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  • The price of gasoline increased fifty cents this year, thus costing the average driver an additional $250.
  • It was an elegant deception, a mental pirouette. The toe was not broken because it was not breakable. Only an X-ray could
    prove otherwise. Thus, the X-ray would break my toe.   (source)
  • For all Japanese soldiers, especially low-ranking ones, beating was inescapable, often a daily event. It is thus unsurprising that camp guards, occupying the lowest station in a military that applauded brutality, would vent their frustrations on the helpless men under their authority.   (source)
    thus = for that reason
  • He was now too weak even to hunt effectively and thus grew weaker still, sliding closer and closer toward starvation.   (source)
    thus = therefore (for that reason)
  • Jem said he would take me. Thus began our longest journey together.   (source)
  • The fortress served as a constant reminder of her years in exile and unjust banishment at the hands of her dear departed sister, and thus was a spur to her ruthless methods.   (source)
    thus = for that reason
  • He had not got the conch and thus spoke against the rules; but nobody minded.   (source)
    thus = therefore (for that reason)
  • I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.   (source)
  • Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German.   (source)
  • And if the facts say otherwise then the facts must be altered. Thus history is continuously rewritten.   (source)
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  • Often I pause, stock still, motionless, and always for nothing. Thus I advance a long way and then turn back in a wide curve.   (source)
  • ...then we have a margin of nearly two weeks. Thus, in order to be quite safe, we must leave here on 17th at latest.   (source)
  • But I fear, from what you have yourself described to be his properties, that this will prove impracticable; and thus, while every proper measure is pursued, you should make up your mind to disappointment.   (source)
  • The little girl performed her long journey in safety; and at Northampton was met by Mrs. Norris, who thus regaled in the credit of being foremost to welcome her, and in the importance of leading her in to the others, and recommending her to their kindness.   (source)
  • I had no particular reason for having decided this—particularly given that I hadn't read the book—but I decided it and reacted thusly.†   (source)
  • The "IQ fundamentalist" Arthur Jensen put it thusly in his 1980 book Bias in Mental Testing (p.†   (source)
  • Thusly I followed the progress of the war, what was left of it.†   (source)
  • Do the dwarves treat all their blades thusly?†   (source)
  • Thus the story has no picture book for the period May 10, 1991-January 7, 1992.   (source)
  • The maze must be successfully navigated by the would-be queen if she is to reach her imagination's full potential and thus be fit to rule.   (source)
  • Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies.   (source)
  • This meant that he would have little or no chance to get to a crash position, and thus, little chance of survival.   (source)
    thus = for that reason
  • The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.   (source)
    thus = therefore (for that reason)
  • Emboldened by the thought that he was probably going to die in Japan and, thus, had nothing to lose, McMullen joined several other POWs in committing an act that was potentially suicidal.   (source)
    thus = for that reason
  • Thus the dicta No Crawford Minds His Own Business, Every Third Merriweather Is Morbid, The Truth Is Not in the Delafields, All the Bufords Walk Like That, were simply guides to daily living: never take a check from a Delafield without a discreet call to the bank; Miss Maudie Atkinson's shoulder stoops because she was a Buford; if Mrs. Grace Merriweather sips gin out of Lydia E. Pinkham bottles it's nothing unusual— her mother did the same.   (source)
    thus = therefore (for that reason)
  • And thus was he drawn north, to Alaska.   (source)
  • Studying the Teklanika's violent flow, McCandless thus mistakenly concluded that it was impossible to reach the eastern shore.   (source)
  • Estimating the bomber's cruising speed and range, they made rough calculations to arrive at how many hours the bomber could remain airborne after it left them, and thus how far they were from its base.   (source)
  • I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and thus fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover.   (source)
  • ...the Teklanika River was still running high, too high, he worried, to cross safely, even with his amphibious, eight-wheeled Argo. Thus the helicopter.   (source)
  • The aircraft was equipped with wheels rather than floats and thus couldn't land, but McCunn was certain he'd been seen and had no doubt the pilot would summon a floatplane to return for him.   (source)
  • McCandless could endeavor to explain that he answered to statutes of a higher order, that as a latter-day adherent of Henry David Thoreau, he took as gospel the essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" and thus considered it his moral responsibility to flout the laws of the state.   (source)
  • McCandless had told Westerberg that his destination was Saco Hot Springs, 240 miles to the east on U.S. Highway 2, a place he'd heard about from some "rubber tramps" (i. e., vagabonds who owned a vehicle; as distinguished from "leather tramps," who lacked personal transportation and were thus forced to hitchhike or walk).   (source)
  • The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. ... Thus throughout history a struggle which is the same in its main outlines recurs over and over again.   (source)
  • The official ideology abounds with contradictions even when there is no practical reason for them. Thus, the Party rejects and vilifies every principle for which the Socialist movement originally stood, and it chooses to do this in the name of Socialism.   (source)
  • It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.   (source)
