True, my first impulse was that I couldn't and wouldn't accept; also, I told myself it was absurd to imagine they would consider me.
I imagine this is not uncommon among married people,--this unhealable break in their routine of association when one departs.
Who, feeling upon him the living hand of love, was ever able to imagine that hand other than alive?
I can't imagine what possesses these men of property with interests throughout the country.
But I could imaginehim posing there in his night shirt, the anger against me snapping in his eyes.
Mr. Heatherbloom tried to imagine what she would look like in--so to say, a very complaisant mood; not with flaming glance full of aversion and scorn!
She tried to imagine what she would have been, if she, too, had been born to a golden cradle.
Do you imagine that a state can subsist and not be overthrown in which the decisions of law have no power, but are set aside and overthrown by individuals?
And you may further imagine that his instructor is pointing to the objects as they pass and requiring him to name them--will he not be in a difficulty?
The error in your conception of him was very natural, and as I imagine from what you say, has arisen out of a confusion of love and the beloved--this made you think that love was all beautiful.
I THE IMAGE OF THE CAVE[57] After this, I said, imagine the enlightenment or ignorance of our nature in a figure.
If youimagine that some beloved object keeps me here you are wrong, like a good many other people.
You canimagine how eager I was to hear Herz and Hiller play; but they are nothing to Kalkbrenner.
You cannot imagine what a beautiful villa he lives in; I was there a week ago with Hummel.
It is more easy to imagine than to describe the delight of this meeting.
Imagine to yourself perfection unconscious of its own merit.
I can scarcely imagine that the library in Bologna can be larger and more systematically arranged than this one.
Indeed, I believe it was exquisite coquetry which made on me the impression of naivete; for one can scarcely imagine anyone being so natural unless acquainted with all the arts of coquetry.
Do you imagine I would ask you to do it if it were?
But it's easy to imaginethe reasoning of the money-grinders in such cases.
In the man's agreeable presence, Larcher felt that to imagine the coincidences anything but coincidences was absurd.
And you can imagine what a revelation it was to me when I heard your talk.
You can imagine how eagerly I started to read the item about it, and what my feelings were when I saw that it was immediately to be produced by the very actor to whom I had talked of sending it, and that the author was George A.
But he used to imagine--I give him credit for really imagining it--he used to imagine he had written that play.
He was no sooner seated in an elevated car, and out of sight of the lodging-house, than he began to imagine his friend had by that time arrived home.
You can't imagine how refreshing it is, in the midst of the lonely grind, to have you come in and brighten things up.
It is hard to imagine just what destroying the trees and ground cover can do to fertile land and to a living stream, but a visit to Terlingua Abaja shows you.
Imagine Mesa de Anguila’s talus slopes misted with grass, Santa Elena Overlook smelling garden sweet and so matted with little low-lying flowers that you cannot put your foot down without crushing dozens.
Imagine the gravel wastes of the Castolon floodplain awash with flowers—solid carpets of little white and yellow and purple blossoms on either side of the road.
Imagine if you can how Tornillo Flat must have looked at the turn of the century with fine grasses bending under the wind and the pronghorns flashing their rump patches in sudden semaphore.
To look at the ruins of Terlingua and Study Butte today, it is hard to imagine that 2,000 souls lived and worked just west of the park.
The best thing I could do was to let it alone, and allow her to imagine the scheme had been abandoned.
Reading" lasted that evening until ten o'clock, and to this day I cannot imagine how it ever came to an end even then.
It rather pleased me to imaginethe sensation which his news would occasion not only down stairs among Mrs Nash's lodgers, but also at the office.
Well, I suppose you don't exactly imagine you've anything to be proud of over last night's performances?
Reader, as I curled myself up in bed that night you may imagine I had little enough cause to be proud of myself!
I imagine this to be the cause why she looks on me with such disdain, and, whenever you are not witness of her words, is so keen in satyrical reflections.
It is natural for every one to imagine whatever they like is agreeable to others.
Are you unable to imagine this double consciousness at work within me, flowing on like two parallel streams which never mingle their waters and blend into a common hue?
Once he said to me, "Can you imagine any cause of ill-feeling this woman has against her mistress, who is so devoted to her?
Do you then imaginethat the Irishman has imposed on me in the latter period of our connection as well as in the beginning of it?
I myself did not imagine that the revolution would break out so soon, although I knew that event to be drawing near.
I should imagine it is for joy of heart that they still have cause to laugh!
You can't imagine how hard it was for one who hasn't the habit!
If you could imagine those sunset clouds yonder turned marble, you would have Venice as she is at sunset.
It is, above all else, amazing that so manyimagine they are going to get any satisfaction out of what they leave by will.
It is natural that every man should magnify the circle of the world in which he is active and imagine that all outside of it is comparatively unimportant.
When such capers were cut at Whitehall, we may imaginewhat the revelry was in the Bankside taverns.
