We had less distance to go than they, that's true, but they moved I doubt not three feet to our one, so that I could not help thinking we had a poor chance of escaping, especially as Billy could use only one arm.
I could not help thinking it a little unlucky that the mountain-top had been for some time clear of smoke, which, indeed, was perhaps the reason why the men had ventured once more to make the voyage.
He could not help thinking that if he had in him the artistic temperament (he hated the phrase, but could discover no other) he would feel beauty in the emotional, unreasoning way in which they did.
It startled him at first, but hecould not help thinking of it, and in the constant rumination over it he found his only escape from the wretchedness of his present state.
Under the circumstances he could not help thinkingit greedy.
I could not help thinking that O'Brien was very severe upon the poor lad, and I expostulated with him afterwards.
I could not help thinking it singular that he should select a portion in which, for divine reasons, a lie was crowned with success and reward.
The sense of the rest he perverted as he went on with such surprising facility that I could not help thinking he had been at some pains to burlesque the performance.
I could not help thinkingthat he looked benevolent enough to pardon Judas Iscariot just at that moment, though his features can knot themselves up pretty, formidably on occasion.
He could not help thinking that Mr. Bradshaw believed that Myrtle Hazard would eventually come to apart at least of this inheritance.
I could not help thinkingof Shelley's "maiden With white fire laden.
And I could not help thinking what a good thing it would be to draw out the present writer upon his favorite borderland between the spiritual and the material.
I could not help thinking about my aunt just then, but I said nothing, and it was Uncle Joe who began again about the parrot.
It was a long task, the emptying of those cases, even to get to the end of the birds, and I could not help thinking, as day after day crept by, what a wonderfully patient collector my Uncle Richard must have been.
He spoke such pretty broken English, I could not help thinking of Thaddeus of Warsaw, and the Hungarian Brothers, and Santo Sebastiani; and while I was busy picturing his past life to myself, he had bowed me out of the room.
He said he could not help thinking of a passage in Dickens, which spoke of a chorus in which every man took the tune he knew best, and sang it to his own satisfaction.
I could not help thinking, as I watched them, what splendid light cavalry they would make, for the defence of the country against their encroaching neighbours, or mounted police, or irregular cavalry for any purpose.
I observed, with some doubt in my tone, for I could not help thinking of the ferocious countenance of the man in whose power we had left them.
I could not help thinking of my friend, the cayman, who would probably have most largely benefited by the success of his attempt.
I could not help thinking to myself, here stands the man who overthrew Louis Napoleon, and here is he who once ruefully said, "The lives of eighty thousand human beings would have been saved were it not for me.
I could not help thinking of that beautiful custom in certain parts of India, where at funerals a vacant place is left in the procession for the dead one who is supposed to be invisibly walking along with them.
I could not help thinking of him and Shelley and Shelley's wife, sitting out there on the veranda nights, telling ghost stories.
I, however, could not help thinking that a man's humour is often uncontroulable by his will.
Mrs. James had come up from Sutton to help Carrie; so I could not help thinking it unreasonable that she should require the entire attention of Sarah, the servant, as well.
I could not help thinking of "Jackson Freres" at three-and-six!
I could not help thinking (as I told her) that half the pleasures of life were derived from the little struggles and small privations that one had to endure at the beginning of one's married life.
I could not help thinking what a noble gentleman Mr. Perkupp is.
As she stopped again, I could not help thinking what a tale of strange plotting the casual conversation suggested.
I could not help thinking of the contrast between her looks now and the photograph in my pocket.
As I was whirled through the darkness by the night-express which was to convey me to Calais I could not help thinking of all that had occurred.
It was so cold that I could not sleep for some time, and as I pressed and pressed the bedclothes round me I could not help thinking of the jolly life some girls had, and even a few tears rolled down my cheeks.
I could not help thinkingof the words of Coleridge in that weird poem, "The Ancient Mariner.
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