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156 examples of Thanked in a sentence

She thanked him again and again; and, with a sweetness of address which always attended her, invited him to be seated.
They thanked her; but were obliged to resist all her entreaties.
Lady Middleton looked as if she thanked heaven that SHE had never made so rude a speech.
Here he stopped to be thanked; which being done, he went on.
Elinor's heart thanked her for such kindness towards Edward, though she could not forbear smiling at the form of it.
She thanked him for it with all her heart, spoke of Edward's principles and disposition with that praise which she knew them to deserve; and promised to undertake the commission with pleasure, if it were really his wish to put off so agreeable an office to another.
She thanked him with brief, though fervent gratitude, and while he went to hurry off his servant with a message to Mr. Harris, and an order for post-horses directly, she wrote a few lines to her mother.
It was not so that Tarvin saw it; and he would not have thanked the Easterner who should have taken refuge in praise of his snow-whitened hills, walling the valley in a monstrous circle.
Tarvin thanked him, and thought this was worth remembering, as he trudged on through the sand toward a desecrated Mohammedan mosque near the road to the city which was doing duty as a telegraph-office,A trooper of the state was lying fast asleep on the threshold, his horse picketed to a long bamboo lance driven into the ground.
With deep-drawn breath he thanked his God that he was there to watch and defend, and, if need were, to carry off, at the last, by force.
The girl was unhappy, overstrained, and despairing, but since he thanked God always -he was at hand to guard her from the absolute shock of evil fate, she might well be left for the moment to Mrs. Estes's comfort and sympathy.
"Thou hast thanked me not once but many times for giving thee relief through this charm.
The heart of the young Gascon beat as if it would burst through his side--not from fear, God be thanked, he had not the shade of it, but with emulation; he fought like a furious tiger, turning ten times round his adversary, and changing his ground and his guard twenty times.
As ten o’clock was striking, d’Artagnan left M. de Treville, who thanked him for his information, recommended him to have the service of the king and queen always at heart, and returned to the saloon; but at the foot of the stairs, d’Artagnan remembered he had forgotten his cane.
He thanked the governor, bowed, and departed.
"When the evening came I was so weak that every time I fainted I thanked God, for I thought I was about to die.
The king thanked M. de Treville, and permitted him to distribute furloughs for four days, on condition that the favored parties should not appear in any public place, under penalty of the Bastille.
Then we thanked M. Thomsen for his kindness, "and we returned to the Phoenix Hotel.
My uncle thanked him heartily for his extreme kindness.
I thanked my uncle with clasped hands.
I thanked God from my heart, for it was He who had conducted me through those vast solitudes to the point where, alone of all others perhaps, the voices of my companions could have reached me.
Elizabeth thanked him from her heart, and then walked towards the table where a few books were lying.
Her aunt assured her that she was, and Elizabeth having thanked her for the kindness of her hints, they parted; a wonderful instance of advice being given on such a point, without being resented.
Elizabeth, though expecting no less, thanked him with tears of gratitude; and all three being actuated by one spirit, everything relating to their journey was speedily settled.
Jane ran to her uncle and aunt, and welcomed and thanked them both, with alternate smiles and tears.
Nothing was to be done that he did not do himself; though I am sure (and I do not speak it to be thanked, therefore say nothing about it), your uncle would most readily have settled the whole.
Jane went to him instantly, kissed him, and thanked him for his goodness.
From an unwillingness to confess how much her intimacy with Mr. Darcy had been over-rated, Elizabeth had never yet answered Mrs. Gardiner's long letter; but now, having _that_ to communicate which she knew would be most welcome, she was almost ashamed to find that her uncle and aunt had already lost three days of happiness, and immediately wrote as follows:"I would have thanked you before, my dear aunt, as I ought to have done, for your long, kind, satisfactory, detail of particulars; but to say the truth, I was too cross to write.
He then thanked his companions, and added, that he would rely on their energy and on the aid of Heaven.
"Yes," replied Herbert, "and this time we shall have no obliging engineer to light a fire to guide us into port!""Why, indeed, my dear Cyrus," said Spilett, "we have never thanked you; but frankly, without that fire we should never have been able--""A fire?" asked Harding, much astonished at the reporter's words.
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