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Usage examples of thank.

As there is a kind of commutation in favors, when, to wit, a man gives thanks for a favor received, so also is there commutation in the matter of offenses, when, on account of an offense committed against another, a man is either punished against his will, which pertains to vindictive justice, or makes amends of his own accord, which belongs to penance, which regards the person of the sinner, just as vindictive justice regards the person of the judge.

Then, thanks to mark-to-market accounting, most of that could be booked as income.

He hardly knew whether to be angry with Donovan Farrant for alluding to matters which brought a look of sadness to her eyes, or to thank him for the story which made her face light up with indignation and look, if possible, more beautiful than before.

You must have thought poorly of us yesterday that I was not at the exit from the amphitheatre to meet and thank you.

I thank my sister Virginia for believing in me and appreciating my seminars.

I thank him, because it came appropriately from one not identified by his position with South Carolina.

Thanks to the effect of various gravities working on both the target sitebe it another ship, the Moon, or whereverand the ship launching the asteroid toward the target site, elliptical orbits and ever-changing flight times, successive approximations were the backbone of the asteroid-mining industry.

In addition I would like to thank my Anglophone editors on both sides of the Atlantic, Tom Weldon at Heinemann, Jim Wade at Crown and John Pearce at Doubleday Canada, as well as my literary agents Bill Hamilton and Sara Fisher, for their continuing commitment, solidarity and wise counsel.

Then, thanks to me, the needle in the compass took its true direction again, and the ship, blown to the northeast by that frightful hurricane, has just been cast on the coast of Africa, just on this land of Angola which I wished to reach.

He dressed himself hurriedly, thanking God for that piece of good fortune, and went out assuring me that he would soon get me a gondola.

The crafty little creature thanked me, assuring her husband that the fresh air would soon cure her.

Silesian Sector thanks to the astrographic accident of the Manticore Junction.

For help with the astrophysics, I must gtive the greatest thanks to Larry Molnar, who provided long hours of thoughtful conversation on a subject that could quite easily have been classified as bizarre.

That autocratic piece of excrement, Varus, was not about to tell me anything, so I thank you for all this news.

And, thanks to your script on Autocue, who I just introduced as my next guest.