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Example sentences for "this way"

  • He was just beginning to see that this woman was playing with him; he divined instinctively that a devoted love, a responsive love, does not reason and count the consequences in this way.

  • I have a right, I think, to speak in this way to you; for if you are ruined, I am the one person who can offer you a refuge.

  • They had been living for some time in the forest in this way, when it came to pass that the King of that country had a great hunt through the woods.

  • But the seventh Dwarf slept with his companions one hour in each bed, and in this way he managed to pass the night.

  • This made them all anxious to know why these animals, so nearly alike, should differ in this way.

  • Inside the lodge he built a fire and when it grew bright he cried: "'Say, brothers, why should you treat me this way when I am here to give you a big dance?

  • I gave you life, and if you lose it this way I will return it to you.

  • In this way he deceived Europa, carried her off and crossed the sea to Crete where he had intercourse with her.

  • In this way, without any preconceived intention, a body of epic poetry was built up by various writers which covered the whole Trojan story.

  • For so long a time has this gone on that practically every possibility of wireless communication has been exhausted and no nation dares transmit dispatches of importance in this way.

  • This way," cried Xodar, leading us toward the entrance to a tunnel which opened in the courtyard beside the temple.

  • Many and many a time had my fingers longed to tear him.

  • The members of a corps always received a fellow-member in this way, too; but they paid no attention to members of other corps; they did not seem to see them.

  • She ought to be an Empress, but she may be only a Duchess; it is the way things go in this way.

  • After some minutes spent in this way, Miss Bertram, observing the iron gate, expressed a wish of passing through it into the park, that their views and their plans might be more comprehensive.

  • A week had passed in this way, and no suspicion of it conveyed by her quiet passive manner, when she was found one morning by her cousin Edmund, the youngest of the sons, sitting crying on the attic stairs.

  • For three weeks we went on in this way, never exchanging a word.

  • This way, Watson," said he; "we can scale the garden wall in this direction.

  • You must look at it this way: what I know is unofficial; what he knows is official.

  • In this way we should be able to watch our man if he struck a light, and see what his object was in this stealthy nocturnal visit.

  • In this way I got a good many lessons in writing, which it is quite possible I should never have gotten in any other way.

  • Colonel Lloyd's slaves were in the habit of spending a part of their nights and Sundays in fishing for oysters, and in this way made up the deficiency of their scanty allowance.

  • I now proceeded with my team to the place where I had, the day before, been chopping wood, and loaded my cart pretty heavily, thinking in this way to tame my oxen.

  • Him he prevailed on to take me, for he was one of his flock; and in this way I saved a long day's travel and the price of the two public ferries I must otherwise have passed.

  • It was in this way that I first heard the right English speech; one fellow as he went by actually clapping his hand upon the sunny face of the rock on which we lay, and plucking it off again with an oath.

  • No, I've got to go this way," replied she, looking up Elm Street.

  • This way, ma'am," said the hotel man sourly, taking up the fishing bag.

  • In this way we all will become dry in a very short time.

  • Not one of them was more attentive than the humble, unnoticed Woggle-Bug, and I acquired in this way a fund of knowledge that I will myself confess is simply marvelous.

  • But although many were beaten off in this way, the birds were so numerous and so brave that they continued the attack as furiously as before.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    this arrangement; this business; this cause; this child; this convention; this document; this early; this edition; this incident; this institution; this instrument; this marriage; this minute; this nature; this night; this operation; this period; this principle; this process; this road; this room; this season; this story; this valley; this vessel; this wise