  • And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp. Thus, at one moment Winston's hatred was not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against Big Brother, the Party, and the Thought Police;   (source)
  • Thus the Count had knowledge of the persons who could arrange this service.   (source)
  • Thus, in a difficulty he has to seek resource in habit.   (source)
  • Thus when we find the habitation of this man-that-was, we can confine him to his coffin and destroy him, if we obey what we know.   (source)
  • Thus, in fine, if he escape not on shore tonight, or before dawn, there will be the whole day lost to him.   (source)
  • I have placed the crucifix over the head of my bed, I imagine that my rest is thus freer from dreams, and there it shall remain.   (source)
    thus = for that reason
  • He has chosen this earth because it has been holy. Thus we defeat him with his own weapon, for we make it more holy still.   (source)
    thus = therefore (for that reason)
  • But already, at Bucharest, we are three hours late, so we cannot possibly get in till well after sunup. Thus we shall have two more hypnotic messages from Mrs. Harker!   (source)
  • It was an answer that appalled the most sceptical of us, and we felt individually that in the presence of such earnest purpose as the Professor's, a purpose which could thus use the to him most sacred of things, it was impossible to distrust.   (source)
  • Now here let me say frankly, lest you should think it strange that I have sought the services of one so far off from London instead of some one resident there, that my motive was that no local interest might be served save my wish only, and as one of London residence might, perhaps, have some purpose of himself or friend to serve, I went thus afield to seek my agent, whose labours should be only to my interest.   (source)
  • It so happened that there was no one at the moment on Tate Hill Pier, as all those whose houses are in close proximity were either in bed or were out on the heights above. Thus the coastguard on duty on the eastern side of the harbour, who at once ran down to the little pier, was the first to climb aboard.   (source)
  • Even as she spoke I drew near to her, as if in terror, lest at that very moment the destroyer had been near to rob me of her. Thus not the tenderness of friendship, nor the beauty of earth, nor of heaven, could redeem my soul from woe; the very accents of love were ineffectual.   (source)
  • Eragon felt sick hearing his mother described thusly.†   (source)
  • Thusly I got to the edge of the herd, tumbled off'n the last one, an' rescooed the gurl.†   (source)
  • O true apothecary!
    Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.   (source)
    thus = so
  • Thus, then, in brief;— The valiant Paris seeks you for his love.   (source)
    thus = for the reasons just stated
  •   Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,
      Gorg'd with the dearest morsel of the earth,
      Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open,
      And, in despite, I'll cram thee with more food!   (source)
    thus = for that reason
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  • Having betrayed her thus, he was not surprised when she broke up with him.
  • One theory was that the devastation had been created by the Americans using something called HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) technology, which causes huge waves under the ocean, thus flooding our land.   (source)
  • He filled his bottle with river water, lit a candle for himself and one for Lina, and thus equipped, they left the boat behind and crept up the rocky shelf to the path.   (source)
  • So were the cables for the trim, which gave the pilot fine control of the plane's attitude—its orientation in the air—and thus greatly reduced the effort needed to handle the plane.   (source)
  • Nice loud howl, Harry — exactly — and then, if you'll believe it, I pounced — like this — slammed him to the floor — thus with one hand, I managed to hold him down — with my other, I put my wand to his throat —I then screwed up my remaining strength and performed the immensely complex Homorphus Charm — he let out a piteous moan — go on, Harry — higher than that — good — the fur vanished — the fangs shrank — and he turned back into a man.   (source)
    thus = in this way
  • Had Tim Johnson behaved thus, I would have been less frightened.   (source)
    thus = that way
  • But wisdom prevailed in the camp of the faithful and many lives were thus saved.   (source)
    thus = in that way
  • The faces of those enameled creatures meant nothing to him, though he talked to them and stood in that church for a long time, trying to be of that religion, trying to know what that religion was, trying to get enough of the raw incense and special dust of the place into his lungs and thus into his blood to feel touched and concerned by the meaning of the colorful men and women with the porcelain eyes and the blood-ruby lips.   (source)
    thus = in this way
  • They ran thus: ...   (source)
  • We are not our own masters. We are God's property. Is it not our happiness thus to view the matter?   (source)
    thus = in that way
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  • He is not the first that I have seen thus; but we grew up together and that always makes it a bit different.   (source)
  • Thus are we ministers of God's own wish.   (source)
    thus = in this way
  • Thus it is done.   (source)
    thus = in that way
  •   But that the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns,
      Breathes forth contagion on the world,
      And thus the native hue of resolution, like the poor cat i' the adage,
      Is sicklied o'er with care,
      And all the clouds that lowered o'er our housetops,
      With this regard their currents turn awry,
      And lose the name of action.   (source)
  • Knowing well her part, she ascended a flight of wooden steps, and was thus displayed to the surrounding multitude, at about the height of a man's shoulders above the street.   (source)
  • Quite satisfied, he closed his door, and locked himself in; double-locked himself in, which was not his custom. Thus secured against surprise, he took off his cravat; put on his dressing-gown and slippers, and his nightcap; and sat down before the fire to take his gruel.   (source)
