True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

`` Why did you do it -- why did you hit him ''??

I had read the story many times without asking myself why it affected me or caring why it did.

The mother inquired, `` Where's Johnny, and why did you leave him ''??

The position of the new camp was admirably selected and well fortified, its easily defensible nature being one good reason why Howe did not attack it.

And that was why, on the day of the performance, when a carriage from the royal stables called to take him to the palace, he did not bother to shave.

And knowing its humble place in the scale of things, why did he, at this time of life, seem almost ready to sell his soul for plumpness??

There are, he thought, so few true means of forgetfulness in this life that why should he shun the medicine even when the medicine seemed, as it did, a little crude??

It was hoped that the facts concerning the characteristics and practices of the respondents would offer clues to the reasons why they took the positions and made the recommendations which they did.

If we did not mean to say this, why should we be so relieved on finding that the suffering had not occurred??

The middle-aged man said over and over, `` Why did I come here, why did I come here ''.

She whirled and faced him, roaring terribly, and Ulyate, watching through the leaves, could not understand why she did not charge and obliterate him, because he wouldn't have much of a chance of getting away, in that thick growth, but she seemed just a trace uncertain ; ;

Now why did I do that??

And why did the Chinese suddenly begin to talk about the Five Directions, when the animals they used as symbols of the directions designated only the usual four??

I said quietly, gaining nerve, ready to ask any question at all, no matter how intimate, ready to be rebuffed, `` Then why did she leave Israel??

`` But why did you come back ''??

Ibn al-Athir ( 1166 – 1234 ) describes Alfonso as a tireless soldier who would sleep in his armor without benefit of cover, who responded when asked why he did not take his pleasure from one of the captives of Muslim chiefs, responded that the man devoted to war needs the companionship of men not women.

As a result it is difficult for the reader to understand why the battles he describes had the outcome they did.

In an article he submitted for the medical journal The Lancet during World War I, Fleming described an ingenious experiment, which he was able to conduct as a result of his own glass blowing skills, in which he explained why antiseptics were killing more soldiers than infection itself during World War I. Antiseptics worked well on the surface, but deep wounds tended to shelter anaerobic bacteria from the antiseptic agent, and antiseptics seemed to remove beneficial agents produced that protected the patients in these cases at least as well as they removed bacteria, and did nothing to remove the bacteria that were out of reach.

Upon close examination of the works attributed to Aelbert Cuyp it is easily understood why his unique style developed the way it did, and how his works have been misinterpreted over the years.

Although Bede did not invent this method, his adoption of it, and his promulgation of it in De Temporum Ratione, his work on chronology, is the main reason why it is now so widely used.

The tremendous emphasis on the 5 in the Lo Shu square -- for purely mathematical reasons -- and the fact that this number so neatly symbolized the heart and center of the universe, could well explain why the Old Chinese seem to have so revered the number 5, and why they put so much stress on the concept of Centrality.

It is not clear why the present order of the books in the Tanakh does not match the order given in the Talmud ( nor does it match that of the Christian Old Testament ).

In Middle High German ( and possibly already in late Old High German ), the West Germanic phoneme became realized as ; this is why the German ‹ w › today represents that sound.

Tolkien was also aware of the name's Germanic cognates ( Old Norse Aurvandill, Lombardic Auriwandalo ), and the question why the Anglo-Saxon one rather than the Lombardic or Proto-Germanic form should be taken up in the mythology is alluded to in The Notion Club Papers.

Näsström comments that " still, we must ask why there are two heroic paradises in the Old Norse view of afterlife.

Seed heads of Clematis vitalba growing in a Hedge ( barrier ) | hedge, showing why it is known colloquially as " Old man's beard "

The play is unusually serious for an Old Comedy and possibly this was the reason why the original play failed at the City Dionysia.

It can be assumed that as the Old Man doesn't really believe in anything ( or indeed, anyone ), he does not sincerely consider the issues which are laid before him and merely answers philosophically, thereby answering the question of why the universe is in the terrible state that it is in.

In fact, the Old Frankish language has had a determining influence on the birth of Old French, that explains partly why the first documents in Old French are older than the documents in other Romance languages ( e. g .: Strasbourg Oaths ).

This is one of the main reasons why Iberian Jews ( Sephardim ) from central and southern regions called their everyday language Ladino-because this word had the sense of spoken Romance language ( Ladino is today a Romance language more closely related to Spanish, mainly to Old Spanish, spoken by some Jews of Sephardic ancestry ).

The Old Fort was situated at the banks of the Sutlej ( and now houses The College of Textile Engineering ) and legend has it that an underground tunnel connects it to the Fort in Phillaur-although why this should be is debatable, as the Sutlej was the traditional dividing line between the two principalities, often occupied by enemy forces ( see History section )

The song, known as Dear Old Skibbereen, takes the form of a conversation between a father and a son, in which the son asks his father why he fled the land he loved so well.

The words who, whom, whose, what and why, can all be considered to come from a single Old English word hwā, reflecting its masculine and feminine nominative ( hwā ), dative ( hwām ), genitive ( hwæs ), neuter nominative and accusative ( hwæt ), and instrumental ( masculine and neuter singular ) ( hwȳ, later hwī ) respectively.

Aramaic primacists question why the New Testament would quote from the Hebrew Old Testament and not from the Septuagint if it was written in Greek originally.

Unlike the other officers, Aarfy is not willing to pay for sex with a prostitute, but perversely he has no regrets when he rapes and murders the innocent maid Michaela ; when asked by Yossarian why he didn't simply hire a prostitute, he repeats his common admonition that " Old Aarfy has never paid for it ", and shows no remorse except when he begins to fear that he may be brought to justice.

The stories of the men and women who are part of Old South ’ s vital heritage reveal why the Old South Meeting House occupies an enduring place in the history of the United States.

That is why Old George helped to burn Catharine's Town in 1779.

He tells the Don he is going to die along with Vito, and reveals why: the accidental death of Carmen, one of the Old Town girls.

A lot of spectator enjoyment derives either from the frequent combination of a last recognised batsman adopting extremely aggressive play ( in an effort to score as many runs as possible before he runs out of batting partners-one reason why aggressive batsmen like Andrew Flintoff and Adam Gilchrist are often deliberately placed relatively low in the batting order ) and the constant risk of a wicket, the alternative situation where no recognised batsmen remains and the tail-enders ( relieved of their responsibility to bat carefully for anybody else ) often unleash their rarely seen arsenal of attacking shots, or alternatively the extremely tense situation which sometimes emerges towards the end of a match when a batting side, facing defeat, can only salvage a draw and save the match by batting to the end of the final day, which becomes difficult once the worst batsmen are in, and their survival is always nerve-wracking — English fans fondly remember the last wicket stand of Angus Fraser and Robert Croft, batting out the last few overs of the drawn Third Test against South Africa at Old Trafford in 1998, when the dismissal of either of them would have resulted in a loss.

Some of his relics found their way to England, which is why many of the nation's churches are dedicated to him ; St Pancras Old Church is believed to be one of the oldest sites of Christian worship in England.