While the subscribes acquires no right to dictate to the newspaper, we can imagine an extreme case when he should have his money back which had been paid in advance, if the newspaper totally changed its character.
I do not imagine that the leaders who preach socialism, who live by agitation and not by labor, really desire to overturn the social order and bring chaos.
Just imagine our kiddies in the workhouse school getting a whole pat-a-cake to eat!
The waverers among them were shamed into staying by little thrusts like these:-- "Some of you chaps imagine you can only be men by taking the gargle.
For the nonce, however, I imagine that he contented himself with writing out Deeds and Proclamations for the more important Malcontents, of whom apparently my Lord Douglas Wychwoode was one.
I could not very well imagine how such great Personages would act under the Circumstances that had come about.
So many People plotted these days, so many Conspiracies were hatched then blown upon, that I for one imagine that Mr. Baggs had a hand in several of these and was paid high Fees for his share in them.
You may imagine how this Idea staggered me at first--aye!
I imagine that my Lord Stour's reply must have been an unsatisfactory one to his Friend, for the latter uttered an exclamation of supreme impatience.
Just before she went with him, however, her Ladyship turned, and I imagine sought to attract Mr. Betterton's attention.
She tried to wrench it from his Grasp, but I imagine that his hold on her wrist was so strong that she could not free herself.
I imagine that at one time the Thought flashed as Lightning through his Mind that this was but the culminating Outrage, wherewith his Enemy meant to pillory him and his Bride before a jeering Public.
To imagine that the 'powerful rhyme' of the second line refers to the sonnet itself, is to mistake Shakespeare's meaning entirely.
As there are few Scots who have not half-a-crown in their pockets, you will perhaps imagine that Friend Donald paid the money, glad to get out of the scrape so cheaply.
When he recognises a tourist as a compatriot, you may imaginewhat a wry face he makes.
Do notimagine that the father ran the least risk of losing the capital: he took a mortgage on the house.
One may easily imagine the ascendency which this woman must have had over those who came in contact with her.
It is impossible to imagine a more romantic sight in the midst of a large modern city.
Do not imagine that he is going to take up the three bottles of brandy, rum, and kirschwasser, and pour himself out some of their contents.
You may imagine whether the Devil has a hard time of it in Scotland.
You may imagineif Donald, who had sniffed a good day's work, meant to give up his bread and butter without a struggle.
Here and there I heard sermons that were enough to send one to sleep on one's feet; you can imagine the effect upon an audience who had to hear them in a sitting posture.
But I imagine hers, in its normal state, to be serene, and disposed to be cheerful.
Imagine this man, and then do not be astonished when I tell you he is a Chillingly.
What business of yours could Miss Travers imagine I wished to know about?
Imagine a number of striking clocks placed in a row, each with only an hour hand, and with only the striking apparatus retained.
We may imagine that such external decorations of the churches, where a few solemn figures told almost as shadows on the golden background brightly reflecting the sun, must have been even more glorious than the imagery of their interiors.
Imagine now that the disks B and C also receive arms of length l from the centres of the disks to points T1 and T2, and in the direction of the axes of the wheels.
Dost thou think, however, that they foolishly imagine that that thing is best deserving of all estimation which they may consider most desirable?
Imagine the effect which such flattering exclamations must have on a simple mother, already too much flattered by her own heart.
On the same principle it is that I never suffer my children to join in the conversation of grown people, or foolishly imagine themselves on an equality with them, because they are permitted to prattle.
We can imagine nothing more charitable and more tender.
We modern Parisians in general are much mistaken in regard to the ground which we imagine it has gained.
For, as it is impossible they can be always blind to our motives, it is natural for them to imagine that we have some reason for contradicting them, of which, they are ignorant.
In the first place, I distinctly imagine that quantity which the philosophers commonly call continuous, or the extension in length, breadth, and depth that is in this quantity, or rather in the object to which it is attributed.
Now imagine that in the lower half of this triangle, where the business blocks were, every object has been utterly swept away with the exception of perhaps seven scattered buildings.
Imagine that before the flood this triangle was thickly covered with houses.
From the débris left in the river and on the sides you can imagine what an immense dam it was that was formed, and just how it happened that the rivers turned back on themselves.
Imagine Niagara, or a greater even than Niagara, falling upon an ordinary collection of brick and wooden houses.
Imagine that in the upper portion of this triangle the pathway of destruction has been clearly cut.
Can you imagine it swelling into a mighty sea, that puny thing, that is smiling in its glee over the awful havoc it has created?
Can you imagine that all that immense strip was covered with stores, business houses and dwellings?
They had seen but a small portion of the awful flood, but enough to allow them to imagine the rest.
Supposing the Stamp Act continued and was enforced, do you imagine that ill-humour will induce the Americans to give as much for worse manufactures of their own, and use them preferably to better ones of yours?
It is difficult to imagine how "winter" could surprise passengers crossing the ocean between the 6th of September and the 9th of November--a season of the year much chosen even nowadays for crossing the Atlantic.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imagine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
