thankworthy

Example Sentences

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

From The Three Brides by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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

From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann

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)

And to me, indeed, the services of Caius Caesar have always appeared the more thankworthy, in proportion as they were less to have been expected from a man of his age.

From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Since that day, when John said we might send off that thankworthy telegram, there has been daily progress.

From Magnum Bonum by Yonge, Charlotte Mary