thought

The above analysis of a thought, though I believe it to be mistaken, is very useful as affording a schema in terms of which other theories can be stated.

"The birth itself, that's nothing; but the months of carrying the child--that's what's so intolerable," she thought, picturing to herself her last pregnancy, and the death of the last baby.

"Perhaps," he thought, "my body is growing stronger."

Perhaps she thought all the more and dreamed as much as ever, but she certainly talked less.

Marwood meant that ALL our thoughts ought to be beautiful," said the Story Girl.

"Perhaps after all her smoking means noth- ing," he thought. He began to remember that when he was a student in college and occasionally read novels, good although somewhat worldly women, had smoked through the pages of a book that had once fallen into his hands.

Our truth of thought is therefore vitiated as much by too violent direction given by our will, as by too great negligence.

MacAndrew at last, "things aren't so bad as I thought."

It seemed such a mighty fine thing to you to be loved that I thought you had better continue to be loved for a little longer.

The tissue of vague dreams must now get narrower and narrower, and all the threads of thought and emotion be gradually absorbed in the woof of her actual daily life.

"Will he love me, when he knows the truth, as he loves me now?" That was her only thought as she tried to approach the subject in his presence without shrinking from it.

'It's something very like learning geography,' thought Alice, as she stood on tiptoe in hopes of being able to see a little further.

I thought you would come, father, so I put it in my bag.

"Even then he wanted to tell me what he told me the day he died," she thought. "He had always thought what he said then." And she recalled in all its detail the night at Bald Hills before he had the last stroke, when with a foreboding of disaster she had remained at home against his will.

And then came the frightening thought that she had to conceal her misery as well as to bear it, in this dreary daylight that was coming.