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Sentences starting with thinks

Thinks I, it won't do to run into him, so I shunted to one side and tore along. [5]
Thinks I, it won't do to paddle; first I know I'll run into the bank or a towhead or something; I got to set still and float, and yet it's mighty fidgety business to have to hold your hands still at such a time. [5]
Thinks it probable that Y. is here now, for the place. [7]
Thinks nobody can see through him, and there's nobody that can't. [11]
Thinks I, the old man will be glad when he sees this--she's worth ten dollars. [5]
Thinks they 'don't know anything but cotton;' believes they don't know how to raise vegetables and fruit--'at least the most of them. [5]
Thinks I, what is the country a-coming to? [5]
Thinks he has invented a way to force us to learn to speak German. [5]
Thinks I, what does it mean? [5]
Thinks he is a very nice little man, but lives dreadful lonely up in his chamber. [6]

Sentences ending with thinks

Their heads are worth a good deal to the Khedive, he thinks. [11]
I am a working man, but I know what Ingolby thinks. [11]
Let us prove that we are--not--like the others," she said, lifting her head, "and then it cannot matter to us what any one thinks. [9]
That is as one thinks. [9]
No, that is not quite it: it is what he thinks he can stupefy a particularly and unspeakably dull reader into thinking it is what he thinks. [5]
In Syria, at Megiddo I could work undisturbed; now I know what the organ is that thinks. [10]
That is, it is what he thinks he thinks. [5]
For this decision is a just exposition of the Constitution, as Judge Douglas thinks. [7]
I'm not as green as he thinks. [9]
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks? [6]

Short sentences using thinks

She thinks of everything. [5]
What thinks Grimes about it? [7]
He thinks I'm a god. [9]

Sentences containing thinks two or more times

There is no woman but thinks that her husband, the green-grocer, could write poetry if he had given his mind to it, or else she thinks small beer of poetry in comparison with an occupation or accomplishment purely vegetable. [4]
She thinks and thinks upon the scar that shows where she wounded herself; and she never forgets, and so her life becomes nothing--nothing. [11]
But it is of much less consequence what a man thinks and says when he is changed by pain, weakness, apprehension, than what he thinks when he is truly and wholly himself. [6]
Sir,--said he,--it is n't what a man thinks or says; but when and where and to whom he thinks and says it. [6]
The nurse thinks it was Sunday, the surgeon thinks it was Tuesday. [5]
He also says he has many constituents who he thinks are rightly exiled, but that he thinks these three should be allowed to return. [7]
Everybody calls himself a lady or gentleman, and thinks he is, and don't care what anybody else thinks him, so long as he don't say it out loud. [5]

