thankworthy

Example Sentences

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"A thankworthy service," said the Marquis, gravely, "which shall certainly be requited in the manner it deserves."

From A Legend of Montrose by Scott, Walter, Sir

It is thus a very thankworthy task to try to rescue something—the memory of interesting and important events, or the leading features and personages of some epoch—from the general shipwreck of the world.

From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature by Saunders, T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey)

As yet we have only a most thankworthy preliminary study in Schürer's great work, and beside it particular or dilettante attempts which hardly shew what the problem really is, far less solve it.

From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil

And St. Peter says: “This is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief.”

From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann

So Julius dropped asleep, with a thankworthy augury in his ears. 

From The Three Brides by Yonge, Charlotte Mary