" "And that explains, I'm sure, why we couldn't find them in spite of an exceedingly thorough search of the area," concluded David Foster, feeling somewhat vindicated.

But Marshall Allerdyke was a man of eminently thorough and practical habits, and he was doing what he did with an idea and a purpose.

Until this extraordinarily thorough mutual survey was over neither said a word.

The Romantic school was the first to try to place the conception of national literature as a whole on an autochthonous basis, and the scientific speculation to which Romanticism gave rise, has, since the Brothers Grimm, also resulted in serviceable rules gained from the increasingly thorough knowledge of language, of national development, and of social conditions.

A district health officer is invariably a physician who has had reasonably thorough practical training in the work of public sanitation, usually at Manila.

The measures which Antiochus employed to crush the faith of Judaism were relentlessly thorough.

Threading them through and through was a spy system unbelievably thorough and amazingly adroit.

For the making of this little book, I have not been able to include all the men who ever wrote one note after or above another; nor to read all the books ever published in all the world's languages: and yet, that I have been decently thorough will appear, I think, in the list of books at the back.

His training in drawing seems to have been unusually thorough and comprehensive, and with a natural genius for such work, his later remarkable skill at the drawing board is doubtless in no small measure due to the excellent instruction which he received in his early years.