Seeing that evidently the boy felt de trop and would much rather have run away, I laid my hands affectionately on his shoulders and thanked him from the bottom of my heart for the torture he was imposing upon himself.
Our apartment in Piazza Barbarini was warm and cosey; and I thanked Heaven for it, as it rained for two months, and my first view most of the time was the poor Triton with an icicle on his nose.
Never had Lucy heard the speaker more impressive, and she thanked God in her heart her cousin should have been brought to listen to truths which she had probably never before heard with any real understanding of them.
Davila thanked him with a smile, and she and Elaine went in, leaving the strangers to follow.
Now, he thanked high Heaven he had not offered himself.
Ralph thanked Guthrie for his caution, although he was half angry at the interruption, at that particular moment of time, and intimated to Ruth that perhaps they had better return.
He thanked me courteously, and said he would return in the evening, when, perhaps, I would be more at leisure.
When we were alone, Baji Lal and Devaka threw themselves at my feet, and thanked me for the aid I had rendered them.
Descending from my elephant, I greeted her and thanked her for the courage of herself and all the other women, our loved ones.
When it was over Madame de Chauvelin thanked me, and told me that she should always remember our dancing together at Soleure, and that she hoped I would dance again with her at her own house.
I thanked her, gave her ten sequins, and sent her away happy.
The coach started for Frankfort the same evening, and summoning Month I thanked him for his kindness and paid him generously, so he went off well pleased.
Tronchin, who had never heard her speak before, thanked me a hundred times for having procured him this pleasure, and being obliged to leave us by the call of business he asked us to meet again in two days' time.
I thanked her briefly and spoke to the girl coolly enough.
Lebel assured me that the ambassador was extremely kind to his wife, and he thanked me heartily for having given such a woman up to him.
Thanked be god they had no stauys, Nor egotoles, for then it had ben wronge.
Thanked be Crist of his sonde, For that that was ours is now in your faders honde.
We are very grateful for your explanation," you thanked me gently.
Christopher thanked him warmly for this: he got the papers to his own little room, and had always one or two in his pocket for reading.
She took his flowers, and thanked him for them, and for coming to see her.
They thankedhim heartily, and said they would stay a few days, at all events.
Then he thanked and blessed her again, with the tears in his eyes, and left her more disturbed and tearful than she had ever been since she grew to woman.
She received him kindly, and thanked him for taking the trouble to come again.
She rose, thanked me hurriedly, but in a very lady-like manner, and set about removing the breakfast service, with as much diligence as if she had been a mere menial.
I thanked my kind-hearted friend, and received her gift through a hole that she pointed out to me.
Kate said this with feeling, and I thanked her with my eyes, but could not have spoken, and did not speak, until we had ridden some distance.
He should never forget that it was at Chatteris she had acquired the skill which she was about to exercise in another sphere, and in her name and his own Jack Costigan thanked and blessed them.
It was she who asked him bow that dear little pony was, and looked at him and thanked him with such a tender kindness and regret, and refused the dear little pony with such a delicate sigh when he offered it.
Pen thanked him and took it, and pursued his reverie, without reading two sentences of the journal.
Mirko paid the modest bill and added a generous mancia at which the girl's eyes sparkled, and she thanked him effusively.
When she paid him, he thanked her with a brilliant smile, displaying his white teeth, and in halting Italian she asked him what made him so happy.
The master thankedher with a little friendly cough.
Raindal thanked him with a bow, and made a sign to Mme.
Cyprien thankedhim profusely and gave his solemn promise.
She thanked him chidingly, placed the flowers in a vase or, if they were short, kept them in her hand.
Raindal thanked him with modest gestures of his hand as if he were fending off the compliments.
He thanked her profusely but, once he was in the street, he could not repress the annoyance which this difficult mission caused him.
She thanked him with a candid smile on her profile.
Aunt Panhias thanked him with enthusiastic replies that were to each of his sentences as the rolling of a drum.
We thanked our informant--a hard-working artisan of the class which mostly occupied that part of the city--and followed his direction.
Ernst thanked A'Dale warmly for the protection he had afforded him.
Again shethanked Ernst for the benefit he had done her lord.
I thanked the man, and we took the hint, walking rapidly forward to the place Captain Radford had appointed.
Master Overton warmly thanked the minister, saying that it was his wish to devote himself as heretofore to the work of the Lord.
Ernst thanked his patron, for he had a desire to gain knowledge, though he did not clearly understand what sort of place a school was.
We all, of course, thanked Jacob for the service he had rendered.
I warmly thanked Captain Rover for this information, and begged that he would allow me to bring him to Sir Thomas.
Margery, drying her tears, thanked Sir Thomas for his kind intentions, and was not in any way chary of her abuse of poor A'Dale for his conduct.
At a later date I remember Lord Chancellor Haldane fell into the same error, calling Britain the greatest manufacturing country in the world, and thanked me for putting him right.
I don't know whether I thanked him; I don't believe I did.
I laughed and he laughed, and I thankedhim for that story.
I thankedhim and said that, although Mr. Scott and I had parted company in business matters, I would never raise my hand against him.
Uncle Ramsey, delightedly, after Courtland hadthanked him, promised to think it over, and gone back to his room.
She thanked him again, apathetically, as if she had not the heart to feel anything keenly, but was grateful to him as could be.
The girl looked up when Courtland entered and thanked him for the flowers with her eyes.
But he did not know of it, and at a comparatively early hour next morning he was at Mrs. Buncher's, where Bessie greeted him with her sweetest smile and thanked him again for all he had done for them.
I thanked him for what he was doing in a weak, broken sort of way, and Lashly held open the little round tent door to let me see the last of him.
When he had obtained all the information he required, he politely thanked the official for his kindness, and drily observed, 'When I have some change I will come and take it.
His benevolence indeed was excessive; and Samuel Bradburn says, 'He never relieved poor people in the street but he either took off or removed his hat to them when they thanked him.
And then in laudatory terms, which Pan-Chao translated to us, he thanked Faruskiar, complimented him, and gave him to understand that the Son of Heaven would reward him for his services.
I have omitted to say that immediately after the dispersal of the bandits we had in a body thanked Faruskiar.
Mr. Houghton thanked them for their courtesy and attention, and hoped--And nobody took the slightest notice.
She thanked the old man, who bowed as if he had a reputation to keep up.
The youth thanked him for a promise which his curiosity made acceptable, and they turned once more to the caravan.
He then came to me in high spirits, and told me how he had been preserved by the power of the Holy Cross; then he thanked me very earnestly, and promised to be more on his guard in future.
She spoke little in answer, and did not like on the spot to acknowledge herself vanquished, but she thanked me heartily, and went away quite red and flushed in the face.
Next morning when he made his appearance on the leads he thankedme by signs, and showed the cross I had sent him.
So I thanked him as well as I could for the dumbness and heat that were on me; and he took off his hat and made a grand bow, and then he shook hands--oh, so cordially!
Hilda thanked him with a glance, and took her place at the tiller in silence.
Roger thanked her, but was not a dancing man, and hops were hardly in their line out here.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thanked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
