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Sentences starting with thus

Thus the ingenuous young man argued with himself, until it seemed plain to him that if Evelyn loved him, and the conviction grew that she did, all obstacles must give way to this overmastering passion of his life. [4]
Thus three long years had passed, during which Sappho had seldom seen her grandmother, for, as the mother of Parmys, she was by the king's command, forbidden to leave the harem, unless permitted and accompanied either by Kassandane or the eunuchs. [10]
Thus in a year and a half, the Virginia office only shipped $5,330,000 in bullion. [5]
Thus Elie Mattingley would not die in vain! [11]
Thus the summer wore on to early autumn. [9]
Thus she was wont, at the most unexpected moments, to betray the passion within her, the passion that made him sick with desire. [9]
Thus a young woman affected with jaundice is mentioned in the German "Annals of Clinical Homoeopathy" as having been cured in twenty-nine days by pulsatilla and nux vomica. [3]
Thus woe on woe, and at the same time the painfully paralyzing feeling of the hostility of Fate had been evoked from its surges and, instead of happiness, they had brought sorrow and suffering. [10]
Thus deftly, and without strain, and with an air of happiness even, did she set aside the words and the appeal which had created a storm in her soul. [11]
Thus he gazed with mute reproach at the smith for some time, then pushed the goblet far away, exclaiming with sincere indignation: "What doings are these, friend Adam? [10]

Sentences ending with thus

Did it strike you thus? [14]
We ought to wish many sorrows to one, who can lament thus. [10]
No one knew who started it, but it probably was Billy Bagshot, who had had more than a double portion of drink, and was seized with a desire to celebrate his thanks to Connor thus. [11]
It is ever thus. [5]
Witnesses differ, but the majority say that she struck thus. [7]
Between the trenches the earth was torn and tortured, as though some sudden fossilizing process, in its moment of supreme agony, had fixed it thus. [9]
Was ever stronghold taken thus? [9]
But she thought she could see through that couple and knew why they had spoken of her thus. [10]
I am going, never to return; but I shall take you and my love with me to battle, to the grave.--I go, I go--" "Not so, Georg, you must not part from me thus. [10]
Differences in after life, alas, are not always to be bridged thus. [9]

Short sentences using thus

Thus a half-hour went by. [11]
Thus did my uncle. [5]
Thus ecstasy ebbed to despondency. [9]
Thus soft is this stone. [5]
Thus all these things happened. [10]
Thus only will things grow. [4]
Thus, teaching he taught. [9]
Thus do matters stand. [10]
Act thus, my son. [10]
People are thus precipitated. [6]

Sentences containing thus two or more times

The people compared them with what they had seen; and, thus measured, thus judged, the boats were magnificent--the term was the correct one, it was not at all too strong. [5]
In spite of the slight antagonism and envy of which I was conscious,--that she was thus superbly in command of the situation, that she had developed her pinions and was thus splendidly able to use them,--my admiration for her had never been greater. [9]
Thus originated the Missouri Compromise; and thus has it been respected down to 1845. [7]
It is an honour to her; and, as such, I have thought it my duty to speak thus much, and quote thus fully from her letter about it. [14]
Thus Gombert had heard within his mind the praise of spring when he set it to music, but had never before had it thus understood by any singer, reproduced by any human voice. [10]
It was thus he gauged the importance of his acquaintances; it was thus he hoped some day to be gauged. [9]
Doubtless thus she had made King and Cardinal laugh, doubtless thus, ministering to those who crossed her path, she had met her own calamities. [9]
Thus thought the citizens; thus, too, thought the soldiers, who were required by military discipline to draw the sword against the god in whom many of them believed. [10]
Thus her memory came to be adored; and thus, when the noble second son, the glory of his house and of his heart, was killed in Macedonia, the Duke still came to the little upper room for his communion of remembrance. [11]
Be temperate in all things; avoid excess of zeal; for thus, and thus only, can we be just. [10]