  • Autumn passed thus.   (source)
  • Within a few days from the receipt of Edmund's letter, Fanny had one from her aunt, beginning thus— "My Dear Fanny,—I take up my pen to communicate some very alarming intelligence, which I make no doubt will give you much concern".   (source)
    thus = in this way
  • Almost a fortnight passes thus in eating, drinking and roaming about.   (source)
    thus = that way
  • Our only comfort is the steady breathing of our comrades asleep, and thus we wait for the morning.   (source)
    thus = in that way
  • And thus from aloft we survey the scene.   (source)
  • "Ladies and gentlemen," the Director repeated once more, "excuse me for thus interrupting your labours."   (source)
    thus = in this way
  • "Strumpet!" he shouted at every blow as though it were Lenina (and how frantically, without knowing it, he wished it were), white, warm, scented, infamous Lenina that he was dogging thus.   (source)
  •   Property was thus appall'd,
      That the self was not the same;
      Single nature's double name
      Neither two nor one was call'd
      Reason in itself confounded
      Saw division grow together…   (source)
    thus = in that way
  • It is distressing to watch them take their afternoon meal thus; one would like to crack them over their thick pates.   (source)
  • A man grows old; he feels in himself that radical sense of weakness, of listlessness, of discomfort, which accompanies the advance of age; and, feeling thus, imagines himself merely sick, lulling his fears with the notion that this distressing condition is due to some particular cause, from which, as from an illness, he hopes to recover.   (source)
  • Had we gone into the trenches without this period of training most of us would certainly have gone mad. Only thus were we prepared for what awaited us.   (source)
  • From time to time he stretched out his arms as though he were on the Cross, and held them thus through long minutes of an ache that gradually increased till it became a tremulous and excruciating agony; held them, in voluntary crucifixion, while he repeated, through clenched teeth (the sweat, meanwhile, pouring down his face), "Oh, forgive me!"   (source)
  • All other expressions lie in a winter sleep, life is simply one continual watch against the menace of death; ... Thus we live a closed, hard existence of the utmost superficiality, and rarely does an incident strike out a spark.   (source)
  • He even sees to it that we are detailed the next two or three days to the cook-house for potato and turnip peeling. The grub he gives us there is real officers' fare. Thus momentarily we have the two things a soldier needs for contentment: good food and rest.   (source)
  • …the earth is the background of this restless, gloomy world of automatons, our gasping is the scratching of a quill, our lips are dry, our heads are debauched with stupor—thus we stagger forward, and into our pierced and shattered souls bores the torturing image of the brown earth with the greasy sun and the convulsed and dead soldiers, who lie there—   (source)
  • Some of the scenes thus revealed were of immeasurable grandeur and of absorbing interest.   (source)
  • A cold shiver ran through me to find my worst fears thus endorsed.   (source)
  • She knew not altogether what she did, and thus unknowing, she only stole.   (source)
  • I suppose it is thus that in old times one vampire meant many.   (source)
  • Well, well! we must needs talk thus in the daytime!   (source)
    thus = in this way
  • The intimacy thus begun between them was a material advantage to each.   (source)
    thus = in that way
  • Thus I might proclaim myself a madman, but not revoke the sentence passed upon my wretched victim.   (source)
  • In thus sending her away, Sir Thomas perhaps might not be thinking merely of her health.   (source)
    thus = that way
  • ...thus I take from thee a sight which you abhor.   (source)
    thus = in this way
  • And the infectious poison of that sin had been thus rapidly diffused throughout his moral system.   (source)
    thus = in that way
  • Is there no reality in the penitence thus sealed and witnessed by good works?   (source)
  • If you feel thus, we shall assuredly be happy, however present events may cast a gloom over us.   (source)
    thus = that way
  • She was terrorstricken by the revelations that were thus made.   (source)
    thus = in that way
  • Thus would she assuredly act if her darkened eyes opened and she beheld me.   (source)
  • The people knew not the power that moved them thus.   (source)
  • I must absent myself from all I loved while thus employed.   (source)
  • Thus the poor sufferer tried to comfort others and herself.   (source)
  • "Yet some men bury their secrets thus," observed the calm physician.   (source)
  • The summer months passed while I was thus engaged, heart and soul, in one pursuit.   (source)
  • Even thus early had the child saved her from Satan's snare.   (source)
  • He thus typified the constant introspection wherewith he tortured, but could not purify himself.   (source)
  • My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus.   (source)
    thus = in this way
  • Thus situated, my only resource was to drive before the wind.   (source)
    thus = in that way
  • Thus are my hopes blasted by cowardice and indecision; I come back ignorant and disappointed.   (source)
  • "Oh, it is not thus—not thus," interrupted the being.   (source)
    thus = that way
  • My swelling heart involuntarily pours itself out thus.   (source)
    thus = in this way
  • Thus I returned home, and entering the house, presented myself to the family.   (source)
    thus = in that way
  • Thus ended a day memorable to me; it decided my future destiny.   (source)
  • Nor do I think that ye will sit here any longer, lolling out your tongues as though ye were somebodies, instead of dogs whom I drive out—thus!   (source)
  • Thus in the end we may find him in his form of man between the hours of noon and sunset, and so engage with him when he is at his most weak.   (source)
    thus = that way
