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Example sentences for "thoughts"

Lexicographically close words:
thoughtfully; thoughtfulness; thoughtless; thoughtlessly; thoughtlessness; thoult; thous; thousand; thousande; thousandfold
  1. All these thoughts surged in wild commotion through Wanda's breast, and almost overwhelmed her.

  2. Such thoughts would be unpardonable amid this scenery," said Wanda.

  3. Any other girl would be proud and happy to be the centre of her lover's thoughts at a time like this.

  4. The count embraced his nephew warmly and cordially, but his glances as well as his thoughts were centred upon his daughter.

  5. She leaned against the tree and gazed intently into the water, but her thoughts were evidently far away.

  6. For heaven's sake, do not put such thoughts into Leo's head!

  7. His complexion was pale and sallow, his brow was wrinkled, and his eyes had that absent, uncertain glance peculiar to people whose thoughts seldom or never descend to the level of real and practical things.

  8. He made no reply; his thoughts seemed to flow in another channel.

  9. XI All the golden Names of olden Women yet by men's love cherished, All our dearest Thoughts hold nearest, Had they loved not, all had perished.

  10. Let thoughts that change and fly, Sweet thoughts and swift, go by; More than all thought is here.

  11. Now the morning faintlier risen Seems no God come forth of prison, But a bird of plume-plucked wing, Pale with thoughts of evening.

  12. Of days more sweet than thou wast sweet to smell, Of flower-soft thoughts that came to flower and fell, Of loves that lived a lily's life and died, Of dreams now dwelling where dead roses dwell.

  13. XVIII Joy by daytime Fills his playtime Full of songs loud mirth takes pride in; Night and morrow Weave round sorrow Thoughts as soft as sleep to hide in.

  14. These thoughts brought me to the consideration of myself.

  15. It will scarcely be believed how even this much of a pursuit diverted my mind from its own dark dreamings, and how eagerly my thoughts pursued the new track that was opened to them.

  16. There was a sort of self-flattery in the thought that one so destitute as I was could devote his thoughts and energies to the service of another, that pleased me greatly.

  17. From the nature of the music, I should say that Puddlewitz's thoughts were of a remarkably mild and sentimental nature, and not at all in keeping with his ferocious aspect.

  18. His thoughts were now how to cheat the oculist; he pretended that he had only a glimmering, and could see nothing distinctly; for which reason, the bandage on his eyes was continued a month longer than the usual time.

  19. After some fencing about whether her thoughts were silly, and whether it would be silly to speak them, out came the scruple.

  20. In thoughts from visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, And made all my bones to shake.

  21. Resolutely she put such thoughts from her, for they took the courage out of her heart and sapped the strength of her body.

  22. Her thoughts flew to the little hut in the woods where the king of the Saxons lay concealed.

  23. To Egwina she accorded a respect and deference that confused the maiden, who could not but see what thoughts were in her mind.

  24. I was unable to go on writing after luncheon because the conversation I had with Marion distracted my mind and turned my thoughts to another subject.

  25. I had some thoughts of working up my vision of Malcolmson and his artillery into a short article of a light kind, slightly humorous, with a vein of satire running through it.

  26. And woe for the thoughts that are dwelling Up in the poet's heart.

  27. Alone in the hour my thoughts have reign, And I yield myself to their power.

  28. I like to be forced to laugh and be merry, Though the earth with sorrow and pain is rife: I like for an evening at least to bury All thoughts of trouble, or pain, or strife.

  29. Why do we both dissemble The thoughts we used to speak?

  30. Zola's talk during the evening, when he was expressing his thoughts aloud.

  31. We can generally guess the thoughts of those we love.

  32. And that I can think such thoughts as these is just as wonderful, "And that I can remind you, and you think them and know them to be true, is just as wonderful.

  33. The silence, the tracts of unformed space, the unsubstantial river, the ceaseless vibration along its surface of infinite moving points, all this was a reflex of my thoughts and they of it.

