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Sentences starting with thinking

Thinking it better to give the impression that she had had a successful interview, she shook her head mysteriously when asked about M'sieu', and murmured, "He is quite the gentleman! [11]
Thinking that perhaps this was only a whim of Jasmine's, and merely done because it gave a new interest to a restless temperament, Stafford had at first rejected the proposal. [11]
Thinking now of the whole business and of his past life, Mattingley suddenly had a pang. [11]
Thinking only that some daring Boer was doing the thing with a thousand odds against him, they roared approval as the gun came nearer and nearer. [11]
Thinking of this she rose from her knees and ceased to weep. [10]
Thinking of the rescue--what else? [5]
Thinking of the portrait, he saw Conrad's face before him, reproachful, astonished, but all gentle as it looked when Conrad caught his hand that day after he struck him; he heard him say, "Father! [8]
Thinking over my plans, as mapped out, I perceived that they did not take in the Furka Pass, the Rhone Glacier, the Finsteraarhorn, the Wetterhorn, etc. [5]
Thinking people are not going to be scared out of explaining or at least trying to explain things by the shrieks of persons whose beliefs are disturbed thereby. [6]
Thinking had saved her till he came. [11]

Sentences ending with thinking

Is that what you're thinking? [9]
I was ambitious; yet I find solace in thinking that I saw only one way to it,--by patience, industry, and much thinking. [11]
Give me boldness without rashness, and hope without vain thinking. [11]
Our university town was very much like the real country, in those days of which I am thinking. [6]
His bullet-shaped head was unusually large, and his face, with its narrow brow and small, lustreless eyes, showed that he was not prone to thinking. [10]
And Comyn,--of what was he thinking? [9]
The Colonel's no vera mindful of that, I'm thinking. [9]
Colonel Clark rode twenty paces in front, alone, his head bowed with thinking. [9]
It sets me to thinking. [7]
It set him thinking. [9]

Short sentences using thinking

He's been thinking, this summer. [9]
They fell to thinking. [5]
It set us thinking. [5]
And went on thinking. [5]
Perhaps she was thinking. [4]
You can't help thinking. [2]
It set him thinking. [11]
I have been thinking. [11]
Paula stood still, thinking. [10]
I cannot help thinking that. [4]

Sentences containing thinking two or more times

You complain that we employers aren't thinking of you, but are you thinking of the millions of the unskilled who live from hand to mouth? [9]
For days he wandered in lonely places, thinking, thinking, thinking --trying to get his bearings. [5]
Tom never listened to this one at all, but set there thinking and thinking, miles and miles away. [5]
He married her, thinking, and she thinking, that she was a widowed woman. [11]
So at last they got just about dead broke, and laid around the raft as she floated along, thinking and thinking, and never saying nothing, by the half a day at a time, and dreadful blue and desperate. [5]
He walked the streets all day, thinking; he walked them all night, thinking, thinking, and growing hungrier and hungrier. [5]
As he sat so, thinking, he wondered where she was, and why he should be thinking of her now, facing the dreary sorrow of this pestilence and his own anger and vengeance. [11]
Their thinking it right and our thinking it wrong is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. [7]
Their thinking it right and our thinking it wrong is the precise fact on which depends the whole controversy. [7]
We are all restless; we all have been going, going--nowhere; we have all been doing, doing--nothing; we have all been thinking, thinking, thinking--of ourselves. [11]