  • We must sterilize all the imported earth between sunrise and sunset. We shall thus catch the Count at his weakest, and without a refuge to fly to.   (source)
    thus = in that way
  • In case he should find it out too soon, we should thus be still ahead of him in our work of destruction.   (source)
  • I hope I have not done wrong, for as sleep begins to flirt with me, a new fear comes: that I may have been foolish in thus depriving myself of the power of waking.   (source)
    thus = that way
  • When I am thus dead in the flesh, then you will, without a moment's delay, drive a stake through me and cut off my head, or do whatever else may be wanting to give me rest!   (source)
    thus = in that way
  • I saw the fingers and toes grasp the corners of the stones, worn clear of the mortar by the stress of years, and by thus using every projection and inequality move downwards with considerable speed, just as a lizard moves along a wall.   (source)
  • Suddenly the horror burst upon me that it was thus that Jonathan had seen those awful women growing into reality through the whirling mist in the moonlight, and in my dream I must have fainted, for all became black darkness.   (source)
  • Not a word more would he say, but sat in his implacable sullenness as indifferent to me as though I had not been in the room at all. Thus departed for this time my chance of much learning from this so clever lunatic, so I shall go, if I may, and cheer myself with a few happy words with that sweet soul Madam Mina.   (source)
  • When everybody had retired but the two 'prentices, they did the same to them; and thus the cheerful voices died away, and the lads were left to their beds; which were under a counter in the back-shop.   (source)
  • "Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!"   (source)
    thus = that way
  • Another short fit of abstraction followed, when, shaking it off, she thus attacked her companion. ...   (source)
    thus = in this way
  • It was a great surprise to Scrooge, while listening to the moaning of the wind, and thinking what a solemn thing it was to move on through the lonely darkness over an unknown abyss, whose depths were secrets as profound as Death: it was a great surprise to Scrooge, while thus engaged, to hear a hearty laugh.   (source)
    thus = in that way
  • It was an alliance which he could not have relinquished without pain; and thus he reasoned. Mr. Rushworth was young enough to improve.  Mr. Rushworth must and would improve in good society; and...   (source)
    thus = in this way
  • "This is pretty, very pretty," said Fanny, looking around her as they were thus sitting together one day; "every time I come into this shrubbery I am more struck with its growth and beauty."   (source)
    thus = in that way
  • But at last Lady Bertram left the room, and then almost immediately Miss Crawford thus began, with a voice as well regulated as she could—"And how do you like your cousin Edmund's staying away so long?"   (source)
    thus = in this way
  • …and it needed all the felicity of being again at home, and all the forbearance it could supply, to save Sir Thomas from anger on finding himself thus bewildered in his own house, making part of a ridiculous exhibition in the midst of theatrical nonsense, and forced in so untoward a moment to admit the acquaintance of a young man whom he felt sure of disapproving, and whose easy…   (source)
    thus = in that way
  • He had learned his part—all his parts, for he took every trifling one that could be united with the Butler, and began to be impatient to be acting; and every day thus unemployed was tending to increase his sense of the insignificance of all his parts together, and make him more ready to regret that some other play had not been chosen.   (source)
  • It may be that his pathway through life was haunted thus by a spectre that had stolen out from among his thoughts.   (source)
  • It came happily while she was thus waiting; and there being neither ceremony nor fearfulness to delay the moment of meeting, she was with him as he entered the house, and the first minutes of exquisite feeling had no interruption and no witnesses, unless the servants chiefly intent upon opening the proper doors could be called such.   (source)
  • She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanise and make her capable of sympathy.   (source)
  • ...and it was not merely Tom, for the requisition was now backed by Maria, and Mr. Crawford, and Mr. Yates, with an urgency which differed from his but in being more gentle or more ceremonious, and which altogether was quite overpowering to Fanny; and before she could breathe after it, Mrs. Norris completed the whole by thus addressing her in a whisper at once angry and audible—"What a piece of work here is about nothing: I am quite ashamed of you, Fanny, to make such a difficulty of obliging your cousins in a trifle of this sort—so kind as they are to you!"   (source)
    thus = in this way
  • Thus she will be a living sermon against sin, until the ignominious letter be engraved upon her tombstone.   (source)
    thus = in that way
  • He too had his book, and was seeking Fanny, to ask her to rehearse with him, and help him to prepare for the evening, without knowing Miss Crawford to be in the house; and great was the joy and animation of being thus thrown together, of comparing schemes, and sympathising in praise of Fanny's kind offices.   (source)
  • Thus they went onward, not boldly, but step by step, into the themes that were brooding deepest in their hearts.   (source)
  • Miss Crawford's style of writing, lively and affectionate, was itself an evil, independent of what she was thus forced into reading from the brother's pen, for Edmund would never rest till she had read the chief of the letter to him; and then she had to listen to his admiration of her language, and the warmth of her attachments.   (source)
  • While her hand was trembling under these letters, her eye running from one to the other, and her heart swelling with emotion, Crawford thus continued, with unfeigned eagerness, to express his interest in the event— "I will not talk of my own happiness," said he, "great as it is, for I think only of yours."   (source)
    thus = in this way
  • Even thus much of truth would save me!   (source)
