The want of ammunition for the artillery was a principal inducement to this opinion.

This was one motive; but the principal inducement was connected with an apprehension of floods.

This seemed to have been her principal inducement, originally, for taking up her residence there.

And so you shall, but not until I have made those corrections which were the principal inducement of my recital.

Under these circumstances, the principal inducement with the Mekkawys to remain in the town, namely, their unceasing gains, no longer existed.

These, my dear, seem to me the principal inducements of my relations to espouse so vehemently as they do this man's suit.