How To Use Thomas In A Sentence

  • They could have been classed as ship-rigged sloops-of-war and were built by Thomas Fishburn in 1770 at Whitby.
  • Outrages like the Thomas case make it a good deal more difficult for enlightened penal reformers like the Professor to get a fair hearing when they advocate bringing back the lash.
  • We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. Thomas A. Edison 
  • Before 'mancipation my mammy and daddy owned by the very same old fellar, Thomas Henry McNeil. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4
  • Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure. Thomas A. Edison 
Linguix Browser extension
Fix your writing
on millions of websites
Linguix writing coach
  • An important story, the CD is ideal for history buffs, or anyone interested in the Sally Hemings-Thomas Jefferson story.
  • The sonnet's chief English importers were Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 - 42) and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1515 - 47), who had generally translated their Italian originals not only into English but into a different shape of sonnet.
  • Thomas had a mission, to destroy the missile and prevent the shapechanger from carrying out his criminal activities.
  • To buttress his stance that the Church sanctioned such assassinations, Petit drew on Thomas Aquinas and other theologians, but the defense rested on John of Salisbury's explicit theories about the legitimacy of tyrannicide.
  • Thomas writes colorfully of blackguards and mistresses, salty sea dogs and young midshipmen, bloody quarterdecks and Parisian salons.
  • She was one of the two SSN 's with the Thomas Jefferson, and she's in Diego Garcia right now. NIMITZ CLASS
  • From the combined results Thomas's group estimated an average particle size of 100 for the copper metal aggregates.
  • Thomas was showing her how to mend sails and splice rigging.
  • Unlike the neighboring U.S. Virgin Islands - St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John - Tortola and Virgin Gorda are not duty-free ports.
  • And we buck intreat as good as designate a saied Thomas Russell esquier as good as Frauncis Collins gent. to be overseers hereof, as good as buck revoke all former wills, as good as publishe this to be my final will as good as testament. Archive 2009-11-01
  • Said boy was taken up by Thomas Walton, and says _he was free_, and that his parents live near Shawneetown, Illinois, and that he was _taken_ from that place in July 1836; says his father's name is William, and his mother's Sally Brown, and that they moved from Fredericksburg, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
  • Thomas Cowell of York County in 1680, and Patrick Napier twice phlebotomized 'Allen Jarves, deceased, in the cure of a cancer of his mouth.' Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699
  • They were primarily portraitists, but Thomas is now chiefly remembered for his dramatic Boadicea monument at Westminster Bridge, London, showing the fearsome warrior queen in her chariot.
  • Here's John Adams on Thomas Paine's famous 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense": "What a poor, ignorant, malicious, short-sighted, crapulous mass. William Hogeland: How John Adams and Thomas Paine Clashed Over Economic Equality
  • Those elements are inherent in Hispanic culture, making people such as Thomas feel at home.
  • Thomas Heywood enjoys an outstanding reputation as one of the world's finest concert organists.
  • The year 1998 marked the bicentenary of the publication of the famous Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus, in which he argued that the population of a region would always grow until checked by famine, pestilence or war.
  • A portrait of Barbara Barrett-Lennard, copied from a miniature after Thomas Hudson, is supported by her mourning parents in a portrait by Pompeo Batoni.
  • I continue to object to being read as someone who wants to "stratify" the Gospel of Thomas. The Forbidden Gospels
  • She and Tamara Thomas are the two foxiest chicks here. Jay's Journal
  • Thomas Lincoln, on the other hand was more like a "fireplug," Price said. Opening Arguments
  • We see here clearly how Thomas has appropriated Plato's thought for his own ‘existential’ (in the sense of esse) purposes.
  • For Modistae such as Boethius of Dacia and Thomas of Erfurt, the proper subject of grammar is well-formed, significant speech (sermo congrue significativus), the principles of which are expressed in the modi significandi. Thomas of Erfurt
  • The serving table, attributed to Thomas Seymour, is topped by two extremely rare American knife cases that employ charred poplar to simulate ebony.
  • Thomas and his accomplices empty the bags, which end of being full of rats, in the hallway of a low-rent apartment building.
