Imagining

Examples

• She looked at him from that distance in some trouble, imagining that there might have been an offence in her words. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He lent it fruitful direction, a different impetus, and the results are beyond his imagining. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Seeing bad signs, one, with fear, imagines an end for himself and one thinks that imagining comes by divination, Robert Jordan concluded. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Therefore, no one thought of imagining that he cared more for her than for the others. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Sir Percival Glyde, she repeated, imagining that I had not heard her former reply. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Her heart beat fast, she flew away on wings of elation, imagining a future. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She went on imagining the scene at the church, which he had by this time approached with his bride. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Inherent flaws can be perfectly understood by imagining a pond of water frozen solidly to its center. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There is the thing seen, heard, loved, hated, imagined, and there is the act of seeing, hearing, loving, hating, imagining, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Perhaps, had it not been for Lily, her fond imagining might have become truth. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It required a peculiar effort of the mind, such as the imagining of eight different things moving simultaneously on a mental plane, without anything to demonstrate their efficiency. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Tertius is so angry and impatient if I say anything, said Rosamond, imagining that he had been complaining of her to Dorothea. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It is my only excuse for imagining you could want me. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• We can hardly imagine bucolic placidity quickening to intellectual aims without imagining social aims as the transitional phase. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• As we are imagining what is impossible and absurd, suppose we change the subject? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He was roused from a meditation on these dire imaginings by the sudden appearance of two figures at a turn of the lane. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The friend who knew most of Eva's own imaginings and foreshadowings was her faithful bearer, Tom. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Involved in these imaginings she knew nothing of time. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I cannot be implicated in their imaginings. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Dreadful imaginings occurred to Eustacia, but she carefully refrained from uttering them to her husband. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• You have been sadly visited; nor do I wonder that a feeling akin to insanity should drive you to bitter and unreasonable imaginings. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Editor: Pedro