Methinks

Examples

• Methinks I am animated and alert, instead of being depressed and apprehensive? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Methinks I hear some of you say, 'Must a man afford himself no leisure? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It were no mighty leap methinks from Calais to Dover. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• How now, Sir Friar, replied Front-de-Boeuf, thy speech, methinks, smacks of a Saxon tongue? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He is ugly, methinks, and yet I prefer him to any of the handsome Stanhopes, for there is something of better feeling and more expression in his eyes. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• In short, the face of things is quite changed, and methinks you would smile to see my hourglass hanging in the place of the clock. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• How much, methinks, I could despise this man Were I not bound in charity against it! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Methinks that I felt the presence of my brother's minion, even when I least guessed whom yonder suit of armour enclosed. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Methinks, the bed looks like a tomb. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Methinks, holy father, said he, the instrument wants one string, and the rest have been somewhat misused. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• In heaven, I replied, there is laid up a pattern of it, methinks, which he who desires may behold, and beholding, may set his own house in order. Plato. The Republic.
• Its vacillating effulgence seems to say that its state, even like ours upon earth, is wavering and inconstant; it fears, methinks, and it loves. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Soldiers particularly should, methinks, all be taught to swim; it might be of frequent use either in surprising an enemy or saving themselves. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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