    thus = that
  • It was no wonder that they thus questioned one another's actual and bodily existence, and even doubted of their own.   (source)
    thus = in that way
  • Thus much was settled before Edmund, who had been out all the morning, knew anything of the matter; but when he entered the drawing-room before dinner, the buzz of discussion was high between Tom, Maria, and Mr. Yates; and Mr. Rushworth stepped forward with great alacrity to tell him the agreeable news.   (source)
  • So it ever is, whether thus typified or no, that an evil deed invests itself with the character of doom.   (source)
  • Quite unpractised in such sort of note-writing, had there been time for scruples and fears as to style she would have felt them in abundance: but something must be instantly written; and with only one decided feeling, that of wishing not to appear to think anything really intended, she wrote thus, in great trembling both of spirits and hand— "I am very much obliged to you, my dear Miss Crawford, for your kind congratulations, as far as they relate to my dearest William."   (source)
    thus = in this way
  • Thus Elizabeth endeavoured to divert her thoughts and mine from all reflection upon melancholy subjects.   (source)
    thus = in that way
  • …and Fanny, after being obliged to submit to all this attention, and to being assisted and waited on by mistresses and maids, being also obliged, on returning downstairs, to be fixed in their drawing-room for an hour while the rain continued, the blessing of something fresh to see and think of was thus extended to Miss Crawford, and might carry on her spirits to the period of dressing and dinner.   (source)
  • Of what materials was I made that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture?   (source)
  • It was better to stand thus, with so many betwixt him and her, than to greet him face to face—they two alone.   (source)
  • Tom, returning from them into the drawing-room, where Edmund was standing thoughtfully by the fire, while Lady Bertram was on the sofa at a little distance, and Fanny close beside her arranging her work, thus began as he entered—"Such a horribly vile billiard-table as ours is not to be met with, I believe, above ground."   (source)
  • It was thus that I was to be taught to associate evil with their prosecution, happiness with their disregard.   (source)
  • "What is it that haunts and tempts me thus?" cried the minister to himself, at length, pausing in the street, and striking his hand against his forehead.   (source)
    thus = in this way
  • "Ah," replied Roger Chillingworth, with that quietness, which, whether imposed or natural, marked all his deportment, "it is thus that a young clergyman is apt to speak."   (source)
    thus = in that way
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  • In nature—out yonder where the crawdads sing—these ruthless-seeming behaviors actually increase the mother's number of young over her lifetime, and thus her genes for abandoning offspring in times of stress are passed on to the next generation.†   (source)
  • Thus Laura lives on.†   (source)
  • Thus began a ritual that would last all that summer and into the fall.†   (source)
  • Thus, a unique rental business was born.†   (source)
  • Thus, this is a very difficult task.†   (source)
  • Thus, the world would shrug.†   (source)
  • The summer before high school was thus a hopeful one.†   (source)
  • Several of the letters advised Cassie to do away with us and thus solve her innumerable problems.†   (source)
  • It was possible for hackers to use modded visors to spoof their retinal patterns and thus create a second account for themselves.†   (source)
  • The yellow canine thus coyly revealed was as long as my longest finger.†   (source)
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  • He limped badly and was thus excused from all participatory moments, such as dances or candle lightings.†   (source)
  • Silas was supposed to break in and steal the keystone from you in Château Villette—thus removing you from the equation without hurting you, and exonerating me from any suspicion of complicity.†   (source)
  • They shared a wish, a hope, a dream, They hatched a daring plan To educate young sorcerers Thus Hogwarts School began.†   (source)
  • For we use it both to taste our sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sour with the same tongue.†   (source)
  • Thus to get what must be got You must become what you are not.†   (source)
  • But Terry is stupid, so quoderatdemonstrandum, which is Latin for which is the thing that was going to be proved, which means thus it is proved.†   (source)
  • Thus enthroned, Uga accepted the adoration of his fans.†   (source)
  • Thus dinosaur posture suggested warm-bloodedness.†   (source)
  • I wonder if vivid self-consciousness was my normal state, or if the forbidden pills carried it into me, and thus imprinted my memory.†   (source)
  • And thus another hour was spent being measured and pinned, and sitting through a presentation of different fabrics and colors.†   (source)
  • Thus did Owen Meany remodel Christmas.†   (source)
  • Thus began a series of heroic feats by Maniac Magee.†   (source)
  • But who was to say that at that moment we wouldn't collide against the underside of the barrier, and thus be horribly squashed between two surfaces of ice?†   (source)
  • Thus, in this book you will see Ji-li Jiang called Jiang Ji-li by her teachers and friends.†   (source)
  • Thus her first formal interview concluded.†   (source)
  • Thus television is the drug of fat heads.†   (source)
  • And thus it wasn't coming back in as a liquid in need of heating.†   (source)
  • His theory was that before he took me, he was developing the ability to hear the angels and that in order to shut him up they allowed him to get away with taking me and thus keep him occupied and out of their realm.†   (source)
  • These days fewer and fewer people believe in those things—fairies and goblins and all such nonsense—and thus common folk no longer make much of an effort to seek us out.†   (source)
  • All afternoon, the three children had sat and worried in the Reptile Room, under the mocking stare of Stephano and the oblivious—the word "oblivious" here means "not aware that Stephano was really Count Olaf and thus being in a great deal of danger"—chatter of Uncle Monty.†   (source)