  • Philosophy major Wylie Dufresne hopes to dine with founding fathers, Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson; compares line cooks to lab researchers; and rejects the term molecular gastronomy to define the cuisine at his Michelin-star namesake restaurant, wd~50. Louise McCready: Curious Wylie Dufresne Defends the Science of Cooking
  • If Thomas has a reputation for being a sourpuss, those who have been around him for most of his career insist that reputation is unwarranted anyway.
  • Passing each one, he fingered their kilts and sporrans until he reached Sergeant Thomas Campbell and grew more inquisitive.
  • We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. Thomas Fuller 
  • Thomas Pynchon 's Gravity's Rainbow, the vocoder is a vehicle, a proxy for forces bigger than the freaks-Egyptian Lover, JFK-who employ it. Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
  • The term agrarianism derived partly from the ancient Roman agrarian law to redistribute property and Thomas Paine's 1797 work, Agrarian Justice Opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly: Being a Plan for Meliorating the Condition of Man, By Creating in Every Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
  • Captain Thomas Randall, described as a freebooter of the seas, who commanded the "Fox," and sailed for years in and out of New Orleans, where he sold the proceeds of his voyages and captures. Fifth Avenue
  • Stokton, a fishmonger, Thomas Yong, a saddler, and Robert Jakes, a shearman — all of whom had more than once been convicted of perjury, and on that account been struck off inquests — had contrived to get themselves replaced on the panel, and had been the chief movers in the recent actions against the late mayor and other officers of the city. London and the Kingdom - Volume I
  • No being, not even one whose essence was love, would suborn her, Ellen Thomas, as a preacher in its cause. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
  • Thomas laid down the pen and tented his fingers under his chin.
  • Thomas, by his own admission, was extremely negative and had low self-esteem.
  • As for clothes, fashion consultant Barbara Thomas decided Norma had the poise and presence to carry off a sophisticated designer label.
  • In this rather archaically written biography, marred by ornate, stilted language and the author's reliance on and citation of endlessly extended passages from his great-great-grandfather's autobiography, James Mellon struggles mightily but fails to make his readers care much for or about Thomas Mellon. Banking On the Future
  • In March 1525, the king recalled Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, from his role as justiciar of North Wales and, in south Wales, the long-time crown agent, Sir Rhys ap Thomas, had died in the spring. 66 This household was to have a profound effect on Mary's political status and composition of future households. 67 From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
  • People long ago produced fiendishly complicated analyses of visual forms: witness Nicholas of Cusa's tract on the all-seeing icon of Christ and Thomas Browne's labyrinthine meditation on the quincunx.
  • In the town of Golden Meadow, along Bayou Lafourche, crabber Thomas Barrios said he felt "devastated" and "helpless. BP installs insertion tube, begins siphoning oil from leaking pipe
  • Grammy Award Winner Rob Thomas, VH1 and Rhapsody Partner on Multi-Platform Campaign to Bring Thomas 'New Album' cradlesong 'to Fans Everywhere advertising campaign featuring Thomas to debut on June 16th - VH1 and Rhapsody streaming new WN.com - Articles related to 'Mum, can't we have a happy meal instead?' Victoria Beckham drags her boys to Nobu ...
  • These white effusive igneous formations, found there and in the Thomas Mountains of Utah, and also in the tin districts of Catron and Sierra Counties within New Mexico, are still the only known source of bixbite.
  • Mr Thomas was suffering from depression.
  • Little did Thomas know that all his scheming would be moot in just a few hours.
  • After such men as Morhof and Thomasius had prepared the way, (148) Frederick William I., himself a clever cameralist, and author of the masterly financial system of Prussia, took the important step of founding, at Halle and Frankfurt on the Oder, special chairs of economy and cameralistic science; which, considering the time, were very ably filled by Gasser and Dithmar. System der volkswirthschaft. English
  • At Holy Cross College, Thomas graduated ninth in his class with an A.B. in English, cum laude in 1971. The Volokh Conspiracy » Jeffrey Toobin’s The Nine and Justice Thomas:
  • Looking annoyed, Thomas clears his throat, and not to be outdone as a bardolater, quotes the same again.
  • Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it. Thomas Carlyle 
  • Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Thomas Jefferson 
  • The countess of Lincoln, twice widowed, once by Thomas, earl of Lancaster, and once by Ebulo Lestraunge, and therefore with two dowers, as well as being the Lacy heiress in her own right, was a very worthwhile prospect for anyone on the rise.
  • One could argue that McNamara is exhibit A in my case against what Thomas Sowell would call the unconstrained vision, which holds that certain people have so much knowledge and moral strength that they should be given great power over the rest. Robert McNamara , Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • cradlesong" album two weeks prior to June 30th street release -- Two exclusive tracks Rob Thomas will never, ever be cool. WN.com - Articles related to Bruce Springsteen to perform full albums
  • Republicans may begin focusing on cutting the budget and repealing President Obama's health-care law once the new Congress is seated in January, says Thomas Mann, a political scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington. Big Republican Gains Predicted in US Election
  • The trees belonged to her husband Thomas, 57, a self-employed window cleaner, who has been growing bonsai for more than ten years.
  • As there be tides in the affairs of men which taken at the flood lead on to fortune, so there be waves which straddled at the proper time will bear a Halliwell on their niveous crest to the dizzy heights of fame, quicker'n the nictitation of a thomas-cat. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
  • You did mention Saint Thomas Aquinas, patron of the university, and you know he would have syllogized your argument right into the dust bin and has with his Summa Theologica.
  • Thomas Maier, author of a well documented history of the clan, called him, ‘a tribune for the underclass’, and he was that.
  • Thomas Keller, the chef at the French Laundry, in Napa Valley, says that sous vide is not a mingy time - and labor-saver; it’s a tool that gives chefs another worthy kitchen tool. Out of the Frying Pan
  • During the 17th century, Thomas Sydenham founded the discipline of nosology by insisting that diseases had their own natural history and could be described and classified on the basis of their specific characteristics.
  • He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician. Thomas Fuller 
  • Well," said Thomas, as he reached his ball, "that's not what I call a brassy lie. Happy Days
  • The ampulla was believed to contain holy oil, said to have been given by the Virgin Mary to Thomas Becket and rediscovered in time to assist Henry IV at his coronation in 1399.
  • The tall, dark one with the angular face was Thomas; even at Ruth's age, when he'd been only four, Thomas had had a leading man's kind of handsomeness -- a combination of poise and thuggery that, in his teenage years, gave him the seeming confidence of a much older man. Excerpt: A Widow For One Year by John Irving
  • Thomas was sent to £2,500-a-term boarding school in Norfolk, where with specialist help he has made an enormous improvement.
  • But Benedict, however "charming," is still stifling theologians who challenge ideas about Catholicism, says Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest and former editor of the Jesuit-owned magazine America. U.S. visit will give pope a defining moment
  • It was that polemic which resounded through the ages; its shockwaves can still be felt in later thinkers like Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274) and Zabarella (1533-1589) who carefully examined, though in the end rejected, Philoponus 'anti-eternalist arguments. John Philoponus
  • Thomas Pynchon has also shown a consistent fondness for slapstick effects in his novels, drawn partly from comic cinema.
  • Thomas said his approach to returning kicks, which he did in college, is simple. Devin Thomas channels Conan and waits for his moment
  • Thomas Kellaway felt very small and timid as he passed between the tall columns outside the amphitheatre. Burning Bright
  • That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. THOMAS JEFFERSON 
  • Mr and Mrs Wall invite you to the marriage of their daughter Ann to Mr Thomas Lea.
  • As he awaited sentencing on bribe charges, Oliver Thomas seemingly implied that he had stigmata from a similar heroic episode: Archive 2007-11-01
  • She had trusted Thomas with her heart, and also secretly loved him.
  • Society member Thomas Snowden held "Fifty shares of the stock of the New Jersey Morris Canal and Banking Company" when he died and when creditors forced Theophilus Eaton to file as an insolvent debtor, he possessed a note from William Garratt promising the delivery of Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
  • Thomas had come home, to a Bolton where the pillory was still a force, where unrest and distress were still to be overcome.
  • “_eldern_ popguns” in Sir Thomas Overbury; “a _glassen_ breast”, in English Past and Present
  • Cassandra, her older sister Rose and her younger brother Thomas are living in poverty even more abject than the Bastables, in a broken - down castle.