More example sentences with the word thinks in them

Your mouths are your own, and you can blow off to suit your fancy, but if any one thinks I'm a tame coyote to be poked with a stick--! [11]
Your estimate of your own ability is not the question, it is what the patient thinks of it. [3]
The head tells you pretty promptly whether the food is satisfactory or not; and everybody hears, and thinks the whole man has spoken. [5]
He thinks of you as a person of convictions--and he has heard things about you. [9]
No one thinks you a coward, but that's not the point. [2]
This alone, the writer thinks, gives him some right to greatness. [9]
He thinks you would starve me. [5]
Whatever a man would do himself, he thinks others are capable of. [10]
He thinks that with the hundred-day men and invalids we have here we can defend Washington, and, scarcely, Baltimore. [7]
If you are willing to aid and abet a countryman (and Gilder thinks you are,) please find the signature and address of your petitioner below. [5]
I hope that will cure her of saying what she thinks of people. [9]
That other one whom he thinks he loves better than he does me is tall and beautiful and majestic--like you; and I have always told myself that his future wife ought to look like you. [10]
Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. [7]
He grows worse who continues in sin because he thinks himself forgiven. [5]
When one thinks who and what--what trash--can cause people misery! [2]
It is something which others believe, and perhaps he himself thinks, he might overcome. [6]
In this paragraph, which I have quoted in your hearing, and to which I ask the attention of all, Judge Douglas thinks he discovers great political heresy. [7]
In the comment which he made, when it was shown to him twenty-two years later, he tells us why he thinks this letter was not sent. [5]
I will do whatever he bids me in perfect confidence; and what he thinks about me you may judge for yourself, for he is going to put me in the care of his tutor Eusebius. [10]
You can get what the European hotel-keeper thinks is coffee, but it resembles the real thing as hypocrisy resembles holiness. [5]
He thinks you were foolish to take Zeb Meader's side. [9]
I doubt if we have more practical freedom in America than they have in England,---I said.--An Englishman thinks as he likes in religion and politics. [6]
Just as he was passing in front of Demosthenes and Thucydides' drug store, he was observing casually to a gentleman, who, our informant thinks, is a fortune-teller, that the Ides of March were come. [5]
Nature, he thinks, was never so completely acted out. [4]
He thinks we want to get "his place," I suppose. [7]
From what Mr. Wallace has observed of the habits of certain gallinaceous birds in the East, he thinks that such slight differences are beneficial. [1]
When the governor wakes in the morning he thinks first of his salary; he has not the least anxiety about his daily bread or the support of his family. [4]
Mr. C. Staniland Wake argues strongly ('Anthropologia,' March, 1874, p. 197) against the views held by these three writers on the former prevalence of almost promiscuous intercourse; and he thinks that the classificatory system of relationship can be otherwise explained. [1]
A healthy man usually thinks of, feels, and remembers innumerable things simultaneously, but has the power and will to select one sequence of thoughts or events on which to fix his whole attention. [2]
But it pursues us, and when the soul fondly thinks itself already blended in union with the Most High it cries out 'Here am I! [10]
No abuse of us is too bad for them, and the King thinks like his soldiers. [10]
Paaker has given us a good piece of arable land, and thinks, perhaps with reason, that he has done his part. [10]
He was brought up in the old school, and he thinks we're all just lahke he was when he was young, with all those ahdeals of chivalry and family; but, mah goodness! [8]
If he looks up at an apple-tree in blossom and a bird is piping in the branches, all he thinks of is how soon the happy creature will be killed by the cat! [10]
Is it so unpleasant for a man who thinks he is penniless to be told that he has made the year's income of a cabinet minister? [11]
A weak man, unless he be a good hunter, and well-beloved, is seldom permitted to keep a wife that a stronger man thinks worth his notice. [1]
Naturally, everybody was troubled, for a prophecy is a grisly and awful thing, whether one thinks it ascends from hell or comes down from heaven. [5]
If he chooses to vote for the Devil, that is his lookout;--perhaps he thinks the Devil is better than the other candidates; and I don't doubt he's often right, Sir. [6]
It was reported to us that your powers could not attain unto their full strength until the morrow; but--" "Your Majesty thinks the report may have been a lie? [5]
He has been to the new island St. Thomas, but he says he thinks things are unsettled there. [5]
Miss Mela explained to the Marches: "Mother was raised among the Dunkards, and she thinks it's wicked to wear anything but a gray silk even for dress-up. [8]
Joseph is gone to Nice to educate himself in Kodaking--and to get the pictures mounted which Mamma thinks she took here; but I noticed she didn't take the plug out, as a rule. [5]
Now, in relation to my not having said anything about the quotation from the Chicago speech: he thinks that is a terrible subject for me to handle. [7]
Grant don't seem to know Yeatman very well, but thinks very well of him so far as he knows. [7]
I want you to keep faith with your old friend who doesn't care what the rest of the world thinks, but who wants your confidence. [11]
Nobody will go to jail nowadays who thinks anything of himself. [4]
It is marvelous to him that all the world does not want her too, and he is in a panic when he thinks of it. [4]
And so thinks Timokhin and the whole army. [2]
If he avoids this courtesy now from principle, of course I find no fault with it at all--only if he thinks it is principle he may be mistaken; a close examination may show it is only a bowing to the tyranny of public opinion. [5]
The member who thinks, without getting his thought from Mrs. Eddy before uttering it, is banished permanently. [5]
This life, he thinks, may suit a person who has taken leave of his property and the world, but he still clings to both, and especially to me, the poor wife who has been parted from him so long. [10]
