His first impulse had been to blurt out the news, but on second thought he had decided not to.
His first impulse had been to keep on until he could come out directly in the rear of the cabin, but on second thought he had decided that it would be wiser to return by the same way that he had left and get his rifle.
Sparrer's first impulse was to spring the trap, but on second thought he decided to leave it alone.
Half-minded to stop him, Banneker took a second thought.
On second thought, he rebaited the window-ledge with a can of Special Juicy Apricot Preserve.
Now it had never cost me a second thought to travel as a pedlar when making my escape from Scotland, but this wishy-washy nonentity of a name annoyed me beyond measure.
Money is the one anxiety which seldom causes me a second thought.
Do not imagine that her conditions cost me a second thought, nor the declaration of her future intentions a pang.
The escort was not a little disturbed at his sudden recognition by the guard, though, on second thought, saw security in Itzalmo's perfect disguise.
A second thought, however, would dispel the momentary delusion.
It was only for a moment, for, on second thought, he decided to answer the summons, but did so with the gravest apprehension.
He even ran a few steps, as though tempted to give the note of alarm that would send them all plunging downward from the exposed point of pasturage; but, on second thought, resisted the temptation.
He was inclined at first to try to shout, in the expectation that those in camp would come to their assistance the faster; but, on second thought, he realized it would only be wasting his breath.
The man at bay opened his mouth as though tempted to declare that he had had nothing to do with such a base affair; but, on second thought, he stifled his intended denial.
On second thought I am inclined to believe the Thunder Lizard did not flourish in the Stone Age; but if you like the simile as much as I like it we will just let it stand.
On second thought I judge I had better make this comparison in the singular number --there would not have been room in him for more than one canary.
On second thoughthe concluded that he had been wrong about the speed with which things found their way into newspaper columns.
But now it was not provocative of a second thought.
A'm gladder than you know-" Eleanor did not wait for any second thought.
The fugitives had reached the far shore of the lake, landed and were riding off when a second thought seemed to bring one man back to the water's edge.
He is a little awkward, and over-blunt at moments, but nothing to which one would give a second thought.
Not criminal sentence--though, on second thought, there's not much difference.
But on second thought he sat down on his window-sill, and, filling his pipe, tried to draw conclusions as well as smoke from it.
Indeed, for some short space I thought him mad; yet, on second thought, I saw the method in his madness.
A lucky turn for me," I said; and then at second thought I would deny the saying, though not for him to hear.
Some may have the semblance of being totally devoid of sense, but, on second thought, they'll truly be seen to be full of sense and feeling.
Massacred and starved an entire population into submission, innocents slaughtered without a second thought.
Probably why he was so successful: he could send his men off to the slaughter without a second thought.
On the third day he put in a telegram that had evidently something of the same point as the stray sovereigns--a message that was in the first place concocted and that on a second thought he took back from her before she had stamped it.
After asking for the stamps he asked, quite as a second thought, for a postal-order for ten shillings.
The calculation was not abstruse, but our intense observer required a moment more to make it, and this gave her ladyship time for a second thought.
A more experienced horseman would, no doubt, have chosen the latter course without a second thought.
He had made up his mind as to his comrade without a second thought.
Without a second thought he set off at a run to warn Diane of the visit.
He took it for a deserted shack merely, and gave it no second thought.
He took the glass out of Pete's hand, and without a second thought, with only a smile of faith and confidence, he raised it to his lips and drank.
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