  • In 1834, a snuffbox was presented to Thomas Braidwood Wilson, (the township of Braidwood is named after him) for introducing honeybees into Tasmania.
  • Thomas Cook has introduced a £1 deposit offer to try to capture a greater share of early summer holiday sales.
  • Thomas Weir perched, like that of a man beheaded for treason, upon the apex of the gablet of the old tomb, as I was of hearing the wonderful playing of that husky old organ, of which I have spoken once before. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
  • If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it. - Norman Thomas.
  • My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. Thomas Paine 
  • Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it’s liberty and interests by the most lasting bands. Thomas Jefferson 
  • Their musical directors are Thomas and Brenda Gunn, distant relations of our dear Pastor.
  • George Thomas, a much-travelled Glaswegian, is a member of the PSOE, the Spanish socialist party, in Xabia on the Costa Blanca, which will have a number of expats on its candidates' list, although he is not under any illusions about the difficulties of integration. Most Brits in Spain say no gracias to integration
  • Biopsy showed the papules to be eruptive xanthomas.
  • I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. 
  • Todd Thomas faulted the press for what he described as a sympathetic portrayal of Becker. The Fond du Lac Reporter Latest Headlines
  • Those weren't the first times I "bowdlerized" -- some might say, butchered -- a classic text the term comes from the knuckleheaded 19th century Shakespearian censor Thomas Bowdler. Trey Ellis: Censoring Huck Ain't So Simple
  • Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. Thomas Fuller 
  • Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind. Thomas Wolfe 
  • Austen's fictional circulating library, Clarke's, in Meryton may have doubled as a bookshop and stationer's, like the business of Thomas Wilson in Bromley, a market town ten miles from London. What Was Mr. Bennet Doing in his Library, and What Does It Matter?
  • Thomas jumped out, gave me a rub, ran straight to his food bowl, and started eating.
  • If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. Thomas Fuller 
  • The marital tragi-comedy stars the director's actress wife Emmanuelle Seigner as a free-spirited temptress wed to an invalid Peter Coyote, engaged in seductive cruise-ship shenanigans with Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott-Thomas. Start September With Superior Cinema
  • So Thomas decided to exact revenge by surreptitiously placing a vicious computer virus on Scott's machine which destroyed his hard drive.
  • The one item of real value Eaton owned was the reservoir site on the ranch he had purchased from Thomas Rickey.
  • The inclusive tour, in which every item of travel arrangement was paid for in advance, was Thomas Cook's invention.
  • Thomas says consumers are more knowledgeable about design now than in the past.
  • Thomas Hobbes is a highly controversial scholar in philosophical history.
  • Thomas, obedient to codes of privacy, didn't want to overstep the line.
  • The gospel is incensed to signify the sweet odour which it communicates to our souls; and the ministers of God, to signify, according to St. Thomas, that God maketh manifest _the odour_ of his knowledge by us in every place: "For we are unto God _the good odour_ of Christ in them who are saved, and in them who perish". The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome
  • Ten miles on our way, and we came to a newly laid out village, called St. Thomas, from whence we pursued our journey through a new country to Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West
  • Thomas was playing in a little fenced area full of sand. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
  • Sally wasn’t the person Mariah would have picked for her daughter’s friend, but watching Lindsay apply the Thomas theorem, matching an opponent’s wit and endurance often resulted in a desired friendship, was ethnomethodology, a theory Mariah respected, because instead of accepting a perceived reality as already being out there, it showed that you could create and live your own reality. The Owl and Moon Cafe
  • Recovery in Europe poses a dilemma zz Varying pace mars progress By Emma Ross-Thomas and Gabi Thesing by Aoife White The Associated PressUpdated: 09/14/2009 07: 17: 53 AM PDT European Union Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Joaquin Almunia speaks during a media conference at EU headquarters in ... WN.com - Business News
  • Dr Thomas said her frailty and distortion in her back contributed to pneumonia, causing her death.
  • According to the opinion of St. Thomas, which is the more common one among theologians, it is not necessary, in order to be morally good, that an act should be referred to a positively good end. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • Thomas Cook is to launch a £1m campaign to encourage late bookers to travel over the Easter break.
