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Example sentences for "she reflected"

  • It will require some nerve," she reflected, looking at the narrow planks, the foaming green water.

  • Of course, there is the fear that they might be robbed," she reflected.

  • This would be, she reflected, the quiet, dignified, lady-like thing to do.

  • I don't see a round table anywhere," she reflected.

  • Has a nasty suspicious mind," she reflected, "and a nasty jealous disposition.

  • He was not handsome, she reflected, but surely there had never been keener or pleasanter gray eyes, and a mouth so strong when it was in repose, so honest when it smiled.

  • A lot of women and children," she reflected, "and nobody drinking tea anyway, this weather!

  • Linda, she reflected, had had seventeen years--had had something nearer twenty-five years of it.

  • She reflected, too, of the men she had known, and especially of Arthur Fenton.

  • If he consulted her, she reflected, she might present the pathetic, touching story which Ninitta had told her, but she had plainly no pretext for forcing her feelings upon her master unsought.

  • In a moment we shall all be together again," she reflected.

  • She reflected in her terror: "I asked for this, and I've got it!

  • She reflected in her terror: "If I don't begin right off, he will be asking me to begin, and that will be worse than ever.

  • She reflected, contrite: "This won't help her to sleep!

  • She reflected: "How strange that the dreaded scene has now actually begun!

  • But this poor young man lost from the Arabian Nights must live," she reflected, eyeing the salt-and-pepper suit with secret horror.

  • She reflected, with a vague smile: "I must go and restore the appearance of happiness to that poor phantom downstairs.

  • Here, she reflected, was the quintessence of earthly beauty inextricable from the quintessence of horror; here was the source of all that she had trusted elsewhere in countless perfidious disguises and refinements.

  • Lilla felt a twinge of compunction, as she reflected: "Who in this town except myself would ever take Arabic lessons!

  • And, turning wearily back toward the house, she reflected that if she had been fatally weak he had been fatally strong, and that, after all, those two antithetical defects were strangely similar.

  • She reflected in what a sad case would be humanity, if there were no loving Father to welcome the bruised and weary traveller, arrived at the end of life's pilgrimage, with loving words or healing sympathy.

  • He had certainly insulted her, she reflected; but his conduct was, perhaps, excusable under the circumstances in which he had found her.

  • She reflected that it was in these very rooms that Charlie Perigal had read her piteous little letters from London, and from where he probably penned his lying replies.

  • If we were not so poor I'd go to France," she reflected, "but how could they possibly do without the hundred dollars a month I can earn?

  • He is the only man who looks at her as if she were a human being, not an angel," she reflected.

  • Perhaps, after all, there was a design working through it, she reflected, as she recovered her sprightliness, and Providence had arranged the case to meet her necessities.

  • Indoors herself, partaking of tea with old Mrs. Butterworth, she reflected that it is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life.

  • Nothing ever happens to me," she reflected, as she entered the Piazza Signoria and looked nonchalantly at its marvels, now fairly familiar to her.

  • She reflected a moment, and then said, laughing: "Do you know that you're right?

  • She reflected on what the sarcastic Crowley had said when he told her that in that region she was among he-men.

  • She reflected again on the character which had been given this man by Rufus Craig, and remembered more vividly what she had written about him for the guidance of the Vose-Mern agency.

  • Her association with the cynical business of the agency and her knowledge of the ethics of Mern had been undermining the foundations of her own innate sense of what was inherently right, she reflected, taking account of stock.

  • Possibly, she reflected resentfully, he had other calls to make and did not want her company.

  • Life isn't made up of perfect hours," she reflected.

  • At least, she reflected, when, having gained the saddle, he brought his horse abreast of hers, his seat was good.

  • She had two things, at least, to be glad of, she reflected, as she dressed next morning.

  • She reflected as she walked slowly down the hall that this new trouble, was, at least, not of her making.

  • How good it was, she reflected happily, to know that this time she would go East, not as a lonely outlander, but as one whose place awaited her.

  • Why should he ask to be made thankful, she reflected.

  • I wonder," she reflected, "if all men are that blind, or only the heroic or unimaginative.

  • It is true," she reflected, "we have drifted apart.

  • And these people, she reflected bitterly, were her friends--the only ones she had.

  • It was on such a night, she reflected, that Imrie.

  • If he was acting deliberately, she reflected, he was acting not unwisely.

  • She could love Imrie the man, she reflected, as she walked slowly into the house.

  • It was an unusually effective party, she reflected, as they rose, leaving the men to their cigars and coffee, and the cause of its success was plain.

  • No, she reflected appraisingly, he had not changed.

  • She reflected, a puzzled frown coming to her forehead.

  • But, she reflected, if she did not love Hayden, she respected him, she was proud of him; he represented all that was best and most desirable in her present life.

  • Only a big man could be as natural as that, she reflected.

  • She knew that she could trust him to be a gentleman; but being a gentleman, she reflected, did not necessarily keep one from breaking a woman's heart.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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