I heard the words, and though I could not quite see that there was anything queer in mythinking about new ulsters for the boys, I did not tease mother any more about them just then.
It was no good thinking of splitting the slices, we had to make the best of them, thick as they were.
And it seemed to me that the sky and the sun and all the outside things were looking dull because of our trouble, and that they were all sorry for us, and there seemed a queer nice feeling in thinking so.
And after dinner we each had an orange--we sat round the fire peeling them, andthinking what to do about tea.
But I can't think why you didn't ask me to post your letter instead of thinking of going off like that yourselves.
I was just thinking that, and I think one or two tears had dropped on Tom's dark hair, when the door opened and Uncle Geoff came in.
I knew she kept thinking about poor mother--about its being her last day in England--in the same country as her poor little boys and girl, and so did I.
Thinking now we may possibly get to the post day after to-morrow.
I was justthinking how proud I am of this river," he replied.
The boys were not sure about it at all, and thinking that I would not find the cartridges.
Nasty weather makes one wonder--and thinking of M.
Then came twilight which was almost more beautiful, and I sat sometimes thinking my own thoughts, sometimes listening to George and Job as they chatted with each other in Indian.
In that house I spent some time, thinking and planning of what I would have done.
Some thinking had convinced me that the two months' estimate for the journey to Ungava was far from correct; but I still feared it was useless to entertain hope of being in time for the ship.
I sat thinking desperately of the Eskimo, of the way he had received us and its portent.
They have fleet steeds," he answered, thinking of Merodach, and wishing the good horse stood ready saddled for him now.
What are youthinking of," said she, "my trusty sage and counsellor?
Glancing across the hall at the king's calm cruel face, he could not help thinking how fruitless would have been an appeal for mercy, how hopeless an attempt at escape.
You may believe, my friend, that I turned my head more than once, thinking I might be taking my last look of beautiful Babylon.
I have sat here silent and sad, thinking that the cloud between us was never to pass away.
Thinking their king was amongst the party, his people gathered round in considerable numbers, and appeared disappointed to miss the beautiful face and form they so seldom looked on now.
If, by any chance, she persists in seeing ugly things, thinking ugly thoughts, then I shall break the social ropes.
She was thinking of James Canterton, and the way he had walked into her room that evening.
If you begin hanging emotions on Kate Falconer you’ll end up by thinking you are shoving tinsel and beads on a fine statue.
Before very long she realised that she was listening to a thinker thinking aloud in the presence of the one woman who understood.
She agreed with the manageress in thinking that there were gleams of independence in such a life, especially when one had gained a character and experience, learnt to look after silver and to know about wines.
She asked the question irritably, only to discover that in answering it she was attacked by a disturbing suspicion that she herself, everythinking creature, was responsible for such an absurdity as this.
Every thinking person ought to realise that there are a million more women than men in the country.
Canterton stood and looked at it, thinking how strange a significance those figures had for him.
I may have been thinking of something you said the other day.
It was the hour for memories, and into the dusk of that little suburban room, glided a subtle sense of other presences, and she found herself thinking of Canterton and the child.
She fell to thinking of Canterton, and of the work they had done together, and the thought of Hugh Massinger and that flat of his in Purbeck Street made her feel that life had cheapened and deteriorated.
Eve found herself thinking how much bigger, gentler, and more patient his nature was than hers.
Eve walked back through the pine woods to Orchards Corner, thinking of Canterton and Lynette, and of the woman who was too busy to know anything about flowers.
Eve felt loath to consent to thinking of the money as her own.
His hope is to fool passing cars into thinking that the people in his car stopped to admire the view.
In thinking of nothing but Miss Forbes, he had forgotten the chaperon.
Winthrop, thinking the presence of Schwab embarrassed her, recalling as it did Peabody's unfortunate conduct of the morning, blamed himself for bringing Schwab to the house.
Miss Forbes wasthinking neither of Schwab nor Peabody, nor was she worried or embarrassed.
She was thinking about getting the dress and spilled the milk.
Occasionally, too, an intelligent subject wastes time in thinking up a beautiful list of big or unusual words.
Sometimes the child merely points to one of the boxes or picks up one at random and hands it to the examiner, thinking he is asked to guess which is heaviest.
Some children at first show a little hesitation about answering, thinking that a strictly formal definition is expected.
We may say that imagery is to thinking what scaffolding is to architecture.
Language forms are the short-hand of thought; without facile command of language, thinkingis vague, clumsy, and ineffective.
Others misunderstand in a different way, and thinking they are expected to tell merely what the story is about, they say: "It was about some houses that burned.
Their thinking clings tenaciously to the concrete; their concepts are vague or inaccurate; the interrelations among their concepts are scanty in the extreme; and such poor mental stores as they have are little available for ready use.
Its excellence lies mainly, however, in the fact that it throws light upon the character of the child's higher thought processes, for thinking means essentially the association of ideas on the basis of differences or similarities.
Stern defines intelligence as "the general capacity of an individual consciously to adjust his thinking to new requirements: it is general adaptability to new problems and conditions of life.
Gabord and I stood there, not speaking, for both were thinkingof the dangerous game now playing.
And now take this for thinking on: Up to this point I have pleaded with you, used persuasion, courted you with a humility astonishing to myself.
And they never heard a drum beat nor a fife play without thinking of him, and feeling glad that they had one noble brother to fight for their country.
And while he was thinking he felt the mantle being pulled from behind.
And while the people of Windy-Gap were thinking and pondering the people of Half-a-Loaf were sending their young men off to catch an eagle.
Matter and expression are parts of one: style is a thinking out into language.
At one o'clock we steered for an island of ice, thinking if there were any loose ice round it, to take some on board, and convert it into fresh water.
I offered them to a grave old man, thinking he was a proper person to entrust them with; but he shook his head, and he and all present, made signs to take them into the boat again.
He being willing to embark with us, Mr Forster strongly importuned me to take him on board, thinking that he would be of great assistance to him in the course of the voyage.
The savage being offended, or thinking himself attacked, picked up a stone, and threw it into the boat with great force, but luckily without hitting any one of us.
These, together with the canoes, I resolved to detain, and to send the chief to Otoo, thinking he would have weight enough with him to obtain the return of the musket, as his own property was at stake.
We now crowded all the sail we could, thinking to get into the bay before dark.
Seeing no more shoals or islands, and thinking there might be turtle on this bank, two boats were properly equipped and sent thither; but returned without having seen one.
The old chief, probably thinking that we might want water on board, conducted us to a plantation hard by, and shewed us a pool of fresh water, though we had not made the least enquiry after any.
He was very cheerful under his infirmities, and his way of thinking was nobly disinterested, and seemed to be animated by true heroism.
I was pretty liberal in my returns, thinking it might be the last time I should see these good people, who had so liberally relieved our wants; and in the evening entertained them with fire-works.
But this I opposed, thinking that we might be carried to the very farthest end of the island, after things, the most of which, before they came into our hands again, might not be worth the bringing home.
What had the greatest weight with me was, the thinking myself bound to see they were afterwards properly taken care of, as they could not be carried from their native spot without consent.
It was the first moment that he could leave the palace without serious trouble, and thinking Isabella might have retired for the night, he resolved at least to serenade her once more, as he had so lately done.
Thinking over these matters, he doubly realized the misstep he had taken, and the heart of the lone prisoner was sad in the depths of his dreary dungeon.
A strange sympathy existed between Isabella and the boy, who, though Lorenzo Bezan's name was never mentioned, yet seemed to know what each other was thinking of.
In the meantime, while General Harero was thus engaged with himself, Lorenzo Bezan was thinking upon the same subject.
JOHN Miralda, you're thinking of those old customs again that we left behind us seven years ago.
And you don't want to be thinking of business on a Sunday, your only day off.
Funny my thinking I 'ad an 'ammer in my 'and, though.
Father," she answered, as she lavished on her parent those tender blandishments of which girls so thoroughly possess the secret, "during my entire absence I was only thinking of you.
All at once the jaguars, which had hitherto been greedily engaged with the corpse of the horse, without thinking of anything beyond making a hearty meal, raised their heads and began sniffing savagely.
And yet our spies are all agreed in assuring us that the Indians are not at all thinking of an expedition.
Thinking discretion might be the better part of valor, he tested his strength for the return by trying to retrace the steps down which he had come.
A witty comrade on the south hill of the prison, thinkingto convey desired information to the north side, shouted at the top of his voice, "Water!
But for my own part, so far am I from thinking his style unsuitable to his subject, that I cannot conceive any manner in which his prints could be engraved that would be equal to his own.
In the drawing, Sancho was originally portrayed with a full face; but Hogarth, judiciously thinking a profile would be preferable, fixed a bit of paper over his first thought, and altered it to the state in which it is here engraved.
That, concerning the background of this print, Ravenet had a violent quarrel with Hogarth; who, thinking the figures in the tapestry, etc.