More example sentences with the word thinking in them

But it is your own happiness I am thinking of. [4]
It's just like you, thinking he's doing her a good turn. [9]
No stranger puzzles you so much as the once close friend, with whose thinking and associates you have for years been unfamiliar. [4]
I have heard you say so many times that nobody could be a great artist without passing years and years at work, and growing pale and lean with thinking so hard. [6]
I've been thinking you over lately. [9]
I'm thinking that you may be of those who went out to the Arctic Sea with Sir John Franklin--with Sir John Franklin, you understand. [11]
Nobody could tell you how to find any place in the kingdom, for nobody ever went intentionally to any place, but only struck it by accident in his wanderings, and then generally left it without thinking to inquire what its name was. [5]
Why, what can you be thinking about, Stormy? [5]
I know what you are thinking--you're thinking this is a squirt. [6]
Don't talk, thinking you are going to find out your neighbor, for you won't do it, but talk to find out yourself. [6]
It was a year after that terrible affair of the necklace, and she wished to be distracted from thinking of the calumnies which were being heaped upon her. [9]
Mr. Penhallow was writing hard at his table, not thinking of him, it was plain enough. [6]
But the old writer, I said to The Teacups, as I say to you, my readers, labors under one special difficulty, which I am thinking of and exemplifying at this moment. [6]
Of course she would, and of course you ought to be ashamed of yourself for thinking of it. [11]
What in the world are you thinking of, with your brow all puckered up, forbidding as an owl? [9]
I hunted the woods where it had happened, beating everywhere, thinking that, perhaps, it was dead. [11]
They went away without thinking of the tremendous significance of that immense and wealthy city being given over to destruction, for a great city with wooden buildings was certain when abandoned by its inhabitants to be burned. [2]
She admired Henderson, without thinking any too well of the world in general, and she admired him for the qualities that were most conformable to his inclination. [4]
He is wholly without hope, and is only thinking of throwing away everything and flying to some foreign land. [5]
Paulus did not withdraw, he accepted the blow from his victim as a gift or a greeting, thinking, "Aye, and I only wish you had a dagger in your hand; I would not resist you. [10]
Instead of this, with only a smattering of civil engineering, he is at his mother's house, fretting and fuming over his ill-luck, and the hardness and, dishonesty of men, and thinking of nothing but how to get the coal out of the Ilium hills. [5]
He cannot stop with merely thinking a thing is so and so; he must know it; for this is eminently one of the 'exact' sciences. [5]
Prince Andrew gazed with anxious curiosity at that impassive face and wished he could tell what, if anything, this man was thinking and feeling at that moment. [2]
Why, certainly I will; what are you thinking of! [5]
His loving old wife sat near by, contentedly knitting and thinking, with a cat asleep in her lap. [5]
At last the wife looked up and said: "I know what you are thinking, Edward. [5]
She was not wicked enough to wish that; yet in the past few weeks she had found herself capable of thinking things beyond the bounds of any past experience. [11]
But, during the whole of her recital, she could not rid herself of the apprehension that he was thinking her interference unwarranted, her coming an indelicate repetition of the other visit. [9]
During these spectacles, which were followed by other similar ones, Barbara had been thinking of her own affairs, and gazed more frequently at her lover and his distinguished guests than at the former. [10]
But touch him where we may he feels a hurt; and while Uncle Conrad and the rest press him with questions, he can only point to his head and lips, which are too weak for thinking or speaking. [10]
Another example is where he speaks of Quintus Curtius, the historian, when he is thinking of Mettus Curtius, the self-sacrificing equestrian. [6]
She was glad when they came to live at the Bridge House, and shamed too: glad because they could live apart from the other villagers; shamed because it exposed her to the curiosity of those who visited the House, thinking it was still a tavern. [11]
Why is it when something happens like--like this, that we should suddenly be torn with doubts about him, when we have lived the best part of our lives without so much as thinking of him? [9]
She knew that when he thought aloud in this way he would sometimes ask her what he had been saying, and be vexed if he noticed that she had been thinking about something else. [2]
I don't know what your father could have been thinking of. [5]
Tell me of what you are thinking and what doing. [11]
He knew of what she was thinking, and he did not consider it of serious consequence. [11]
That she mistook what really was in his eyes was not material, though he was thinking of days when he believed he had discovered the secret of life--a woman whose life was beautiful; diffusing beauty, contentment, inspiration and peace. [11]
Do you know what I'm thinking of? [8]
I don't know what I could have been thinking of. [5]
Shorland was thinking what all this meant to Clare Hazard and Luke Freeman. [11]
Once his family were his sole thought, but now he goes about thinking of his fish-hooks all the time. [5]
At first you were almost always thinking of her and what a fine woman she was, and because everyone admired her, you played the peacock, too. [11]
I know too well what you are thinking of. [6]
When we think we are thinking, we are for the most part only listening to sound of attrition between these inert elements of intelligence. [6]
I have my way of thinking, you have yours; thus we each know what the other means; but after the tragedy comes the satyr play, and we may as well finish this agitating evening with an hour's friendly chat. [10]
As yet she was used to thinking and speaking with all candour. [11]
Impatient as I was to be gone, I sat me down in the coffee room, thinking every minute the man must return, and strongly apprehensive that Captain Daniel must be in some grave predicament. [9]
She knew he was thinking what all the North knew, that she was the first person to take the Dog Nose Rapids in a canoe, down the great river scarce a stone's-throw from her door; and that she had done it in safety many times. [11]
I judged he was thinking that here was a man who as a servant would be invaluable. [11]
The plan he was thinking out must be allowed to ripen to its full horror. [10]
