Imagines

Examples

• A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Really, it's like one of the reaches of the Nile--as one imagines the Nile. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• 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.
• There is a restlessness in all disorders of the mind, which the sufferer imagines can be best relieved by exercise. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• When a student imagines that philosophy gives him a headache, he never does anything; he is always unwell. Plato. The Republic.
• After all, important fresh evidence is a two-edged thing, and may possibly cut in a very different direction to that which Lestrade imagines. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mr. King imagines this a Saxon castle of the first ages of the Heptarchy. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He imagines that he must have seen it in some hospital or refuge, still, cannot make out why it comes with any special force on his remembrance. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Fear sometimes imagines a vain thing. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Lambert imagines that all these bodies have exactly the volume, weight, position, direction, and speed necessary for the avoidance of collisions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He can give no explanation of the young man's last words, 'The professor--it was she,' but imagines that they were the outcome of delirium. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• But Plato erroneously imagines that the synthesis is separable from the analysis, and that the method of science can anticipate science. Plato. The Republic.

Typist: Murray