Notwithstanding the favourable reception it has met with, the author would not have printed it, had not his friend Mr. Hogarth flattered him most agreeably, by thinking the farmer and his family not unworthy of a sketch of his pencil.
Mercier; but some of my subscribers thinking it bore a strong resemblance to Hogarth, I at their request submitted it to public opinion.
One summer, I was fishing over the Norfolk Broads, and on the Bank Holiday, thinking I would like to see the London 'Arry in his glory, I ran over to Yarmouth.
The hereditary instinct is so strongly developed in her that she is almost incapable of thinking for herself.
One of them, the youngest, would sob herself to sleep of a night, thinking that I was dead: they were affectionate children.
I might have gone on thinkingso if it had not been that, passing through the village one day, I happened to catch sight of a room behind a shop.
The pastor of the parish, a good and pious man, came to sit with him, and, thinking to cheer him up, told him an anecdote about a dog.
Taking his stand as near to the cakes as he could get, and fixing his eyes affectionately upon them, he would begin to whine, and the shopkeeper, thinking he was dealing with an honest dog, would throw him one.
Thinking of him brings back to my mind a somewhat odd incident.
He was tired, he said, of the crystal-hearted, noble-thinking young man of fiction.
But I was thinking of something very different altogether.
One day, the baker, thinking he would not know the difference, tried to palm off upon the poor animal a ha'penny bun, whereupon the dog walked straight outside and fetched in a policeman.
Funny, I was just thinking over all that as I walked around here--how different those things are.
And he knew then that this nice girl would go to her grave thinking of him as a lover whose confidence in his suit had been reft from him by a too sharp rebuke.
Thus it was that probably the only living compeer of the lady in Sweden must put aside his Thinking to-night, to peruse and criticize such stuff as this:-- 16.
Undoubtedly, that small phenomenon was due to the amount he had been thinking about her of late, behind her back, as it were.
Charles (thinking for the young girl's highest good) was rather pleased with this development.
Well, the hero's just the commentator on this development as it takes place, thinking it out to save the reader the trouble.
I was just thinking I'd better let Eustace drive me down with him, if you don't mind.
And now, as Mary bent to kiss this wrinkled and well-loved cheek, she was thinking that never in the world before had there opened such a gulf between two generations; and she wondered why life must be so hard.
At the same moment, Charles, inevitably, was thinking what a fool Donald was, for exactly the opposite reason.
Telling himself that he came generously to warn her about Donald, had he actually been thinking that he would discuss the personal losses involved in Leaving Home?
I've been thinking that it was he who almost murdered the villain, and gave one of the Spinsters her old place back.
And he was thinking intently: "He's not engaged to Helen Carson yet, by a long shot.
He missed him sadly now, and wondered why, at every moment of the day, he found himself thinking of the pleasant familiar face and frank cordial smile.
He looked round on his stately walls, and the trophies that adorned them, thinking the while that even such a home as this might be purchased too dear at the expense of a lifetime.
Then she fell to thinking on the paths she had followed in her headlong flight, tracing them backward in her mind with that clear feminine perception, which so nearly approaches instinct, and is so superior to the more logical sagacity of man.
He was perfectly willing to go; but could not, at the same time, refrain from thinking that the latter was the fitter person to undertake such a mission at such a time.
Rufus alone looked grave; perhaps he was thinking of his wife and children while he listened; perhaps that humble cottage in the Apennines seemed farther off than ever, and the more desirable on that account.
Then he fell to thinking of the bright days when they were all in all to each other, when the very sky seemed fairer, while he watched for her white dress under the oak-tree.
Why can you not rest when the training of to-day is over, forthinking of the labours of to-morrow?
They are the finest men we have in the empire," said Licinius, thinking in his heart that the women were the fairest too.
Eleazar, with the promptitude natural to his character, had commenced a repair of the defences, almost before his emissary was admitted to the Roman camp, thinking it needless to await the decision of Titus, either for or against his proposal.
The Jewess had been thinkingabout him a good deal more than she intended, a good deal more than she knew, for the last two days.
Like many another thinking heathen, he had often speculated on the great question which forces itself at times on every reflective being, "Why are these things so?
There are those who, when the author is long in his chapters and tedious in relating events, throw the book on the bench, not thinking well of the writer.
The Viceroy did not look favourably on the affairs of Vaca de Castro, thinking he was a very avaricious man.
Vaca de Castro, thinking more of his position than of his desire, replied with grave words.
Gonzalo Pizarro, thinking that they advised in good faith, agreed and gave Loaysa permission to go.
