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  • "Thenceforth," says the aged monk, fifty years later, "I passed all my lifetime in the building of that monastery [Jarrow], and gave all my days to meditating on Scripture.

    Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Grant Allen 1873

  • Thenceforth, the weary travelers were mulcted a dollar per head for the privilege of sleeping on the floor, Jacob Kent weighing the dust and never failing to steal the down-weight.

    THE MAN WITH THE GASH 2010

  • Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.

    The Wall of the World 2010

  • Thenceforth she lived as a minor but active member of the extended British royal family based in London, and, with her Aunt, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, was instrumental in introducing the young photographer Cecil Beaton into the Court circle.

    Princess Marie Louise 2009

  • Thenceforth, the class-struggle, practically as well as theoretically, took on more and more outspoken and threatening forms.

    skzbrust: Capital Volume 1 Prefaces and Afterwords skzbrust 2010

  • Thenceforth degeneration encompassed Jews, at least in the physical department.45 Nordau tapped into the Zeitgeist—or into one of its chambers—since the idea of the physical degeneracy of Jews became a mainstay of Zionist thought.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Thenceforth, in alternate years, he delivered the series of lectures that would make his name, though he never knew it.

    How To Change The World « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • Thenceforth he must depend upon himself, and faster-swimming or faster-running men ceased to be bred.

    The Shrinkage of the Planet 2010

  • Thenceforth degeneration encompassed Jews, at least in the physical department.45 Nordau tapped into the Zeitgeist—or into one of its chambers—since the idea of the physical degeneracy of Jews became a mainstay of Zionist thought.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Thenceforth, the class-struggle, practically as well as theoretically, took on more and more outspoken and threatening forms.

    A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2010

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