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Example sentences for "cogitations"

Lexicographically close words:
cogitating; cogitatio; cogitation; cogitatione; cogitationes; cogitative; cogito; cognac; cognate; cognates
  1. This vague disjointed speech, the wayward visions of distemperature, struck the two others motionless, and set them on cogitations wandering and wild as meteors o'er a dreary wilderness.

  2. Whenever the Douglas got leisure to think at all, amid the hurry of his military duties, these cogitations preyed on his mind; and one night when they had thrown him into a deep reverie, the monk Benjamin was announced.

  3. In my cogitations concerning marriage with Dorothy Vernon, I had not at all taken into consideration her personal inclination.

  4. All these cogitations because a woman had entered his life uninvited!

  5. Her bitter cogitations were interrupted by a knock on the door.

  6. It was as the result of these cogitations that Koenig resolved to lend Borgert the sum he required, but to leave him in the belief that to do so it was necessary to touch the funds in his care.

  7. He ruminated and lugubriously pondered what had best be done in this unfortunate affair in order to end it with the least amount of scandal; but his cogitations were in vain.

  8. A step disturbed her cogitations at that moment, and Aunt Emily came into view.

  9. And there would be such eager, joyful cogitations in the bosoms of all the little males anxious to be off on their spring courting affairs.

  10. And the result of his cogitations was that added sternness which always came into his face when he was seriously troubled.

  11. You will be pining at many insufferable troubles, and a thousand several cogitations will be vexing your spirits at the chargeable maintenance of your Family.

  12. The girl looks at me a minute; and I can see these inaudible cogitations going on inside of her, as women will.

  13. I don't know what I was thinkin' about; but it never occurred to my cogitations that there wasn't any kids in Yellowhammer.

  14. They can't get their cogitations trained on anything but something to eat.

  15. I sat on a log and made cogitations on life and old age and the zodiac and the ways of women and all the disorder that goes with a lifetime.

  16. But these impious cogitations are to be cast from us for concerning these things we can determine nothing nor think aright.

  17. Such a one also attempts to ascend into heaven by his own cogitations without God as revealed in his Word, or without the revealed face of God for his guide.

  18. Chapter III The Coral Island--Our first cogitations after landing, and the result of them--We conclude that the island is uninhabited.

  19. Your cogitations seem to have taken a wrong road, and led you to a wrong conclusion.

  20. And at this juncture of his sad cogitations Dick forgot all about it, and fell asleep.

  21. And here the lawyer's cogitations became confused and misty.

  22. His step was slow, and his cogitations momentous.

  23. In that chain of resentful and selfish cogitations one idea followed another too rapidly to be checked.

  24. At this point of his cogitations Blythe became quite indignant with himself.

  25. Finally she was able to dismiss such cogitations and yield herself to the enjoyment of the day ahead.

  26. He became so immersed in cogitations which Louise could see were of the troubled sort that he seemed scarcely to listen to what she was saying.

  27. In the midst of his cogitations Mr. Puffington's pressing invitation occurred to his mind, and it appeared to be the very thing for him, affording him an immediate asylum within reach of the fair lady, should she be likely to die.

  28. In the hight of these woful cogitations her thoughts suddenly recurred to the prisoner in the gloomy dungeon beneath her.

  29. The night sky was not a whit more black than his spirit, and his sinister cogitations were chequered ever with palpitating points of fire.

  30. Of necessity, he soon met other cogitations less pleasant, and no less imperative.

  31. These were the subjects of the first night's cogitations after I was come home again, while the apprehensions which had so overrun my mind were fresh upon me, and my head was full of vapors.

  32. These thoughts took me up many hours, days, nay, I may say weeks and months: and one particular effect of my cogitations on this occasion I cannot omit.

  33. Let me present my young readers, from my notes, with the variously compounded cogitations of one of these quiet evenings.

  34. The mercy of God is immeasurable; the cogitations of men comprehend it not.

  35. Such as thy thoughts and ordinary cogitations are,' he says, 'such will thy mind be in time.

  36. Such as thy thoughts and ordinary cogitations are, such will thy mind be in time.

  37. All these cogitations passed through his mind, disjointedly, as the dinner progressed toward its end.

  38. The curse of speaking his thoughts aloud did not lie heavily upon him to-night, for these cogitations were made in silence, unmarked by any facial expression.

  39. And the cogitations of Richard, if written down in words, would have read like this: "Why should I defer a dénouement that will rejoice them all?

  40. Thus cantered the cogitations of Mr. Harley until, fetching up at his journey's end, he sent in his card to Storri.


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