"I was so overwhelmed by the sudden and terrible end to our adventure that I could think of nothing.

John would have preferred to put up with the discomfort of his present quarters and lay by the addition to his salary towards the more speedy realization of his day-dream, but John Randolph had never found much time to think of himself; there were always so many other people in the world to be attended to.

"Even though the colonel knows best what should be done, it seems cowardly for us to be sittin' here in safety while those poor fellows are sufferin' all that men can!" I tried to do as he would have me; but one can readily understand that at such a time it would be well-nigh impossible to think of anything save that which was being done within sight of all the garrison.

Not to mention his father and mother, there was Mrs Wilson, who had taught him to knit, and even given him a few lessons in spinning, though that had not come to much; and here was Hector Macallaster going to teach him to make shoes; and not one thing that he could think of was he capable of doing in return!

But the sacrifice cost our matron no pain, no regrets, no thought even: The same attachments which made her happy, away from the world, in the wilderness where she dwelt, supplanted all other feelings, and left her no room, or leisure, to think of such vanities.

But there is no marble about the baptistery in Fishergate Chapel, and no one would ever think of transmuting it into a residence.

It is painful to think of the dozens of girl babies in long clothes who must have been feeling premonitory pangs when Peter was four, to think they couldn't all marry him when they grew up!

He let his thoughts rest upon the more wonderful things which smouldered in his brain and leaped like fire through his veins when he dared to think of them.

He was disgusted with the triteness of this remark, but he could think of nothing else.

"He's going along to pester us just as he has been doingprobably worse, because he's had a night to think up a whole lot more fool questions to ask than he could think of yesterday.

You'll think of me thro' daylight hours, My virgin flower, my flower of flowers, My dark Rosaleen!

Could I have left home with a mother's blessing, I should be happier; but she will pray for her boy; the gentle breeze which fills our sail will bear her "God bless you" to the ear of him who will think of the dear ones at home, until he shall once more fill his place in that dearest of family circles, and thank God, my mother has such an one as you to lean upon.

It made me think of Annie, so I read it, and it told me I must love my enemies, so just like I shall do it now.

Vast portions of the wreck have been recovered, and many of her stores; but they are comparatively worthless when we think of the widows and orphans left to pine in poverty and wretchedness.

And then, rather curtly when it came to it, tired of the ingratiating preamble, she asked Clara what she would think of relinquishing all claim on Worth and taking twenty thousand dollars.

You want to think of me as a possible refuge from a lot of disagreeable things.

Anonyma said: "When I think of those old fairy-like German songs, I feel as if I had lost a bit of my heart and shall never find it again.

Culver Rann makes me think of a sleek and shining serpent.

"What do you think of such a daughter as mine here?

"You will not think of them as distinct processes going on independently of each other.

In order to understand what such a general statement means, the reader may need to think of a concrete case.

" We think of the children of Israel in Egypt, when God told them to put the blood of the lamb on their doorposts one night, so their eldest son would be spared when the death angel passed over.

Never for a moment did he think of giving up his power over the estate as long as the estate should still be his.

That he was not altogether at one with them we can understand, when we are told that at Herr von Thadden's house it would never have occurred to anyone even to think of smoking.

No, I won't go away and nurse a broken heart, but I'll think of you as a man should think of something bright and above him.