  • A Cordelier has no hesitation in applying the epithet of blasphemer to a Dominican who says that the Holy Virgin was born in original sin, notwithstanding that the Dominicans have a bull from the pope which permits them to teach the maculate conception in their convents, and that, besides this bull, they have in their forum the express declaration of St. Thomas Aquinas. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • No being, not even one whose essence was love, would suborn her, Ellen Thomas, as a preacher in its cause. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
  • He was the son of Silken Thomas and as a result of being educated in Italy he came to be recognised as a dabbler in the occult arts.
  • There is an element that is still doing the Thomasville dining room suite, but we are becoming more casual.
  • Super Comp — Thomas Bayer, dragster, 8.894, 165.64 def. Lucas Oil Slick Mist NHRA Nationals results
  • Thomas Belfort, a right valiant capteine, and therewith returned into Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
  • Ohai, ai keeps furgetting to say thanks to teh cheezpeep whut rekom… recco… sed Ross Thomas wuz gud writer. Escape from - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • With Kieran Gibbs also two to three weeks from fitness, Wenger is likely to ask Thomas Vermaelen to deputise in the position. Yossi Benayoun says Arsenal will finish in Champions League place
  • Thomas had won many medals and awards in both handball and football.
  • St. Thomas lived a life of austerity; his fasts, for instance, being in marked contrast to the luxury in which he might have lived if he chose.
  • Would it be too much to ask for someone -- perhaps one of his New York Times colleagues -- to give famously airheaded columnist Thomas Friedman a bit ... Thomas Friedman Needs Someone To Help Him Access Widely Available Facts About Politics
  • I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. 
  • Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. Thomas Jefferson 
  • In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson 
  • Matthew, and Thomas, and the still more familiar Jack and Jockey; and even with a few words of Hebrew origin, such as alleluia, balm, bedlam, camel, cider, and sabbath. English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
  • Thomas is a member of Opus Dei, the personal prelature of the Pope comprised of lay persons.
  • His corrival was Thomas Radcliffe, Earl of Sussex, who in his constellation was his direct opposite.
  • The idea is to incorporate these nanomaterials and nanodevices into the future soldier's uniform, and associated equipage like helmets and gloves,’ Thomas said.
  • Thomas, who is in Ward 22 at the hospital, is recuperating from the gunshot wounds he suffered to his chest last Friday, one bullet having punctured his lung.
  • And, of course, Thomas is going to gobble whatever crumb of a relationship that Sharon is willing to feed him.
  • As a youth he played in a whole variety of positions, but when Stuttgart picked him up at 10-years old, he was a playmaker in the mould of an Andy Moller or Thomas Hassler.
  • This enraged many U.S. expansionists, not least Thomas Benton, who called the concession “a gratuitous and unaccountable sacrifice” that had “dismembered the valley of the Mississippi, mutilated two of our noblest rivers, and brought a foreign boundary to the neighborhood of New Orleans.” A Country of Vast Designs
  • Having instructed Thomas Mugridge as to what he was to do, I clambered into the fore-rigging a few feet. Chapter 17
  • In a day filled with numerous sidebars requested by the Assistant District Attorney Thomas, Smith maintained her innocence and asserted that Laura Jones could not have committed the crime.
  • Then it was being run by the aptly named Thomas Mill.
  • The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Bourchier, apparently had charge of the boys for a time, but Richard was later entrusted to the Earl of Warwick, whose lavish household was said to support 20,000 retainers.
  • Thomas and Collier suggest that these components are interdependent and complex.
  • Elsewhere Thomas Spooner, mercer and draper, wanted York people to know he ‘has at present by him a quantity of fine old Jamaica Rum’.
  • Thomas aimed a kick and some punches at the victim before Buckley struck a single blow at the man.
  • St. Thomas's Day, 21st December, is still at Otterbourne held as the day for "gooding," when each poor house-mother can demand sixpence from the well-to-do towards her Christmas dinner. John Keble's Parishes
  • Melistar rides a fuzzed bassline similar to Thomas Heckmann's ‘Amphetamine’ and blankly mimics Miss Kittin's vacant delivery.
