It surprised her a little that they should have come, but to Katie herself it was so vital and so tragic a thing that it was not difficult to accept the fact of its marking any one who came close to it.
And perhaps sunshine is a thing that soaks in and can be stored up, and given out again.
But if this were a thing that didn't have to produce wealth--then it wouldn't need to endanger health.
If I know what's happened, then what's happened is a thing thatnobody is to blame for.
But a thing that cannot be, cannot render impossible a thing that can be--a thing against whose existence there are no such arguments as have rightly shown that the other cannot be.
Now I must go to my study, and think out a thing that's bothering me!
This word, in law, sometimes signifies one who takes the first possession of a thing that has no owner.
Never know'd a man to have luck with a thing that he'd refused a good bid for.
Moreover, he has left undone a thing that he ought to have done," I rejoined.
Tis a thing that flits i' the dark and with never a sound, that watches and listens.
Shall I mind a thing that is not worth minding, because it came to me in a dream, or was told me by a ghost?
A thing that gained in one way, might be of less than no value to us, gained in another, might, as a vital part of the process, be invaluable.
And then happened a thing that set me back into trouble about Owen again.
Then I pulled eastward, and against the tide also, but that was a thing that I did not know.
And I suppose that I should have done so, and thereby met my death shortly, but for a thing that roused me in an instant, and set the warm blood coursing through me again.
This is due partly to the influence of words upon our emotions, in rhetoric for example, and partly to the general fact that discomfort normally belongs to the belief that we desire such-and-such a thing that we do not possess.
But just as it is useful to realize the nature of a word as part of the physical world, so it is useful to realize the sort of thing that a word may mean.
A proposition is a series of words (or sometimes a single word) expressing the kind of thing that can be asserted or denied.
I assume, that is to say, a trained observer, with an analytic attention, knowing the sort of thing to look for, and the sort of thing thatwill be important.
And they say that fornication is no sin deadly, but a thing that is kindly, and that men and women should not wed but once, and whoso weddeth oftener than once, their children be bastards and gotten in sin.
In that land of Job there ne is no default of no thing that is needful to man's body.
And when the pismires see those vessels, they leap in anon: and they have this kind that they let nothing be empty among them, but anon they fill it, be it what manner of thing that it be; and so they fill those vessels with gold.
It seemed the entirely obvious and natural thing that he should be sitting there alone with Lucia Harden.
There were gaps on the shelves, a thing that he hated to see.
Would she not have thought that he had either dedicated to her a thing that he was afterwards ashamed of, or that he had meant nothing by the dedication?
I began to wonder how I could get rid of it safely, not knowing but that Galloway might have the number, and I think I should have put it back, what with that doubt and my twitchings of conscience, but for a thing that happened.
The lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they who seek the Lord shall want no manner of thing that is good.
Arthur Channing did the very worst thing that he could have done--he hesitated.
With this came forward the Christian broker and said, 'O King of the age, with thy leave, I will tell thee a thing that happened to myself and which is still stranger and more wonderful and pleasant than the story of the hunchback.
How shall I leave its fertile plains, whose earth unto the scent Is very perfume, for the land contains no thing that's naught?
By Allah, I will do a thing that shall be chronicled after me!
But how much more will it make this fire burn when he shall see all this is come upon him for a toy, for a bauble, for a thing that is worse than nothing!
Now this is a false ground, and a thing that is verily legal, and savours only of some slight and shallow apprehensions of the old covenant.
He would put me into the 'Thing that bites,' in other words, the lion trap, and leave me there to die like a jackal caught by the leg.
On the contrary, they accompanied us every foot of the way, keeping up a running fire of allusions to the 'Thing that bites' that jarred upon my nerves and discomposed my temper.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thing that" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
