As for the tale I told the neighbours," he went on--"it was the best thing I could think of.
In a moment she was in his arms, weeping out her pent-up tears on his breast, and he, stroking her soft hair, soothed her with every tender and gentle word he could think of.
Accustomed to this manner of life for some time, I became so entirely attached to music that I could think of nothing else.
From that moment I could think of no other pleasure, no other situation or happiness than taking this journey.
The metaphor irritated Philip, because it assumed for the speaker a romantic attitude and cast a slur upon the position which Philip instinctively felt had more to say for it than he could think of at the moment.
When he got hold of an idea it obsessed him, he could think of nothing else, and he had a more than common power to persuade himself of the reasonableness of what he wished to do.
Now that he could think it out more calmly he understood that in trying to force Mildred to love him he had been attempting the impossible.
Philip felt himself grow hot all over, for he would never have dared to do anything so familiar, and he could think of nothing on earth to say.
This city showed to their weary eyes a noble stretch of river, from the waters of which lofty piles of buildings rose abruptly; and Isabel, being left to guess where they were, could think of no other place so picturesque as Rochester.
Heedless of his action and his language, Mr. Rayburn could look at nothing, could think of nothing, but Mrs. Zant.
The only thing I could think of was to tell the young lady's aunt what I had seen and heard, and to plead with Miss Laroche herself to make peace between them.
I could think of nothing but Mr. Sax; I could only say, "Has he come?
This Mr Crummles did in the highest style of melodrama, pouring forth at the same time all the most dismal forms of farewell he could think of, out of the stock pieces.
He felt as if a simoom of rapture had struck him, and when she told him a dozen times that she loved him he could think of nothing to say but, "Say, this is great!
He could think of nothing to say to the headwaiter who offered him his choice of tables.
She was like the traditional prospector who struck it rich and, hastening to civilization, could think of nothing to order but "forty dollars' worth of pork and beans.
And the only thing I could think of was that something must have happened to them, and I just dashed over--and it was only your PIANO!
He frowned plaintively, wishing he could think of some polite way of asking her to go away.
So much too loving and too good for anyone that I could think of, was it possible that she was reserved to be the wife of such a wretch as this!
But I told Traddles, and Mr. and Mrs. Micawber, that before I could think of leaving, they must appoint a day when they would come and dine with me.
The most unlikely person I could think of,'--though his own face had suggested the allusion quite as a natural sequence.
I could think, that I might write more effectually to thee of the happy estate of them that come to God by Christ.
Could I do anything to make this advocate part of amends, I could think I might have benefit from him; but I have nothing.
He arranged at once for her passage, and, before he left, saw to every contrivance he could thinkof for her safety and comfort.
I will, sir," said Malcolm, and with the word began to tell him most things he could think of as bearing upon his mental history up to and after the time also when his birth was disclosed to him.
Religious people, she found, could thinkas boldly as she.
He had another jug of fruit juice and all the delicacies he could think of, also a big cake of ice, when he reached the woods.
When he could think of no further effort to make he drove to the hospital.
I told some college jokes, funny things that had happened in the neighbourhood, and everything of interest I could think up.
He avoided putting the doll into words because he could think of none that would make his meaning, his attachment, clear.
And so the next day I went to work, and cooked up every thing I could think of that would be good.
They had always found plenty to talk about before--but now nothing that he could think of seemed worth saying at a party.
But there was nothing that he doubted, and he was perfectly willing to repent if he could think of anything to repent of.
It would also be necessary, in order that I should not be disturbed, that the crow should be taken out of the roosters, but I could think of no process to do it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "could think" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
