are of course various, and no doubt there is a good deal of truth in all that has been said in solution of the comic-paper problem.
For every creature is naturally formed to flee and abhor things that appear hurtful and that which causes them; and to pursue and admire those which appear beneficial and that which causes them.
Such causes could never have produced effects competent to so startle an intelligent and firm-nerved community as to make them charge this practitioner with diabolism, and seek her execution.
Philosophy, science, and common sense demand causes adequate to produce whatever effects are ascribed to them.
The former historian imputed certain offensive acts or traits to both Margaret Jones and Ann Hibbins severally, which he assumed to be the provoking causes of public vengeance.
We, as has already been made apparent, ascribe her arrest to other causes than the lowness of her character and condition.
Like causes which made it thus of old, operate to-day, and the supplemental revelations and revealers of our time meet with like reception as did those centuries ago.
The implied infatuation and credulity of a generation which could be roused to such barbarity by such insignificant causes is a most defamatory impeachment of the sagacity, manhood, and humaneness of our forefathers.
The bewilderings of antecedent causes were needful to make a correct guess terrific.
Why, therefore, hastily brand them with the imbecility of being unequal to a fair, common-sense estimate of the adequacy of causes to produce observed effects?
Meanwhile, the diffluence causes a spreading and flattening of the sarcode and swimming gives place to creeping, while the flagella violently lash.
The plate is rotated 2,400 times each minute, and each revolution causes the escape and interruption of twelve jets of air or steam through the openings in the disk and rotating plate.
We know little if anything of the relation between the two conjugating cells or gametes, of the real nature of the attraction that causes them to approach each other and ultimately unite together.
The fact is that the investigation of the causes of evolution has been going on and has been making progress from the time of Darwin, and from times much earlier than his, down to the present day.
Mechanical irritation, especially of the interrupted kind, repeated blows or friction causes hypertrophy of the epidermis and of superficial bone.
Thus the factor which causes the comb to be a rose comb in a fowl must be present in the cells that produce the plumage or the toes or any other part of the body.
In the case of excretory glands the contrary will be the case, for their removal causes increase in the blood of the exciting urea and uric acid.
Castration during the breeding season causes the external pigmented layer with its papillae to be cast off very soon--that is to say, it has the same effect as the normal discharge of the spermatozoa.
It is this physiological change which causes the development of female secondary characters.
It will be obvious to most biologists that the thyroid, whether that of the tadpole itself or that which is supplied as food, only causes the development of legs because the hereditary power to develop legs is already present.
The reason why the determinants give rise to the original structure first and then change it into the new structure is probably the same as that which causes secondary sexual characters to develop only at the stage of puberty.
Various causes have been suggested for the formation of the scrotum, but no one has ever been able to suggest a use for it.
But the fact that the wall of the intestine produces secretion, which carried by the blood causes the pancreas to secrete, shows that a particular gland is not necessary.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "causes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
