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Example sentences for "only thought"

  • The knights, on the contrary, only thought of honour and the cause of Christ; and although the treaty was ruinous to the Crusaders, they bore back the news to their companions in arms with the greatest joy and satisfaction.

  • A great number of them, persuaded that they had done enough for the cause of Christ, only thought of embarking to return into Europe.

  • This let me know that the rascal was suspicious of something; but I was crafty enough to take no notice of him, and so far from giving up my plea, I only thought how I could put it on good train.

  • This circumstance put an end to some of my hopes, and I only thought of amusing myself with my friends, as if I had never been at Naples before.

  • I was certain that the husband I wanted would be found, and I only thought of finishing the carnival gaily, and of contriving to find my purse ready for a case of emergency.

  • They said cruel things to each other: the result was that Christophe, who, till then, had been hesitating, only thought of hastening his preparations for his departure.

  • But as Christophe never read it, he only thought of the boldness of its ideas, of which he was not afraid, and not of the baseness of its tone, which would have repelled him.

  • It is all right; I only thought--" He walked over to the window and remained standing there.

  • I only thought it might accelerate matters to have a little assistance, so to speak--a brother in arms.

  • I only thought it a little disembodied, so to speak, somewhat ethereal.

  • I forgot her age, position, the risk I ran of beaters coming, and everything else; I only thought of how to ease myself.

  • When older, I only thought of her when there, or when my memory ran back on the quims I had touched in my then short career.

  • But our pleasure came on, and in our joint delight we only thought of the lubricity of our position.

  • I only thought you'd have had a drop of wather or two whin the skoilight got adrift, and we've rigged up tarpaulins over it and battened it down comfortably, so that ye'll not be throubled any more by the say washing down.

  • I only thought we might secure some more of the timber work, as there doesn't seem to be a particle of wood on the island.

  • When I came to a place I only thought of eating, and when I left it I only thought of walking.

  • I beg your pardon, I only thought, in case you were wishing for some one, that Miss Williams will be at liberty shortly.

  • I only thought he was an old man that wanted amusing--.

  • But he did not recoil, he had not done so even when he thought himself lost; he only thought of finishing the job as speedily as possible, and entered the bed-room.

  • I only thought you could not understand.

  • I only thought that--that--naturally perhaps you saw him worse than he is.

  • I only thought of you once, and that was always.

  • And my only thought was of love for her, eternal love.

  • I only thought of those frozen hands and feet, and how to get life into them once more.

  • I only thought of her; I heard her no longer.

  • Then I only thought of getting them out of the way, as they were hindering my onward gallop.

  • I only thought of her safety--that she was rescued from pain and peril, perhaps from death; and the thought was a gleam of joy.

  • I only thought of overtaking the fugitive, and aiding her in her flight.

  • He only thought of when the Forward, free at last, should resume her bold course.

  • And they, always half starved on shore, only thought of making up for it when at sea.

  • As he entered his room, he only thought of one happiness, that of taking up again his favourite book.

  • But one league from Verrieres, where he left so much that was dear to him, he only thought of the happiness of seeing the capital of a great military town like Besancon.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "only thought" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cole polytechnique; deceitful phantom; developed from; history proper; only answer; only answered; only begotten; only five; only for; only four; only give; only laughed; only more; only natural; only one; only said; only sixteen; only some; only the; only they; only thirty; only three; only through; only wanted; only wish; stopped short