  • Thus Gogol Ganguli is registered in the hospital's files.†   (source)
  • And thus commenced a brief conversation with myself.†   (source)
  • As one contributor to the Massachusetts Teacher suggested, "it is when thus relieved from the state of tension belonging to actual study that boys and girls, as well as men and women, acquire the habit of thought and reflection, and of forming their own conclusions, independently of what they are taught and the authority of others."†   (source)
  • Lumber and paper, thus the tree.†   (source)
  • It is my greatest honor to be thus welcomed.†   (source)
  • Thus, I had missed Liza's "accident" completely.†   (source)
  • Thus we mounted the steps of the Lockton house and entered the front door.†   (source)
  • And thus the decision was made to say nothing.†   (source)
  • The statistics over the last ten years have proven that her program has helped keep the numbers lower, thus keeping the general population safer.†   (source)
  • I am entirely sympathetic to your reasons for withholding the name of the patient and thus prevent a possible invasion of privacy.†   (source)
  • And thus were created the conditions for a staggering new form of specialist industry: custom-made luxury planet building.†   (source)
  • She will break him, and thus break your spirit.†   (source)
  • YES BT U SLEEPY WE BIN DOIN THUS 8BALS OMG†   (source)
  • And thus, I was banished.†   (source)
  • Thus was born the two-quart bucket of popcorn and the sixty-four-ounce Big Gulp.†   (source)
  • Thus the slopes of Everest are littered with corpses.†   (source)
  • Thus the slogan.†   (source)
  • Thanks to Delphi's brilliant preparation work, we are going to take this potion and be transformed, and thus disguised we will be able to enter the Ministry of Magic.†   (source)
  • Thus dwarf anatomy ensured that all gas was passed below, actually aiding in the expulsion of unwanted clay.†   (source)
  • Why didn't she send enough money, thus forcing him to sell spices from the age of ten?†   (source)
  • I mean, all I kept thinking about was how disgusted Lilly sounded during that part in her oral report when she mentioned how Christian monarchs used to consider themselves appointed agents of divine will and thus were responsible not to the people they governed but to God alone, even though my dad hardly ever even goes to church, except when Grandm"re makes him.†   (source)
  • So-and-so was expected at the Overlook next week, thus-and-such would be entertaining in the lounge (in Derwent's time it had been the Red-Eye Lounge).†   (source)
  • Everyone in the room watched and waited patiently for their turn, thus putting Echo on the spot.†   (source)
  • Thus, our keepers.†   (source)
  • For several minutes he stood thus, wrapped in silent communication.†   (source)
  • At the time, new guys didn't receive their Tridents—and thus weren't really SEALs—until after they had passed a series of tests with the team.†   (source)
  • All had scholarships or loans and were barely making it themselves, and thus could not help her financially.†   (source)
  • Thus emboldened, Leah and I cut down a bunch the size of Ruth May from behind Eeben Axelroot's outhouse, while he was inside.†   (source)
  • Ruth had once thought that Chinese was limited in its sounds and thus confusing.†   (source)
  • It's always a fine line, having just enough interaction with them to remain mysterious without becoming strange and thus sticking out.†   (source)
  • Thus began our personal Diaspora, Gresha's and mine.†   (source)
  • Michael thus learned to distinguish pesto from alfredo, and puttanesca from marinara.†   (source)
  • I thus tackled that hard, awful bread bone dry.†   (source)
  • It was the state motto of Virginia: "Thus always to tyrants."†   (source)
  • The organs had been packed too tightly into the chimney and thus never had burned.†   (source)
  • Thus spring always follows winter, and we humans aren't buried in perpetual winter (no, not even in Duluth), and the olives ripen every year.†   (source)
  • And thus she'd volunteered.†   (source)
  • T: Thus, your family came under the protection of this Department of Re-Identification.†   (source)
  • And thus began the closest, most joyous weeks of all the time in Ravensbruck.†   (source)
  • Thus, when someone got killed, as Curt Lemon did, his body was not really a body, but rather one small bit of waste in the midst of a much wider wastage.†   (source)
  • Thus Babel was a second Fall.†   (source)
  • Thus we began our daily trek to a familiar and hostile place—the college was located near Reseda where the family once lived for almost a year.†   (source)
  • Thus the care had fallen on Abdullah, but he didn't mind at all.†   (source)
  • Thus familiarized , I started up the engine, turned on the lights and drove off.†   (source)
  • But the lines of communication have been broken, and thus we do not have tidings of our beloved homeland for many a full moon.†   (source)
  • Prepare the gelatin (pectin) thus: Proportion 1:5 ie: 4 teaspoons Pectin 20 teaspoons sugar.†   (source)
  • He didn't know it, but his father had selected a falcon that had lived in the wild for over a year, and thus was nearly impossible to tame.†   (source)
  • I am thus asking you to step outside this door and see for yourself.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, young Prozanski escaped from the Umschlagplatz and thus survived a little longer.†   (source)
  • If the female had been created first, there would have been no circle of relationship, and thus no possibility of a fully equal face-to-face relationship between the male and the female.†   (source)
  • And thus, my humble lecture ends.†   (source)
  • They found out we had my father in Comfort Hill and that I rarely visited, and thus 1 was an ingrate dad-abandoner.†   (source)
  • Thus it is with Jamis.†   (source)
  • But they are slaves to their instincts, and thus predictable.†   (source)
  • Thus the quandary vanishes.†   (source)
  • In the lonely blackness, I could almost taste the finiteness of life and thus its preciousness.†   (source)
