This gave me some notion of the number of the creatures, and I began to feel that the whole affair was becoming even more serious than I had imagined.

You really do have rather funny notions about Your jokes.

"Rudolph, as you are perfectly aware, would simply deplore the terribly lax modern notions in regard to marriage and talk to newspaper reporters about this much" he measured it between thumb and forefinger "concerning the beauty and chivalry of the South.

I have my notion as to its nature; but I'm not here to express notions unless you call my almost unfounded belief in him a notion.

Then without more ado I gave him my notions on the defence of the colony, for from what I had learned I judged that would interest him most.

There were two men that were lieutenants to Bacon, and maybe put the notion into his head.

But old as Sis Shalliday wasshe must 'a' been all of twenty-seven along comes a man that takes a notion to her.

About this time, many socinian writers began to publish their notions with great boldness, which the presbyterians, considering as heretical and impious, thought it necessary to confute; and, therefore, Cheynel, who had now obtained his doctor's degree, was desired, in 1649, to write a vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity, which he performed, and published the next year.

I knew the seaman's trick of throwing, having seen their brawls at the pier of Leith, and I had no notion for the steel in my throat.

Some of them went so far as to state it was their opinion that Uncle Pete had got this fool notion from some of the lawyers at the court-house when he was on a jury a month or so before.

If the savage has no notion of spirit, yet he may have, and often seems to have a very true, though of course infinitely imperfect, notion of God; nay, perhaps a truer notion than those who affirm, without any sense of using analogy, that God is a spirit.

Coles strengthens the evidence in favour of this odd notion by adding: "It is known to such as have skill of nature, what wonderful care she hath of the smallest creatures, giving to them a knowledge of medicine to help themselves, if haply diseases annoy them.

"But you'd better get this notion out of your mind, to start with, or you'll find yourself on the wrong track.

" It is also a popular notion among our peasantry that if a drop of rain hang on an oat at this season there will be a good crop.

But there was the devil of having a mind like Duchemin's: once it conceived a notion like that, it was all but impossible for him to dislodge it unless or until something happened to persuade him of his stupidity.

I thoroughly approve their original idea, but if it requires twenty picture theatres to render it practical, they will abandon the notion at once.

He discourses with great learning, and generally with great justness, of the derivation and changes of languages; but, like other men of multifarious learning, he receives some notions without examination.

He has some speculative notions against laughter, and will maintain that laughing is not natural to himwhen peradventure the next moment his lungs shall crow like Chanticleer.

" "Why, you see, she took up with some Spiritualistic notions after her mother's death; thought she held communications with her, and all that, Aunt Solomon says.

She brags of her genius, of her notion si lumineuse, of her guet-apens si adorable.

" Now grannie's notions re the stage were very tightly laced.

Tell him to 'play it up' so that the Board of Trade will get the notion through their heads that people will be attracted to live here if they see lovely grounds about them.

of is expedient Simple sent., false notions amongst grammarians of what constitutes one; the parsing of words not affected thereby Sentences, simp.

The individual who manipulated with the table cloth afterwards made a prayer, universal in several of its sentiments; but stiffened up tightly with Mormon notions towards the close.

It was more than likely she had nothing but a pretty, shallow little talent for play acting and no notion under the sun of giving up society or matrimony or what-not for the devilish hard work of a stage career.