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Example sentences for "thoughts were"

  • This was, to be sure, a surprise quite of a different nature from any I had met with before; for the notions this put into my thoughts were quite of another kind.

  • My thoughts were fully in keeping my seat; and considering the fear that had seized me, I sat well.

  • All my thoughts were turned to the one whom I held in my arms.

  • But my thoughts were on far other subjects than Fenianism.

  • To-night, as she sat leaning her head on the window-sill, Martha's thoughts were as near to bitterness as they had ever been.

  • The McSorley boys had stolen money from the restaurant man, and Pearl had overheard Tommy telling Bugsey that Ben McSorley was a big fool to go showing it, and Pearl thought she saw from this how Tommy's thoughts were running.

  • But Pearl's thoughts were on an entirely different theme.

  • I saw the snare, and all my thoughts were how to avoid it, though I pretended to be merely considering the questions.

  • All my thoughts were wrapped up in the beloved object I had lost for ever.

  • At that very moment the two noblemen came in, and reading astonishment on my countenance, they asked me what my thoughts were so busy about.

  • My thoughts were taken up with Esther, and I talked so much about her at dinner that at last my cousin declared that she did not consider her pretty.

  • To this merriment of my followers I gave but little heed: my thoughts were intent on other things.

  • My thoughts were wild, and my movements without method.

  • Bancroft's thoughts were active as he lighted his cigar.

  • Beneath her calm exterior Miss Dent's thoughts were in a tumult, and fierce resentment against the cattleman was rising in her heart.

  • So, for that time at least, Lucy and love were turned out of his heart and his last waking thoughts were of his plan to go to Albuquerque and Santa Fe within a few days, there to run down the clews that promised most.

  • As she sat with folded hands on the divan, awaiting the summons of the Grand Vizier, her deep eyes showed that her thoughts were far, far away from any Silver Slippers.

  • But for all I sang of the hills, my thoughts were in the valleys.

  • Joan Dewsbury's thoughts were full of different and, to her, far more important matters than her niece's appearance.

  • As I rode, day after day, over the barren hills, my thoughts were on the alterations of the circumstances of the natives since the coming of the English.

  • I took a situation as tutor in a private family, but all my thoughts were of Charmettes and of our innocent life together, now gone for ever.

  • My thoughts were mingled, for I was very grieved for the sake of Mamma, yet I felt pleasure at the idea that we were grown up.

  • All my thoughts were centred on the pose which I would assume when rising to accept the challenge.

  • Day and night my thoughts were turning to her whom I loved, and my heart went out to the girl who was suffering in a lonely town because she loved too well.

  • I attended prayers, but my thoughts were elsewhere--how, indeed, could it be otherwise?

  • My thoughts were broken in upon by the arrival of the tailor.

  • What my thoughts were, the reader may imagine: Susannah's I cannot acquaint him with; but in that position we remained in silence until the carriage stopped at Cophagus's door.

  • Michael's thoughts were of his world-state, his religion of Love, the closeness of God.

  • My thoughts were unjust, unkind, so my world was unkind, unjust.

  • Michael's thoughts were brimful of Hadassah and her husband, her beauty and the romance of their marriage, the details of which were familiar to him, as he pushed his way through the labyrinth of native streets in mediaeval Cairo.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after reading; black silk; came down from heaven; characteristic feature; contact with; dead language; excellent remedy; hidden treasure; lapis calaminaris; rose window; save money; scientific principles; sensuous perception; should say; showing himself; single glance; social institutions; special manner; this treaty; thoughts were; urged against; vertical axis