An American worker in a Red Crescent hospital, who had lived in Jerusalem for upwards of ten years and knew the people well, assured me there was not one person in the Holy City who in his heart was not devoutly thankful for our victory.

A man may feel thankful, heartily thankful, over a dish of plain mutton with turnips, and have leisure to reflect upon the ordinance and institution of eating; when he shall confess a perturbation o f mind, inconsistent with the purposes of the grace, at the presence of venison or turtle.

Here was a heart that must long have hungered for affectiona heart unspeakably thankful and joyous at obtaining it.

The idea has not altogether disappeared that free thought is peculiarly indecent in the poor, that it is highly desirable to keep them superstitious in order to keep them contented, that they should be duly thankful for all the theological as well as social arrangements which have been made for them by their betters.

"Talk to me about luck, you've got cause to be mighty thankful, Andy.

"I'm so deeply thankful I haven't overdrawn," he said.

[Illustration] CHAPTER XVII BENEATH THE CENTIPEDE The natives moved at a slow walk across the clearing, and for this little indulgence we were exceedingly thankful.

"Well, then," said Frank, looking a little shy; "she says, that it is rude, because it seems as if I thought myself above my schoolfellows; and it is unkind, because, by doing so, I pain their feelings; and it is wicked, because God expects us to be humbly thankful for all the good things He gives us; and not to bride ourselves upon them, in the least.

" "Well," he said thoughtfully, at the end of a short silence, "I am profoundly thankful that she's made sosolid a success.

I therefore felt sincerely thankful to the Whig convention when they passed by Mr. Fillmore, and gave the nomination to General Scott.

If only that excellent Mr. , for whose kindness I was unfeignedly thankful (and whose pardon I most sincerely beg if I seem to have been a bit too free in this rehearsal of the story),if only Mr. could have left me alone for ten minutes longer!

interposed Raymond, immensely thankful to Rosamondwhatever her offencefor her overtures, and anxious they should be accepted.

They like to see the household grateful for an hour's amusement, crouching to caprice, incredulously thankful for barest justice.

Also, she felt infinitely thankful to the influence which had brought about this change.

I have only to be intensely thankful that the power of exertion did not fail until the necessity for such exertion was removed.

With an effort he moved his head to one side and closed his eyes again, at first merely thankful that he had escaped from the black hell, trying to control his sensations of physical evil.

They vowed eternal gratitude to him, and swore with solemn oaths that if he succeeded in relieving the Jews from the special impost, they would love him forever, and be everlastingly thankful to him.

I must smell my salts, and put my feet up on the sofa, and be moderately overcome during the crisis, and moderately thankful to the Almighty when it's over, so that every one may hear how admirably dear Lady Mary behaved.

And I am personally thankful to those gents that I am the proud possessor of the same.

It is only to be hoped that the industry of Europe, which offers the field for the exercise of these improvements, will continue to be piously thankful for the noble position which it is thus made to hold in the march of progress.

Chase began to hate him; he was unreasonably thankful when he passed on to the box in which the Duke sat.

Near the house are the rocks known as Minto Crags, mentioned by Sir Walter Scott in the "Lay of the Last Minstrel," where many and many a time Lady Fanny raced about on hunting days, watching the redcoats with childish eagernessintensely interested in the joyousness and beauty of the sight, but in her heart always secretly thankful if the fox escaped.

Both were silently thankful they had shaved that morning and Skinny wondered if his face, like Old Heck's, was streaked with sweat and dust.

We are therefore doubly thankful to Emerson, both for what he says of England, and for what he relates of Carlyle, whose independent speech upon all subjects is one of his chief charms.

On the contrary, he grew glad of those long days, in which he could meditate on the past and think of the future, and be supremely and humbly thankful for the great change that had come into his life.