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Sentences starting with minds
- Minds roll in paths like planets; they revolve This in a larger, that a narrower ring, But round they come at last to that same phase, That self-same light and shade they showed before. [6]
- Minds with skylights,--yes,--stop, let us see if we can't get something out of that. [6]
Sentences ending with minds
- These men, of whom very few could read and write, had at their command all the most effective verses of their poets having thousands of lines stored in their minds. [10]
- The great things which befell that night are they not written in the Chronicles of the town, and still fresh in many minds? [10]
- Others preferred to watch this futile battle rather than give themselves up to the anxiety which filled their minds. [10]
- Stephanus saw what was passing in their minds. [10]
- I was right to seek out a land where such healthy principles and theories are in men's hearty and minds. [5]
- So the world thought there was a vast matter at stake here, and the world was right, but it was not the one they had in their minds. [5]
- The fertility of this man's invention exceeded anything I have ever seen, and I have had a wide intercourse with the world's finest minds. [5]
- The glory of the sunny, tropical world was upon the ship and upon the sea; it crept into the blood of every man, and the sweet summer weather gave confidence to their minds. [11]
- They would admit, that though they could make other apes understand by cries some of their perceptions and simpler wants, the notion of expressing definite ideas by definite sounds had never crossed their minds. [1]
- Certain it is that this two thousand millions of dollars, invested in this species of property, all so concentrated that the mind can grasp it at once--this immense pecuniary interest--has its influence upon their minds. [7]
More example sentences with the word minds in them
- She liked the Young Doctor, as who did not who came in contact with him, except those who had fear of him, and who had an idea that he could read their minds as he read their bodies. [11]
- For thousands of years the story of the Exodus has lived in the minds of numberless people as something actual, and it still retains its vitality. [10]
- Try as we would, we could not get out of our minds the Thing that lay under the oak. [9]
- Some, no doubt, would rather have fought than have had peace at the price; but they could not free their minds from the sacred force which had brought most of the crowd of faction-fighters to their knees. [11]
- Well --argued Miles--he would naturally go to his former haunts, for that is the instinct of unsound minds, when homeless and forsaken, as well as of sound ones. [5]
- Often the warder would announce the senator and his wife, and their vigorous and healthy minds always hit on the very thing she needed. [10]
- It is hardly worth while to consider the projects for relieving the Mississippi River floods by creating new outlets, since these sensational propositions have commended themselves only to unthinking minds, and have no support among engineers. [5]
- I have often wondered, since, how they regarded me; how, in their little minds, they defined the relationship. [9]
- There are minds with large ground floors, that can store an infinite amount of knowledge; some librarians, for instance, who know enough of books to help other people, without being able to make much other use of their knowledge, have intellects of this class. [6]
- When John Grier's will was published in the Press consternation filled the minds of all. [11]
- For awhile that wild bewilderment which seizes upon the minds of the strongest, when lost, mastered him, in spite of his struggles against it. [11]
- He is meek, whose soul is open, clear and pure as a mirror, and the greatest philosophers, the noblest minds I have met in life and history were also meek. [10]
- There are those whose minds are satisfied with the decillionth dilution of a scientific proof. [3]
- They were those who cherished in their minds an ideal of statesmanship and of personal bearing in high office with which, in their opinion, Lincoln's individuality was much out of accord. [7]
- The Alexandrian fellow-artists who belonged to his party would gratefully welcome this special work; for what grew out of it would have nothing in common with the fascination of superhuman beauty, by which the older artists ensnared the hearts and minds of the multitude. [10]
- We, the Old Whigs, have been entirely beaten out on the tariff question, and we shall not be able to re-establish the policy until the absence of it shall have demonstrated the necessity for it in the minds of men heretofore opposed to it. [7]
- It mattered little whether most people were changed or not because one state of their minds could not be less or more interesting than another; but a change in Laura. [11]
- I think that when we all see one thing alike, it is evidence that, as regards that one thing, our minds are perfectly sound. [5]
- I think that when we all see one thing alike, it is evidence that as regards that one thing, our minds are perfectly sound. [5]
- I tell you what--it's plain that the old man an't in his right mind--' 'If you haven't got anything newer than that to say,' growled Mr Codlin, glancing at the clock, 'you'd better let us fix our minds upon the supper, and not disturb us. [12]
- The people's minds were tuned to a high pitch and this was too simple and needlessly comprehensible--it was what any one of them might have said and therefore was what an ukase emanating from the highest authority should not say. [2]
- But those sounds were so real and so human and so moving that the idea of ghosts passed straight out of our minds, and Sir Jean de Metz spoke out and said: "Come! [5]
- Most of them were personally known to Cleopatra who, to their mutual pleasure and advantage, had measured her intellectual powers with the most brilliant minds of their body. [10]
