Yet we had but to forget our own miserable skins and sensibilities, to remember we were only on-lookers, and be thankful to be there that night in any capacity whatsoever.
And if any link was of His forging, why not the whole chain, as two thankful people dare to think?
Well, dear chum, I got your parcel and am very thankfulfor it.
Yet suppose it is better that my Damoiselle should not be made well all in a minute, but should learn by suffering to be patient in sickness, and thankful for her usual good health?
Well, if there be one thing for which I am thankful it is that the good Lord has not given me much of my own way.
Here is our sister Eschine the mother of a pretty little baby, and instead of being thankful that Eschine and the infant are doing well, there goes Amaury growling and grumbling about the house because his child is a girl.
Damoiselle," she said, "I am verythankful I came on this journey.
Take me to mamma, please,' which I did with a thankful heart.
It is very kind of you to say so, but I think I'd like a little fun and fame, nevertheless," and Rose did not look as thankful as she ought.
We are thankful that we have at last had the mournful privilege of giving a christian burial to our fallen comrades.
When night came Conniston trudged from the corrals to the bunk-house and his evening meal devoutly thankful that the long day was gone.
He turned and went out with no single look behind him, glad to be out in the open, thankful for the fresh air, which he drew deep down into his stifling lungs.
But she felt thankful for the permission to do this, though at the same time she hoped that she should not need it.
Without the help of witchcraft the man could not have escaped, the women said, and for once Maud felt thankful to the unknown witch, whoever she might be, who had done this service.
But I know you are thinking of the old place, and, of course, after what you've been used to it is a trial; but you must pluck up courage and be thankfulthat you have your family still and no lost lives to mourn over.
I shall only be too thankful to have her safe by me; though who knows whether any of us are safe anywhere?
I expect everybody will be thankful to have something to do this horrid weather.
He hesitated for a moment, and then went on: "I shall be thankful if you will keep the picture and these documents.
He was thankful to find that there was still enough of conscience left to him to tell him this.
In short, the "Pale-faces" were supremely happy, and disposed to be thankful for their recent deliverance and their present comforts.
Mayhap ye'll be thankful to do that same yerself some day.
That is common enough, and thankful should we be that it is so common in a world that's over-full of hatred.
Ye may be thankful yer neck's whole," said Joe, grinning, as Henri rubbed his shoulder with a rueful look.
Indeed, my dear, I'm truly thankful to say I am not.
I was truly thankful to be thus spared from contest; for I had begun to feel the consequences of breathing the polluted air of confinement.
No, no, Miss Percy; whatever may be the practice in other countries, we have reason to be thankful that such atrocities are unknown in Eredine.
That is one thing to be thankful for among a good many others.
He has no conception of the dramatic possibilities of a situation--something to be profoundly thankful for in the commander of an escadrille de chasse.
The bequest from the Australian uncle had reached them just in time, so, with thankful hearts, they celebrated and had done so annually ever since.
Inwardly, she was far from calm, though deeply thankful that Rose did not happen to be in the room.
I'm thankful I've come through all right--it means so much.
Stupendous," and she wasthankful for the extra syllable in this moment of emotion.
I am thankful that in such a large and enlightened audience such an error is not likely to be repeated.
He looked hot and dusty, and thankful to sit down on the leather bench.
The remembrance of the tragic event of last summer made her shrink from witnessing the same scenes, and in her physically exhausted condition she was thankful to stay quietly in college.
Thankful and grateful she would be to the end of her life, but she was not, and had not even pretended to be, sorry that Aunt Maria was dead.
Oh, how thankful I am that there is some one young in the neighbourhood.
She was thankful to do it, thankful to welcome dawnings of the old zest, to feel her feet involuntarily quicken to a dance, to discover herself singing as she moved to and fro.
My dear fellow, I am so thankful that your diamonds have turned up!
You ought to know it, and be very, very thankful for a great weapon given into your hands.
I'm thankful that the news of the strike got to Copah in time to bring Gridley over on 203," he said.
Truly, Angels was not much to be thankful for, as the exile from the East regretfully admitted when he looked out upon it from the windows of his office in the second story of the Crow's Nest.
