It could be some kind of trick Budd had thought up.

Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al Budd had thought up was dispelled.

She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;

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.

Then he thought of a time when Clayton's horse had fallen lame in the Gap.

At first I thought he had missed.

That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.

He'd been in an angry mood: Conchita had thought his face almost ugly with the anger in him.

Once Todman thought he had spotted a tank and went down to investigate while Greg covered him.

Finally, as time began to run out, he headed into Ormoc and glide-bombed a group of houses that Intelligence had thought might contain Japanese supplies.

Somehow the thought of a simple man bewildered by things no one had ever really helped him understand moved the driver.

He had never seen her before, but now he thought of the manner in which he and Benson went in and out of the cities, at each end of their run.

He thought for a moment his heart had stopped beating.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.

They thought of themselves, to use Jefferson's words, as `` the Argonauts '' who had lived in `` the Heroic Age ''.

I used his polarity to illustrate what I thought had happened to us in that form of liberalism we call Progressivism.

Then suddenly we found ourselves in the middle of another fight, an irrational, an indecent, an undeclared and immoral war with our strongest ( and some had thought noblest ) ally.

Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.

He thought about it and he told the man he just couldn't do it over in accordance with the suggestions he had made.

Tessie, everybody thought, was a strong woman, but she was only strong because she had Alfred to lean on.

I had always thought of that lovable man as many years older than myself, although he was perhaps only twenty years older, and he confirmed my feeling, along with the feeling of both my sons, that teachers of the classics are invariably endearing.

Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.

`` I thought I knew more than my education had taught me, '' notes the narrator, `` because I had encountered the militant mobs of a political or religious faith ''.

`` If I thought you were serious about going back to school, that you'd learned something from your experiences here and at Hanover -- well, I might consider such an offer.

Marvelous, thought Theresa, climbing in her portly, well-bred way, for she was someone who had learned that if you only move slowly enough you have time to notice everything.

Although the Caiman has not been studied in-depth, scientists have learned that their mating cycles ( previously thought to be spontaneous or year-round ) are linked to the rainfall cycles and the river levels, which increases chances of survival for their offspring.

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.

He learned theurgy from Maximus of Ephesus, a student of Iamblichus ; his system bears some resemblance to the Neoplatonism of Plotinus ; Polymnia Athanassiadi has brought new attention to his relations with Mithraism, although whether he was initiated into it remains debatable ; and certain aspects of his thought ( such as his reorganization of paganism under High Priests, and his fundamental monotheism ) may show Christian influence.

Stalin only changed his outlook when he learned that ( a ) credit would only be extended under conditions of economic cooperation and ,( b ) aid would also be extended to Germany in total, an eventuality which Stalin thought would hamper the Soviets ' ability to exercise influence in western Germany.

As Pope Leo X ( 1513 – 21 ) indicates the manner in which the Papacy might have been reconciled with the Renaissance had the Reformation never taken place, so Ganganelli exemplifies the type of Pope which the modern world might have learned to accept if the movement towards free thought could, as Voltaire wished, have been confined to the aristocracy of intellect.

Eugene is described by his biographer as simple and humble, learned and eloquent, handsome and generous, a lover of peace, and wholly occupied with the thought of doing what was pleasing to God.

Some philosophers and psychologists have tended to understand thought as basically a form of internal speech, suggesting that either this speech must be innate or thought has to be learned while acquiring language.

This exercise is not thought about, learned or trained for ; it is unique for each person and the ability to ' receive ' it is passed on by being in the presence of another practicing member at the ' opening ' ( see below ).

Soon after, Martin learned that her studio had been burnt down by a man who thought dancing was a sin.

" Olivier thought Sergius a humbug, a buffoon, a blackguard, a coward, ' a bloody awful part ' until Tyrone Guthrie said he would never succeed in the role until he learned to love Sergius.

When she learned of auditions for the lead role in Claudia, Rose Franken ’ s hit play, she presented herself to David O. Selznick ’ s New York office but fled in tears after what she thought was a bad reading.

I thought they were applauding because they had learned something about supply-side economics.

as it was when it came, that's how I thought it was supposed to be ... So for about nine months I learned funny little melodies with my guitar tuned out.

It was at first thought that the name of the town would be Weldon, but it was soon learned that this name had been taken by a newly-founded town in DeWitt County.

He learned to play chess at the age of 8, though his illiterate father Vartan encouraged him to continue studying, as he thought chess was unlikely to bring his son any success as a career.

When he first learned of that quarrel, he wrote, " My heart was enlisted and I thought only of joining the colors.

It was also thought that repeated pairings are necessary for conditioning to emerge, however many CRs can be learned with a single trial as in fear conditioning and taste aversion learning.

It was in some ways the herald of a new school of German historical thought, for it idealized power and success, a conceptual framework Droysen had learned from the teaching of Hegel.

According to the Cold War scholar John Lewis Gaddis in his book " The Cold War: A New History " ( 2005 ), " Leonid Brezhnev had looked forward, Anatoly Dobrynin recalls, to the ' publicity he would gain ... when the Soviet public learned of the final settlement of the postwar boundaries for which they had sacrificed so much '... ' the Helsinki Accords gradually became a manifesto of the dissident and liberal movement '... What this meant was that the people who lived under these systems — at least the more courageous — could claim official permission to say what they thought.

Source monitoring involves a systematic process of slow and deliberate thought of where information was originally learned.

While the heritability of optimism is largely debatable, most researchers agree that it seems to be a biological trait to some small degree, but it is also thought that optimism has more to do with environmental factors, making it a largely learned trait.