Notions

Examples

• Yes, he said, I think that he would rather suffer anything than entertain these false notions and live in this miserable manner. Plato. The Republic.
• Their notions relating to the duties of parents and children differ extremely from ours. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Yes, indeed, he said: according to present notions the proposal would be thought ridiculous. Plato. The Republic.
• What original notions you clever men have! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Wal, boys, the best way is to give him the flogging to do, till he gets over his notions. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• We set out as if we knew; we act on the notions of man that we possess. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And it might lead to mistaken notions, you see, my dear. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Strange notions, has he? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Oh, if you are for high notions and double-refined sentiment, I've naught to say. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Yet I am not certain that she would refuse him if she thought he would let her manage everything and carry out all her notions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But this is a secondary consideration, and dependent on the preceding notions of justice and property. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It describes a sensation in your little nose associated with certain finicking notions which are the classics of Mrs. Lemon's school. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He thought it absurd, after he had reformed, and altered, and improved everywhere, to suit my notions, that I still remained unsatisfied. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Mr Wrayburn encourages those notions to make himself of importance, and so she thinks she ought to be grateful to him, and perhaps even likes to be. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• They say, too, that Clym Yeobright is become a real perusing man, with the strangest notions about things. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Yes, he said to himself, I think we can admit that she has certain notions about the value of time. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Now, I've been laughed at for my notions, sir, and I've been talked to. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• A sentimental man, then, is one who has thoughts, ideas, notions; an unsentimental man is one destitute of thought, idea, or notion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He has wild, extravagant notions about things, particularly about the treatment of servants. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• So I don't know as our people's notions on these matters is too strict; and, considerin' how I was raised, I fell in with them pretty considerably. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• She can be just as fond of our baby as if it were her own, and she can have as many notions of her own as she likes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You see what mistakes you make by taking up notions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• My notions are dyed in faster colours than yours, Joe. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• At some loss to fathom Mr Boffin's notions of a tight will, Lightwood felt his way. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The imposing stupendous bulk of this material has unconsciously influenced men's notions of the nature of knowledge itself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I cannot bear notions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We test these notions by their results, and even practical people find that there is more variety in human nature than they had supposed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Nor is it a wonder, that politicians should be very industrious in inculcating such notions, where their interest is so particularly concerned. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It seems stingy, to my notions, and dry, and unfriendly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• A time came when she knew him better, and changed her notions regarding him; but that was distant as yet. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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