Use notions in a sentence
Sentences ending with notions
- I think that would cure her of some of her notions. [5]
- Emerson inherited the traditions of the Boston pulpit, such as they were, damaged, in the view of the prevailing sects of the country, perhaps by too long contact with the "Sons of Liberty," and their revolutionary notions. [6]
- Poor fellow," and the doctor's voice softened, "he'll kill himself with his ascetic notions. [4]
- To use their own phrase, they "handle" books as they would "handle" patent medicines, that is, the popular patent medicines that are desired because of the amount of alcohol they contain; indeed, they are sold along with dry-goods and fancy notions. [4]
- He has his notions. [9]
- Evelyn would tolerate no concealments; she was just that simple-minded in her filial notions. [4]
- But Damascus, with its four thousand years of respectability in the world, has many old fogy notions. [5]
- For I figured it out that another lady would be coming along with the same notions. [9]
- But did n't it make you nervous, reading about so many people possessed with such strange notions? [6]
- I don't believe in any of them notions. [6]
Short sentences using notions
- Guides have queer notions occasionally. [6]
Sentences containing notions two or more times
- You, who held more extreme notions, either yielded those notions, or, if not wholly yielding them, agreed to yield them practically, for the sake of embodying the opposition to the measures which the opposite party were pushing forward at that time. [7]
More example sentences with the word notions in them
- I knowed what your notions of right and wrong was--your--your mother had them. [9]
- Our notions empower wisdom, her let's afford while we can. [5]
- All unconsciously she was a true daughter of the twentieth century, and probably a feminist at heart, which is to say that her conduct was determined by no preconceived or handed-down notions of what was proper and lady-like. [9]
- It may be very important to show that the champions of this or that set of dogmas, some of which are extinct or obsolete as beliefs, while others retain their vitality, held certain general notions which vitiated their conclusions. [6]
- It is all very fine; but it does not chime with my notions of right. [5]
- You must look to yourself,--said the divinity-student,--if your democratic notions get into print. [6]
- When he came to live with the Doctor, he made up his mind he would dismiss the old gentleman, if he did not behave according to his notions of propriety. [6]
- The standard objected to is the narrow insular one (the term "insular" is used purely as a geographical one) that measures life, social conditions, feeling, temperament, and national idiosyncrasies expressed in our literature by certain fixed notions prevalent in England. [4]
- Probably a visit to his room would clear up all that has puzzled me, and make me laugh at the notions which began, I suppose, in nightmares, and ended by keeping my imagination at work so as almost to make me uncomfortable at times. [6]
- The President liked to hear the Colonel talk, his voluble ease was a refreshment after the decorous dullness of men who only talked business and government, and everlastingly expounded their notions of justice and the distribution of patronage. [5]
- If you want to catch mice you must waste bacon, and if we are to tempt men into a snare we must know what their notions and ideas are, and begin by endeavoring to confuse them. [10]
- The old Master thinks he is open to conviction on all subjects; but if you meddle with some of his notions and don't get tossed on his horns as if a bull had hold of you, I should call you lucky. [6]
- On looking at the house, it was plain that it was built with Old-World notions of strength and durability, and, so far as might be, with Old-World materials. [6]
- He never forgot that he was a gentleman, and he had a gentleman's notions of the fitness of things, and it was against his principles to use, a gentleman's club for the furtherance of his various enterprises. [9]
- And finally he surprises me with, "Well, my friend, you seem to have drifted away from your old notions and opinions. [4]
- It was just suited to the romantic notions of the more flighty persons in the village, who had meddled more or less with Spiritualism, and were ready for any new fancy, if it were only wild enough. [6]
- English people have queer notions about iced-water and ice-cream. [6]
- Also of their quaint notions about the white man's queer civilization, and their equally quaint comments upon it. [5]
- In order to prove this point, it is not necessary to consult any medical theorist as to whether or not it is consistent with his preconceived notions that such a mode of transfer should exist. [3]
- His discourse on primitive society, his unscientific and unhistoric notions about the original condition of man, were those common in the middle of the eighteenth century. [4]
- He must have picked up some wood-craft and a little botany from Thoreau, and a few chemical notions from his brother-in-law, Dr. Jackson, whose name is associated with the discovery of artificial anaesthesia. [6]
- On the driver's perch before him are arranged his attractions,--a box of notions, a grinning skull, with full teeth and jaws that work on hinges, some vials of red liquid, and a closed jar containing a most disagreeable anatomical preparation. [4]
- We must revise our notions of the function of the teacher for the beginners. [4]
- You see, too, our notions of bodily and moral disease, or sin, are apt to go together. [6]
- His European notions of uniformed inaccessibility he carried out to the letter. [9]
- Those who speak of the great body of physicians as if they were united in a league to support the superannuated notions of the past against the progress of improvement, have read the history of medicine to little purpose. [3]
- If his notions of hidden treasure had been analyzed, they would have been found to consist of a handful of real dimes and a bushel of vague, splendid, ungraspable dollars. [5]
- Womenkind get queer notions, which I cal'late we've got to respect and put up with all our lives--eh? [9]
- Of course with notions like these he could not be hand in hand with the Abolitionists. [6]
