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Example sentences for "she thought"

  • I wonder if it would be right for me to tell him that Leslie cares for Owen," she thought.

  • Mr. Howard was a Methodist to begin with," said Miss Cornelia, as if she thought he had not far to go from that to heresy.

  • I daresay I'll be putting them on too, when I've been married four years," she thought.

  • I'm so glad the sun will shine on me," she thought happily.

  • As she walked home, she thought of what she should say to her mother in favor of the candy project, for she felt sure her mother's pride would throw many obstacles in her path.

  • But her courage revived as she thought of the purpose that had brought her there, and she boldly rang the bell.

  • But Katy could not stop to argue the matter, though, as she walked along the street, she thought of what her mother had said, and tried to calm the excitement that agitated her.

  • As she thought of this, she was disposed, at least, to compromise with Miss Grace.

  • It was a degradation of even such a rude form of art as this to be treatad so grossly, she thought, and for the first time the family of Fitzpiers assumed in her imagination the hues of a melancholy romanticism.

  • She thought Tuesday, but would send the day before to let me know if it suited her.

  • They are going to keep company with my hair," she thought.

  • If I had only come home in a shabby dress, and tried to speak roughly, this might not have happened," she thought.

  • She thought of this fair-haired Florence and of Alfred; and, wondering about them, she dropped to sleep.

  • It was perhaps fortunate for her, she thought, that the climb up the slope cut the black's speed so she could manage him.

  • Stewart had been nothing to her, she thought, yet she had been proud of him.

  • The decision to go home came easily, naturally, she thought, as the result of events.

  • Well, it was about time she was asked to do something besides fetch books, she thought airily, and took a seat at Miss Sadie's desk.

  • Miss Sadie was not very neat for a librarian, she thought, wiping a finger across the desk, so she began to tidy a few things up.

  • Certainly, she thought he could be no more than thirty-three or thereabouts.

  • Well, she thought, something of that nature anyway.

  • She thought a chili was something cool, as its name imported, and was served with some.

  • Taking her accustomed drive, one day, she thought fit to order that "that little governess" should accompany her to Mudbury.

  • He must come to-morrow, she thought, but she never had the courage to speak a word on the subject to Rebecca; nor did that young woman herself allude to it in any way during the whole evening after the night at Vauxhall.

  • There was something very queer about the water, she thought, as every now and then the oars got fast in it, and would hardly come out again.

  • It can never get at me HERE,' she thought: 'it's far too large to squeeze itself in among the trees.

  • She took it, as if she thought it were her purse, and made a step or two forward; but finding her mistake, came back to where he had retired near me, and showed it to him.

  • Peggotty; very fond of him for it, if she thought so.

  • I wondered how I could have thought she looked white, or anything but burning red, when she answered that she had had it safe, a little while ago, she thought, but it was not worth looking for.

  • She thought it unsafe to stay where she was, and unnecessary too, as she had heard enough.

  • Woman-like, she thought of him with unmixed sadness; the irony of that fate seemed so cruel which allowed the fearless lion to succumb to the gnawing of a rat!

  • Suzanne's eyes as she sought those of Sir Andrew plainly told him that she thought that HE at any rate rescued his fellowmen from terrible and unmerited death, through a higher and nobler motive than his friend would have her believe.

  • She thought of all this, as she sat listening to the witty discourse of the Cabinet Minister, who, no doubt, felt that he had found in Lady Blakeney a most perfect listener.

  • She went about among the glass cases and racks where these things were displayed, and satisfied herself that the one she thought of was the proper one.

  • What a coward she was, she thought to herself.

  • She was not going to be a common shop-girl, she thought; they need not think it, either.

  • And with that, as he was now by the bedside, she caught him in her bare arms and shook with merry laughter and almost cried, she thought it so pretty of him.

  • It was an amour, she thought, with a young cousin to whom she was going to be married.

  • This arrangement ought to be both rich and tender, she thought, and would form a splendid background to her blonde vermeil-tinted skin.

  • She thought it a poor return for Walter's generous concession, and was disappointed in her friend.

  • She seemed agitated and even dismayed at my arrival, as if she thought I too was coming to accuse her.

  • There was nothing gained by this, after all, she thought; and a few minutes after boldly came into the house by the glass side-door.

  • Ah,' she thought inwardly, 'I shall have nothing to do with a man of this kind, though he is our visitor.

  • Still,' she thought, 'if I had a mamma at home I WOULD go back!

  • Elfride thought otherwise, so far as she thought at all.

  • After they had been alone for a little while, she thought of what she had resolved to ask him.

  • It would bring the goblins upon them to a certainty, she thought, to defy them in that way.

  • So she thought, but she had lost herself long ago.

  • This was the question he almost always put to her first after their meal together; and Irene had been waiting for it with some impatience, for now, she thought, she should be able to settle a question which constantly perplexed her.

  • And as for the vase of holy water, she thought that, in common politeness, her suitor ought to have fetched it himself, which he could have done without any risk at all.

  • She thought it might contain something to amuse her, and looked eagerly inside, but nothing was there save a handful of wool and two empty eggshells.

  • She thought, and thought, and at last an idea came into her head.

  • Her tears flowed faster as she thought of Stephen's joy in it, of his faithful labor, of the savings he had invested in it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    had long; must however; she ain; she began; she believed; she broke; she caught; she did; she died; she doesn; she felt; she gazed; she goes; she has; she herself; she lay; she left; she listened; she looked; she now; she ought; she reflected; she sighed; she turned; sheep ranch; shell shock