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  • "We can give credit to the war for bringing about the Treaty of Bremen," said Torin, "which has thus far been beneficial to all countries in the Earthen Union.†   (source)
  • Having been successful thus far, the abductors tended to relax, light up a few cigarettes, get chatty with their hostages.†   (source)
  • She seems to be the steady one, the one who has remained calm under the weight of the terrors we have seen thus far.†   (source)
  • Which left me all alone and thus far undiscovered.†   (source)
  • Every day I look for decided improvement and thus far everyday, I am disappointed.†   (source)
  • Thus far we've been speaking of character-on-character violence.†   (source)
  • The most popular thus far was from a man named Simon Hensley, from Brighton: Are we sure we want to find this hag?†   (source)
  • T: I agree, it has been a long session, the longest thus far.†   (source)
  • It has thus far protected almost 40,000 acres, a significant achievement.†   (source)
  • And, off to the right, there is Suleiman Wandati's 1940s Chevrolet, unmoved for decades, shrouded in rust like a rock by moss, currently covered by a light film of yesterday's surprisingly early snowfall, the first of the year thus far.†   (source)
  • I will admit, you have had some modest success regarding the girl thus far.†   (source)
  • It's not consistent with her behavior thus far.†   (source)
  • No verdict had been reached thus far.†   (source)
  • I mean that we will eventually be telling our version of events, which we have not done thus far.†   (source)
  • "All right now," the Prince said to Westley, who lay in the great fifth-level cage; "before we begin, I want you to answer me this: have you any complaints about your treatment thus far?"†   (source)
  • This I would be happy to do if your kinsmen could fulfill those positions better than anyone else in the Varden, but nothing you have said thus far has convinced me that is so.†   (source)
  • Thus far the facts ascertained corroborated Wells' story most persuasively.†   (source)
  • Here was yet another, the worst thus far.†   (source)
  • The cherished objects we had brought with us thus far were left behind in the train, and with them, at last, our illusions.†   (source)
  • I have learned that I have missed many of the important things in life thus far; however, I feel that youth can overcome any obstacle.†   (source)
  • It was the largest and most expensive war game thus far in history.†   (source)
  • Thus far, the Volturi were too disciplined to show any emotion at all.†   (source)
  • And maybe it was those meticulously made chicken rolls, or the fakeness of the entire evening thus far, but something suddenly kicked up my evil side.†   (source)
  • He was peering through his lens into bad territory: an open furnace of violence that would soon beggar the suffering and dying thus far.†   (source)
  • Now you have come thus far, you must be brought before the Lord and the Lady.†   (source)
  • We can only hope the education you have had thus far has been enough.†   (source)
  • For protection thus far, thank you.†   (source)
  • That leaves him with a high C, thus far, a subpar grade for someone who's considering a double major in education.†   (source)
  • The patient hadn't said a word thus far.†   (source)
  • They d let this go on only because of Thomas s convincing performance thus far.†   (source)
  • After pitching the most important game thus far in his life, Angel began to throw pitch after pitch of curveballs and change-ups with his left and right arms for the press corps and other amazed onlookers.†   (source)
  • Thus far, he had done everything right.†   (source)
  • Thus far, he is also limited to the walls of that structure and cannot effectively pursue a wanted mind beyond the boundaries that are initially established.†   (source)
  • To the south, meanwhile, Mace Tyrell had raised a city of tents outside StOrm's End and had two dozen mangonels flinging stones against the castle's massive walls, thus far to small effect.†   (source)
  • They stamp on any change: they close the way and keep the type fixed because they've got the arrogance to think themselves perfect, As they reckon it, they, and only they, are in the true image; very well, then it follows that if the image is true, they themselves must be God: and, being God, they reckon themselves entitled to decree, " thus far, and no farther.†   (source)
  • You have thus far refused to look for him, so he has come looking for you.†   (source)
  • The discussion returned to how Noah had fallen, and I suddenly realized what had been left out of the conversation thus far.†   (source)
  • This has been the basis of our defense thus far, correct?†   (source)
  • "Thus far," the rabbi said, pushing his hoe, "everything is going very well, which is why you feel what you call difficulty.†   (source)
  • And by his count thus far, ten thousand fanatically loyal goblin troops to carry out his swath of destruction.†   (source)
  • "Two women, thus far," Mira said quietly and sat back.†   (source)
  • Thus far, she had learned almost nothing because Safia had very deliberately withheld even the most basic information about the operation.†   (source)
