Imagined

Examples

• Yes, so I imagined. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The apprehension was for the possibility of evil he imagined. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• This gentleman, as may be imagined, was not kept long in ignorance of the secret. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A more hard-favored set, perhaps, could not be imagined. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• If a gust of wind swept the waste, I looked up, fearing it was the rush of a bull; if a plover whistled, I imagined it a man. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• If I had but most distantly imagined such a possibility---- Mrs. Yorke would still have beaten you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Otherwise they could not have imagined that I had returned to my rooms. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• She tried to comfort herself with the idea, that what he imagined her to be, did not alter the fact of what she was. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• But who would have imagined, said he, that Franklin was capable of such a performance; such painting, such force, such fire! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• She could never deliver me; I imagined that she always brought me back after showing me such things. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The waters of this placid subterranean lake are the brightest, loveliest blue that can be imagined. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• For an instant I imagined that Bannister had taken the unpardonable liberty of examining my papers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He imagined that Venn and Mrs. Yeobright were in league, and felt that there was a certain legitimacy in combating such a coalition. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The Gallipoli campaign was finely imagined, but disgracefully executed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was ridiculously disappointed, as if he had imagined that her coming had anything to do with him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• They must not do less than others, or she should be exposed to odious suspicions, and imagined capable of pitiful resentment. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Could you have imagined she would ever have asked me for money? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I could not have imagined that any young man in any class of life could have made such a good nurse! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• A longing to enlighten her was strong in him; and there were moments when he imagined that all she asked was to be enlightened. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• An hour ago he could not have imagined that he would ever smile again. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility. Jane Austen. Emma.
• But it is not to be imagined that she lives up to her income. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• He had known that the moment must come sooner or later, but he had somewhat imagined that by force of willing he might hold it at bay. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The room was far more splendid than anything Little Dorrit had ever imagined, and would have been splendid and costly in any eyes. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• She had a grey silk sunshade over her head--how could he ever have imagined her with a pink one? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Anything, indeed, less like Lord Orville cannot be imagined. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But can anything be imagined more absurd and contradictory than this reasoning? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He would act as he imagined the men in the books would have acted were they in his place. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Don't think me angry, however, for I only mean to let you know that I had not imagined such inquiries to be necessary on _your_ side. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

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