Those
[ðəʊz] or [ðoz]
Definition
(pron.) The plural of that. See That.
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Definition
pron. pl. of that.
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Examples
- His merits in this respect resemble those of Kepler in astronomy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- What did he say he wants with those books? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For those days this was an enormous sum. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I mean to say that there do exist natures gifted with those opposite qualities. Plato. The Republic.
- In those in which they take place, and are in farm, there are many local duties which do not extend beyond a particular town or district. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Surely, I would say, all men do not wear those shocking nightcaps; else all women's illusions had been destroyed on the first night of their marriage! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Shall I play some of those little melodies of Mozart's which you used to like so much? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- You would compare them, I said, to those invalids who, having no self-restraint, will not leave off their habits of intemperance? Plato. The Republic.
- Many special tools, particularly those designed for _bicycle work_, have been devised, as exhibited by patent to Hillman, August 11, 1891, No. 457,718. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Astronomers and geologists and those who study physics have been able to tell us something of the origin and history of the earth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There is no one else, and no sound could alarm those who are in the farther wing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The electrical features of the 1882 locomotive were very similar to those of the earlier one, already described. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Those who loved reading were obliged to send for their books from England: the members of the Junto had each a few. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But those who like Peter Featherstone never had a copy of themselves demanded, are the very last to wait for such a request either in prose or verse. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Yes, we shall drink to the Fatherland in those? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Those were very simple facts, and my judgment went no farther. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Those were the exact words she used--taken down in my diary the moment I got home. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It is a thousand pities that we have not a reproduction of those which were done in chalk upon the window-sill. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I think I must have tried about everything in those books. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I could understand the stillness in the house and the thoughtfulness it expressed on the part of all those who had always been so good to me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Those have other work than hunting guerillas. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Colonel O'Dowd, of the --th regiment, one of those occupying in Paris, warned Lieutenant Spooney of that corps. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- His mother will have said all those cruel things about me to him. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-colored sea. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The troops engaged in them will have to look to the detailed reports of their individual commanders for the full history of those deeds. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Of those we ate many. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He was one of those rare men who are rigid to themselves and indulgent to others. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Do you decline to take those letters, Mr. Copperfield? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He always admitted his blunders, and extenuated those of officers under him beyond what they were entitled to. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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