- At dawn we were at the city gate again; this time with a hope which our wearied bodies and fevered minds magnified into a large probability. [5]
- We may as well make up our minds to it. [9]
- In our minds we were both looking at those miserable scenes on the 'Fulvia', when Madras sought to adjust the accounts of life and sorely muddled them. [11]
- But linger as we may, we cannot compress into a chapter--we could not crowd into a volume--all that passed through the minds and stirred the emotions of the awe-struck company which was gathered about the scene of danger and of terror. [6]
- For, of course, we cannot expect all of the powers to be in their right minds at one time. [5]
- So the doctor was wont to take the minds of patients from themselves. [9]
- Some such query was running in their minds as they talked, while Jethro, having finished his milk and crackers, sat silent at the end of the table with his eyes upon her. [9]
- Out West there was a good deal of confusion in men's minds during the first months of the great trouble--a good deal of unsettledness, of leaning first this way, then that, then the other way. [5]
- I heard after wards that she was very glad to know that they were in charge of persons who filled their minds with other thoughts than the desire to rule. [10]
- More significant, more vital elements of the truth are the rewards of a mind which searches and craves, especially in these days when the fruit of so many able minds lies on the shelves of library and bookshop. [9]
- My ghost shall visit you in the smiles of Paradise, and tell your high fame to the minds of that region, which is far more preferable than this lonely cell. [5]
- It was in virtue of this that his rare genius acted on so many minds as a trumpet call to awaken them to the meaning and the privileges of this earthly existence with all its infinite promise. [6]
- The more improved versions of the world's great thoughts we have, the better, and we look to the great minds for them. [6]
- There are many varieties of men in the world, consequently there are many varieties of minds in its pulpits. [5]
- He had the useful gift of reading the minds of people in their faces. [11]
- So we made up our minds to be ready and take a hand in it. [5]
- Their minds catch up hints from all manner of works on all kinds of subjects. [6]
- I was of two minds whether to wait for Comyn, by far the wiser course. [9]
- I was of two minds to announce the scurvy trick he had played, but saw that I would lose rather than gain by the attempt. [9]
- I think the trouble in many minds lies in the fact that they persist in regarding it as something to be made safe. [9]
- Wyndham could not travel the sinuosities of their minds, and it would not have affected his purpose if he could have done so. [11]
- Breaking away from traditions and not going to church have not destroyed the need in the minds of the mass of people for something outside themselves. [4]
- Frequently their sparring took the form of a serious discussion, which served a double purpose; first their minds, accustomed to serious thought, found exercise in spite of the murderous pressure of the burden of forced labor, and secondly, they were supposed really to be enemies. [10]
- Women are forbidden to turn their minds to such studies.--Now your dress is complete. [10]
- Letters had come to the Court at least once every two weeks from Gaston, and the minds of the Baronet and his wife were at ease. [11]
- It was easy to see that these men had made up their minds to force words from Joan to-day which should shorten up her case and bring it to a prompt conclusion. [5]
- I was about to say that your opinions were formed, but I will alter that, and say that your minds are fixed. [9]
- We have tried to put reason before sentiment, duty before love; our minds approve, but our hearts reproach us. [5]
- This requires us to compare the reality with the pictures in our own minds, seen with the inward eye, before we saw the reality. [10]
- These expressions come to be the algebraic symbols of minds which have grown too weak or indolent to discriminate. [6]
- The besieged had to be conquered limb by limb, and finger by finger, before they would make up their minds to yield. [10]
- It is manifest to all honest minds that if an author is entitled to own his work for a term of years, it is equally the duty of his government to make that ownership perpetual. [4]
- Ideas, at certain times, throng for admission into the world; and we are all familiar with the fact that the same important idea (never before revealed in all the ages) occurs to separate and widely distinct minds at about the same time. [4]
- The chief ordered three cheers for "Darley, one of the finest minds on the force," and then commanded that he be telegraphed to come home and receive his share of the reward. [5]
- The same haunting thought was in all minds there: the pity of this death, the going out into the great darkness, and the mother not here to help and hearten and bless. [5]
- There were all those wonderful diagrams over which the reader may have grown dizzy,--just such as one finds on the walls of lunatic asylums,--evidences to all sane minds of cerebral strabismus in the contrivers of them. [6]
- Is it not this same mighty, deep-seated power that somehow operates on the minds of men, exciting and stirring them up in every avenue of society,--in politics, in religion, in literature, in morals, in all the manifold relations of life? [7]
- Besides, I don't think you remember what great revelations of himself the Creator has made in the minds of the men who have built up science. [6]
- To their minds they were everything with her, but nothing without her. [5]
- But they don't; they get a little of it through their minds, more of it through their feelings, and the overwhelming bulk of it through their environment. [5]
- On that one theme, which was in his and all their minds, it was impossible to touch. [12]