More example sentences with the word thus in them

General Grant and yourself have been conspicuous in our most important successes; and for me to interfere and thus magnify a breach between you could not but be of evil effect. [7]
On Sunday morning your letter came, and you have thus been spared the visitation of the unannounced and unsummoned apparition of Currer Bell in Cornhill. [14]
Somewhat thus a young rose-tree might feel, which for the first time receives the support of the prop to which it is tied by the careful gardener. [10]
I am glad you told me my faults plainly in private, for in your public notice you touch on them so lightly, I should perhaps have passed them over thus indicated, with too little reflection. [14]
I've stuck to you thus far, and I'll be damned now if I throw you over, like they did Jonah. [9]
I rejoice with you in the success which has thus far attended that cause. [7]
And do not you believe that his name thus compulsorily placed at the head of the Independent column would work absolutely certain defeat to Blain and save the country's honor? [5]
Thus, after seven years of vicissitudes, ended a "pleasure trip" to the silver mines of Nevada which had originally been intended to occupy only three months. [5]
And thus he would die--out in the cold world, with no shelter over his homeless head, no friendly hand to wipe the death-damps from his brow, no loving face to bend pityingly over him when the great agony came. [5]
And thus the wonderful Blue Grotto is suggested to me. [5]
Gentlemen, do you wonder if this woman, thus pursued, lost her reason, was beside herself with fear, and that her wrongs preyed upon her mind until she was no longer responsible for her acts? [5]
In our dealings with other nations, we yielded often to imperialistic ambitions and thus, to a certain extent, justified the cynicism of Europe. [9]
These he equips with new names, and thus we have those terrific nomenclatures which are enough to frighten the medical student, to say nothing of the sufferers staggering under this long catalogue of local infirmities. [6]
Thus I listened with increasing fascination to these gentlemen in evening clothes calmly treating the United States as a melon patch that existed largely for the purpose of being divided up amongst a limited and favored number of persons. [9]
Thus the account with him would be settled. [10]
Thus I fared with him to the great and mighty city of Saint Mark, which I had ever longed to behold with my bodily eyes. [10]
Mercy," she said, with a quick gesture at my protest, "there are few men with whom one might talk thus in so short an acquaintance. [9]
Thus, she corresponded with a friend of her mother's in India. [6]
He said he wished to tell the haughty citizens, that Darius had thus disfigured him, and that he had come to them for help in revenging himself. [10]
Barbara had often wished to see the Netherlands, which the Emperor Charles also remembered with special affection, but no one had ever thus transported her to the midst of these flourishing provinces and this blithesome people. [10]
Turkey-cocks scrape their wings against the ground, and some kinds of grouse thus produce a buzzing sound. [1]
Thus they were willing to commit a sin against the spirit of religious law, in order that they might preserve the letter of it. [5]
Thus, I am willing to avail myself of any hint coming from without to offer this paper once more to the press. [3]
These various faculties will thus have been continually put to the test and selected during manhood; they will, moreover, have been strengthened by use during this same period of life. [1]
This much I will say to soothe away my own compunctions, that the book will only make the bid for popularity or consideration with near a score of others, and not separately, and that my responsibility is thus modified. [11]
They were united, wholly united, there was nothing except themselves, and thus they became to each other an especially blissful world, beside which every other created thing sank into nothingness. [10]
Thus no one who valued his life could escape the watchful eye of the police, and the thief sacrificed the best part of his gains in order to save his life. [10]
What would they who thus reproach us have done? [7]
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. [7]
Thus shall those who have deserved it from you be rewarded. [10]
Thus the Magister, who had waited so long, held back even yet awhile. [10]
The two servants, who had kept near them, knit their hands together, and thus carried her in advance of the princess. [10]
She ordered everybody who came near her to explain what had happened, thus detaining her granddaughter Helena, who was trying to save the most valuable articles in the dwelling. [10]
And, again, those who are thus elected by our aid ever become our bitterest persecutors. [7]
