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Example sentences for "second thoughts"

  • On second thoughts I tore the letter up and sent Mr. Bennett a postcard asking him to favour the undersigned with a call at 10.

  • So on second thoughts I lean to a different inscription.

  • No, on second thoughts my brother is perhaps--well, anyhow, Sidney is very dear to me.

  • On second thoughts, too, it had struck her that she might be serving Merthyr in disengaging Emilia; and undoubtedly she served Georgiana by giving her a warning.

  • She laughed and blushed with humorous satisfaction; and, on second thoughts, he changed his opinion, telling her that he wished he could win his freedom as she had done.

  • And, on second thoughts, how could he have spoken thus to the point, when they had never previously dealt in anything save sentimental implications?

  • A horrid notion of Jones's purpose crept through my mind at first; but on second thoughts I easily saw this wasn't the occasion for him to choose, if he had really meant ill, and accordingly there was more the reason to trust him.

  • See, Granny, he said, but on second thoughts he refused to show his chipped possessions.

  • At first, I felt I ought to cable; but if I did, they might send at once, and on second thoughts I decided it wasn't necessary to go to the expense.

  • However, when on second thoughts, I tried to get out of my promise, by hinting that I might have to go home, Carolyn seemed ready to cry and said that if I threw her over it would spoil everything.

  • On second thoughts, might it not be some good spirit the hermit had employed to keep the cell for him, perhaps the hermit himself?

  • On second thoughts I believe there was something more than bitterness in this.

  • These five chapters appeared, under the general title My Thoughts and my Second Thoughts, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, October, 1906.

  • These five chapters appeared, under the general title My Thoughts and my Second Thoughts, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, September, 1906.

  • These seven chapters appeared, under the general title My Thoughts and my Second Thoughts, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, November, 1906.

  • But on second thoughts he thought the kindest thing would be to let the poor fellow have his cry out, so he turned over and tried not to hear it; and while trying he fell asleep.

  • But on second thoughts, his amusement changed to wrath, not quite unmixed with dismay.

  • On second thoughts, the bird appeared disposed to come of himself.

  • They prepared to go to the church; the vicar, on second thoughts, mounting his coal-black mare to avoid exerting his foot too much at starting.

  • Well, McShane, do as you please; but on second thoughts, I will speak to the countess to-morrow.

  • On second thoughts, he resolved to apply to Mrs Chopper, as he did not exactly know where to go for them, and was afraid that he would be imposed upon.

  • No," resumed he, at last; "on second thoughts I cannot do it.

  • And with money, which is quite as good; so when I returned and proved myself alive, I was reinstated, and had all my arrears paid up.

  • On second thoughts, I was afraid to do it.

  • On second thoughts, I prefer going back to my own writing again; it is so uninteresting to copy other people's writing.

  • On second thoughts, I won't destroy my Journal; I will only put it away.

  • On second thoughts, James, you had better light a candle in the next room--in case.

  • But Wheeler looked puzzled, and Bassett himself, on second thoughts, said he should like advice of counsel.

  • On second thoughts he took out the last paragraph but one; and having rewritten the letter he dispatched it immediately, and in some excitement awaited the issue.

  • Well, on second thoughts, a bishop was absurd.

  • But although the smouldering maternal instinct was strong enough in her to lead her to quash her husband's conjecture, she was not disposed on second thoughts to be more candid than necessary.

  • And, on second thoughts, he discovered him to be worthy of the great man's golden eloquence.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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