Thanksgiving


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Synonyms for Thanksgiving

a short prayer said at meals

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Synonyms for Thanksgiving

fourth Thursday in November in the United States

a short prayer of thanks before a meal

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Her eyes were radiant with the glow of grateful feelings; the flush of her beauty was again seated on her cheeks, and her whole soul seemed ready and anxious to pour out its thanksgivings through the medium of her eloquent features.
For puss had feasted; and therefore, like Grandfather and the children, had kept a good Thanksgiving.
And now, having thrown a gentle gloom around the Thanksgiving fireside by a story that made the children feel the blessing of a secure and peaceful hearth, Grandfather put off the other events of the old French War till the next evening.
He felt that this was to be set down as one of the good Thanksgivings of his life.
Her Thanksgiving hasn't been a very cheerful one, I'm afraid.
In looking about for some one to preach the Thanksgiving sermon, I found one of the rarest men that it has ever been my privilege to know.
Just before Thanksgiving the affairs of the Simpsons reached what might have been called a crisis, even in their family, which had been born and reared in a state of adventurous poverty and perilous uncertainty.
It was a glorious Indian summer day, which suggested nothing of Thanksgiving, near at hand as it was.
She had come to make certain whether or not he would be at their table for Thanksgiving dinner; but before she could broach the subject Martin plunged into the one with which he was full.
"Next Thanksgiving you'll have dinner with me in Delmonico's," he said cheerily; "or in London, or Paris, or anywhere you wish.
Aunt Polly, Mary, and the Harpers threw themselves upon their restored ones, smothered them with kisses and poured out thanksgivings, while poor Huck stood abashed and uncomfortable, not knowing exactly what to do or where to hide from so many unwelcoming eyes.
That it would become him to be daily on his knees, pouring forth thanksgivings that he had broken his arm only, and not his neck; which latter," he said, "was very probably reserved for some future occasion, and that, perhaps, not very remote.
22 where he shared pictures of him and Dench, now 61, spending Thanksgiving together for the third time in a row.