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Example sentences for "thought she"

  • If you want to know, I thought she would do me credit.

  • I thought she spoke of your having some plan of going round the world.

  • Love," thought she, "is not extinguished by injustice, as fire is by water.

  • That is blood," thought she, and she shuddered and closed her eyes.

  • When we are once alone together in the bedroom," thought she, "I will represent to him his error as I ought, and he will have to answer for himself.

  • Now to Mrs. Thornton's,' thought she to herself.

  • She never would wish it unless she felt herself really stronger--really better than we thought she was, eh, Margaret?

  • Go and see Bessy Higgins, of course,' thought she, as the recollection of the message sent the night before flashed into her mind.

  • Strange," thought she; "but I do not recollect having heard his footsteps coming up after he went down to take away the lights.

  • It is of no use," thought she at last, letting her hands fall at her side; "I have forgotten the art.

  • Was he aware of his danger,' thought she,' when he lay there talking carelessly to me?

  • Jesuit, you can't crush us," thought she.

  • We are not decieving each other, Monsieur Troubert," thought she.

  • I see what you mean, you wily scoundrel," thought she, "but we are safe now from your calumnies.

  • I wish I could force you to betray that you have taken Birotteau's things for your own," thought she.

  • He longed to give her a warning of the danger that he thought she was in, and yet he did not know how.

  • I will not," thought she, "embitter his life; I will try and be cheerful.

  • She kept up afore Master Thurstan, but I seed her fretting, though I never let on that I did, for I thought she'd soonest get over it and be thankful at after she'd the strength to do right.

  • My darling misthress," thought she, "it's all over with you at last.

  • Heavenly Father," thought she, "how does it happen that he comes to know my name!

  • There used to be another there," thought she, "Nick Anderson.

  • Poor little creature," thought she, "I suppose it is a long time since she has had a good dinner.

  • He's a fool," thought she, "one of the most tedious fools I ever met.

  • He may be a mere accident in spite of his remarkable successes," thought she.

  • Horrible as I feel," thought she, "I am better off than in those weeks when that man was whirling me from one nightmare to another.

  • She heard, or thought she heard, the names of Kuragin and Bolkonski.

  • Yes, he is a very, very kind man when he is not under the influence of bad people but of people such as myself," thought she.

  • If I don't sleep for three nights I'll not leave this passage and will hold her back by force and will and not let the family be disgraced," thought she.

  • It would be a relief," thought she, "if I ventured to confide what I am feeling to someone.

  • She looked all right, and laughed when I told her about being a bore, and I thought she liked it.

  • It's no use trying to make a bad job better; so the long and short of it was, I thought she loved me; God knows I loved her!

  • I said I couldn't promise her chintz curtains and a green door and an orange Angora cat with green eyes, but I thought she would be fairly comfortable with Mrs. Pavitt.

  • I stuck the beastly things there because I thought she'd like 'em.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thought she" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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