Thus she stood while we glided by. [5]
For a good while I said to myself every morning: "Now I have escaped thus far, and so the chances are just that much increased that I shall catch it this time. [5]
Thus the volume which I am just about terminating . [6]
The peculiar charm which her individuality thus obtained corresponded with the idea which the monarch himself had formed of the expected guest, and it flattered him to hear his conjecture so remarkably confirmed. [10]
The ground upon which he is attacked is thus stated in his own words:-- "People have often pretended to find in my writings the deplorable influence of an extreme Calvinism. [6]
In those animals which have this sense highly developed, such as dogs and horses, the recollection of persons and of places is strongly associated with their odour; and we can thus perhaps understand how it is, as Dr. Maudsley has truly remarked (37. [1]
But it is what might reasonably have been expected--that this great city of Cincinnati would thus acquit herself on such an occasion. [7]
Thus, as Prof. Westwood remarks (50. [1]
Duvarney and I were thus alone for a moment, and he straightway dropped a hand upon my shoulder. [11]
Thus the slopes were spread as with priceless carpets for a festival. [9]
When her eyes were not thus busy, they were searching the lee of the hillside round for yellow lilies, and the valley below for the campion, the daffodil, and the thousand pretty ferns growing in profusion there. [11]
Thus his clothes were much shredded by bullets and his person grievously lacerated. [5]
Thus two chaperons were disposed of at a stroke, and the young men all said that they hated to assume so much responsibility. [4]
Thus all eyes were directed upward, and Diodoros's with the rest. [10]
Then, as they were about to seize him, he had turned the murderous weapon still wet with his victim's blood, on himself, and thus escaped the avenging hand of justice. [10]
The reason she went over thus is her starboard wheel was not working. [7]
And thus we went on and on, through ancient mountain-forests, while the boughs lashed my face and I could look into the nests of the eagles and wood-pigeons, of the starlings and squirrels. [10]
We know how well they are thus concealed; we know that ptarmigans, whilst changing from their winter to their summer plumage, both of which are protective, suffer greatly from birds of prey. [1]
Thus, Quedlinburg was well suited to arouse poetic feelings in young hearts, steep the soul with love for the beautiful, time-honoured region, and yet fill it with the desire to make distant lands its own. [10]
Thus as the weeks rolled on Washington grew up, into an imposing lion once more, but a lion that roamed the peaceful fields of religion and temperance, and revisited the glittering domain of fashion no more. [5]
At the Hermitage we were about fifteen or eighteen hundred feet above the sea, and thus far a portion of the ascent had been pretty abrupt. [5]
So again, "when we speak of three-score and ten, we are counting by the vigesimal system, each score thus ideally made, standing for 20--for 'one man' as a Mexican or Carib would put it. [1]
It is true we have had nothing thus far to mar the pleasure of the trip. [7]
Thus the glimpses we had of the grand panorama below were only fitful and unsatisfactory. [5]
But our affections we give not thus easily. [6]
As far as we can judge, a recurrent period, if approximately of the right duration for any process or function, would not, when once gained, be liable to change; consequently it might be thus transmitted through almost any number of generations. [1]
It reads this way: "The place of generation must break to give place to the generated; but the influence spreads out beyond the fragments, and is greater thus than in the mass--neither matter nor mind can be destroyed. [11]
Thus all the way up the diminishing shaft for fifty feet; then it begins to take the appearance of being closely wrapped, spool-fashion, with gray cord, or of having been turned in a lathe. [5]
I have my way of thinking, you have yours; thus we each know what the other means; but after the tragedy comes the satyr play, and we may as well finish this agitating evening with an hour's friendly chat. [10]
And thus it was, that with the most friendly feelings on both sides, Mr. Emerson left the pulpit of the Second Church and found himself obliged to make a beginning in a new career. [6]
How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home, and friends, and all who cared for me, thus to discover the grave of a blood relation. [5]
Any one who was within perished, and thus the daughter of Heron died. [10]
Accustomed as Janet was to these frequent arraignments of her father's inefficiency, it was gradually borne in upon her now--despite a preoccupation with her own fate--that the affair thus plaintively voiced by her mother was in effect a family crisis of the first magnitude. [9]
