She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she didn't like, embroider the parts she did and thus control the life she had. From LearnThat.org. [Dudley Clendinen]
The Court has only accepted 53 cases for the term thus far. From Wordnik.com. [National Review Online] Reference
Pompey has continued to bear the title thus given him to the present day. From Wordnik.com. [History of Julius Caesar] Reference
New York, and sold in small parcels to farmers, who believed the title thus acquired valid. From Wordnik.com. [Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made] Reference
The title thus distinguished them from the martyrs, who were so called because they underwent death for the Faith. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
It was only after a long conflict that the popes recognized the title thus assumed by the metropolitans of Aquileia. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
The majority of scholars seem to interpret the term thus, as did in a way the old Greek translators, who used carpoi, "fruits.". From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
Still, I am disposed to think and to hope that the title thus sportively adopted will not be found wholly inappropriate to the volume. From Wordnik.com. [As good as a comedy, or, The Tennesseean's story] Reference
This term thus represents the minimum obligation for the seller. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12] Reference
A keen satire on contemporary New York society, which explains its title thus. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl with the Green Eyes A Play in Four Acts] Reference
First, then, this term thus employed is needlessly pretentious; secondly, it is totally misapplied. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy] Reference
A word thus compounded would be of less general use. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 213, November 26, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] Reference
The terms thus offered to Denmark were not unfavourable. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878] Reference
The comma is omitted if the phrase thus used is very short. From Wordnik.com. [Punctuation A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctuation and their Use Both Grammatically and Typographically] Reference
Charles would bring himself to accept the terms thus offered. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
With the expression thus given to a general wish, the Dean of. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete] Reference
His name thus abbreviated is, there can be no doubt, Grimani. From Wordnik.com. [The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete] Reference
At hearing his name thus pronounced, Beausire visibly trembled. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen's Necklace] Reference
Of course I was much pleased at having my name thus perpetuated. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of the Colorado River] Reference
Dean, in an official letter to the Bristol Post Office, signed his name thus. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time] Reference
Then he began to sing softly a war-song which may be roughly rendered in English thus. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Aviators in Africa] Reference
Although we have made use of the name thus given we do not think it has been justified. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1] Reference
The author signs his name thus, at full length, 'Paulmier, Prêtre Indien Chanoine de l'Eglise. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888] Reference
It is said that the total of the coins thus bestowed amounted to 365,000 ryo, a vast sum in that era. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
"I protest," said she, "that I am the unhappiest lady upon earth to have my name thus called in question.". From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Certainly the most mainstream title thus far ... but it is Wes Anderson, Roald Dahl and Stop Motion Animation!. From Wordnik.com. [Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.] Reference
Knowing the man of money as she did, Alma found it disagreeable to connect his name thus closely with Sibyl's. From Wordnik.com. [The Whirlpool] Reference
(Kollomietzev shuddered at hearing his name thus mutilated.) "I assure you that I always realise what I am saying.". From Wordnik.com. [Virgin Soil] Reference
And the name thus used in those early days of "The Kingdom of Heaven," has been generally applied to it ever since. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom of Heaven; What is it?] Reference
(PR Newswire, June 10, 1997) The name thus conveys a theme, which both identifies and positions the firm in its industry. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The passage, a part of which has been often quoted, is inserted in the Chronicle under the year 720, and runs in English thus. From Wordnik.com. [The High History of the Holy Graal] Reference
The little girl was pretty, but Antonia -- they accented the name thus, strongly, when they spoke to her -- was still prettier. From Wordnik.com. [My Antonia] Reference
Who was it had said something about that, something about "come back" for a woman, making the expression thus dimly familiar in her mind?. From Wordnik.com. [This Freedom] Reference
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