  34. These disquieting thoughts passed through my mind as we approached the tent.

  35. They had counted on the corrupting influence of a bold, fascinating woman on the gentle and unsophisticated thoughts and feelings of innocent girls.

  36. We saw him seated under a palm tree, or in the shadow of some great rock, and we felt the sorrows of his thoughts as if they were our own.

  37. It breathes a pure and elevated spirit, and has many thoughts which will commend themselves sympathetically to the followers of all Christian faiths.

  38. We sat down in this valley of humiliation, where the small white flowers were the innocent thoughts of the new life, and the musical voice of the brook was a hymn of contrition.

  39. He writhes; he moans with the burden of thoughts he cannot express.

  40. She was made to read the thoughts of others, so that Magistus became possessed of any man's or any woman's secret life whenever he chose.

  41. In spite of myself and my fears, the calm and almost spiritual halo which seemed to surround this strange old man, began to quiet my agitation and to divert my thoughts from my impending fate.

  42. The natural body was only a vehicle of natural life with its thoughts and emotions.

  43. Had not so many other spirits been present to engage my attention, to divert my thoughts and to impart courage and life to me, I should have swooned and fallen.

  44. These things," said my father, "are typical of the thoughts and affections of the blessed people whose homes we are approaching.

  45. Certainly none of the thoughts you have communicated to me have ever dawned on the minds of his disciples.

  46. And though I needed work to keep alive My thoughts would go no further Than Pavlowa as the maid Giselle .

  47. Ah, if the one who loves us could see and know all--the life, the thoughts of the wisest and best man who ever breathed!

  48. Dale gazed at his painting with a feeling of triumph sweeping away the morbid thoughts which had troubled him so long.

  49. The thoughts flew like lightning through his brain as, in her most silky tones, Lady Grayson addressed him.

  50. Armstrong could not suppress a start, and he looked keenly at the Conte, whose eyes seemed to be fixed searchingly upon his, as if to read the secret thoughts of his heart.

  51. The Mochuelo stopped and looked out: Herrera, all his thoughts concentrated on one subject, still hurried on, but an exclamation from his companion arrested his steps.

  52. The firm and decided tone of this refusal exasperated Herrera, already almost frantic at the thoughts of the new peril to which Rita was to be exposed.

  53. The prospect of action was perhaps the only thing that could then have diverted Herrera's thoughts from the painful subject pre-occupying them.

  54. Besides, the howling and howthering of the storm carries my thoughts back to the golden days of my youth, and to the events of my life at sea.

  55. I had one regret just then, for my thoughts reverted to Beebee in her turret chamber.

  56. Cracker looked at Warlock and Warlock looked at Cracker, and I rather think their thoughts were very similar, only they said nothing.

  57. His mind wandered, and the questions were often disconnected and indistinct, but his last thoughts were of Africa.

  58. Since that happy hour, when we made our pledges to each other, my thoughts have been continually going to you as to another self.

  59. I find that my childish thoughts and dreams Lie strewn on the sands by the cruel blast That scattered my hopes on the restless streams That flow through the mystic realms of the past.

  60. All of us, though we may profess to be realists, are at heart idealists, for every woman in the innermost sanctuary of her thoughts cherishes an ideal man.

  61. Her bright smiles were bejewelled, her tears were empearled, And her thoughts were as stars giving light to the world; Her fond dreams were the gems that were woven in gold, And the fabric she wrought was of value untold.

  62. As out in the darkness, the snow-flakes Are falling so softly and slow, Her thoughts fly back to the summer of life, And the scenes of long ago.

  63. Since then there has been no time, sleeping or waking, when he has not been in the thoughts of the mother who has sought to do her best by him.

  64. I had dressed up in my own mind, such thoughts as occurred to me, in as moving language as I knew how, and expected to have performed in a tolerably creditable manner.

  65. With tears she hears the song, And her thoughts go back to the boys in blue, That army, brave and strong-- Then Peace creeps in amid the pain.

  66. For now his thoughts were turned toward the United States, and in 1834 he determined to cross the ocean, and to take the chance of fortune and of fame.