- A man's general notions are not good for much, unless he has a crop of these intellectual ovarian eggs in his own brain, or knows them as they exist in the minds of others. [6]
- They had definite notions about the omens. [5]
- I'm thankful I never had any silly notions about uniforms. [9]
- And his affairs, mental and material, are, happily for him, such that he can generally carry out his notions with small inconvenience. [9]
- I do not know where our Young Astronomer got the notions that he expresses so freely in the lines that follow. [6]
- How little we know the simple notions with which these rudiments of souls are nourished by the Divine Goodness! [6]
- This is all it is capable of doing, and all further notions of its efficacy must be attributed merely to the vulgar love of paradox. [3]
- I know it is said that these are only vague and sentimental notions of progress--notions of a "salvation by machinery. [4]
- She had no intention of leaving him: to remain, according to the notions of her parents, would be wrong. [9]
- Under Miss McDonald's influence she had somewhat abstract notions of what is right and wrong, and she saw no reason why these should not be applied in all cases. [4]
- I confess that I think better of them than of many who hold the same notions, and keep their wits and appear to enjoy life very well, outside of the asylums. [6]
- Now, I think I recognize the poetical instinct in Number Seven, however imperfect may be its expression, and however he may be run away with at times by fantastic notions that come into his head. [6]
- One who knew her long and well,--the "Mary" of this Life--writes thus of her dead friend:-- "She thought much of her duty, and had loftier and clearer notions of it than most people, and held fast to them with more success. [14]
- You remember how he would break out at the meetings of the British Association, and find fault with what people said, because Stanley had notions of his own, and could not contain them. [5]
- What superstitious notions have got into our heads and taken possession of its empty chambers,--or, in the language of science, seized on the groups of nerve-cells in some of the idle cerebral convolutions! [6]
- And, moreover, he has got notions of his own, and is very particular, and you can't fool him; his instinct, or his judgment, or whatever it is, is perfectly sound and clear, and don't ever make a mistake. [5]
- And not merely hard to believe it, but impossible; it is opposed to all your notions. [5]
- It is a goodly name for our notions of breathing, suffering, enjoying, acting. [6]
- He not only gives medicines, but sets broken limbs after notions of his own, or saws them off and sears the stump when amputation seems best. [5]
- Where did you get your own aggravating notions? [5]
- And this the French socialists, misled by a priori notions, attempted to do, on the theory of the Contrat-Social, as if they had a tabula rasa, without regarding the existing constituents of society, or traditions, or historical growths. [4]
- Outside influences--in the form of lifelong teachings, trainings, notions, prejudices, and other second-hand importations--have persuaded the Master within you that the publication of these doctrines would be harmful. [5]
- Had my affection for him been less sincere, had I not been racked with sympathy, I had laughed over his notions of gentility. [9]
- With all their foibles, with all their teasing, tyrannical, and arbitrary notions, the Pilgrims were lovers of liberty as well as sticklers for authority. [6]
- Although he had fixed notions about his own rights, and extraordinary persistency in getting them, he never showed temper at a repulse; he simply and firmly persisted till he had what he wanted. [4]
- The science of Ethnology has upset a good many theoretical notions about human nature. [6]
- She wanted to dive straight through, but I had different notions about the wisdom of it. [5]
- His notions of disease were based on what he had observed, seen always in the light of the traditional doctrines in which he was bred. [3]
- If in their contemptible, pharisaical notions of morality they choose to forget what my mother and father were to them, they cease to exist for me. [9]
- Si Higgins he's ben over to Kaintuck n' married a high-toned gal thar, outen the fust families, an' he's come back to the Forks with jist a hell's-mint o' whoop-jamboree notions, folks says. [5]
- Almost every human being, however vague his notions of the Power addressed, is capable of being lifted and solemnized by the exercise of public prayer. [6]
- Even the stores began to "slick up" and arrange their miscellaneous notions more attractively, and one of them boldly put in a window a placard, "Latest New York Style. [4]
- The latter has been recently reorganized with a new director, in accordance with the Wagner notions somewhat. [4]
- Of course he'll be reasonable, but when they get to be governors they have little notions, you know, and you've got to indulge 'em, flatter 'em a little. [9]
- Judge Driscoll could be a freethinker and still hold his place in society because he was the person of most consequence to the community, and therefore could venture to go his own way and follow out his own notions. [5]
- Number Seven's compendious and comprehensive symbolism proved suggestive, as his whimsical notions often do. [6]
- Our Government's notions about proprieties of costume are indeed very, very odd--as suggested by that last fact. [5]
- For so beautiful a woman, of so worldly a stock, of a society so in the front of things, she had some Philistine notions, some quite middle-class ideals. [11]
- No one but a trained novelist can make a long-striding, resolute, down-East woman conform to his notions of conduct and fashion. [4]
- I never saw a person with more correct notions on such a variety of subjects. [4]
- But he was a good judge of character, and under his notions of discipline and of industry he was a kindly man, as his clerks, who feared his sharp oversight, knew. [4]
- Finally she said, "No, our staid, steady-going Hawkeye friends' notions and mine differ about some things --they respect me, now, and I respect them--better leave it so--I will go alone; I am not afraid to travel by myself. [5]
- Once he wrote: "My notions have mightily changed lately.... [5]
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