  • Thus life went forward on San Piedro.†   (source)
  • There is thus no T or unalterable ego.†   (source)
  • Often, Charlie's mother and father would come in as well, and stand by the door, listening to the stories that the old people told; and thus, for perhaps half an hour every night, this room would become a happy place, and the whole family would forget that it was hungry and poor.†   (source)
  • Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love.†   (source)
  • For many years, their balance remained thus.†   (source)
  • Thus to her he said, Kiss me in kindness, sweetheart.†   (source)
  • Thus direct denial, lying and the revelation of personal affairs are avoided.†   (source)
  • His voice sounds plaintive, not angry, as he lectures: You do not administer an antibiotic to a person with meningitis until you have done a spinal tap and know the variety of meningitis and thus which drug will work.†   (source)
  • Henry never attempted to pester her when she was thus.†   (source)
  • What she needed was a way to control her guardian and thus her own situation.†   (source)
  • Adrift, I began to look elsewhere for attention and thus took the first steps out of my child's realm toward a world of grownups other than my parents.†   (source)
  • Thus time is by no means on her side.†   (source)
  • You have beaten my Turk, which means you are exceptionally strong, and exceptionally strong men are convinced that they are too powerful ever to die, too powerful even for iocane poison, so you could have put it in your cup, trusting on your strength to save you; thus I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.†   (source)
  • Thus in front only his eyes remained unprotected.†   (source)
  • Thus rendering them useless?†   (source)
  • Thus the morning.†   (source)
  • He had dialed the number before he even realized what he was doing, and thus it was no surprise to find himself actually keeping the rescheduled appointment.†   (source)
  • His life, and thus Ellen's, changed immediately.†   (source)
  • He said this as he was buckling his belt, idly, out of some dim notion that he might thus, in effect, reduce the fine.†   (source)
  • Thus, the hunters were fed first, as it was their skills on which The People depended.†   (source)
  • And thus begged, his humor let be.†   (source)
  • The magistrate simply deposed my father, thus ending the Mandela family chieftainship.†   (source)
  • Thus the year 1943 passed by.†   (source)
  • Thus, the time for the Trials has come.†   (source)
  • Thus a dry cave is a good place for a virus to be preserved, for it to lie inactive in dung or in drying urine, or even, perhaps, for it to drift in cool, lightless, nearly motionless air.†   (source)
  • One good thing about the stranger on the bus: he had given her an excuse to take Phoebe back and forth, thus limiting the time she spent with Robert.†   (source)
  • CHORUS: Why do you cry out thus, unless at some vision of horror?†   (source)
  • (Not liking the Lord's name used thus) Bennie!†   (source)
  • It's possible that Mami had her own little revolution brewing, and she didn't want to blow the whistle on her girls and thus call attention to herself.†   (source)
  • Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.†   (source)
  • Good luck, someone dropped the ball or they had other kiddies to pick up, because they didn't wait around long enough to question your parents, and thus, didn't pre-sort you.†   (source)
  • And why you can't admit it to us, because that would make it less secret and thus less passionate.†   (source)
  • Thus they rounded the turn.†   (source)
  • Thus our invented field of study: Freakonomics.†   (source)
  • Thus it was discovered that Jose Arcadio Buendia's devilish jargon was Latin.†   (source)
  • These materials were much more expensive than wood, and cost more to put up, and, thus, were beyond the means of poorer citizens.†   (source)
  • Vanessa was deprived of her hormones in prison and thus retained several male characteristics that would have been less evident otherwise, most notably her voice.†   (source)
  • Thus the Sky made Eugenides immortal and yielded to Hephestia the power of his thunderbolts.†   (source)
  • The Los Angeles thus found herself navigating completely blind.†   (source)
  • Thus the sight of the road of bones stretching over the prairie was a shock.†   (source)
  • The country was thus mentally prepared to give women a larger role.†   (source)
  • Thus the speculation began.†   (source)
  • Thus sayeth the Lord.†   (source)
  • Thus, the rider has a sensation of weighing less than his normal weight.†   (source)
  • Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead.†   (source)
  • He would be viewed as anti-coal and thus anti-jobs.†   (source)
  • Impossible to identify ("They don't carry the 'I'm a bad guy' flag," says one SEAL), these hard-line Taliban insurgents, foreign jihadists, aspiring terrorists, and good old-fashioned organized criminals all had the same goal: upset any attempts at regional (thus national) stability for either their own monetary gain or to accomplish Allah's will.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 2 THE WRONG SIDE OF THE RIVER Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity?†   (source)
  • We should be equally troubled by another shortcoming in American schools: Most young people today simply do not have an adequate understanding of how our government and political system work, and they are thus not well prepared to participate as citizens.†   (source)
  • And thus the fate of the world is decided.†   (source)
  • Thus it became unimportant.†   (source)
  • Thus, with an unspeakable thrill, she felt quite certain that all the things were coming (as she said) "out of the Lion's head".†   (source)
  • I'll tell them, 'The prince said thus-and-so to me, and I said thus-and-so back to him.†   (source)
  • Thus, the expression leap of faith.†   (source)
  • Thus traumatic events appear to recondition the human nervous system.†   (source)
  • It is hard upon the Dwarf to be thus singled out.†   (source)
  • Thus agreed, the companions began to climb.†   (source)
  • And yet it was inevitable that her long silence would thus be broken.†   (source)
