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Example sentences for "this thing"

  • This thing is certain--he is a fool who says, "No man hath said in his heart, There is no God.

  • This thing we call existence; is it not a something which has its roots far down below in the dark, and its branches stretching out into the immensity above, which we among the branches cannot see?

  • When it sinned and when it suffered something like a dead hand would fall on me--'You did it, you, for your own pleasure you created this thing!

  • I'm sick of this thing," said Gregory, turning sharply on his heel.

  • Quoth I, 'What moved thee to do this thing?

  • An thou do this thing, thou art my brother and ruler over us and I will pardon thee the deaths of my father and mother, nor will I reproach thee with what thou hast done.

  • We want you in this thing, and we want you bad.

  • Look here," he cried, "this thing is getting desperate.

  • I am not sure that it is right to do this thing, Vanamee.

  • Take heed, therefore, of deceit in this thing.

  • The Lord forbid that I Should do this thing, and flee away from them.

  • Finally we must rely on the people growing tired and saying to their leaders, 'We have had enough of this thing, we will bear it no longer.

  • He put the greenback into his vest pocket, and walked the floor; after awhile he stopped, heaved a long breath and said: 'This thing frightens me!

  • His sensations in the presence of this thing he had summoned up in her were incomprehensible, surpassing any he had ever known.

  • And there's got to be some limit to this thing.

  • And this girl has it--this thing I'm trying to express.

  • Well, while he'd been away--this thing came.

  • At this Thing he gave to all his sons the title of king, and made a law that his descendants in the male line should each succeed to the kingly title and dignity; but his descendants by the female side only to that of earl.

  • At this Thing, Harald was chosen king of half the country, and it was called a forced oath which had been taken from him to renounce his paternal heritage.

  • He made a law, that the Upland people should resort to this Thing, and that Eidsvold laws should be good through all the districts of the Uplands, and wide around in other quarters, which also has taken place.

  • Ditta Mull says:--'This thing is the talk of a child, and was made up by fools.

  • What right had this man--this Thing I had picked out of his filthy paddy-fields--to make love to me?

  • This thing's soft all over--like a woman.

  • I'll tell you all about it some day when I've put a head on this thing.

  • By your soul, by your father's soul, do not make me do this thing!

  • If this thing is true, it would be as well not to talk about it.

  • There had been much talk of this thing in the servant's hall.

  • This thing is extraordinary because, if statistics were taken, the result would probably be the discovery that not three human beings in a million really possess it.

  • It is the mystery of the world--this thing.

  • Listen to me a minute, and I'll tell you why I came to do this thing.

  • He would have some arrangement of this thing.

  • Hurstwood saw the difficulty of this thing, and yet it did not seem so terrible.

  • Hurstwood almost exclaimed out loud at the insistency of this thing.

  • In a flash, he thought he foresaw the result of this thing.

  • But there's something about their being niggers that makes me sick of this thing already--just as the time has come to make the start.

  • This nigger ain't charged with any crime himself, and my idea is that he ain't to be allowed to figure one way or the other in this thing.

  • Boys, this thing of lynching gets to be a habit.

  • Yes, this thing is worse than the others.

  • This thing is mostly between me and my wife.

  • It seemed strange to her to do this thing.

  • This thing had an air of system not in accord with the suddenness of the Pipi mind.

  • We ask you to name a price on which you will do this thing.

  • I mean, madame, that I will go, not to do this thing, but to stand by and render help if help be needed.

  • I am a Christian man myself, Arsenio, and I have lived in ignorance of this thing?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    immense extent; this article; this coast; this condition; this country; this custom; this date; this edition; this epoch; this essay; this house; this instant; this island; this kingdom; this meeting; this method; this nation; this parish; this question; this regard; this report; this ship; this tale; this vast; this vessel; this way