  • Thomas D. Williams, LC, ThD, is Vatican Analyst for CBS News and a professor of theology at the ReginaApostolorumPontificalUniversity in Rome. A Catholic Life
  • Thomas cringed at her all too accurate description and he felt annoyed by it.
  • Friday's letter, however, states that Thomas actually did report the sources of his wife's income until 1997, therefore heightening the inference that the justice had not "misunderstood the reporting instructions," as he asserted in January when he filed seven pages of addenda correcting his omissions over a six-year period. Clarence Thomas Assailed For Alleged Ethical Lapses By More House Dems
  • Thomas Gandow, criticized what he called the frequent belittlement of Scientology in the media and the indecision of politicians to work towards banning the organization in Germany. Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE
  • Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. Thomas Jefferson 
  • Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood is melodious, lush, and dense with meaning.
  • Our son even inherited Thomas' outgrown clothes.
  • It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn. Thomas Fuller 
  • Meet local people from Thetford's past, from the revolutionary philosopher Thomas Paine to the Sikh hero Maharajah Duleep Singh and from rabbit warreners to railway workers.
  • To help finance its publication and mailing, Grant sold his classic Thomas cane rods as well as some of his extensive book collection.
  • Mark Wilson will see a specialist today about possible knee surgery while Badr El-Kaddouri is cup-tied and Thomas Rogne was not registered for the European outings. There is no pressure on me, says Celtic's Neil Lennon
  • After reuniting with matchbox twenty for 2007's "Exile on Mainstream," Rob Thomas returns to his solo work with his new offering "cradlesong," and the result is a fresh mix of tunes that blends 80's synth-pop with today's current pop sound. Latest Articles
  • The two young gentlemen, having seen their blooming charges safely within the door of the Alms-House, and vainly endeavored to look through the keyhole at them going up-stairs, scuffle away together with that sensation of blended imbecility and irascibility which is equally characteristic of callow youth and inexperienced Thomas Cats when retiring together from the society of female friends who seem to be still on the fence as regards their ultimate preferences. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870
  • Thomas will be sworn in today as a justice on the Supreme Court.
  • n the morning he did not answer the summons to breakfast, and when Mr. Thomas went to learn what the difficulty was, he found the Bishop without a gaiter.
  • Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein on Saturday warned legal action may be taken against bloggers and publications that reprint what he calls fraudulent claims. snip several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
  • She used Thomas Hardy's poem, "The Darkling Thrush" as the armature for her meditations on memory and loss.
  • RICHARD II. to THOMAS MOWBRAY, Earl Marshal, and now borne by the Duke of NORFOLK, is _a lion statant guardant, his tail extended or, and ducally gorged arg. _: the PERCY lion is _statant, his tail extended or_: each lion stands upon a chapeau. The Handbook to English Heraldry
  • Therefore, Thomas said to Francis on a day when they had looked at the sea and eaten the shrimps, ‘My mind misgives me, Goodchild, that you go to Maryport, like the boy in the story-book, to ask IT to be idle with you.’ The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
  • The original object of the subcinctorium was, as St. Thomas explicitly says, to secure the stole to the cincture. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • Highlights include, from Philadelphia, two sets of fine Queen Anne side chairs and a rare Queen Anne compass-seat footstool; from Massachusetts, a Chippendale mahogany chest-on-chest and Simon Willard wall clock; from New York, a spider-leg drop-leaf table; from Rhode Island, a Chippendale mahogany block-front desk and bookcase and several colorful maritime paintings by Thomas Chambers. Auction Watch
  • St Thomas was hardly a "dumb ox" despite his handle.
  • Carl said nothing and Thomas, apparently exhausted from the effort of speaking lapsed into silence for a long time.
  • The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick- to- itiveness; third, common sense. Thomas A. Edison 
  • "The situation is pretty dire, " said Thomas.