  • The fuel tank had been filled in November and thus far in the winter had been mild.†   (source)
  • Certainly, my mail thus far was overwhelmingly congratulatory.†   (source)
  • The momentum of his original discovery had carried him thus far almost without effort.†   (source)
  • As Rubenstein concludes: "The camps were thus far more of a permanent threat to the human future than they would have been had they functioned solely as an exercise in mass killing.†   (source)
  • Thus far with Addison's injunction, but my Reader has me back in that New Hampshire picnic place.†   (source)
  • "Things have gone too easily, thus far," he told me.†   (source)
  • I came thus far with my six fellows, loved a girl of the islands, and felt I had had enough of the sea.†   (source)
  • Thus far, Mrs. Brown had proved to be the major obstacle.†   (source)
  • You are not required to do so and, in view of the evidence thus far, the Court will take no judicial notice if you choose not to do so.†   (source)
  • Thus far Monarch Utilities has never had occasion to hire a 1st.†   (source)
  • He had seen no robberies in his neighborhood thus far.†   (source)
  • Thus far, the Vatican had remained silent, issuing no statement whatsoever.†   (source)
  • But you will fetch it for me first, Black… you think you have felt pain thus far?†   (source)
  • The large meatpacking firms have thus far shown little interest in buying their own cattle ranches.†   (source)
  • Thus far we had no semblance of a target in the village.†   (source)
  • The investigation, it occurred to the sheriff, had thus far taken five hours.†   (source)
  • If any city could make good on the elaborate boasts circulated thus far, Chicago was the one.†   (source)
  • Under the rumble of the engine, the men compared their experiences thus far.†   (source)
  • It has served me perfectly well thus far as it is, Miss Kenton, though I appreciate your thoughts.†   (source)
  • And thus far in my life, there had been mo greater honor than that.†   (source)
  • Not that he'd forgotten any of the details, but he'd felt a bit disoriented thus far.†   (source)
  • But thus far there had been no violence.†   (source)
  • The Dornishmen thus far have held aloof from these wars.†   (source)
  • Thus far, only goods from Blys have reached Rowan.†   (source)
  • My luck, if that's what had been keeping me alive thus far, had to be running out.†   (source)
  • Leon had passed around a report to all the homerooms listing total sales thus far at 4,582.†   (source)
  • Tell me, how would you judge the effectiveness of my methods to break you thus far?†   (source)
  • The others bathed in the river, but thus far he had not joined them.†   (source)
  • Thus far, however, they'd had little need of defenses.†   (source)
  • —It's not acceptable how you have been treated thus far.†   (source)
  • Thus far they were maintaining a tight formation and digging in their heels.†   (source)
  • Thus far hunting seems indistinguishable from riding through the woods, my lord.†   (source)
  • Thus far the green dragon had shown himself to be more dangerous than the white.†   (source)
  • She had not liked what little she had seen of the South thus far.†   (source)
  • I'm for peace, and from what I can tell thus far, so are they.†   (source)
  • He lay on the bed and ate his pastries, looking at what he'd written thus far to Kit.†   (source)
  • What spared Ghosh thus far was that he was a citizen of India.†   (source)
  • Yet, here in Iran, his medical degree was worthless thus far.†   (source)
  • But thus far only a light dusting covered the ground.†   (source)
  • Thus far no one had found cause to complain about his youth or inexperience.†   (source)
  • Thus far I had trusted my story to no one outside the embassy.†   (source)
  • THE ENTIRETY OF the new city thus far comprised three buildings.†   (source)
  • Life thus far had convinced him of his aptitude for two things: sickness and suffering.†   (source)
  • Every aspect of their evening thus far acquired an increasingly sinister tinge.†   (source)
  • Thus far, however, we have done well.†   (source)
  • I have had only one opportunity thus far of viewing the object of my investigations, and so it is too soon to convey my impressions.†   (source)
  • The silver-haired lady beamed, then started to tell us how the artist whose work we were looking at was related to her, and all about the artist's career thus far.†   (source)
  • Thus far, as I hope you agree, I have shown you reasonably firm sources of fact for my deductions as to what Voldemort did until the age of seventeen?†   (source)
  • "Unfortunately, Tanner was admitted into Xu Ming Psychiatric Hospital on 8 May 125 T.E., and committed bioelectricinduced suicide on 17 January 126 T.E. Though sources indicate that Princess Selene had been given to another keeper years before Tanner's death, I have thus far not been able to confirm the identity of that keeper.†   (source)
  • It would be helpful to me, if she were indeed mad, or at least a little madder than she appears to be; but thus far she has manifested a composure that a duchess might envy.†   (source)
  • Already a few hundred messages were shooting through her wrist, the most-favored one thus far already forgiving her: Mae, bathroom talk is allowed!†   (source)
