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She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;
As she drove, she thought about her plan.
That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.
Unanimously they believe that the world would become a safer place if more of us -- and more Russians and Communist Chinese, too -- thought about accidental war.
He had not even thought about her much except once or twice at night in bed when his slowly ranging thoughts would abruptly, almost accidentally, encounter her.
He thought about it briefly, then deliberately turned the talk to something else.
But the thought occurred that God would want this opportunity used to tell them about Him.
He thought that if once, only once, he could talk with Simms Purdew, something about his own life, and all life, would be clear and simple.
He thought of Simms Purdew, who once had risen at the edge of a cornfield, a maniacal scream on his lips, and swung a clubbed musket like a flail to beat down the swirl of Rebel bayonets about him.
He would have to work without questioning the motives which made him work and content himself with the thought that the eventual victory, however it was brought about, would be sweet indeed.
He was awful angry because he'd thought Ma was going to do something big, something heroic even, especially for her I know him I know him we felt the same sometimes while Ma wasn't thinking about that at all, not anything like that.
Finally he said, `` Tell me about yourself '', and Linda Kay told him, because she thought herself that she had had an interesting life.
His first thought is about the question itself: Is there a question here for American foreign policy, and, if so, what is it??
How about them, I thought.
And it is thought by many who think about such things that Quasimodo is the logical culmination of a school that started with Monet, progressed through Kandinsky and the cubist Picasso, and blossomed just recently in Pollock and De Kooning.
At Yalta he thought more about the six million Germans who would have to leave, trying to find work in Germany, and Roosevelt objected to the Western Neisse River being chosen in the south, instead of the Eastern Neisse, both of which flow into the Oder.
With this seven-word sentence -- though the speaker undoubtedly thought he was dealing only with the subject of food -- he was telling things about himself and, in the last two examples, revealing that he had departed from the customs of his culture.
`` To give up these notions required a revolution in thought '', Mr. Clark said in reminiscing about the abrupt changes in ideas he experienced when he began reading `` Organic Gardening '' And `` Modern Nutrition '' in a search for help with his problems.
You've thought about it before in a hazy sort of way.
The Greek evidently fell for her, `` Monsieur X '' recounted, and to clinch what he thought was an affair in the making he gave her 100,000 francs ( about $300 ) and led her to the roulette tables.
Though there was an occasional good-natured chuckle about Marvin Goulding, the Jewish officer from Chicago, singing tearfully about the ould sod, no one really thought it was strange.
She told police about the prospective tenant she had heard quarreling with her father some weeks before the murders, but she said she thought he was from out of town because she heard him mention something about talking to his partner.

thought and told
First he thought of the time he had ridden to Gavin and told him how his cattle were being rustled at the far end of the valley.
`` I thought I told you to stay home ''.
When he was told that no one had seen Burton since then, he thought of three other places that were possibilities.
`` This year, coach Royal told me if I'd work on my place-kicking he thought he could use me '', said Moritz.
`` I thought '', Midshipman Rogers had told Alexander, `` that Spencer was teaching him geometry ''.
The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).
" I thought the name was a horror ... terrible ," Morrison told The Press-Enterprise of Riverside in 2007.
" Yates then told Brooks that, " Country singers always seem to be weeping over the dead dog and things ," and also remarked, " I thought you'd come in here and twiddle your pistol around and be impressed.
Gödel is not known to have told anyone about his work on the proof until 1970, when he thought he was dying.
Hawkins dryly commented that Jahangir made his nephews Christian " not for any zeal he had to Christianity, as the Fathers, and all Christians thought ; but upon the prophecies of certain learned Gentiles, who told him that the sons of his should be disinherited, and the children of his brother should reign.
Dixon told an interviewer that he even cleared the name with New Orleans ' Archbishop Philip M. Hannan: " He thought it would be a good idea.
Spike decided to identify with his character, and told disbelieving reporters that he thought it would be a nice comfortable rest for him.
When Pete Exline told them about the homework in a baggie incident, the Coens thought that that was very Raymond Chandler-esque and decided to integrate elements of the author's fiction into their script.
My husband told me that when he was a lad of seventeen a thought struck him suddenly, which became the foundation of all his future discoveries.
After singing the song, “ a tall, craggly man who looked like a mountain ” told Martin that he thought she had something special.
In 1973, child psychiatrist Herbert Schreier at Children ’ s Hospital told Harvard Medical School microbiologist Jon Beckwith of Science for the People that he thought Walzer ’ s Boston XYY study was unethical ; Science for the People investigated the study and filed a complaint with Harvard Medical School about the study in March 1974.
The poem received mixed reviews from critics, and Coleridge was once told by the publisher that most of the book's sales were to sailors who thought it was a naval songbook.
Remember, Men Have Feelings, Too ", he told Mann he thought there was a play possibility about a young woman in that type of setting.
Despite being diagnosed with cancer in January 1966, he was never told that he was terminally ill or that he had cancer ; Keaton thought that he was recovering from bronchitis.
" The first day I saw him on the set ," co-producer Ian Praiser told Rolling Stone, " I thought, ' Too bad he won't be in television for long.
The song " Daddy " was described by lead singer Jonathan Davis " When I was a kid, I was being abused by somebody else and I went to my parents and told them about it, and they thought I was lying and joking around.
" Woodrow Wyatt thought her " much more pro-Conservative " than other members of the royal family, but she later told him, " I like the dear old Labour Party.

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