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Sake

noun

A reason for wanting something done. Synonym: interest. "Died for the sake of his country" , "In the interest of safety" , "In the common interest"

Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot. Synonyms: rice beer, saki.

The purpose of achieving or obtaining.

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"Sake" Quotes from Famous Books

... be back at the end of the week—but he didn't come, and just then I had to go away. Now I take him to have been the man, Salter Quick, who was murdered on the Northumberland coast—no doubt for the sake of those jewels. As for their value, I estimated it, from my cursory examination of them, to have been certainly not less than eighty ...

— Ravensdene Court • J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

... her mother, who was lame and not long for this life. Her mother had begged a black kitten from some boys who were going to drown it, and in her last illness she told Mary to be kind to it for her sake. ...

— Wanderings In South America • Charles Waterton

... do not write all this for the sake of the church-rate question. I write it to commemorate the spirit in which Mr Templeton met me. For it is of consequence that two men who love their Master should recognize each that the other does so, and thereupon, if not before, should cease ...

— Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood • George MacDonald

... communicable in music is not capable of re-translation into the feeling which has become communicable in painting. Thus the arts have no doubt in common a human and even rational content—rational in so far as the feelings which are embodied in expression, for expression's sake, arise in connection with ideas and purposes; but each of them has separately its own peculiar physical medium of expression and also a whole region of modified feeling or fancy which constitutes the material ...

— An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times • Thomas Hill Green

... labour. The women are, however, good walkers and not easily fatigued; for we have several times known a young woman of two-and-twenty, with a child in her hood, walk twelve miles to the ships and back again the same day, for the sake of a little bread-dust and a tin canister. When stationary in the winter, they have really almost a sinecure of it, sitting quietly in their huts, and having little or no employment for the greater part of the day. In short, there are few, if any people, in this state of society among ...

— Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the • Sir William Edward Parry

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