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Example sentences for "own mind"

  • The introduction of a Latin word, or of a word from any other language, into the title of an English novel is undoubtedly in bad taste; but after turning the matter much over in my own mind, I could find no other suitable name.

  • Turning it all over in my own mind, as I have constantly done in after years, the tragedy has always been uppermost.

  • But the matter would, I fear, be too long for this episode, and I am not sure that I have as yet got the rules quite settled in my own mind.

  • Previous to this conversation, I was uneasy at the state of my own mind, and particularly at what I suppose to be the state of Mr. Henley's; and this uneasiness is at present very much increased.

  • Your last letter is this moment come to hand, and has strongly revived trains of ideas that of late have repeatedly passed through my own mind.

  • And my own mind is so affected, so oppressed as it were by crowds of ideas, that I do not yet know whether this were an accident to be wished, or even whether I have entirely acted as I ought.

  • The ideas I would desire to convey are clear enough in my own mind, but I must confess that I feel a great difficulty in placing them so forcibly and so clearly before my readers as I could desire.

  • The impressions I have on this interesting subject are clear enough in my own mind, but they are difficult to explain, and I fear I have but ill expressed myself so as to be understood by my readers.

  • How often declared, that I did not think I could possibly deserve my Pamela, till I could shew her, in my own mind, a purity as nearly equal to hers, as my past conduct would admit of!

  • As I drove along, I cast about in my own mind for a suitable companion for Evadne, someone who would vary the monotony for her when I had to be out.

  • There is in my own mind an imperative monitor which urges me on always into competition with other minds.

  • I try always to keep my own mind in one attitude, to keep it filled for ever with holy and beautiful thoughts.

  • I am clear in my own mind that, as an essential factor in the maintenance of peace in the future, we must have universal military training after this war, and I shall send a special message to the Congress on this subject.

  • What form these changes should take I do not think it desirable now to suggest, even if they were well defined in my own mind.

  • He took it so beautiful, and he has match-makers a-besettin' him so much, I dare presoom to say he mistrusted what I wuz up to in my own mind.

  • From that time I drew, in my own mind, a clear distinction between the doctrine of circumstances and Fatalism; discarding altogether the misleading word Necessity.

  • It was of no common importance to me, at this period, to be able to digest and mature my thoughts for my own mind only, without any immediate call for giving them out in print.

  • All I wish to say is that I am old enough by this time to know my own mind, and that my mind is made up.

  • Whatever misgivings I may feel in my own mind, I will say nothing, and do nothing, adverse to your wishes.

  • I will merely say that I don't give up your cause as utterly lost, until the conviction now impressed on my own mind is proved to be wrong.

  • The result on my own mind is this: If you are still at Aldborough when that letter from Zurich reaches Mrs. Lecount, all the pains we have taken will have been pains thrown away.

  • It would be more satisfactory to my own mind, Lecount.

  • Now I have nothing except the resources of my own mind, and the consciousness of having acted not ungenerously.

  • Whether the work proves useful to India or not, it has been of great use, I feel and know, to my own mind.

  • I tried to go over what you said, in my own mind, but I couldn't seem to make it.

  • I thought a great deal about you when I was away, and I went over our talks in my own mind a great many times.

  • I've argued annihilation up to this point and that, and almost proved it to my own mind; but there's always some point that I can't quite get over.

  • I read thy remarks, my endeared sister, on the present state of things amongst us, with much interest, from having had corresponding feelings frequently raised in my own mind in this day of general excitement on religious subjects.

  • I do not fear lest any one should think that I say this ostentatiously for the sake of encouraging you, while in my own mind I am differently affected.

  • Now, I have taken the liberty of totting up, in my own mind, some of your earnings.

  • To my own mind, all this worry was much ado about nothing.

  • I became a "hobbyist" on pronunciation, enunciation, purity of voice, phrasing and getting the thought of my own mind in the best and quickest possible way into the minds of others.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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