thankworthy

Example Sentences

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If thou lovest good scholars, this is not thankworthy in thee.

From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various

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

From The Three Brides by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Now, wherein we want desert, were a thankworthy labour to express.

From A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Sidney, Philip, 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)

In our notes on Jerusalem we shall have, like the “devil” of The Two Songs, to look at it from the inverse side and pass upon it a more laborious and less thankworthy comment.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles