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Sentences starting with thought

Thought I'd ask you. [9]
Thought he'd take you in the rear by going to Washington, did he? [9]
Thought you would, suh. [9]
Thought seemed to rally in him, and, staring--alas! [11]
Thought not mortal, or not thought mortal,--which was it? [6]
Thought I to myself: though she once loved another man, she may still have a good share left for me! [10]
Thought is forced from old channels into confusion. [7]

Sentences ending with thought

Can you put yourself in the man's place and tell me what he felt and what he thought? [5]
He says: "Sink your own will; let it be subject to a higher, and you need take no thought. [11]
Well, what think you--" He paused, rose, walked up and down the room, caught his moustache between his teeth once or twice, and seemed buried in thought. [11]
And I ask you to believe it is not done lightly, or without due consideration, but as the result of some years of thought. [9]
To be sure, you Romans trouble yourselves more about matters of law and administration than the culture of the arts or the subtleties of thought. [10]
I will give you another instance of thought. [5]
Again that day, yes, twice again, she stole back to the old chapel, and in her former seat read from the same book, or indulged the same quiet train of thought. [12]
Tom said it would take him days to get so he wouldn't forget he was a deef and dummy sometimes, and speak out before he thought. [5]
Often Mr. Carvel would run across one which seemed to bring some incident to his mind; for he would drop it absently on his desk, his hand seeking his chin, and remain for half an hour lost in thought. [9]
I wonder, I wonder if--" But she got no farther with that thought. [11]

Short sentences using thought

I thought of your wife. [4]
I thought he'd wronged you. [13]
I thought it would. [5]
I never thought why. [13]
I thought it was you. [12]
I believe it was thought. [5]
I thought he was sick. [5]
We thought he was queer. [9]
He thought he was Emperor! [5]
They thought he was dreaming. [11]

Sentences containing thought two or more times

I once thought you were this and that--I won't say what I thought you. [11]
But I thought you were all only trying to make it easier for me, and I heard Warbeck say to Rockwell, when they thought I was asleep, 'It's ten to one against him. [11]
And yet and yet against the tumult and beating of this passion striving to throb down thought, thought strove. [9]
In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space, to wander its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever--for you will remain a thought, the only existent thought, and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. [5]
Her heart hardened whenever she thought of the woman, but softened again when she thought of Ba'tiste, who had to suffer for the deed of a brother in "purgatore. [11]
I thought you were--" "You thought I was dead? [5]
She thought it was delightful; she thought Beaton must be glad to be part of it, though he had represented himself so bored, so injured, by Fulkerson's insisting upon having him. [8]
Some thought it was a pity that Joan had declined battle, some thought not. [5]
Here is a variation of the formula with which we are familiar:-- "Nature is the incarnation of a thought, and turns to a thought again, as ice becomes water and gas. [6]
It is a truth which I thought needed to be told, and, as whatever of humiliation there is in it falls most directly on myself, I thought others might afford for me to tell it. [7]

More example sentences with the word thought in them

You have raised your voice against it, and I respect and honour and thank you for it, the more because you have done it without resorting to sensation, and apparently with no thought of yourself. [9]
They won't know your father here--" If Stephen thought the Judge brutal, he did not say so. [9]
It's because of your concern for the welfare of your workers in the mills that I ventured to come and talk to you of how most of them live when they're at home," replied Siddons, as Janet thought, rather neatly. [9]
He counts upon your coming, for I said I thought you would. [11]
As for his young pupil, she has often thought of being a teacher herself, so that she is of course very glad to acquire any accomplishment that may be useful to her in that capacity. [6]
He thought the young gentleman could hardly find time for such a meeting during his brief visit. [6]
I thought my young friend's attitude was a little too much like that of the Muggletonians. [6]
I never told you--indeed, I thought I never should tell you; but now I think it's best to do so. [11]
I thought maybe you'd put it aside for me, like you do for the others. [9]
I thought mebbe you'd heard that shot, en' I was worried some. [13]
I thought perhaps you'd be glad to have me. [11]
I looked for you; but you didn't come, and I thought you had forgotten me. [11]
I will tell you,--I said.---When a given symbol which represents a thought has lain for a certain length of time in the mind, it undergoes a change like that which rest in a certain position gives to iron. [6]
He thought of you, of course, and Colonel Woodburn, and Beaton, and me at the foot of the table; and Conrad; and I suggested Kendricks: he's such a nice little chap; and the old man himself brought up the idea of Lindau. [8]
When I wrote you, I thought I had it; whereas I was only merely entering upon the initiatory difficulties of it. [5]
If I thought you would not understand what I feel, I could not love you as I do. [9]
I thought perhaps you would go round with me to see a pretty bad case. [4]
I knew that you were not mixed up in politics, but I also knew that you were an intimate friend of Jethro's, and I thought that you had been let into the secret of the woodchuck session. [9]
While I thought you were making your fortune (as you said you were) you were making yourself a beggar, eh? [12]
I thought--I thought you were amusing yourself. [9]
I thought maybe you was trying to hocus me again. [5]
I thought maybe you viewed the matter differently from other people. [5]
Once I thought you true, and this letter you send would have me still believe so. [11]
I always thought you took after old Major Gideon Withers. [6]
Ranulph, I want you to know that I am at least no worse than you thought me. [11]
Do you know--have you thought that very soon--by this time to-morrow--you will be Elizabeth Venters? [13]
Was it because you thought she deserved it, and that you had given her reason to expect it? [7]
H. What makes you think you thought you knew him? [5]
You smile as you think of my taking it for a fleshless human figure, when I saw its tube pointing to the sky, and thought it was an arm, under the white drapery thrown over it for protection. [6]
And I thought you the most constant of all. [9]
Suppose I told you that I, your daughter, thought there might be two sides to the political question that is agitating you, and wished in fairness to hear the other side, as I intended to tell you when you were less busy? [9]
And I thought you such a sensible, serious man. [11]
But--from the way you spoke, I should have thought nothing could have kept you away. [9]
And I thought you smiled and said: "Well done, good and faithful servant. [11]
If pride within you secretly abides That, forced by the elixir's charm, The Sooth You needs must speak--be wholly pure in thought, Despising not the teachings wise, of old; When Truth with equal earnestness was sought If speech be silver, silence then is gold! [10]
Judge Tileston died, you remember, within a month after he had his great ball, twelve year ago, and some thought it was in the natur' of a judgment. [6]
Why, I thought you never left your office until seven o'clock. [9]
And I thought you might be here. [9]
When I postponed you lately, I did it because I thought I should be cramped for money until January, but that has turned out to be an error, so I hasten to cut short the postponement. [5]
But, no, no, you have not thought well of me, or you would have known that every day I cared, every day I watched, and waited, and hoped--and believed! [11]
Only I thought you had struck out a new idea, and invented a scheme that was going to revolutionize the timeworn and ineffectual methods of the--" He stopped, and turned to Blake, who was happy now that another had taken his place on the gridiron. [5]
I thought perhaps you had heard of the Ninth Vermont. [4]
I thought that you had forgotten me. [9]
I wonder if you ever thought of the single mark of supremacy which distinguishes this tree from all our other forest-trees? [6]
I don't believe you even thought of it. [9]
I always thought you despised me," said Carnac. [11]
Mr. Carvel thought you dead, and we cannot prove undue influence by Grafton unless we also prove that it was he who caused your abduction. [9]
But I thought you dead by now, and--" "If you are disappointed," said I, "there is a way"; and I waved towards his men, then to Mr. Stevens and my own ambushed fellows. [11]
And we thought you could make him see this thing straight, if any man could. [9]
I thought of you as my faithful friend. [13]
And you thought you and your few superstitions were enough for her.--Ah, poor fool! [11]
I may teach you a very little directly, but I hope much more from the trains of thought I shall suggest. [3]
I have read you a few extracts, most of them of rather slight texture, and some of them, you perhaps thought, whimsical. [6]
Perhaps she might yet succeed in repairing the mischief she had done when she had allowed the emperor to sleep without giving one thought to her father. [10]
He did so, yet I thought it hurt his sense of dignity to be shifted to a bedroom. [11]
I heard that yesterday morning, and thought that the golden blessing which preceded it would last the dear saints only knew how long. [10]
If in seven years after marriage a man could buy a mattress and a sack of chaff to rest his head on, he thought himself as well lodged as a lord. [4]
Henceforth, whenever the yearning for the distant John seized upon her with special power, she thought of that night, and loaded the little sons near her with tokens of the tenderest love. [10]
Instead of the yearning for John, of which Wolf had spoken and she, blind fool, believed, he thought of him with petty fears of the claims by which he might injure his favoured brother. [10]
The entwined letters, Y. F., of the design were not, he thought, of a meaningless, frivolous daintiness, but stood for something. [9]
And then he wrote this: "'Sir, his Majesty has thought proper to order a new Commission of the Treasury to be made out, in which I do not see your name. [9]
I have not written a single line, and have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness. [5]
I thought of writing you, when you nearly won last autumn. [9]
When a realistic writer like Zola surprises his reader into a kind of knowledge he never thought of wishing for, he sometimes harms him more than he has any idea of doing. [6]
No wonder I'm wretched at the thought of your leaving me. [13]
They could neither wrestle, shoot, nor climb, so we gave them little thought, and anything like actual flirtation was unknown--we had so many better things in our heads. [10]
One of his wounds was considered quite dangerous, and it was thought by many that it would prove fatal. [5]
Bowers said he wouldn't serve on anybody's staff; and if anybody thought he could make him, let him try it. [5]
I thought you wouldn't object to a little advance on your 'Every Other Week' work till you kind of got started. [8]
They said you would, and I thought you would. [5]
He thought they would then place troops at his disposal, with which he intended to impose upon them by making a few successful sallies at first. [10]
Nadel thought he would take hold of it at one time, but he dropped it again. [8]
Some thought he would succeed, others that he would be a brilliant failure. [6]
I thought I would stick to it while the interest was hot--and I am mighty glad I did. [5]
He thought he would satisfy himself on that point; so he searched around till he found a small sandy spot with a little funnel-shaped depression in it. [5]
Tea we thought would revive him: he refused it. [4]
She thought it would restore her peace of mind forever if she could succeed in speaking to him for even one brief moment and telling him what a transformation his guilt had wrought in her ardent love and her whole nature. [10]
He thought he would rather die than touch it again. [5]
I thought I would question him a little myself. [5]
Heaven, she thought, would pour its favour upon her too lavishly if the report that Don John was to be appointed Governor of the Netherlands should be verified. [10]
We thought it would pass, but it stayed on. [11]
We thought you would not mind. [5]
And Caracalla?--No, she would not allow the contentment which filled her to be troubled by a thought of him. [10]
I thought he would never stir again, he look so long. [11]
I thought they would never go," said the countess, when she had seen her guests out. [2]
She thought they would move on as soon as the storm was over. [4]
He thought it would make a mighty strike. [5]
I thought I would like the translation best, because Greek makes me tired. [5]
I thought you would like it. [4]
I thought they would kill me. [9]
I thought I would just look around, meantime, in a quiet way, and make up my mind. [5]
I thought I would just give you a hint, as you are going to see Mr. Parr, that he is in rather a nervous state. [9]
I said I would if I had thought of it--which was true --but that I was so battered by that man that all my wit was knocked out of me--and so forth and so on, and got myself away, still mumbling. [5]
I thought I would have twelve dollars to, begin life with in America, but the American Consul took two of them for making a certificate that I was shipped on the steamer. [5]
Only, I never would have thought of--nitro-glycerine. [9]
Only yesterday he would have sought her without a second thought, but to-day Althea's declaration that he was the only man whom the daughter of Archias loved stood between him and his friend. [10]
Solomon's court fool would have scoffed at the thought of the young Galilean who dared compare the lilies of the field to his august master. [6]
Surely no one would have predicted when Ruth left Philadelphia that she would become absorbed to this extent, and so happy, in a life so unlike that she thought she desired. [5]
Austen thought he would have known him had he seen him on the street. [9]
A second's thought would have convinced every one that getting out was impossible, and that the only effect of a rush would be to crash people to death. [5]

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