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thought and about
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 thought about it and he told the man he just couldn't do it over in accordance with the suggestions he had made.
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.
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 briefly
In the only other key reference to Euclid, Pappus briefly mentioned in the fourth century that Apollonius " spent a very long time with the pupils of Euclid at Alexandria, and it was thus that he acquired such a scientific habit of thought.
The response arrived on 21 February, but the proposed terms were so harsh that even Lenin briefly thought that the Soviet government had no choice but to fight.
David Campbell has briefly summarized some of the most arresting qualities of Sappho's poetry: Clarity of language and simplicity of thought are everywhere evident in our fragments ; wit and rhetoric, so common in English love-poetry and not quite absent from Catullus ' love poems, are nowhere to be found.
Alec Guinness had previously played Lawrence in the play Ross, and was briefly considered for the part, but David Lean and Sam Spiegel thought him too old.
Before his death, he is thought to have named Aurelian as his successor, although Claudius ' brother Quintillus briefly seized power.
He had met these people briefly in previous years, thought them exceptionally interesting and wanted to become better acquainted.
When the British national anthem was played, the crowd in Wembley Stadium cheered, and Blankers-Koen briefly thought she had been beaten.
When it was reported several months later that she thought it was the voice of a man she had only met briefly and more than a year before, the police did not consider it a worthy lead.
In 152 BC, he briefly ruled jointly with one of his sons, known as Ptolemy Eupator, but it is thought that Ptolemy Eupator died that same year.
Although Xavier was briefly tempted to destroy the machine when he thought that Lucifer might be able to reach the exit portal before him, Jeffrey was able to help him escape by ' sending ' the Professor his own youthful energy back along their psychic link, giving Xavier the strength to beat Lucifer to the portal in a swimming race, the portal being deactivated just as Lucifer's hand attempted to emerge.
A street accident in Paris caused him to badly fracture his leg, and it was briefly thought his leg would need to be amputated.
He briefly changed the name of the band from " Coral Reefers " to the " Coral Reef Band " to suit the HLS & R's request as they thought " Reefers " was a drug related reference.
In 552, the Byzantine general Narses briefly restored Italy to the empire by defeating the Ostrogoth king Baduila in what is now known as the Battle of Taginae, the exact site of which is not known, but thought by most scholars to be a few kilometers from the town, in the plain to the west at a place called Taino.
He briefly thought of forcing her to have sex with him too, on pain of threatening to tell his father, and wrote that the experience had shattered his joy of life.
In 1510, he studied briefly with Johannes Trithemius, and Agrippa sent him an early draft of his masterpiece, De occulta philosophia libri tres, a kind of summa of early modern occult thought.
The regular radio pulses emitted by pulsars were briefly thought to be potential intelligent signals ; the first pulsar to be discovered was originally designated " LGM-1 ", for " Little Green Men.
In Natural Right and History Strauss begins with a critique of Max Weber's epistemology, briefly engages the relativism of Martin Heidegger ( who goes unnamed ), and continues with a discussion of the evolution of natural rights via an analysis of the thought of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.
Since late 1962 when the new GM Stingray was shown up briefly by the Mk1 Cobra ( until hub failure intervened ) the development of the Grand Sport Corvette program had continued at a pace and was thought to be going for a build series of 125 cars.
Amenhotep III also may have been the father of a third child — called Smenkhkare, who later would succeed Akhenaten, briefly rule Egypt as pharaoh, and who is thought to have been a woman.
He briefly attended the court of Henry's queen, Anne Boleyn, of whom he thought very highly and he was actually in London during the circumstances of her downfall, although it was his belief that she was not guilty of adultery or any of the crimes for she was put to death.
" Her reply to what she wanted to do after her husband left office was " return to Independence " although she had briefly entertained the thought of living in Washington after 1953.
Then, the road is briefly dualled from its roundabout with the A3090 road to the M27 motorway ( junction 2 ) – this part of the road is erroneously thought by some to have been previously known as the A36 ( M ); prior to the opening of the Totton Western Bypass on the other side of Junction 2, it was named as a spur of the M27, and hence is built to motorway standards ( see link below ).
One of Nadya ’ s friends from gymnasium, Ariadne Tyrkova, described Krupskaya as “ a tall, quiet girl, who did not flirt with the boys, moved and thought with deliberation, and had already formed strong convictions … She was one of those who are forever committed, once they have been possessed by their thoughts and feelings ….” Nadya briefly attended two different secondary schools before finding the perfect fit with Prince A. A. Obolensky's Female Gymnasium, “ a distinguished private girls ’ secondary school in Petersburg .” This education was probably more liberal than most other gymnasiums since it was noted that some of the staff were former revolutionaries.
Due to the involvement of the Australian FFC, only one non-Australian actor was allowed to appear in the film, and Clark initially considered David Bowie, whom he had known back in the 1980s, and later briefly thought of John Hurt, although neither of these actors proved available.

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