All 17 Uses
thus
in
The Jungle, by Sinclair
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- As she roars her song, in a voice of which it is enough to say that it leaves no portion of the room vacant, the three musicians follow her, laboriously and note by note, but averaging one note behind; thus they toil through stanza after stanza of a lovesick swain's lamentation:— "Sudiev' kvietkeli, tu brangiausis; Sudiev' ir laime, man biednam, Matau—paskyre teip Aukszcziausis, Jog vargt ant svieto reik vienam!"†
Chpt 1
- Thus having known himself for the master of things, a man could go back to his toil and live upon the memory all his days.†
Chpt 1
- Thus was the happy ending to a woeful voyage.†
Chpt 2
- A wonderful privilege it was to be thus admitted into the soul of a man of genius, to be allowed to share the ecstasies and the agonies of his inmost life.†
Chpt 8
- Thus the end of every day was a sort of lottery—a struggle, all but breaking into open war between the bosses and the men, the former trying to rush a job through and the latter trying to stretch it out.†
Chpt 8
- The winter went, and the spring came, and found them still living thus from hand to mouth, hanging on day by day, with literally not a month's wages between them and starvation.†
Chpt 10
- In addition to all their physical hardships, there was thus a constant strain upon their minds; they were harried all day and nearly all night by worry and fear.†
Chpt 10
- Thus one might stand and see appear, miraculously born from the machine, a wriggling snake of sausage of incredible length.†
Chpt 13
- Ten days of his thirty Jurgis spent thus, without hearing a word from his family; then one day a keeper came and informed him that there was a visitor to see him.†
Chpt 17
- For an hour or so he walked thus, and then he began to look about him.†
Chpt 18
- It was not a question of life and death for him, therefore; he might hunt all day, and come again on the morrow, and try hanging on thus for weeks, like hundreds and thousands of others.†
Chpt 20
- All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents an hour; and then his product would be reckoned up by the census taker, and jubilant captains of industry would boast of it in their banquet halls, telling how our workers are nearly twice as efficient as those of any other country.†
Chpt 20
- In a work thus carried out, not much thought was given to the welfare of the laborers.†
Chpt 23
- Thus in the course of the campaign he handled many hundreds of dollars of the Hebrew brewer's money, administering it with naive and touching fidelity.†
Chpt 25
- The eloquent senator was explaining the system of protection; an ingenious device whereby the workingman permitted the manufacturer to charge him higher prices, in order that he might receive higher wages; thus taking his money out of his pocket with one hand, and putting a part of it back with the other.†
Chpt 27
- And thus the mass of the people were always in a life-and-death struggle with poverty.†
Chpt 29
- Thus Chicago now led the country; it had set a new standard for the party, it had shown the workingmen the way!†
Chpt 31 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(thus as in: Thus it was necessary.) therefore (for that reason; or what follows is so because of what was just said)
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(2)
(thus as in: betrayed her thus) in the way mentioned or shown
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) The expression, thus far means so far or up until now.