Thinks

Examples

• My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He's a rough man, and thinks nothing of blood when his own is up. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• No, no; it must be something else if he were really vexed, Ladislaw is a sort of gypsy; he thinks nothing of leather and prunella. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I think Mr Headstone had better not say what he thinks of saying. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She thinks, in short, I want to marry her at once to get away from some one that I--care for more. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He thinks it is like bran, raised with sour yeast. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Eunice desires nothing—except myself; but as for Mrs Dengelton, she thinks I am poor. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Emanuel, he thinks, walking in the alley. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He thinks I am perfect: furnished with all sorts of sterling qualities and solid virtues, such as I never had, nor intend to have. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Away beyond the dawn of history, 3000 or 4000 years ago, one thinks of the Wiltshire uplands in the twilight of a midsummer day's morning. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The Colonel is a ninny, my dear; because he has two thousand a-year himself, he thinks that nobody else can marry on less. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Why, even my father thinks a deal o' dreams! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The Emperor of Morocco don't know how many wives he has, but thinks he has five hundred. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Mr. Bucket prices that decoration in his mind and thinks it as likely as not that Volumnia is writing poetry. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Little Eyes thinks of Lizzie. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• There is another woman--but not the one she thinks. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He thinks he is the Saviour of man--go on reading. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• If I give my consent to your going, Betty--which Mr Rokesmith thinks I ought to do--' Betty thanked him with a grateful curtsey. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Thomasin thinks, and I think with her, that she ought to be Wildeve's wife, if she means to appear before the world without a slur upon her name. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• My sister thinks that I am going mad. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• She thinks so much about everything, and is so particular about what one says. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Being asked what he thinks of the proceedings, characterizes them (his strength lying in a slangular direction) as a rummy start. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• No one ever goes away from Edison in doubt as to what he thinks or means, but he is ever shy and diffident to a degree if the talk turns on himself rather than on his work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But if she thinks that--why isn't she in a hurry too? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• It is enough if he only thinks so,' said the Secretary. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Better, Mr. Smallweed thinks. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• When they have been once used his interest in them is all exhausted, and he thinks of nothing but going on and making more. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We wanted a hundred and ten pounds: your mother has ninety-two, and I have none to spare in the bank; and she thinks that you have some savings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I dare say he thinks he has outwitted me cleverly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Typist: Rachel