  • In looking back over my career thus far, my chief satisfaction derives from what I achieved during those years, and I am today nothing but proud and grateful to have been given such a privilege.†   (source)
  • BY TEN O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING on Monday, October 9, 1893, the day Frank Millet had designated as Chicago Day, ticket-takers at the fair's Sixty-fourth Street gate made an informal count of the morning's sales thus far and found that this one gate had recorded 60,000 paid admissions.†   (source)
  • In an attempt to recover her memory, he subjected her to Neuro-hypnosis, at the hands of a skilled practitioner of that science — a science which, after a long eclipse, appears to be coming back into favour, both as a diagnostic and as a curative method, although it has thus far gained more favour in France than in this hemisphere.†   (source)
  • Thus far, DeRose has been responsible for school and university beverage deals worth more than $200 million.†   (source)
  • That she could encounter thousands of people in her life thus far, so many of them similar, so many of them forgettable, but then there is this person, new and bizarre and speaking bizarrely.†   (source)
  • Zeitoun no longer harbored any expectations of being granted a phone call from any of the guards he had seen thus far.†   (source)
  • Widespread introduction of the process has thus far been impeded, however, by a reluctance among consumers to eat things that have been exposed to radiation.†   (source)
  • He could still charm them and commiserate over their inability to locate the elusive deedholder, H. S. Campbell, but Holmes knew they soon would lose patience and in fact was a bit surprised they had not pursued him more forcefully than had been the case thus far.†   (source)
  • By naming him she was expanding this lie, the one being told by everyone involved in his incarceration thus far.†   (source)
  • For the first twenty or so minutes, I would say we exchanged the sort of remarks strangers might; she inquired politely about my journey thus far, how I was enjoying my holiday, which towns and landmarks I had visited and so on.†   (source)
  • I take my meals — with the exception of the breakfasts, which have thus far been even more deplorable than the breakfasts we shared as medical students in London — at a squalid inn located in the vicinity, where every meal is a burnt offering, and nothing is thought the worse for the addition of a little dirt and grime, and a seasoning of insects.†   (source)
  • Especially someone like me, whose major accomplishment thus far had involved hurling some half-drunk cowboy out of an East Texas bar and into the street on his ear.†   (source)
  • With an almost imperceptible tilt of his head, he seemed to register that Mae wasn't entirely comfortable with the proceedings thus far, but just as soon as he acknowledged her, he turned back to Gus, grinning like a game-show host.†   (source)
  • I would suppose, then, that as I stood there pondering the events of the evening - those that had unfolded and those still in the· process of doing so - they appeared to me a sort of summary of all that I had come to achieve thus far in my life.†   (source)
  • Neo-Nazi skinheads have thus far not caused much trouble in Plauen, though a black person today needs real courage to walk the city's streets at night.†   (source)
  • Thus far I've only dealt with that first two weeks of training on the land and in the pool, and I may not have explained how much emphasis the instructors put on the correct balanced diet for everyone.†   (source)
  • There was the number of queries handled that day thus far, 221, and the number of queries handled by that time yesterday, 219, and the number handled by her on average, 220, and by the pod's other members: 198.†   (source)
  • Judging by the way Jamie kept inching closer to us, bit by bit'as well as the fact that Nate's dad seemed to be doing all the talking--I had a feeling he was trying to extricate himself, although he'd had little luck thus far.†   (source)
  • This was something I'd missed out on thus far, the sense of expectation when it came to someone else.†   (source)
  • But the responses to the impassioned speeches thus far, from Russia, England, and now France, revealed just how far apart leaders could be when the chips were down.†   (source)
  • When Brother Leon arrived, they totaled the sales together and discovered that fifteen thousand and ten boxes of chocolates had been sold thus far.†   (source)
  • Sometimes when he tries hard (and sometimes when he is not trying at all), KSB-22-09 is able to make small objects—pencils, ball bearings, paper clips, thus far nothing larger than a glass of water—vanish.†   (source)
  • The spokesman from Targos, appointed commander of the forces of the four cities of the lake, had moved cautiously thus far for fear of a heavy assault from the north.†   (source)
  • The details vary, the dialogue is not identical, but in substance the two accounts-thus far, at least-corroborate one another.†   (source)
  • When he arrives at the last questionwhich asks students to write about the topic they have found most interesting thus far in the semester-he starts tapping his pencil on the desk.†   (source)
  • The only way Ryan managed thus far was to keep an image of Bethany at the forefront of his consciousness.†   (source)