But what I was thinking of was this--it struck me just as I was going out of the door: Didn't you tell me Lindau knew forty or fifty, different languages? [8]
Yes, and he was thinking of Cynthia. [9]
She said she was quite ready to go to New York; she had been thinking it all over, and now she really wanted to go. [8]
In fact, he was not thinking much about being good or being bad, but of trying his powers in a world which seemed to offer to him infinite opportunities. [4]
And I profess, was I to live neighbours with such a man, I might come to his way of thinking, despite myself. [9]
But Jean Jacques was far from thinking of these things as he drove back from Vilray and from his episode in Court to the Manor Cartier. [11]
While the physician was approaching the little castle, she of whom he was so eagerly thinking awaited his return with feverish suspense. [10]
Her remaining here was an affront to all right thinking people. [9]
All night I walked the deck thinking of you. [11]
And as Philip walked home, thinking how brilliant Evelyn had been in their little talk, he began to dramatize the excursion. [4]
A new and violent emotion was stirring her young soul; not many minutes since she had squatted peacefully on the ground by the side of the wounded man, with her head resting on her hand, and thinking of her goats on the mountain. [10]
Had she not used the same word in thinking of Askatoon. [11]
Why, he came up here and begged me--" "I wasn't thinking of Humphrey Crewe," said Victoria. [9]
Then, thinking herself unobserved by those present, she breathed a kiss upon his lips. [10]
The rector, not unfeeling by nature, but inveterately professional by habit, had already recovered enough to be thinking of a text for the funeral sermon. [6]
He read without understanding half of it, read only to forget, if but for a moment, what he had too long been thinking of so painfully to the exclusion of all else. [2]
Throughout the long twelve hundred miles there was never a page that was void of interest, never one that you could leave unread without loss, never one that you would want to skip, thinking you could find higher enjoyment in some other thing. [5]
From these thoughts, trying enough for a starved lad, I fell to thinking of my father on the frontier fighting the Cherokees. [9]
Meantime, did you try commanding your mind to wait for orders from you, and not do any thinking on its own hook? [5]
He asks, if Trumbull thought so then, what ground is there for anybody thinking otherwise now? [7]
Now, it is true, he was justified in thinking her harsh and unfeeling, for where love had once blossomed in her soul, a spring of bitterness now gushed forth poisoning all it touched. [10]
The doctor was troubled in thinking over his interview with the young lady. [6]
If it's a tragedy"--she drew herself up with a little shudder, for she was thinking of that figure dropping from Elise's window--"you cannot stop it. [11]
Take my horses to-night, leave here, and come back no more; and so none of us shall feel sorrow in thinking of the time when Valmond came to Pontiac. [11]
His lips, pressed together, curled in with a trick they had when he was thinking hard, planning things. [11]
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else,--very rarely to those who say to themselves, "Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual! [6]
I became accustomed to this dumb society, and picked on in silence, attributing all the wood noises to the cattle, thinking nothing of any real bear. [4]
I am used to thinking quickly, and by the time I had read this I had an idea. [9]
Then I set to thinking over how to get at it, and turned over some considerable many ways in my mind; and at last fixed up a plan that suited me. [5]
He was accustomed to thinking of it calmly, sometimes wistfully, even to such a degree that the thought of self-destruction had come upon him as a temptation. [6]
If you have to think about one person, you should stop thinking about another; anyhow, you've got to make yourself stop. [11]
On his way to the house Pierre kept thinking of Prince Andrew, of their friendship, of his various meetings with him, and especially of the last one at Borodino. [2]
Klea was about to stroke the coaxing animal, but it sprang back, stared at her shyly, and, as she could not help thinking, angrily with its green eyes, and then shrank back into the corner close to Irene's couch. [10]
I am sorry to see, my dear, that you are thinking only of yourself. [4]
I was thinking to myself that I should like to see what the inside of the jail was like; Satan overheard the thought, and the next moment we were in the jail. [5]
Since you speak to me about the matter, it's only fair to myself to say that a good deal goes on in life without much thinking of consequences. [8]
So, from marvel to marvel you have drifted on, thinking all the time that the one last seen must be the chiefest. [5]
Then I began to make preparations, and meanwhile fell to thinking again about him who was now the Reverend Galt Roscoe. [11]
Instead of continuing to listen to the Greek sentences which Herr Wilibald Pirckheimer was reading aloud to the others, he could not help thinking of the pious, gentle little woman who, with her cheerful kindness, so well understood how to comfort and to sustain courage. [10]
I even forgot to lay any flowers on my mother's grave, as usual on the day of the Nekysia, because I was thinking only of him. [10]
I followed him to his habitat, being very willing to see in what kind of warren he burrowed, and thinking I might pick up something about the boarders who had excited my curiosity. [6]
Jim was thinking to himself, and at last he says: "Mars Tom, we's mos' to de end er de Desert now, I speck. [5]
It always seemed to her that everyone who looked at her was thinking only of what had happened to her. [2]
I suppose this to have been a fancy of hers, or a kind of magnetic power she could give out;--at any rate, I cannot help thinking she wills her strength away from herself, for she has lost vigor and color from that day. [6]
Usually she liked to dress slowly, thinking meanwhile of many things which stirred her soul. [10]
If he has to do so, he gives his life with a stony sense of loss which has none of the composure of those who have solace in thinking that what they leave behind has a constantly decreasing value. [11]
The water seems to do half the thinking while one is looking at it; its movements are felt in the brain very much like thought. [6]
Then he set to deliberate thinking, and there came to him the startling conviction that he must leave Surprise Valley and take Bess with him. [13]
It was calculated to deceive all except thinking men, and to silence all save a merciless logician. [9]

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