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Example sentences for "these things"

  • These things we want a man to do for himself, even if he does them badly.

  • But to say that Buddhism and Christianity give the same philosophy of these things is simply false.

  • Then I answered as briefly as possible--omitting all reference to these things.

  • Was there not actual dynamic energy in these things--was there not a Son of Man who hung upon a cross on Calvary?

  • These things sometimes go wrong in a land where they say you are all born equal; and that quarter of a nod in Colonel Cyrus Jones's eating palace held more equality than any whole nod you could see.

  • Let me shake hands with you," said the traveller, who had failed to interest his wife in these things.

  • It is necessary that society should look at these things, because it is itself which creates them.

  • He has no shirt on his body, no shoes on his feet, no roof over his head; he is like the flies of heaven, who have none of these things.

  • There is nothing out of the ordinary in these things.

  • When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in amazement before this mystery of sublimity.

  • When I think of these things I am hard--as hard as nails.

  • You see, when I delight in these things, I think I delight most in my delight in them.

  • I always have to do these things," he said, "and I am not clever enough, or old enough.

  • These things I mention from memory, but not all of them together impressed me so much as an inscription on a small slab of marble fixed in one of the walls.

  • I have touched on these things lest, when I relate of sleights and marvels, I be checked by the disbelief of the reader.

  • The first of these things testifies to and avows itself.

  • These things commonly go with feebleness, these are the wages of the defeated, for whom naught remains but utter infamy.

  • Thorkill, struck with amazement at these things, gave rein to his covetousness, and cast off all his purposed self-restraint.

  • By demonstrating our knowledge of these things we should demonstrate our possession of a reasonable intelligence.

  • In these things there is invariably a certain amount of give and take, and it fell to me finally to do the giving reluctantly enough.

  • I scrambled back into the sphere with these things.

  • Well, sir, I can assure you that not only do I not know why I do these things, but I did not even know I did them.

  • After all," I said, "there's something in these things.

  • Upstairs in her sitting-room, that afternoon, she was thinking of these things.

  • In Mrs. Leath's hand was the letter which had opened her eyes to these things, and a smile rose to her lips at the mere feeling of the paper between her fingers.

  • What had happened to her was grotesque and mean and miserable; but she herself was none of these things, and never, never would she make of herself the mock that fate had made of her.

  • These things I remember, and likewise sobbing myself to sleep in the four-poster.

  • In addition to these things my mind ran like fire.

  • For by these things is the Indian mind impressed.

  • This was my scheme, and my reasons were good; I was really alienated from him in the consequences of these things; indeed, I mortally hated him as a husband, and it was impossible to remove that riveted aversion I had to him.

  • But I leave the readers of these things to their own just reflections, which they will be more able to make effectual than I, who so soon forgot myself, and am therefore but a very indifferent monitor.

  • These things proceeded so far, that we came at last to be in such ill terms with one another, that I claimed a promise of him, which he entered willingly into with me when I consented to come from England with him, viz.

  • So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

  • We can not demonstrate these things so as to show that the contrary often involves a contradiction.

  • You don't expect me to appear in a new country in these things, do you?

  • Only Umslopogaas would have none of these things; when his moocha was worn out the fierce old Zulu made him a new one, and went about unconcerned, as grim and naked as his own battleaxe.

  • Thou knowest, Nyleptha,' said Sir Henry, 'that it was for none of these things that I asked thee to meet me at this lonely place.

  • And then, you see, these things happen to you!

  • Benham sat at a table in the smoking-room of the Sherborough Hotel at Johannesburg and told of these things.

  • He was expected to be interested and excited by these things.

  • In the absence of self-assertion, it was only through my now and then delicately putting a question as the occasion arose, that I became informed of these things.

  • Surrounded by these things, here I stood on the steps of the Hotel de Ville, persuaded to remain by the P.


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