  • Thus far, there had been confirmed attacks at Liberty Crossing, the Lincoln Memorial, the Kennedy Center, Washington Harbor, and Cafe Milano.†   (source)
  • Thus far, only a score had been dismissed for various acts of fighting, drunkenness, and insubordination.†   (source)
  • He spoke of the need for amending the judiciary system, and congratulated the Congress for the revenue that year, the largest of any year thus far.†   (source)
  • Thus far both dragons seemed to have a taste for mutton, returning to Daznak's whenever they grew hungry.†   (source)
  • He'd succeeded thus far because of his urgency, not through any finesse, and he made no attempt at it now.†   (source)
  • Most of them are what he expected-kids lifting observations from their journals, mostly mentioning exchanges between the teachers and their students, then weaving in some footnoted passages about diversity or tracking from the three books they've had to read thus far in the semester.†   (source)
  • Signed also by Sir William, the new proclamation was their boldest, most generous gesture thus far, they felt.†   (source)
  • He was a company man, a thoroughly competent young person who had likely never, in his life thus far, had to depart from the playbook he'd been given and had memorized.†   (source)
  • Thus far he had lost two fingers off his left hand and the pinky off his right, but only the little toe off his right foot against three from his left.†   (source)
  • To Adams it was particularly offensive that the British thus far had not thought it necessary even to appoint an ambassador to the United States.†   (source)
  • James Davis gets a few awards for his all-around efforts, and twenty-two Ballou students who were selected back in junior high by the "I Have a Dream" Foundation (a national network of benefactors who guarantee college tuition to anyone who eventually needs it) walk up to get certificates commending their achievement thus far.†   (source)
  • Still concerned for her, he wrote again the next day to assure her he himself had suffered no real damage thus far.†   (source)
  • Even his ambition seemed to become him—Adams wrote of Hamilton's "high-minded ambition"—and his incurable love of intrigue had thus far alienated no one.†   (source)
  • Not quite half that number had turned up thus far on Westeros, at or near their intended landing site, a deserted stretch of coast on the edge of the rain-wood …. lands that Jon Connington knew well, as they had once been his.†   (source)
  • Late the following day, January 17, well after dark, a dispatch rider dismounted at Washington's headquarters carrying the worst news of the war thus far.†   (source)
  • Senator Theodore Sedgwick of Massachusetts, who had greatly admired Adams, worked for his election, and thought he had thus far played "a noble part" as President, felt personally betrayed.†   (source)
  • In recognition of the part played thus far by the twenty-six-year-old Knox, Washington had already recommended him for promotion to the rank of brigadier general.†   (source)
  • All the building and remodeling he had done thus far—the renovation of rented houses in Paris, New York, and Philadelphia, even the initial construction of Monticello itself—had been but prelude to what was now under way.†   (source)
  • Like the Parliament, he had acted thus far in a spirit of moderation, he said, and he was "anxious to prevent, if it had been possible, the effusion of the blood of my subjects, and the calamities which are inseparable from a state of war."†   (source)
  • There were slaves still in every state but one—only Massachusetts had eliminated slavery thus far—but with the overwhelming majority of slaves, fully 500,000 or more, centered in Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas, the difference between North and South was if anything greater than ever.†   (source)
  • Yet thus far he felt he had rendered no real service to the country, and when Knowlton, on orders from Washington, called for a volunteer to cross the lines and bring back desperately needed intelligence, he had bravely offered to go.†   (source)
  • Jefferson, who was as dedicated to close ties with the French as ever Franklin had been, had thus far succeeded in attaining a single agreement, one whereby American whale oil would be admitted to French markets, and this for a limited time only.†   (source)
  • THE ATTENTION OF THE COUNTRY, meanwhile, had shifted to western Pennsylvania where an insurrection had broken out over a federal excise tax on distilleries, the only internal tax thus far imposed by the federal government.†   (source)
  • The orderly withdrawal of an army was considered one of the most difficult of all maneuvers, even for the best-trained soldiers, and the fact that Washington's ragtag amateur army was making a night withdrawal in perfect order and silence thus far, seemed more than could be hoped for.†   (source)
  • GENERAL HENRY CLINTON, not an impressive man in looks or manner, had thus far in the war done little to show that appearances could be deceiving, and that he had, as he knew, marked intelligence and ability.†   (source)
