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• She gave a soft, musical laugh as if the thought were a pleasant one to dwell on, but Stanor was sensitive enough to realise that his own image played no part in her dreams. —  The Love Affairs of Pixie
• Augustin's conversion owing to such a sort of consultation; but the thought is a great mistake, and very injurious to him, for his conversion was owing to a providential call, like that of St. Paul, from heaven.' —  The Superstitions of Witchcraft
• Then the thought is there, ready for utterance. —  The Choice of Life
• Such periods may embody in their literatures a large amount of thought,--thought which is conversant with the externality of things; but that of itself will not constitute a noble literature, however perfect the forms in which it may be embodied, and the general sense of the civilized world, independently of any theories of literature, will not regard such a literature as noble. —  An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
• This thought was the keynote of the Reformation. —  Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics

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