A favorite one was to make a moccasined person tread in the tracks of the moccasined enemy, and thus hide his own trail. [5]
But if there was to be a reference, he desired to introduce his bill embracing the three propositions, thus enabling the committee and the House to act at the same time, whether favorably or unfavorably, upon all. [7]
Thus the occasion was tinged with awe. [9]
And thus it was till his chief confessor, Master Leonard Derrer, the reverend Prior of the Dominicans, came in with the sacristan, to administer to him extreme unction. [10]
While the attorney was thus engaged, the dwarf was groping under the table, muttering desperate imprecations on himself, and mankind in general, and all inanimate objects to boot, which suggested to Mr Brass the question, 'what's the matter? [12]
While the nurse was thus carrying me, Laura came suddenly upon the balcony. [6]
Hereupon Burs Bey was sore afraid; thus he had cast the victorious Captain into prison, and many feared for Tagri that his life would not be spared. [10]
Thus housed, it was pleasant to hear the waves dashing against the breakwater. [4]
Yesterday this room was not even intended for my use, thus the hanging must have been put up between our arrival and this morning. [10]
Thus my brother was in great peril lest Ursula's prophecy should be fulfilled by his own fault. [10]
Thus the summer was consumed, and nothing had been accomplished except Smith's discovery. [4]
Thus, ere she was aware of it, her burning anguish changed into a cheerful remembrance. [10]
Thus her presence was a source of peril to Alexander, and she must at any cost avert that. [10]
By her side was a lute, from which she brought the softest and most soothing tones, and thus added to the witchery of her appearance. [10]
Thus, in the wards of Louis, at the Hospital of La Pitie, a vast number of patients in the last stages of consumption were constantly entering, to swell the mortality of that hospital. [3]
We had no wanton desire to wound even their feelings or trample upon their prejudices, but we were out of water, thus early in the day, and were burning up with thirst. [5]
Thus the second waggon likewise had come to hurt by the sudden stopping of the first, and it was but hardly saved from turning over into the ditch. [10]
Thus the Imperial visit swallowed up millions, and Hadrian, who enquired into every detail and contrived to obtain information as to the sums expended by the city, blamed the recklessness of his lavish entertainers. [10]
Sky-blue, the Holy Virgin's colour, should be hers, and thus his also, and every victory gained by the knight with the sky-blue on his helmet, under St. Clare's protection, would then be hers. [10]
The people of Virginia have thus allowed this giant insurrection to make its nest within her borders; and this government has no choice left but to deal with it where it finds it. [7]
Thus, at the very outset of our married career, an irritant developed: signs of it, indeed, were apparent from the first, when we were preparing the house we had rented for occupancy. [9]
This was a very great change; for the law thus repealed was of more than thirty years' standing. [7]
It would be very agreeable for me thus to meet my old friends at my own home, but I cannot just now be absent from here so long as a visit there would require. [7]
Thus he was utterly unable to see what the future held for him in the way of continued communion with her, to evolve any satisfactory theory as to why she remained in the city. [9]
Thus is the utilitarian spirit eating away the foundations of a higher intellectual life, applying to everything a material measure. [4]
Thus a human uterus furnished with cornua may be said to represent, in a rudimentary condition, the same organ in its normal state in certain mammals. [1]
It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. [7]
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. [7]
They thus shew us approximately the primordial colouring of the parent-species of the group to which they belong. [1]
And Herdegen hereby urgently besought my Hans that he would take the place thus left unfilled and ride forthwith to Altenperg. [10]
He was warring upon the military, and thus gave the military constitutional jurisdiction to lay hands upon him. [7]
Thus, to sum up, he bought himself free of a sharp pain in his heart, he bought himself free of the tortures of a waiting conscience, he bought a whole night's sleep--all for twenty-five cents! [5]
He paced impatiently up and clown, waiting till these people should have disappeared, and thus passing again and again under the light of the torches that were stuck up by the gate. [10]

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