5640 examples of notion in sentences

"No, not engaged to anything or anybody, but I've a notion I shall be, soon, if all goes well!

Now, perhaps, he's got the crazy notion in his head that we might prosecute him either for what he tried to do up here to our hydroplane, or on account of breaking into our hangar, and doing a certain amount of damage, if the vandal was Percy Carberry.

but the cautious victor had no notion of such prompt manoeuvring; nor would he risk against foreign enemies the exhaustion of forces destined for the enslavement of his people.

Some municipal fêtes given about this time afford a notion of their opulence.

She had as yet no notion whatever of what she would do with her liberty and her income and the future; but she thought vaguely of something heroic, grandiose, and unusual.

You know what my notion is"he included Hilda in his address"my notion is to get some experience first in a smaller house.

You know what my notion is"he included Hilda in his address"my notion is to get some experience first in a smaller house.

We must pay for our experience, and my notion is to pay as little as possible.

She had no notion of his financial resources, but her instinct was to consider them infinite.

It was, indeed, a notion he had taken up, that as the ideas derived from visible objects (to use his own words) are more distinct than those derived from any other source, the words expressive of those ideas belonging to vision make up the principal part of poetic language.

O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us: It wad frae monie a blunder free us An' foolish notion.

As the long hours worked in the tailors' garrets were attended with other evilsa low rate of wages, unsanitary conditions, irregularity of employment, and occasional tyranny in all the forms which attend industrial authorityall these evils became attached to the notion of sweating.

For, say what you will, the public has no sense for excellence, and therefore no notion how very rare it is to find men really capable of doing anything great in poetry, philosophy, or art, or that their works are alone worthy of exclusive attention.

It must be that uncle isSometimes he takes a notion.

I don't know how such a rotten notion got into my head.

Beginning without attempting an exact definition of government, because we all have a notion of what it is, we notice that only certain animals are government-forming.

How scientific prigs shook with laughter at the notion of a flying dragon!

No, you speak of the quality of the thoughts conveyed in the words; that a style is powerful, because the writer is feeling and thinking strongly and clearly; weak or frigid, because his feelings on the subject have been weak or cold; obscure to you, because his thoughts have been obscure to himselfbecause, in short, he has not clearly imagined to himself the notion which he wishes to embody.

Their highest notion of God was that he was a little above their owner.

But facts disprove the truth of this notion.

This involves the same fallacy as the "lump of labor notion," the destruction of machinery, and the praise of waste and luxury.

Some prisoners have imagined they would get their death with cold from a single night passed within itbut that's a mistaken notion altogether.

He laughed at the notion of the veilsaid it was a delicate fancy, and quite charmed himbut as to the ten thousand marks, they were utterly unworthy of her acceptance, and she should have thrice the amount delivered to her in a silver coffer before the ceremony.

The wren is a great fighting character, continually getting into broils with the other birds, and he has no notion of being driven off; and, although the kingbirds, with Sam's assistance, generally succeed in expelling the intruder, it is only after a hard fight.

In 1606 came a second treatise on the new star, discussing various theories to account for its appearance, and refusing to accept the notion that it was a "fortuitous concourse of atoms".

5640 examples of  notion  in sentences