  • If you want to write, start writing now in your own home town and write every day as hard as you can; do not think you have to go to Paris and wait for inspiration to strike. Thomas Wolfe 
  • Pitterweeme, the dean and subdean of Glasgow, Mr. Hugh Spence, Thomas Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
  • Intellectuals tulad ng Thomas Paine, pilosopiko ama ng American Revolution, at John Locke, na wrote sa Bibliya mula sa obserbasyon ng pag-iisip , sangkatauhan napalaya mula sa kadena ng mga tradisyon sa panahon ng paliwanag, ngunit ang Humanities ay madalas na alang ang mga ito bilang kahanga-hanga ang mga kadena ng mga katotohanan sa kanilang pagkamalikhain. Ideonexus.com »2009» Hulyo
  • _Henry_ Earle of Surrey and Sir _Thomas Wyat_, betweene whom I finde very litle difference, I repute them (as before) for the two chief lanternes of light to all others that haue since employed their pennes vpon English Poesie, their conceits were loftie, their stiles stately, their conueyance cleanely, their termes proper, their meetre sweete and well proportioned, in all imitating very naturally and studiously their The Arte of English Poesie
  • Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good. Thomas Wolfe 
  • Cambay, which is the harbour for our fleet while in this part of India, when we were visited by the merchants of the Surat factory, the principal of whom was Mr Thomas Kerridge. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
  • However, occasionalism was already an old doctrine at the time that Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) wrote against it. Nicolas Malebranche
  • Shelley Thomas, the recipe tester, greets him with news that the recipe really needs work.
  • Shirlee and Thomas Jermin of Templeton Feed & Grain in Templeton, California are warned that they have not disclosed the antibiotic sulfamethazine in their Pig Starter & Grow AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • My class on the Revolutionary just studied Thomas Paine's Common Sense.
  • Tera Thomas was formerly editor of Connecting Link magazine and is currently a freelance writer.
  • The Dictionary of Islam by Thomas Patrick Hughes states: “They become invisible at please (by a rapid extension or rarefaction of the particles which compose them), or suddenly disappear in the earth or air, or through a solid wall.” SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1065
  • The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick- to- itiveness; third, common sense. Thomas A. Edison 
  • No. This place exists: it is called St. Thomas, and it is where we Hell Week survivors were sent for ten glorious weeks of training. f We actually did train. Rogue Warrior
  • In 1998 Thomas Steitz solved the so called phase problem for the large ribosomal subunit and could thereby determine the first ribosomal crystal structure. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 - Presentation Speech
  • 1894 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies.
  • Young Thomas delivers telegrams for a living in the ‘furthest outposts of the British Empire’ while dreaming of New York.
  • Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. Thomas Fuller 
  • Thomas Simpson is best remembered for his work on interpolation and numerical methods of integration.
  • In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson 
  • In a two-page order, judges Thomas Griffith, Rosemary Collyer and Beryl Howell wrote that Texas "used an improper standard or methodology" to determine which districts give minority voters the ability to elect their preferred candidates. U.S. Court Challenges New Texas Districts
  • The one of the five who has a vote this year, Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig, today cast his seventh straight dissent, the most at consecutive regular policy sessions since 1955.
  • Dole's take is folksier than the more academic version offered up by Thomas Mann, a congressional scholar, who told The Post: "He played a unique role as a prime defender of the Senate during the decades of increasing power of the presidency. Story pick: The Byrd obits
  • Soul legend Irma Thomas is undoubtedly one of the highlights of the weekend, though Frank Chickens and all-female beatboxing outfit the Boxettes should also draw a crowd. This week's new events
  • Prof. Vidkunn Hveding Oslo, NorwayTHE KOSOVO CONUNDRUMWhat a courageous article John Barry and Evan Thomas wrote ( "The Kosovo Cover-Up," EUROPE, May 15)! Mourning For Microsoft
  • It seems uncontroverted that the film-makers injected the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas controversy into North Country, suggesting it had a role in the events the film depicts, even though any such implication would be false.
  • Such is the case of Freightliner, which is expected to build 1,500 hybrid M2 trucks, and Thomas Built, which is launching a hybrid school bus before the end of 2007. Autoblog Green
  • Empiricists like Locke and rationalists like Newton lacked the rich ontology of Thomas Aquinas and the medieval schoolmen.
  • No being, not even one whose essence was love, would suborn her, Ellen Thomas, as a preacher in its cause. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):

This website uses cookies to make Linguix work for you. By using this site, you agree to our cookie policy