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Example sentences for "thug"

Lexicographically close words:
thud; thudded; thudding; thuds; thue; thugs; thuh; thum; thumb; thumbe
  1. As for Sidney Prale, now that he had but the one thug against him, he fought with skill and cunning, knowing that the other was a bit the stronger, but realizing that he would be victor if he used reasonable care.

  2. The common thug gets that chance in a court of law, you know.

  3. The thug gave a hoarse scream as all the air was driven from his lungs, and he dropped to the pavement.

  4. The thug practically impaled himself on it.

  5. I remembered the road well, for it was that upon which we had travelled before; and what Thug ever forgets a road?

  6. There was not an eye in the crowd that was not fixed on the advancing shadow; barely a hand's breadth of light remained, and the Thug gazed on it as though he were fascinated by the eye of a tiger.

  7. Nothing is easier than to beguile them to accompany us a short distance, pretending that we are going the same road: why a Thug might live here for ever, and get a decent living.

  8. I will introduce you to my associates, and you will be initiated as a Thug in the usual manner.

  9. I had purchased for the worthy Potail a handsome turban and waistband, and had prepared for him a number of other articles, one of which was an English pistol, which he had sent word by a Thug that I was to purchase for him.

  10. No one was near me but the Thug who held my horse, and even he was horror-struck, and uttered a loud scream of terror.

  11. We hear so much of him, that, by Bhowanee, perhaps an unlucky old Thug like myself may pick up something new.

  12. We put up in the house of Moedeen, where several other Thug leaders were also; and after refreshing ourselves, my father bade me accompany him to the council which was to determine on the future operations.

  13. If we risk ourselves against these fellows, and are victorious, will not every Thug in the land cry Shabash!

  14. We set off walking to church, which was held in the Thug hospital belonging to the Thug goal; it is now the mess-house for all the infantry and cavalry officers.

  15. An Officer and a Thug A Chief of Police who had seen an Officer beating a Thug was very indignant, and said he must not do so any more on pain of dismissal.

  16. This thug didn't strike me as the rule-book type.

  17. I figured the change of scene would do him good, and I also wanted the security of having him with me, after the threatening phone call to Paula and the Hispanic thug who'd accosted me outside her apartment building.

  18. The thug Ramos had stolen some second-generation interview footage from me, but now I had a tape of something a lot more interesting.

  19. For instances of omens see article Thug and Index.

  20. A name applied to a small class of persons in Jubbulpore, who are descendants of Thug approvers, formerly confined there.

  21. The articles on Badhak, Sansia and Thug are compiled from Sir William Sleeman's reports on these communities of dacoits and murderers, whose suppression he achieved.

  22. The Goyandas are employed in making gloves, socks and strings for pyjamas, having probably taken to this kind of work because the Thug approvers were employed in the manufacture of tents.

  23. The thug is, or let us hope, was, capable of many disguises, and his favourite semblance was that of the Brahman and the religious mendicant.

  24. The SS man had seen Panek cautiously spying on them from time to time, and when the two went in to dinner the thug took a seat nearby, but where Abrams could not see him.

  25. But the thug was both angry and frustrated at the spoiling of his carefully-worked-out plan, and in no mood for conversation.

  26. Himself a member of the thug fraternity, he no doubt took swift vengeance on the informer for having betrayed its secrets.

  27. For a thug there is no crime in all the world to equal this one.

  28. Because I am the very first of the sect who has broken his vows of silence, and spoken the word thug to one outside our secret association.

  29. Once a man has become a thug, he will remain a thug all the rest of his days.

  30. Of course all of such trimming will be out of the twisted brain of the crook-thug who elects to be and remain a crook-thug; and of course, in flouting the finer sensibilities, he pays in missing the fulness of life they alone can round out.

  31. Hence, why not groom the parasitic thug for the National Congress, under the proviso that he would make attempt there to beat a modicum of common sense into the heads of certain of his confreres?

  32. The guard nodded as he shoved the thug into his cell and locked the door, then walked off, while the fellow watched eagerly through the bars.

  33. Locke and the thug sank immediately to the bottom of the river and, under water, there ensued a terrific battle.

  34. With the muscles of his face working convulsively the dying thug tried to speak.

  35. Quickly the thug scratched away at a note.

  36. Locke, semi-helpless because of his shakles, had the greatest difficulty in preventing the thug from breaking loose.

  37. Locke was slowly gaining the upper hand when the thug whom he had thrown over his head recovered.

  38. It has been suggested in the article on Thug that the goddess Kali is really the deified tiger, and if this were so her craving for human sacrifices is readily understood.

  39. The Goyandas of Jubbulpore, descendants of Thug approvers, are considered to be a class of gipsy Muhammadans, akin to or identical with the Kanjars, of whom the Multani subdivision are also Muhammadans.

  40. In the article on Thug it is suggested that a large, if not the principal, section of the Thugs were derived from the Kanjars.

  41. When he was sure that the young fellow was preparing to walk out, and the direction he was to stroll, the thug had run ahead and ensconced himself in the archway on this dark block.

  42. Tom was a muscular young fellow; but a club held over one's head by a burly thug would have shaken the courage of anybody.

  43. He opened his lips to speak and could the thug have seen his face more clearly in the dark he would have been aware of the fact that the young inventor smiled.

  44. Could it be possible that some hired thug sent by Montagne Lewis and his crooked crowd of financiers considered that Tom Swift had obtained information from the president of the H.


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