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Example sentences for "thought and"

  • The events of 1830 did not produce any change in the modes of thought and life of Charles Egremont.

  • So I thought and said to myself, for my reasoning powers were still uninjured.

  • So I thought and reasoned; and at last I determined not to go amongst my fellow-men, whatever the result might be.

  • The first is, that the decencies and gentlenesses should never be lost sight of, as the practice of the decencies and gentlenesses is at all times compatible with independence of thought and action.

  • A strange conflict arose in his mind at the prospect of leaving the old place, on every house of whose streets, on every swell of whose surrounding hills he left the clinging shadows of thought and feeling.

  • The great breach is to hurt thyself--worst of all to send thyself away from the land of luncheons and dinners, to the country of thought and vision.

  • I thought what a change it was for the old man to lift his head into the air of thought and life, out of the sloughs of misery in which he had been wallowing for years.

  • As he thought and thought it became gradually plainer that he must begin his obedience by getting ready for anything that God might require of him.

  • And still more reasonable does the division appear between all the world which is devoted to material life, and the few who live in and for the expression of thought and emotion.

  • Isolation from the great historic stream of thought and agitation is stagnation.

  • Without this continuity of thought and emotion, history would present us only a succession of meaningless experiments.

  • He thought and he thought and he thought and he thought, and little by little a plan worked out in his little black head.

  • She encouraged, too, the freedom of thought and expression at that time so rare and so dangerous.

  • What treasures of thought and conversation do these names suggest!

  • She carried to perfection the art of savoir vivre, and though she claimed freedom of thought and action, it was always strictly within conventional limits.

  • There is a latent criticism, and also a poetical sense in Plato, which enable him to discard them, and yet in another way to make use of poetry and mythology as a vehicle of thought and feeling.

  • It is possible, and even probable, that the extension of the means of knowledge over a wider area and to persons living under new conditions may lead to many new combinations of thought and language.

  • He was going to leave her something in his Will; nothing could so have stirred the stilly deeps of thought and memory.

  • In this search, who knows what he thought and what he sought?

  • La Gioconda is, in the truest sense, Leonardo's masterpiece, the revealing instance of his mode of thought and work.

  • The fancy of a perpetual life, sweeping together ten thousand experiences, is an old one; and modern thought has conceived the idea of humanity as wrought upon by, and summing up in itself, all modes of thought and life.

  • There is no opportunity, then, for the accumulation of some stock and store of thought and learning.

  • Human nature, alike here and hereafter, consists of soul and body in union; and the body is therefore justly entitled to its own degree of thought and care.

  • A very subdued mood of thought and feeling, I think, creeps gradually over a man living such a solitary life.

  • Or was it that the singular change which had come over her had involved her passionate fancy for him and swept it away with her other habits of thought and feeling?

  • If it had been a simple question of helping forward a casualty to any one person, there was nothing in Dick's habits of thought and living to make that a serious difficulty.

  • Our English non-dramatic poetry from the Renaissance onwards is second to none in richness of thought and beauty of diction, but it lacks the highest quality of all--universality of interest and appeal.

  • The battle of purity can only be successfully fought in the region of outward act if the victory is at the same time won in the region of thought and desire.

  • That is an art of which there are few examples in English; our somewhat diffuse, or slipshod, literary language hardly lending itself to the concentration of thought and expression, which are of the essence of such writing.

  • God has given you freedom of thought and freedom of will.

  • Fill, to the utmost of your ability, all your wifely relations, and seek to develop in your husband those higher qualities of thought and feeling to which your spirit can attach itself.

  • I am as pure in thought and as true in purpose, Aunt Phoebe, as when I went out from you.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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