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Usage examples of thankful.

Outside Barcelona the road south became the Autopista Seven, for which I was thankful, but we were still about seven hundred miles from Marbella.

Lincoln is thankful Chase is at Treasury and not Cameron, who is utterly ignorant, selfish, and openly discourteous to the President, and a notorious crook.

March perfervidly assured her that there was all the difference in the world, she submitted and said she supposed she ought to be thankful that they, had hit upon the right one.

Buckley child, her pronator teres was definitely out of commission, and right thankful she was, too, that it had lost its agonizing sensitivity.

Be thankful for the clemency of Master Prout, a worthy man, and a considerate, whose advice is like silver nails driven in by the master of assemblies.

But even at those hours of the day the stifling heat was almost unbearable and she was thankful to return to the dim, shuttered rooms where the swinging punkahs and the tinkling splash of the fountains at least gave an illusion of coolness.

Thankful for a distraction to take her mind off what was probably just one of those unanswerable little quandaries that life sometimes handed out, she tossed it on the table and went to answer the door.

He felt thankful at least that his plans called for no reascent of the hill later.

Remember and be thankful for all the years the Sprenkles and the Ledfields had together.

I was thankful to see that Stute treated him with no more ceremony than he had shewn to other informants.

Sally had upstairs duties to perform, for which Ruth was thankful, as she kept receiving rather angry glances for her unpunctuality as long as Sally remained downstairs.

He suddenly realized that a waterspout would have had the same effect and was thankful for his earlier silence.

The low animalistic sounds coming from her throat sounded alien to her, but she was thankful for it when the alpha slowly backed down before her.

Delaney was thankful for his flannel muffler, vested suit, and balbriggan underwear.

Having decided that it would be both unsafe and unkind to divulge to her the story of Miles Calverleigh and Celia Morval, Abby was thankful to be spared searching enquiries into the circumstances under which Miles Calverleigh had contrived to become intimately acquainted with a girl who had been married within two months of her come-out, and had lived thereafter in a Bedfordshire manor.