He said that he was afraid we had not been thoughtful of you, if you were in the habit of taking only water; I told him I had not seen wine at your table.
Then, after a thoughtful pause: "Irene is as good a girl as ever breathed, and she's a perfect beauty.
I'm afraid he'll catch cold with lying on the damp grass,' said Alice, who was a very thoughtful little girl.
The face is what one goes by, generally,' Alice remarked in a thoughtful tone.
That's a great deal to make one word mean,' Alice said in a thoughtful tone.
Her hands were clasped, she had a serious, anxious, thoughtful expression that he had never seen before.
Well--and he'd always be so considerate and so thoughtful and so respectful!
She was such a woman as prairies nurture; in spirit broad and thoughtful and full of energy; not so deep as the mountain woman, not so imaginative, but with more persistency, more daring.
A free and thoughtful nature would, however, find much in it, in spite of great hardships, to give interest and even pleasure.
Suddenly assuming a more thoughtful expression, she said, "O mamma, what would you do if Emma should die?
In thoughtful mood that lady sat, While her dark, lustrous eye, Looked out in pensive tenderness, Upon the glowing sky.
The work that Mark Twain was doing--thoughtful work with serious intent--appealed strongly to Howells.
She was a strange, thoughtful child, much given to reflecting on the power and presence of infinity, for she was religiously taught.
In the brief column and a half which it occupies, this comment of Andrew Lang's constitutes as thoughtful and fair an estimate of Mark Twain's work as was ever written.
All day long he was thoughtful and sad, and he was not his own bright, happy self.
Lovely mermaids sat in their green-and-purple caves, and combed their tresses of golden hair; and thoughtful mermen groped among the seaweeds, searching hopefully for lost or hidden treasures.
Never in all the world had two more thoughtful servants been seen; and every one spoke in praise of their quickness, and their skill, and their ready obedience.
He seemed to look round with a thoughtful eye, and pricked his ears to the tread of the brisk young mountaineer--albeit he had a lame leg and a crutch--who came forth to lose his traces and lead him to the stable.
The chastening interest of old pious usage clings to the little island still; and it stands in the midst of the waters, preaching in mute eloquence to every thoughtful mind.
So, also, murmurs many a thoughtful man, as he walks by the college gates, in his hours of leisure, when the library is closed.
It made her more thoughtful than ever; and when they reached Spanishtown, and had taken dinner, she had decided on what course to pursue.
Queed brought his article and laid it on West's desk, his face very thoughtful now.
It was a thoughtful suggestion, and she said "No," but before her answer came he had flown again.
One day I was lunching with Ann, and was just proposing to her as usual, when, instead of simply refusing me, as she generally did, she fixed me with a thoughtful eye and kind of opened her heart.
He sat down in front of it, and gave it the thoughtful once-over.
Says a thoughtful writer: [Footnote: Aubrey de Vere, Sketches in Greece and Turkey.
The tone of his volume is earnest, elevated, and often approaching a thoughtful solemnity, showing the deep religious convictions with which the subject is identified in the mind of the author.
They are so tender and thoughtful for their aged mother.
The carriage drove up with more men and lights, and the thoughtful servant brought with him the school surgeon, Dr Underhay.
Every lover of mankind, every sane and thoughtful man must take that for granted.
Trent sat and watched him, smoking in thoughtful silence.
It was Scarlett Trent who sat there in thoughtfuland absorbed silence.
I had left it on the porch and had totally forgotten it, but here it was upon a table, where it had been placed, no doubt, by the thoughtful Brownster.
I thanked her for her thoughtful kindness, and was about to depart, but the little man was not quite ready for me to go.
Antonio," he then said, "what you have just now said are wise andthoughtful words.
Your Magdalene is not a thoughtful virgin, but a lovely artless child rather, and yet she is such a marvellous child that hardly anybody else but Guido could have painted her.
Salvator spent some considerable time of thoughtful silence in the examination of each of the pictures.
The poetry of Gladys Cromwell is deeply thoughtful and almost sculptural in its chiseled beauty.
And I am thoughtful of the endless loom -- Let Love be patient, the importunate.
The thoughtful student will find a more distinguished analogy with the habits of later civilisation in the literature of these early churchmen.
Most of the seeds came from these thoughtful merchants.
In this thoughtful manner did one so young look ahead, and make provision for the future.