- We learn from them to recognize all sorts of queer tendencies in minds supposed to be sane, so that we have nothing but compassion for a large class of persons condemned as sinners by theologians, but considered by us as invalids. [6]
- It was to their minds stupendous and romantic. [11]
- They made up their minds at Moffitt that if they wanted their town to grow they'd got to keep their gas public property. [8]
- It is because their minds are bewildered, and they are no longer truly themselves. [6]
- As we leave the station at Annapolis, we are obliged to put Madame de la Tour out of our minds to make room for another woman whose name, and we might say presence, fills all the valley before us. [4]
- Apparently, nearly all the river towns, big and little, have made up their minds that they must look mainly to railroads for wealth and upbuilding, henceforth. [5]
- The practitioners of the Pseudo-sciences know that common minds, after they have been baited with a real fact or two, will jump at the merest rag of a lie, or even at the bare hook. [6]
- Thanks, perhaps, to the newspaper comments as much as to any other factor, in the minds of those of all shades of opinion in the parish the issue had crystallized into a duel between the rector and Eldon Parr. [9]
- The effect on the minds of the owners is to persuade them that there is no wrong in it. [7]
- Far back in the minds of every French habitant present was the old monarchical sense. [11]
- We went to the main gate of the city before nightfall, with a hope in our minds, based upon that vague prophecy of Joan's Voices which seemed to promise a rescue by force at the last moment. [5]
- There must be the inspiration of the clash of minds and the encouragement of good listening. [4]
- They can elevate the entire present generation of young men, if they give their minds to it, to care for the intellectual pursuits they care for. [4]
- In thoughtful minds the dread of what must inevitably come was increasing. [10]
- And yet, on the day when this human love has full sway, the social problems which now disturb so many minds and will permit the brains of our best citizens to take no rest, will be solved. [10]
- While they talked, the Cure and the young Seigneur listened, and there passed into their minds the same wonder that had perplexed Elise Malboir; so that they were troubled, as was she, each after his own manner and temperament. [11]
- But, above all, that thought was kept out of their minds by the fact that they saw they were really useful, as in fact they were to the whole Rostov family. [2]
- I don't suppose that the thoughts which came up of themselves in my mind were so mighty different from what come up in the minds of other young folks. [6]
- We infer sometimes that the hens are not saying anything, because they do not read, and consequently their minds are empty. [4]
- He didn't inherit that strain, but your grandfather and your great-grandfather had it--sportsmen both, afraid of nothing, with big minds, great eyes for seeing, and a sense for a winner almost uncanny. [11]
- He was aware that he was undergoing a cool and critical examination by those present, and that they were men who used all their faculties in making up their minds. [9]
- It is conceivable that as time went on the thought in their minds and its reflection in hers might solidify into conviction. [5]
- But people you talk with every day have got to have feeders for their minds, as much as the stream that turns a millwheel has. [6]
- No one can talk well without an audience; no one is stimulated to say bright things except by the attention and questioning and interest of other minds. [4]
- Yet I am sure, that, in the nature of things, many minds must change their key now and then, on penalty of getting out of tune or losing their voices. [6]
- True, the spring sun shone on their books and exercises too, the spring called them into the open air, but even more powerful than its alluring voice seemed the influence exerted on their young minds by what they were now hearing. [10]
- There was a sudden leap and stir of blood that had been asleep for an hour, and as sudden a rousing of all the drowsing activities in our minds and bodies. [5]
- Was there no such thing, could there be no such thing as a human association that might at the same time be a divine organism, a fold and a refuge for the lost and divided minds? [9]
- She admired his spirit, she had a certain sympathy with him; for who could say that ministering to minds diseased might not have a physical influence to lift these people into a more decent and prosperous way of living? [4]
- Continued abstention from speech, and constant avoidance of everything that might lead up to the subject--this halting on all sides at the boundary of what they might not mention--brought before their minds with still greater purity and clearness what they were both feeling. [2]
- All wonderful things soon grow doubtful in our own minds, as do even common events, if great interests prove suddenly to attach to their truth or falsehood. [6]
- He would bluster sometimes, and string a peasant up by the heels, but his gallows was never used; and, what was much in the minds of the people, the Cure did not refuse the woman the sacrament. [11]
- But there were so many dazzling openings for ready cash that they found it impossible to make up their minds and keep them made up. [5]
- The time passes so heavily that it is never day or night with them, it is always night, and when they have to sit with folded hands and with nothing to do to amuse or entertain or employ their minds, it is drearier and drearier. [5]
- Men were changing sides and were aligning themselves anew according to their views on questions which were every day assuming greater prominence in the minds of all. [4]
- His whole manner showed that he had lived in frequent intercourse with the highest and noblest minds of Greece. [10]
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