The question, he thinks, is now settled that a statesman can never again be called to administer the government of the country. [6]
Manners, gently, "he thinks you dead. [9]
There ain't anybody thinks you are alive. [5]
And who that thinks with me will not fearlessly adopt the oath that I take? [7]
A woman's brain thinks wild things. [11]
He says he thinks there is money in it. [5]
But not so thinks the paternal bishop, who waves a blessing, which I catch in the flash of the enormous emerald on his right hand. [4]
If any one thinks that two cents each is high, let him try to raise them. [4]
Whatever Lord Mallow thinks or does, this is no place for you. [11]
Apparently she never thinks of herself, and positively she seems to take no time to eat or sleep. [4]
If any one thinks meanly of Penelope for counting upon the heroism of Irene to effect her unhappiness, let him reflect of how little consequence is the temporary happiness of one or two individuals compared with the peace and comfort of a whole social order. [4]
Not that she thinks me a Le Notre"--Alison laughed--"What I mean is, she sees behind, she sees why it is fashionable to have a garden, since she has worked out the values of that existence. [9]
I know Edith thinks I've gone into the depths of the Orient. [4]
Still, the fabulist thinks it a good idea to do that. [5]
I suppose he thinks I would buy it. [9]
If a man thinks his guard sleeps, and makes a run for it, they do not chase--they fire; and if he escapes unhurt, good; he is not troubled. [11]
Yet every man thinks his choice belongs to the first class; even King began to wonder that all Newport was not raving over Irene's beauty. [4]
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]
If the reader thinks he is done, now, and that this book has no moral to it, he is in error. [5]
My father honestly thinks he is an earl. [5]
A good many thinks he done it. [5]
The winter, he thinks (if there is a difference), is sharper and longer; but yet he may be deceived by the want of the comforts he enjoyed at home. [3]
By and by things got desperate with him; he sets his head to work and thinks it all out, and then what does he do? [5]
Whoever wants a thing for some one else only thinks of his own interest. [10]
This barkeeper thinks there hasn't been such another stir here in years, as his coming is going to raise. [5]
Houzeau thinks that their imaginations are disturbed by the vague outlines of the surrounding objects, and conjure up before them fantastic images: if this be so, their feelings may almost be called superstitious. [1]
Thee thinks perhaps thee knows Egypt--none knows her. [11]
I'm quite sure the world thinks I'm one of your spent flames, and there never was any fire, not so big as the point of a needle, was there? [11]
And she thinks the world is a magnificent place, and she loves it, and wallows--fairly wallows--in content. [11]
He takes up the statement of Paul in the Epistle to the Corinthians, which he thinks, all things considered, ought not to alter our opinion derived from the Evangelists. [6]
The fall knocked the sense out of George, for he hasn't much, and Stavordale thinks he must have struck a stake as he went in. [9]
Commonly, the cause, the sect, the party, the trade, the delusion, the idea, gets its newspaper, its organ, its advocate, only when some individual thinks he can see a pecuniary return in establishing it. [4]
Go on; for the sake of ease and convenience, stick to habit: speak in the first person, and tell me what your Master thinks about it. [5]
But I am the only person who has noticed this; everybody here thinks He is playing the game for this side, and for this side only. [5]
She is doubtless the only member of that society who thinks seriously of the approaching end. [10]
John looks after the old gentleman driving off in state, with the odorous buffalo-robe and the new whip, and he thinks that is the sort of farming he would like to do. [4]
She thinks it's the moral aspect, but it's really the revolutionary aspect, the menace to those precious institutions from which we derive our privileges and comforts. [9]
We will shed the last drops of our blood to accomplish it, and every true Castilian thinks as I do. [10]
You see, Austen's the kind of man who doesn't care what anybody thinks, if he takes it into his head to do a thing. [9]
With respect to the Hamadryas turning over stones, the fact is given (s. 76), on the evidence of Alvarez, whose observations Brehm thinks quite trustworthy. [1]
The President thinks the great body of us Fremonters, being ardently attached to liberty, in the abstract, were duped by a few wicked and designing men. [7]
By the Constitution, the executive may recommend measures which he may think proper, and he may veto those he thinks improper, and it is supposed that he may add to these certain indirect influences to affect the action of Congress. [7]
Publius Scipio, on the contrary, thinks and sees and speaks with perfect independence, and his upright sense guides him to the truth without any trouble or special training. [10]
In one of the cases alluded to by Dr. Bartels, a man bore five mammae, one being medial and placed above the navel; Meckel von Hemsbach thinks that this latter case is illustrated by a medial mamma occurring in certain Cheiroptera. [1]
It's Miss Badlam that's ahlwiz after her, an' a-watchin' her,--she thinks she's cunnin'er than a cat, but there 's other folks that's got eyes an' ears as good as hers. [6]
I see clearly that your mistress will be Cambyses' favorite wife, and will then forward your marriage, for she is very fond of you, and thinks no praise too high for your fidelity and skill. [10]
Teach him too that the world means better by him than he thinks, and that he must never treat it as his foe; he must not try to force its benefits and rewards. [11]
My colleague admits that the platform declares against the constitutionality of a general system of improvements, and that General Cass indorses the platform; but he still thinks General Cass is in favor of some sort of improvements. [7]
There are men that support it, that are served by it, that fill their pockets out of it; but by Joseph and by Mary, there's none thinks there couldn't be a better! [11]

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