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It is as hard reasoning with them as it would have been reasoning with lo, when she was flying over land and sea, driven by the sting of the never-sleeping gadfly.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various

The thinking, or it may even have been reasoning, involved few clear-cut images of any kind.

From How to Teach by Strayer, George Drayton

It would have been reasoning inapplicable to Adela, but from a certain point of view it might have served as a resource.

From Demos by Gissing, George

This, you know, is the age of reason, and during the last hundred and fifty years men have been reasoning themselves out of everything that they ought to believe and feel. 

From Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society by Morley, Henry

She might have been reasoning some disputed point in ethics.

From The Captain of the Kansas by Tracy, Louis