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Example sentences for "thought struck"

  • Picture: Mansie's father] A thought struck me; for I had heard of wonderful advancement in the world, for those who had been so lucky as help the great at a pinch.

  • At last a thought struck me, and I saw farther through my difficulties than ever mortal man did through a millstone; but, like a politician, I minted not the matter to James.

  • At the time I was informed of this plan, a thought struck me that it might be accomplished by another mode preferable to this: by a steam-engine to force water in pipes round the dock, to say 30 or 40 lbs.

  • While making a sketch of your work for the founder, a thought struck me that rooms might be better heated by hot water than by either steam or fire, and I send to you my thoughts on it, with a sketch for your consideration.

  • A thought struck me: could he have persuaded Harriet to accompany him?

  • Suddenly a thought struck him: he would penetrate into the royal breakfast-room!

  • A thought struck him, and examining the snow carefully, he found no tracks running northward.

  • He built up his fire, and when it was well going, and he was congratulating himself on his success a thought struck him.

  • Then a thought struck him, and he put his head outside the tilt and shouted for Tant, who came running up, and at once climbed into the wagon.

  • Then a thought struck him, and he called the watchful dog away and fed him, before sending him back to the bedside, and going out to examine the ostriches more closely.

  • A thought struck me; for I had heard of wonderful advancement in the world, for those who had been so lucky as help the great at a pinch.

  • She half turned away; then a thought struck her, and she turned quickly back again and rushed into speech.

  • She was actually moving towards the door when a thought struck her.

  • Just as she was rising from the table a thought struck her.

  • A thought struck me: one of the many curs, which range wild throughout Tehran, had just pupped under a ruined archway, close to our house.

  • My men were already mounted, and ready to proceed on our reconnoitring expedition, and my horse was waiting for me, when a thought struck me, which would settle every difficulty with regard to the young Armenian and his wife.

  • I placed my hand on the door handle when a thought struck me, and I turned to him again.

  • I began to realise now what I was going to do, and for the first time the thought struck terror.

  • I was about to leave the boat, when a thought struck me and I turned to the captain.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aching heart; being from; evergreen trees; experimental inquiry; great plain; had taken from the; many animals; native names; other years; public good; rapid pulse; thought again; thought best; thought better; thought himself; thought little; thought maybe; thought necessary; thought proper; thought she; thought that; thought would; thought you; thoughtful pause; thoughts were; well taken