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Example sentences for "think the"

  • To fulfil your request, I ought to tell you what I think the weakest, and what the best, part of your book.

  • Looking back over my letter, it really expresses so feebly all I think about you and your noble book that I am half ashamed of it; but you will understand that, like the parrot in the story, "I think the more.

  • I think the "Parthenon" is right, that you will leave the public in a fog.

  • I can hardly understand his brief note, but this is I think the upshot.

  • I don't think the Venus IS so handsome, since you press me.

  • Much as I like those most unassuming, manly, unpretending gentlemen, I have to own that I think the heroes of another writer, viz.

  • I think the composition in some of Jan's pictures amounts to the sublime, and look at them with the same delight and admiration which I have felt before works of the very highest style.

  • I think the loathsomeness of perdition must consist in association with the depraved and wicked.

  • Perhaps I refine too much, but I own I think the non-appearance of a principal actor till his part opens is an advantage.

  • I think the same of its good things; if they do not procure amusement or comfort, I doubt they only produce the contrary.

  • I heartily wish you may not find the pontiff what I think the order, and what I know him, if you mean the high priest of Ely.

  • My children's timeless deaths can scarce be said for untimely; nor should I choose to employ children's as a plural genitive case, which I think the s at the end cannot imply.

  • As I am very sincere, Sir, in what I say, I will with the same integrity own, that in one or two places of your book I think the criticisms on me are not well founded.

  • However, I think the sight of you, in the place that should have been his, has broken his nerve for this day, and our side may win yet.

  • I think the frost is to hold," said Gavin.

  • We were afraid Mr. Harley's wound would turn to a fistula; but we think the danger is now past.

  • I pity poor Mrs. Manley; but I think the child is happy to die, considering how little provision it would have had.

  • No boats on Sunday, never: so I was forced to walk, and so hot by the time I got to Ford's lodging that I was quite spent; I think the weather is mad.

  • And there were moments in which he was tempted to think the same of himself; bitter moments of cynical world-wisdom, in which he scoffed at himself for having been led to play the part he had played for these last eight months.

  • I am not disposed to think that he had any hand in the doing of the deed; but I think the he has a knowledge of her guilt.

  • Well, I think the tragedy is passing into a farce.

  • I think the pride or ostentation of the Italians in general takes a more laudable turn than that of other nations.

  • I think the idea of suicide was carried out rather neatly.

  • I think the supposition is rather a far-fetched one, but Harton bases it upon a book which Goring left on deck, and which he picked up and glanced over.

  • I think the ice is lying closer than it did yesterday.

  • You will not wait till he asks; you will speak first, and tell him that I am gone on the lookout, because certain expressions of our host have given me reason to think the road is not safe.

  • Treville, who could not fail to think the manner in which d'Artagnan had left him a little cavalier.

  • My word," said de Winter, rising, "I think the hussy is going mad!

  • Happily for both of us, it was not until Charley was safe in bed again and placidly asleep that I began to think the contagion of her illness was upon me.

  • I say that I think the times is come to a end at last.

  • I hope you won't think the worse of me for having made these little appointments at Miss Flite's, where I first went with you, because I like the poor thing for her own sake and I believe she likes me.

  • I think the idea is unconventional: but on that account you will probably be rejected.

  • I follow all that, and I don't think the title is particularly artistic.

  • Either the force of the stronger will, or mere passion--and I am inclined to think the latter--had its influence.

  • I think the hand is decidedly the lovelier.

  • I begin to think the world is not worthy of you!

  • I think the day I last mentioned was a certain Sunday, the latest in the October of 1827.

  • I think the above is the longest speech of this young fellow's which I have put on record.

  • I don't think the poems I read you sometimes can be fairly appreciated, given to you as they are in the green state.

  • There is a pleasure or two that I love the daylight for, and I think the night is not far off, at best.

  • On the whole, I think the old-fashioned New England divine softening down into Arminianism was about as agreeable as any of them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    mine own; much enlarged; necessary for; sexual matters; silver dish; think about; think anything; think how; think maybe; think much; think only; think over; think proper; think shame; think them; think there; think upon; think well; think when; think will; thinkest thou; thinking that; thinking what; thinks himself; thinks proper; thirty yards