  • Thus our livestock prospered.†   (source)
  • Thus, typical endorsements on the official documents might read, 'John Milton is a sadist' or 'Have you seen Milton, John?'†   (source)
  • Thus, a step at a time, I dragged myself upward.†   (source)
  • The shoes I embroidered would symbolize to my future in-laws my abilities at embroidery and thus other house learning.†   (source)
  • He gets hearty, self-aware laughs from the female infantry-always a nice way to start things off-and then Long cracks his white-leather monogrammed Bible at the bookmark: "Thus the Lord says unto you, 'Be not afraid or dismayed by reason of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God's.'†   (source)
  • Thus began our strange trip.†   (source)
  • Thus, Tomas's mistress had just given Tomas's command to Tomas's wife.†   (source)
  • Thus began my brief stint as a lone singer-songwriter about town, playing in coffeehouses, mostly.†   (source)
  • Thus, going to Paris makes no sense.†   (source)
  • Thus the name, the Great Deception.†   (source)
  • Thus, the Roston boys wouldn't be dead."†   (source)
  • The individual discovers his strength as an individual because he has, along the way, discovered others share his feelings--he is not alone, and thus a community is formed.†   (source)
  • All of the upper city had been built over older ruins, and thus much more recently than the lower, within the last fifty or so years, and made much larger use of climate control.†   (source)
  • Thus it is necessary that we strike immediately and strike hard!†   (source)
  • As Washington also reminded Hancock—and thus Congress—his war chest was empty.†   (source)
  • "Thus burying Medusa," offered Panov.†   (source)
  • I thought he spoke thus to be kind to me.†   (source)
  • From what I had learned, people like Mother abused their children in the same manner they were abused; thus becoming a product of their environment.†   (source)
  • Confinement alone was thus his lot.†   (source)
  • Thus the grand offices were traded for more humble space in the valley.†   (source)
  • Thus spake the coastguard.†   (source)
  • And so on, until finally: 'And any creature that shall seem to be human, but is not formed thus is not human.†   (source)
  • Thus we remember them, and these apples we do not touch.†   (source)
  • The shields thus discarded would hang in the Shieldhall.†   (source)
  • Thus began the first corpse mine in Dresden.†   (source)
  • Thus the car.†   (source)
  • Eddie Willers was to cut the ribbon they held and thus to open the new line.†   (source)
  • Human speech can thus be built up artificially.†   (source)
  • The fracas made us lose track of time and thus, we were five minutes late, sir.†   (source)
  • But when Robert Knox was held captive on the island in the i7th century he remembered his time this way: "Thus was I left Desolate, Sick and in Captivity, having no earthly comforter, none but only He who looks down from Heaven to hear the groaning of the prisoners.†   (source)
  • Thus they should be tried and judged under Spanish law.†   (source)
  • I watch him lecture, trying to reach these dimwads who couldn't care less about why yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.†   (source)
  • Thus I discovered another talent I don't have.†   (source)
  • Knowing something about how the mind of a parent works, I felt pretty certain that they'd put two and two together to equal five and thus decide that my new friends (Jenny et al) were a bad influence on me after all.†   (source)
  • Thus, a hundred and forty steps.†   (source)
  • Thus the groups most likely to express strong ideological convictions are overrepresented in the sample: for example, 75 percent of the soldiers from slaveholding families avowed strong patriotic convictions, compared with 42 percent among nonslaveholders; 43 percent of those from slaveholding families expressed ideological motives, compared with 27 percent of the nonslaveholding soldiers.†   (source)
  • Thus she forced them to go on.†   (source)
  • Thus, as she argued stubbornly with Ray over dinner that night that the Michigan Daily had no right to meddle in the financial affairs of campus sororities (her stand was based on rights of privacy, as he remembered it), he had fallen abruptly and thoroughly in love with her.†   (source)
  • Thus, the proper balance will be maintained throughout.†   (source)
  • Thus have I disregarded your insults.†   (source)
  • And thus it is John Reynolds, not Meade, who rides into Gettysburg on the morning of the First Day.†   (source)
  • He read up well on each case and focused his mind during the operations, staring at everything he saw so as to fix it in his memory; thus he inevitably made progress.†   (source)
  • Of course, we were young enough—and thus gullible enough—to believe them.†   (source)
  • Also the steel canisters would be re-used to ship grain to Earth, thus stopping another drain that Luna can't take.†   (source)
  • Not infrequently, Standard finds that by doing so it can control costs, quality, and delivery speed far better, and thus can better serve the superstores.†   (source)
  • Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment.†   (source)
  • And thus commenced the slow resurrection of a legend.†   (source)
  • He played the tape and then blew his call, which convinced customers that his calls truly sounded exactly like a duck, thus were the best on the market.†   (source)
  • Thus the ten-year result.†   (source)
  • Thus throughout the entire twenty-four-hour period there was usually something going on, or at least the expectation of something, to keep me glued to the telescope.†   (source)
  • Gilbert had sat thus for half an hour, knowing that the time of decision had arrived.†   (source)
  • Thus she gave the world a new martial art.†   (source)
  • Once I would have sent my sisters to bring you to my house, and thus you would be my wife.†   (source)
  • When she concentrated thus she left the party.†   (source)
  • It was thus with Athens.†   (source)
  • Thus, the article smugly concluded, did the organization enter the penumbra of historical eclipse.†   (source)
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