Thanking

Examples

• My resolution of thanking you for your kindness to Lydia had certainly great effect. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The old lady is thanking him for his attention when she observes the comrades in waiting. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Elizabeth took an opportunity of thanking her. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• If you give those names to my thanking you for your proposal and declining it, is it my fault, Mr Headstone? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• To devote my life to his happiness was to thank him poorly, and what had I wished for the other night but some new means of thanking him? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And he took it from her with a sort of quiet authority, to which she submitted passively, neither resisting him nor thanking him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Oh, never mind thanking. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• For which I have been thanking her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He looked at me as if I was a stranger, when I handed him the washing-book; and he was very specially polite in thanking me for bringing it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He finished by genially kissing my hand and thanking me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• To have her haunting the Abbey, and thanking him all day long for his great kindness in marrying Jane? Jane Austen. Emma.
• Mr. Weevle, thanking him, casts an eye about. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Thanking you for your compliment: not much, Miss Abbey,' was Mr Inspector's rejoinder. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I can no longer help thanking you for your unexampled kindness to my poor sister. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It will please him very much, and be a nice way of thanking him. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• She merely replied by thanking him for his attention, and by promising to see him again when her doubts were satisfied. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Hang thanking me--I don't want to be thanked, but I SHOULD like the chance to say two words to you now and then, he grumbled. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

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