But he ignored them good-naturedly, rather thankful for the playful interlude which gave him a breathing-space and time to study the field before the real battle should begin.
O, how thankful we were that we exchanged boats when we did, and were safely landed here in Baton Rouge.
O, how thankful I was," she went on, "for this promotion!
As I soon after passed the wreck of partially burned furniture floating near the shore, and some hauled out lying on the bank, I was thankful for the disappointment.
As Ship Island receded from view sister Backus, as well as myself, feltthankful that our Heavenly Father had ordered all things well in regard to our having been left "'way off in the Gulf of Mexico.
Said the mother, "We don't feel halfthankful enough for this grate- fire.
Most assuredly I was thankful to see the return of "Ben Franklin, No.
I was thankful for the improvement in sister Backus's health by a good night's rest, and that we had escaped.
The day following I met the sick man again, and as soon as I entered his mother's room she said, "O, how thankful we are to God for this visit to my poor boy!
On her account, as well as our own, we were thankful for the privilege of mingling with kindred spirits.
At the first season of prayer, as I did not have that impression, I felt quite at ease, and thankful to my Father in heaven for excusing me.
But I told him I was thankful to get the five hundred dollars, and could waive their notions of woman's inability very comfortably.
I had become very much interested in a number with whom I conversed, who were very thankful for the Testaments we gave them.
I am so thankful she can now go where she pleases.
After spending several days in this work, visiting schools and giving attention to many sufferers, I returned, weary in body but restful in mind, and thankful that the friends of humanity had made me the almoner of their gifts.
I was thankful enough to get clean away without discovering myself, and I have to trust now to the fact of Bill's being drunk, and thinking it was my ghost that he saw, in a touch of the jimjams!
He should be very thankful to be able to manage it so easily instead of being dragged through the mud for everybody to gloat over in London.
Divorce her, since you are sure you can do so, and be thankful you have that remedy.
He could put up with it, I suppose, as other men have had to do--and be thankful it is no worse.
Nevertheless at the porch Mistress Thankful regained something of her old audacity.
Thankful stepped to the sofa whereon lay the convalescent Major Van Zandt.
Yet, when they met casually in the performance of her household duties, the innocent Mistress Thankful noticed, under her downcast penitential eyelids, that the eyes of the officer followed her intently.
For as Mistress Thankful thundered down the Morristown road she thought of many things.
When the courier arrived at headquarters the next morning, it was to bring the report that Mistress Thankful Blossom, after assisting her lover to escape had fled with him.
But that lady turned dignifiedly away, and Mistress Thankfulagain faced the general.
They spoke but little on their return to the farm-house, for Mistress Thankful had again become grave.
But the country folk were certain that spring had come at last; and even the correct and self-sustained Major Van Zandt came running in to announce to Mistress Thankful that one of his men had seen a violet in the meadow.
I shall be thankful for any equivalent it may seem good unto thee to bestow upon me.
The lad was so thankful for the respite, and was so nearly exhausted by his efforts, that for a time he said nothing, being only too glad of an opportunity to rest.
Have we not reason to be most thankful that they did record it?
You may be thankful it was my indecorous, unfeminine self, and not any of the proprieties.
Be thankful that you know nothing sorer than grief; and if you would keep your hope alive, leave the house that contains us.
Onyway it must be a heavy loss, but we may be thankful we're to the fore ourselves.
He saw my emotion, and continued kindly: "I am as thankful as you can be for the cure which I see has begun, and will soon be effected.
Be thankful if you are the possessor of a secret joy yourself, and do not attempt to impart it to others, who will only repel and mock you.
But I'm positively thankful it isn't you, for I'm sure he's just a little bit off his head.
They were more thankful than ever for their huts and lean-tos, and all except the sentinels clung closely to their shelter.
Believe me, you have every reason to be thankful that my present embarrassment should so far engross me, that I cannot afford time to give you a thrashing.
I am thankful for beauty, even when 'tis thrown to me like a bone to a dog.
Very well, then; you should be thankful to me for biding.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thankful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