  • Having thus far dealt primarily with the "minutiae" of a plan for confederation, the delegates, by late July, had gotten down to the "great points of representation, boundaries, and taxation," in Jefferson's words; and as Josiah Bartlett wrote with New Hampshire understatement, "the sentiments of the members [were] very different on many of the articles."†   (source)
  • They had journeyed thus far by the west-ways, for they had much to speak of with Elrond and with Gandalf, and here they lingered still in converse with their friends.†   (source)
  • Thus far, no bridge connects the island with the mainland, and anyone who sets foot on the island comes by water.†   (source)
  • Paralysis of the United States mail was more of a shock to Edgar Quisenberry than anything that had occurred thus far.†   (source)
  • Thus far the chronicler, and it was not his task to tell us more than the bare facts.†   (source)
  • His body was a rotten fabric which had thus far miraculously held together.†   (source)
  • I am not satisfied with the progress thus far made.†   (source)
  • They are not satisfied with the progress thus far made.†   (source)
  • You have acted wisely, of course, in bringing water thus far; but beyond this point you have no occasion to burden yourself.†   (source)
  • The revolution was left inside society, a part of that welter of ideological struggle which art and poetry find so unpropitious as soon as it begins to involve those "precious" axiomatic beliefs upon which culture thus far has had to rest.†   (source)
  • They aided you in your distress, and in recompense you have thus far brought ruin only, though doubtless undesigned.†   (source)
  • Thus far had he progressed at Shangri-La, and he remembered that he had attained a similar though far less pleasant equanimity during his years at the War.†   (source)
  • She was thin in those days, flat-chested, leggy; she seemed all limbs and neck, bodiless, spidery; thus far she conformed to the fashion, but the hair-cut and the hats of the period, and the blank stare and gape of the period, and the clownish dabs of rouge high on the cheekbones, could not reduce her to type.†   (source)
  • In other manifestations of life God made things easy for us and, thus far, our religion had no merit.†   (source)
  • Still, if things had gone thus far and no farther, force of habit would doubtless have gained the day, as usual.†   (source)
  • Thus far they were at one; but no farther.†   (source)
  • His mother sighed, thinking of the misery of having to fall back on her one son thus far.†   (source)
  • For here, as he had thus far seen, all was on a so much smaller scale.†   (source)
  • And that meant that her dreams and sacrifices thus far had been in vain.†   (source)
  • He had never said so to himself thus far.†   (source)
  • Hast thou dared to look even thus far?' said Kim.†   (source)
  • Urged thus far, I had no choice but to adapt my nature to an element which I had willingly chosen.†   (source)
  • Thus far I had succumbed supinely to this imperious domination.†   (source)
  • From this last vent no blood yet came, because no vital part of him had thus far been struck.†   (source)
  • When he had read thus far, he crumpled the letter up and threw it away.†   (source)
  • And now I must part with the little secret I have thus far tried to keep.†   (source)
  • The world has brought him thus far on his way.†   (source)
  • Thus far I had outwitted him, and I triumphed over it.†   (source)
  • The superciliousness that lurked in her manner told Venn that thus far he had utterly failed.†   (source)
  • Thus far the picture was the daily exhibition of an encampment confident in its security.†   (source)
  • I have come thus far to be a comfort to you, and why not go farther?†   (source)
  • I have come thus far only for the sake of your pleasant company.†   (source)
  • Hepzibah flung herself upon that unknown woman's companionship, even thus far off.†   (source)
  • However, he had not ventured thus far to draw back.†   (source)
  • —Clerk, have you written down what the prisoner has said thus far?†   (source)
  • Nicholas hesitated when he had got thus far.†   (source)
  • Thus far it was only an innocent amazement, but a sort of stupefied confidence was mingled with it.†   (source)
  • "So then, thus far," he answered, "the theory of Sir Humphry Davy is confirmed."†   (source)
  • I see no objection to that; my scruples do not go thus far.†   (source)
  • When I saw myself thus far removed from all earthly help I had recourse to heavenly succour.†   (source)
  • What I have said thus far, my son, had reference to your question.†   (source)
  • Having read thus far, Princess Mary sighed and glanced into the mirror which stood on her right.†   (source)
  • "Suffer ye thus far," he said to the wounded man, and healed him with a touch.†   (source)
  • She took off the thick boots in which she had walked thus far, put on her pretty thin ones of patent leather, and, stuffing the former into the hedge by the gatepost where she might readily find them again, descended the hill; the freshness of colour she had derived from the keen air thinning away in spite of her as she drew near the parsonage.†   (source)
  • Sir Percy had ridden thus far, had then met Briggs, the skipper of the DAY DREAM, and had sent the groom back to Richmond with Sultan and the empty saddle.†   (source)
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