Imaginations
[i,mædʒi'neiʃənz]
Examples
- If she were sickly she would have her illusions, imaginations. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- How cheerful, how animated, how suspicious, how busy their imaginations all are! Jane Austen. Emma.
- The effect of this battle upon people's imaginations was very great. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The world was to me a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Two imaginations soared together upon the raft at Tilsit. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Our geographical isolation preserves us from any vivid sense of national contrast: our imaginations are not stirred by different civilizations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It spread rather in spite of than because of the concessions that it made to vulgar imaginations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The case demanded was one in which you could see representative American citizens trying to handle a problem which had touched their imaginations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The temples had accumulated great stores of golden vessels and lost their hold upon the imaginations of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- This source of property can never be explained but from the imaginations; and one may affirm, that the causes are here unmixed. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Their imaginations declined the task. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Trouble no quiet, kind heart; leave sunny imaginations hope. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Under the overpowering influence of these sickly imaginations the moral teachings of Gautama have been almost hid from view. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In their imaginations a great and rich city to the south, a sort of confusion of Rome and Byzantium, loomed large. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So our imaginations are led up to the actual hostilities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Filled with dreary imaginations, I passed through many beautiful and majestic scenes; but my eyes were fixed and unobserving. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Whatever appearance of a world-wide order may have gleamed upon men's imaginations vanished at his death. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was not a display of life to excite our imaginations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The appearance of M ars, perhaps on account of its reddish color, was associated in their imaginations with war. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- What was this, but the action of diseased imaginations and childish credulity? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I arranged that if a storm occurred, and the bad side got shaky, they should do the best they could and draw freely on their imaginations. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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