785 examples of state of mind in sentences

The doctor after a cursory examination gave very little hope, and I left the hospital in a most wretched state of mind, feeling more than indirectly responsible for the end of that bright young life.

You would hear every by-end of retaliative and sniggered-over mythology, and in your present state of mind you would believe all of them.

There is no telling how many anxious people there may have been in that region that night, a little after supper; but there was no doubt of the state of mind in at least three family circles.

While retracing his steps in no enviable state of mind to his lodgings, with a resolution of returning immediately to L, his arm was suddenly taken by his friend Chatterton.

What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty.

One who reads Ruskin is in a state of mind analogous to that of a man who goes through a picture gallery, pausing now to admire a face or a landscape for its own sake, and again to marvel at the technical skill of the artist, without regard to his subject.

Over and over again, had he argued with himself in this strain, and yet, in spite of it all, he had not been able to bring himself into a state of mind in which he could sit down and write to her a letter, which, in his estimation, would be certain to seal and complete the engagement.

For several weeks longer I was in a troubled state of mind.

And if certain religious ideas and actions ally themselves with the pious state of mind, these are not essential constituents of religion, but derivative elements, which possess a religious significance only in so far as they immediately develop from piety and exert an influence upon it.

Could I, in such a state of mind as the gospel requires me to cherish, reduce him to slavery or keep him in bonds?

A few extracts from her letters will give glimpses of her state of mind during this winter, and show also how the thoughtful spirit, which from the first tempered the excitements of her new experience, was deepened by the loss of very dear friends.

Thus not knowing or divining anything of the various human under-currents, save, perhaps, that he guessed Donnington to be in love with Bubbles, Dr. Panton went off to bed in a very cheerful and contented state of mind.

I was in a peculiar state of mind.

The woman he befriended, when he was in a better state of mind, had been married nine or ten years, and had long ceased to think of danger, when he formed the wicked project of making a little money by betraying her to her master.

They gave Philistinism many a shrewd blow, but perhaps at the same time helped to some degreewith other far deeper and stronger forcesto produce that sceptical and centrifugal state of mind, which now tends to nullify organised liberalism and paralyse the spirit of improvement.

"It is significant of my state of mind at this time that, before starting, I considered what weapon I should take with me.

I should like to say, I write too well to be able to describe to you my inward state of mind.

"I met old Mrs. Jones in a terrible state of mind.

Merritt grew so anxious that he could hardly keep from pacing up and down to conceal his nervous state of mind.

And when Sam and Peter asked him 'ow he 'ad got on, he was in such a state of mind it was all 'e could do to answer 'em.

The state of mind which Thorndyke had advised me to cultivate was one that did not come easily.

Indeed, to one in that state of mind the evils appear very small or nonexistent.

What would have been her state of mind had she known her father to have conceived these base tricks?

In it Spirit-rising above the limitations of temporal and secular existencebecomes conscious of the Absolute Spirit, and, in this consciousness of the Self-Existent Being, renounces its individual interest; it lays this aside in devotiona state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular.

Image flows into image, thought into thought, until at last the state of mind is revealed, inform and molten, driving darkly through a vast storm of words.

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