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Sake   /seɪk/   Listen
Sake

noun
1.
A reason for wanting something done.  Synonym: interest.  "Died for the sake of his country" , "In the interest of safety" , "In the common interest"
2.
Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot.  Synonyms: rice beer, saki.
3.
The purpose of achieving or obtaining.





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"Sake" Quotes from Famous Books



... sorts of work are really equally entitled to the designation of embroidery, yet for the sake of making our hints as intelligible as possible, we will adopt the popular terms, and confine our present remarks to that sort of embroidery which is ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
... not like you. Do you think that poor little woman has lost her baby for our sake? Are we of so much more importance than she is, in the sight of God, do you think? Come, come, that is ...
— Sir Tom • Mrs. Oliphant
... for the sake of contrast, was called Spoil-sport (Rabat-joie), being always at his master's heels, found himself within the reach of Jovial, who from time to time nipped him delicately by the nape of the neck, ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue
... caught by a picture representing three women bathing. It was a very rough sketch, but, before she had time to examine it, Arthur turned it against the wall. Why he hid two pictures from her she could not help wondering. It could not be for propriety's sake, for there were nudities on every ...
— Muslin • George Moore
... her right foot. This meant another delay. Miss Elting removed the girl's shoe from that foot and treated the blister. Half an hour was lost by this delay, but no one except Tommy Thompson complained. Tommy complained for the sake of saying something. She teased Margery so unmercifully that Miss Elting was obliged to rebuke her, after which Tommy went off by herself and sat pensively down by the roadside until the order to march ...
— The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea - Or The Loss of The Lonesome Bar • Janet Aldridge


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