Minds

Examples

• Where affection is reciprocal and sincere, and minds are harmonious, marriage _must_ be happy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He knew that Mrs. Reggie didn't object to her visitors' suddenly changing their minds, and that there was always a room to spare in her elastic house. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Over many parts of Europe a sort of legendary overlordship of the Hellenic Eastern Empire held its place in men's minds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We do know, however, that he arrived at a gen eralization--fantastic to most minds--that all things are water. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But I don't believe mother minds. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Mind means carrying out instructions in action--as a child minds his mother--and taking care of something--as a nurse minds the baby. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• So that two mutually dangerous streams of anticipation were running through the minds of men in Western Europe towards the end of the war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Years later he wrote to his mother: After all, the way in which we are taught Latin and Greek does not much influence the important st ructure of our minds. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The musicians put their ears in the place of their minds. Plato. The Republic.
• A number of schemes had floated in men's minds for the attainment of that end. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What Wisconsin had was leadership and a people that responded, inventors, and constructive minds. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They are always trying at it; they always have it in their minds and every five or six years, there comes a struggle between masters and men. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• She minds what she is doing, sir. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They appraised me in their own minds, I saw, and were curious to ascertain what my full value was. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• So we find that the prince gradually became less important in men's minds than the Power of which he was the head. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They came into this inheritance of a previous civilization with the ideas and traditions of the woodlands still strong in their minds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I should hope you gentlemen of the army may find many means of amusing yourselves if you give your minds to it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But those words are apt to cover different meanings to different minds. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• For the time being it looked very much as if all thought of the war had escaped their minds. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They can shut their minds so that none may read their thoughts. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Under such circumstances, they have a mechanical uniformity, assumed to be alike for all minds. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They spoke of feelings but guessed at by our softer nature; yet coloured by our sanguine minds even beyond reality. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• And who minds Dick? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Nor did it retain any hold upon the minds of his disciples in a later generation; it was probably unintelligible to them. Plato. The Republic.
• We have already glanced, in Chapter XII, at the elements of religion that must have arisen necessarily in the minds of those early peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill-educated, become pre-eminently bad? Plato. The Republic.
• I tried to explain, it was so very simple, but the results were so surprising they made up their minds probably that they never would understand it--and they didn't. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But deep in the minds of the apes was rooted the conviction that Tarzan was a mighty fighter and a strange creature. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• To these things men's minds clung, and they clung to them because in all the world there appeared nothing else so satisfying to cling to. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• More singular still, the heathmen had instinctively coupled her and this man together in their minds as a pair born for each other. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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