"Train of thought" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... must have been somewhere," and Milly's active little brain now started another train of thought, ...
— Probable Sons • Amy Le Feuvre
... Grey assimilated this train of thought. Disregarding the suggestions of the British Ambassador in St. Petersburg, he did nothing to exercise a moderating influence upon Russia and thereby further the success of the conversations between Vienna and St. Petersburg. On the other hand, he proceeded ...
— What Germany Thinks - The War as Germans see it • Thomas F. A. Smith
... wondering what had led her upon this train of thought, why she had pursued it, and what reason she had for the pain it gave her. A step rustled among the distant last-year's leaves; there in the shadowy wood, where she did not dream of concealing her thoughts, where it seemed that all Nature shared her confidence, this step ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 39, January, 1861 • Various
... and, besides the relief to my spirits, I no longer suffered under the burden—so heavy to one who aims at being a reformer in opinions—of thinking one doctrine true and the contrary doctrine morally beneficial. The train of thought which had extricated me from this dilemma seemed to me, in after years, fitted to render a similar service to others; and it now forms the chapter on Liberty and Necessity in the concluding Book ...
— Autobiography • John Stuart Mill
... to a train of thought, and Basil seemed suddenly to adopt some new resolution. Leaving the fork where he had perched himself, he climbed higher up the tree; and, selecting one of the longest and straightest branches, commenced cutting it off close to the trunk. This was soon ...
— Popular Adventure Tales • Mayne Reid
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