Minded

Examples

• Different benevolent-minded ladies and gentlemen in this neighbourhood and in London. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She wondered if she should have minded detection half so much from any one else. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He knew that his purpose was in the main a good one, and he placed implicit reliance on the high-minded Job. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• If I had never come into the property, I shouldn't have minded. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Are the honorable, the just, the high-minded and compassionate, the majority anywhere in this world? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Some evil-minded person who had seen him come upstairs with a handsome watch in his hand, perhaps. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• To drop the figure,--he saw and won the love of a high-minded and beautiful woman, in one of the northern states, and they were affianced. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And he added: So far as the central essence of this feeling goes, no healthy minded person, it seems to me, can help to some degree partaking of it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Magnificent-minded, grand-hearteddear, faulty little man! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Left to be Minded, sir. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My dear fellow, I am not so narrow-minded as all that. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The Major's wife, a stronger-minded woman, endeavoured her best to comfort her young friend. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He was very broad-minded and enthusiastic and would rejoice in Watt's improvements of the steam engine or Cook's discoveri es in the South Pacific. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• She sang for him when he was so minded, and it was a good sign, for he invariably fell into a comfortable sleep during the music. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• His friend, Milt Adams, went West with quenchless zest for that kind of roving life and aimless adventure of which the serious minded Edison had already had more than enough. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• You are a strong-minded young woman with proper principles. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And who was so worthy of love as my noble-minded sister? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He was the life of the ship, the bloody-minded son of the Inquisition! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And she had a deal to mind in the way of poultry and the like, and minded of it, and come through. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• If he's minded to walk to the station, I'm agreeable to go with him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I never before met with any lady of her rank and station who was so lamentably narrow-minded on the subject of foreigners. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Nor do I particularly affect simple-minded old ladies. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I ha' gone t' th' brigg, minded to fling myseln ower, and ha' no more on't. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It were th' fact that I were na wanted theer, no more nor ony other place, as I minded. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I allers minded dat ar in Mas'r George. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• A prouder, a higher-minded man than yourself does not exist. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The strong-minded Lady Southdown quite agreed in both proposals of her son-in-law, and was for converting Miss Crawley off-hand. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Your Elizabethan ancestor was not healthy-minded, said Caliphronas coolly; if he had been he would never have written such silly verses. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• That I am the parson's niece is not a crime, though you may be narrow-minded enough to think it so. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• A life-thirsting, cannibal-looking, bloody-minded juryman, the Jacques Three of St. Antoine. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

Edited by Helen