Brains

Examples

• These people were people like ourselves, with brains as busy and moody and inconsistent, and with even less training and discipline. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Led by a woman with her brains between her thighs and a foreigner who comes to destroy you. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But he had more brains and more inner dignity and outer insolence and humor than any man that he had ever known. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It will do my brains good to have that mop taken off. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• You've got no brains. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• So far from it, answered the mask, with mysterious earnestness, that, after what has passed, were you to discover me I would blow my brains out. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Oh, he dreams footnotes, and they run away with all his brains. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I was not endowed either with brains or with good fortune, and confess that I have committed a hundred mistakes and blunders. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But, mind you this, that if I had knocked his brains out, as it was in my heart to do, he would have had no more than his due from my hands. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I am not going to guess, at five o'clock in the morning, with my brains frying and sputtering in my head. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Now, all these were more or less ancestral to living forms, and all have brains relatively much smaller than their living representatives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They had lost brains and speech, and they were fed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• More in your brains than in your pocket, eh? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Begludship's pardon--victim of rash action--brains. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You ain't got brains enough to be a second-class corporal. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I have passed beyond it, because I have brains, Becky thought, and almost all the rest of the world are fools. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Yet I do not think he had what we call brains—true, he possessed the cunning and instinct of a wild animal, but that was all. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• How was it possible that such an idea should enter our brains? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• You've got more brains in your little vinger than any baronet's wife in the county. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Don't addle their English brains with your classical rubbish, shouted Crispin satirically; if you do, they may wreck us. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Mechanical perfection is as nearly approached as it is possible for the best brains and the most approved methods of manufacture to attain. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Early men, three or four hundred generations ago, had brains very like our own. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But his thoughts were just, his brains were fairly good, his life was honest and pure, and his heart warm and humble. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Hellas will never be a modern Roman empire—she never was an all-conquering power, and her strength lay in the brains, not in the hands of her sons. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• In their hearts are no memories of the past, in their brains no dreams of the future. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Then I am to blow my brains out? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Our ancestors have transmitted to us their physical forms, but not their brains, not their heroism. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Missing his aim, he fell into the ditch, turning completely over as he went; and striking his head against a stone, dashed out his brains. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• If her beauty or her brains will not serve her so far, she merits the sharp lesson of experience. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He was coming to England, to try his fortune, as many other young men were obliged to do whose only capital was in their brains. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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