Having considered all these things, and being a man of little knowledge, Gonzalo Pizarro was inclined to approach the city of Cuzco, without thinking that it was madness to oppose the royal officers.
How rejoiced must have been the tyrant Gonzalo Pizarro to find that now he had the power to oppose the Viceroy, thinking that it would be easy afterwards to seize the government of the kingdom.
The Viceroy faced his enemies near Quito, thinking that he only saw the detachment of Puelles, and that Pizarro was not there.
My Father, thinking that they came with good intentions, ordered his captains to do them no harm, for he wished to keep them as his servants, and that they should have houses in which to live.
Thinking that he spoke of Vaca de Castro, Gonzalo Pizarro replied: “I will cut off his first, I swear by our Lady.
After they had held a meeting to decide what they should do, they decided that they would go out to meet him with some show of pleasure, thinking that he would not boast or pretend to being more than Procurator-General of the kingdom.
Algy,' said Lord Chester cheerfully, 'what are you thinking of?
But the chiefs sat till late, thinking and talking.
I was thinking how sorry Jack Kennion will be to have missed this day.
Again, the Perfect Woman sat alone, thinking for the good of the world.
She sat alone in her house in Park Lane, thinking sadly of what might happen.
You have taught me so much, that I have left off thinking of unmanliness and immodesty and the copy-book texts.
This had taken a form which was not illegal, but which he could not help thinking was an abuse of their rights, to wit, the form of a political threat.
Baxter, Financial Secretary to the Treasury: "Am I right in thinking that you do not agree with the Chancellor of the Exchequer's declaration with regard to the Treasury?
No doubt with a little thinking I could recall a very great number of instances, but two or three occur to me.
I agree with you in thinking that it can only be effectually met by agreement between the two sides of the House.
He could not help thinking that when the working men got to know to the full extent the terms and prospects of Postal Service, the sympathy which they had so freely bestowed on Post Office employees would be largely withdrawn.
It was an awfully hot summer day, and the brewer was afraid to tap the keg, thinking that the faucet would blow out under the influence of the heat before we got home.
I was almost as badly panic-stricken, thinking surely he was killed.
That does not mean that it will come without hard purposeful thinking and much patient effort.
I am not thinking so much of the long waits in the pavilion when two batsmen on a side are well set, and the rest have nothing to do but to applaud.
They do sufficiently well in classics, as they probably would on any other curriculum, to justify themselves and their advisers in thinking that they have made a good beginning to which it is safer to stick.
I am thinkingrather of the excessive practice at nets.
He was not thinking at all, but rising in him was not only the need for flight, but the sense of pursuit.
He sat for some time, thinking deeply, and he came to one important conclusion.
You've built up an imaginary situation, and you're not thinking straight.
He is thinking of you and loving you, wherever he is.
Wherever you are and wherever I am, I am thinking of you and waiting for you.
What he was thinking about, as he sat by David's bedside, was David's attitude toward that threatened return of his.
Getting no response from Elizabeth, she went on: "I was thinking it over last night.
I might fool myself, too, with thinking I could work better without any money worries.
I'd spend my life thinking of ways to make you happy.
But if he is, I don't see why you should fool yourself into thinking you're sorry.
I just got to thinking things over, Lucy," he explained, his tone apologetic.
But underlying all his surface thinking was still the need of flight, and he was continually confusing it with the earlier one.
She had always felt that she knew when Dick was thinking of her.
There was a time, in Chicago, when the necessity of thinking about money irritated him, for the memory of his old opulent days was very clear.
And now it is time I came to the drift of my letter, which is that if "An Earnest Clergyman" has not cheated himself into thinking he is telling the truth, he will do no great harm by stopping where he is.
From this moment, the automatic stage of action having set in, the progress towards always thinking of something else was rapid and they soon forgot that they were undergoing any punishment.
To live is to continue thinking and to remember having done so.
Ancient Work If a person would understand either the Odyssey or any other ancient work, he must never look at the dead without seeing the living in them, nor at the living without thinking of the dead.
Secular Thinking The ages do their thinking much as the individual does.
It is said that Andromeda told Perseus she had been thinking how remarkably well he was looking.
Either way we can think it perfectly well--so long as we don't think about thinking about it.
He was a pompous, ponderous old gentleman, very irritable and always thinking that the other shades were laughing at him or trying to take advantage of him.
On the other hand, we cannot imagine matter without thinking of it as capable of some kind of working power or energy--we cannot think of matter without thinking of it as in some way ensouled.
For, after all, the most important first principle in this matter is the not lightly thinking you know what you like till you have made sure of your ground.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thinking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
