Thoughts

Examples

• Every vestige of the gentler thoughts which had filled her mind hardly a minute since seemed to be swept from it now. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It an't our stations in life that changes us, Mr Clennam; thoughts is free! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• No, it is not selfishness or conceit, said he, answering, as was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Many were convinced that the end of the world was at hand, and strove to fix their thoughts solely on the world to come. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Laura Fairlie was in all my thoughts when the ship bore me away, and I looked my last at England. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Our conscious thoughts, observations, wishes, aversions are important, because they represent inchoate, nascent activities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Her thoughts were away in other times as the parson read. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This reflection thawed my congealing blood, and again the tide of life and love flowed impetuously onward, again to ebb as my busy thoughts changed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Each long hour was counted, and He suffers was the burthen of all her thoughts. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There was that jumble in my thoughts and recollections, that I had lost the clear arrangement of time and distance. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Then her thoughts went back to Milton, with a strange sense of the contrast between the life there, and here. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• They are not the thoughts of a model heroine under her circumstances, but they are those of a deeply-feeling, strongly-resentful peasant-girl. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I have been a little hard on her, perhaps, in my own thoughts--I have almost hoped that the loss of the Diamond might be traced to _her_. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Don't be anxious, Kitty; I have quite other thoughts about my life. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You are too young--it is an anachronism for you to have such thoughts, said Will, energetically, with a quick shake of the head habitual to him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Yes, says the Sergeant, as if he was actually reading my thoughts in the dark. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It is not possible but that you must have had some thoughts on the subject, some surmises as to what might be. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• In this connection a short anecdote may be quoted from Edison as indicative of one of the influences turning his thoughts in this direction. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The way he'd say “I've been a regular brown bear to-day,” and take himself in his arms and hug himself at the thoughts of the brute he had pretended. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She made no reply--she seemed to be too much wrapped up in her own thoughts to attend to me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I added this saving clause, in the moment of rejecting four richly caparisoned coursers which I had had wild thoughts of harnessing. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But now these thoughts faded before the new born expectation. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I should rather say her thoughts were far away from here, with lords and ladies she'll never know, and mansions she'll never see again. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The material of thinking is not thoughts, but actions, facts, events, and the relations of things. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It is hard when, before seven days of marriage are over, such thoughts and confessions as these force themselves on a little bride's mind. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It was an expression of her thoughts, and that was sufficient for Tarzan of the Apes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• While he was in this mood he saw four things that served to point his thoughts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Her thoughts still turned, as they always had turned, to him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• This impression of my senses immediately conveys my thoughts to the person, along with all the surrounding objects. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I have such unmanageable thoughts,' returned his sister, 'that they _will_ wonder. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

Typist: Nigel