A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.

Anyway, it was evident what he had in mind ''.

That ought to draw a laugh, Nicolas reasoned, as he stored the line away on the wax tape that was his mind.

As he watched the man sit suddenly, a detached part of his mind observed how very difficult it was, really, to knock a man off his feet.

The story was shaping up nicely in his mind: the young pioneer, as of old, altruistically braving the unknown ; ;

Fresh on his mind were events of the past day when his whole regiment was destroyed in the hills.

And so when Miss Langford came to teach at the one-room Chestnut school, where Jack was a pupil in the eighth grade, the Woman of Jack's mind assumed the teacher's face and figure.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

His heart was pounding like a mighty dynamo and he was trying to think, his mind seeming to scream at him like a hurt or frightened child, `` How will I do it??

But by the time the risk was doubled, events had dismissed from his mind both increased percentages and a previously stated intention of considering carefully anything more serious than a bout of influenza.

To get an idea of the embarrassment and chagrin that was heaped upon Wright and Olgivanna, we should bear in mind that the raids were sometimes led by Miriam in person.

If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.

But by the time the papers were finally disposed of, the group had informed the world of its purpose, its recommendations, and its belief that Paul Bang-Jensen was not of sound mind.

This was the very sort of legislation that Roosevelt himself had in mind.

The cautious Thomas re-examined the note and then, making up his mind that it was genuine, snapped his fingers, whistled and almost danced in his exuberance.

Then, in some way, this lack of faith in the cavalry became mixed up in his mind with the dragging effect of wagon trains and was hardened into a prejudice.

On matters of race he was similarly inflexible: `` Most of the modern Latin races seem to have inherited the rigidity of the Roman mind ''.

With facts mainly in his mind, he was often acute in the matter of style, and he said, `` The young who have as yet nothing to say will try larks with initial letters and broken lines.

He was of unsettled mind as to whether he should go abroad when the Gantry galleys were finished.

Like a particle drawn to a magnet he returned to that which was pressing so hard in his mind.

It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

and bright though they all were, they could not possibly compete for her interest with Papa, whose mind -- although he never tried to dazzle or patronize lesser lights with it -- naturally eclipsed theirs and made them seem to her even younger than they were.

Although it is constantly made to look foolish ( too simple to come in out of the rain, people say, who have found in the innocent an impediment ), it does not mind looking foolish because it is not concerned with how it looks.

For Adams had made up his mind before all the facts were available.

Wilson made up his mind that he must receive at least $2,500, but when he mentioned this to the Deacons they said nothing.

Once she has made up her mind, the queen starts out by constructing, in her chosen abode, a small `` floor '' of dried grass or some woolly material.

Palfrey had already made up his mind that he would allow the men, but not the women, to choose freely whether or not to go North for freedom.

`` I haven't made up my mind yet '', I said.

Maude had the cool ruthlessness to do whatever she made up her mind to do.

Although there was no doubt in my mind and we've been handling it as one I'm glad to have it made official ''.

Casey made some comment, but his mind was busy as he considered the man.

But he decided he wouldn't mind company in return for free drinks, even though he made good money at his job.

Scholars made numbered sets of as many things as possible in Nature, or assigned arbitrary numbers to individual things, in a fashion that seems to the modern scientific mind as downright nonsensical, and philosophical ideas based upon all this tended to stifle speculative thought in China for many centuries.

Day and night Martin could not drag his mind from the dilemma he had made for himself.

The secret little corner of his mind, which stayed sane through happiness and pain, made him wonder about B'dikkat.

He dismisses Nora's agonized choice made against her conscience for the sake of his health and her years of secret efforts to free them from the ensuing obligations and danger of loss of reputation, while preserving his peace of mind, as a mere mistake that she made owing to her foolishness, one of her most endearing feminine traits.

Haley made a succession of bizarre, mostly monologue late-night phone calls to friends and relatives in which he seemed incoherently drunk or ill. Haley's first wife has been quoted as saying, " He would call and ramble and dwell on the past, his mind was really warped.

Moreover, the path is not a beaten highway of authorship, nor one in which the mind is eager to range: there is not one of us who has made the same venture, nor yet one Greek who has tackled single-handed all departments of the subject.

Martin Luther's powerful testimony of faith at the Diet of Worms in 1521 made an indelible impression upon his mind, and the vigorous sermons of evangelical preachers in the pulpits of St. Lawrence and St. Sebald in Nuremberg, during the diet there in 1522, deepened the impression.

Greenberg was not bitter, however, stating, " I made up my mind to go when I was called.

Alexander II made up his own mind to abolish serfdom from above rather than wait for it to be abolished from below through revolution.