  67. But New York was in the manager's thoughts and seemed to beckon him Northward.

  68. The good Father seemed lost to all around, and to have his thoughts fixed only on heaven, so that Owen wondered and wondered how he could pray so long and fervently.

  69. Such were the thoughts which Stayford revolved in his mind as he stood talking to the boys on the river bank.

  70. Naturally so, for the average woman is incapable of poetical passion, and only too glad to find something that occupies her thoughts from morning to night, a relief from the weariness of her unfruitful mind.

  71. Nor could she make reply to him, so intensely were her thoughts occupied with what she saw.

  72. Look at this Francia, and tell me your thoughts about it.

  73. She seemed quite content with the society of Irene and Mrs. Delph; her health visibly improved, and as spring drew near there was a brightening in her face that told of thoughts in sympathy with the new-born hope of earth.

  74. When both had been busy with their thoughts for several minutes, Cecily also rose.

  75. Suppose it to be my lot, what would be your thoughts then?

  76. Please let me just look and think, and tell me your own thoughts about each.

  77. Suppose you ask Mr. Mallard for his thoughts on the subject?

  78. In each town I tuned my thoughts by it, to use a phrase which sounds like affectation, but has a very real significance.

  79. In a few days she could talk with Eleanor even of bygone things in a perfectly simple tone, without danger of betraying the thoughts she must keep secret.

  80. In every sense he was at liberty to turn his thoughts elsewhither, and now he felt that he had even received encouragement.

  81. Busying his thoughts with Mrs. Baske, he had slipped into a train of meditation already begun on the evening in question, after the drive with her.

  82. I followed where my nature led, and my thoughts about everything altered.

  83. Yet I dare bet that he had counted us, and knew we were all strangers, and dare say his thoughts would fill a good long chapter of a book.

  84. You know those overtones of a bell that go fading away into the infinite, in touch, somehow, with thoughts that haven't reached any of us yet except the man who made the bell.

  85. My young companion and I looked first at one another, and then at the pistols and other weapons which hung about our persons; and, as if the thoughts of each had wandered into the same channel, we smiled and said nothing.

  86. They are most indirect in their thoughts and deeds--a characteristic which is purely racial, and which they themselves cannot appreciate, but which often shocks Europeans.

  87. Negroes, as a rule, are not much given to rock-carving in order to record thoughts or events.

  88. But no word came from his lips, and his eyes were dim and dazed; and he seemed as one lost in thoughts of days long past and gone.

  89. Right attentive is she to every duty, and her words and thoughts are always worthy and wise.

  90. There gather round the metaphor all thoughts of merciful guidance, of tender care, of a helping arm when we are weak, of a loving bosom where we are carried when we are weary.

  91. Hard thoughts of Him may have been in some of their minds.

  92. Not only these were in our Lord's thoughts when He saw His sheep in heathen lands.

  93. First of all, we seek if, and in proportion as, we make the effort to occupy our thoughts and minds, not with theological dogmas, but with the living Christ Himself.

  94. It is but a subtle form of the same disease which keeps our thoughts penned within the bounds of any fold, or limited by the progress already achieved.

  95. Look, though but for a moment, at the thoughts that come from this new view of the words which we have been considering.

  96. These closing words may be taken as the crowning thoughts on both these matters.

  97. There the thoughts presented are the superposition of the building upon its Foundation, the rest of the soul, and the rearing of the life on the basis of Jesus Christ.

  98. These great thoughts go to the centre of their needs and of ours; and on them I now touch briefly.

  99. But at all events our Lord turns away our thoughts from the outward to the inward, and bids us be sure that though the folds be many the flock shall be one, because they shall all hear and follow Him.

  100. My thoughts are always--" "Is this a trial of thoughts, or of kittens?

  101. When I get my thoughts arranged in good order I do not like to have anything upset them or throw them into confusion.

  102. If your thoughts were any good they wouldn't become confused," remarked the Scarecrow, earnestly.


  103. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thoughts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.