Thoughts Sentence Examples
Don't put words in my mouth - or foolish thoughts in your head.
The flow of her thoughts suddenly stopped.
Dreams are just conglomerations of thoughts and memories.
Do you have any thoughts on the subject?
She squeezed her eyes shut and prayed that romantic thoughts would cease to invade her newfound paradise.
She linked my earliest thoughts with nature, and made me feel that "birds and flowers and I were happy peers."
Two thoughts crossed her mind simultaneously.
Her thoughts turned to Bordeaux.
Her thoughts went to Jonny, and she closed her eyes as tears formed.
Her mind was open to him, and he watched the thoughts passing through.
AdvertisementShe straightened her hair and collected her thoughts before opening the door.
I received from them gifts that have the gentle concurrence of the heart, books containing their own thoughts, soul-illumined letters, and photographs that I love to have described again and again.
He could apparently not refrain from expressing the thoughts that had suddenly occurred to him.
After that I spent many happy hours in my tree of paradise, thinking fair thoughts and dreaming bright dreams.
They fix beautiful thoughts in her memory.
AdvertisementHer thoughts were about the children.
Thoughts cannot be united, but to harness all these thoughts together is what we need!
Besides this feeling which absorbed her altogether and hindered her from following the details of her husband's plans, thoughts that had no connection with what he was saying flitted through her mind.
Another warm buzz traveled through her, scattering her thoughts at his nearness and scent.
Her tortured thoughts went to the thousands of men, killed by the only family she'd known, whose souls were trapped for eternity beneath the ground.
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Probably the word "gallant" turned the captain's thoughts to the state of Moscow.
The thoughts of where we would go from here weighed heavily on everyone's mind.
It seems very strange to me that there should be this difference of opinion; I cannot understand how any one interested in our education can fail to appreciate the satisfaction we feel in being able to express our thoughts in living words.
The car still smelled of blood, and her thoughts went to Jule again as she exited the car.
AdvertisementI will tell you all about it, for I remember my thoughts perfectly.
And suddenly the sequence of these thoughts broke off, and Prince Andrew heard (without knowing whether it was a delusion or reality) a soft whispering voice incessantly and rhythmically repeating "piti-piti- piti," and then "titi," and then again "piti-piti-piti," and "ti-ti" once more.
Leaving her thoughts behind, she started up the hill to meet Alex.
Still, you must have some personal observations... thoughts... feelings?
Little conversation took place as each of us kept our thoughts to ourselves.
The drive home was quick as he dwelled on his thoughts.
His thoughts went to Yully, and he stepped forward without hesitation.
Even now, her heart quickened and her thoughts raced to the image of him in tight black clothing.
There was a reason he banned thoughts of Darian and Claire from his mind, an instinct he'd never been able to face in all the years since Darian's death.
His face must have given away his thoughts.
She hesitated, her blood burning and her confused thoughts terrified of what might happen.
Jackson longed to erase her memory, but thoughts of her invaded him constantly.
He believed, or at least suspected, that Miss Sullivan and I had deliberately stolen the bright thoughts of another and imposed them on him to win his admiration.
Then, perhaps, my own thoughts and experiences will come to the surface.
He cannot imagine how very, very happy he will be when he can tell us his thoughts, and we can tell him how we have loved him so long.
For a whole week it has been "cold and dark and dreary" in Tuscumbia, and I must confess the continuous rain and dismalness of the weather fills me with gloomy thoughts and makes the writing of letters, or any pleasant employment, seem quite impossible.
Often when I dream, thoughts pass through my mind like cowled shadows, silent and remote, and disappear.
Excited and irritated by these thoughts Prince Andrew went toward his room to write to his father, to whom he wrote every day.
They looked at the beautiful, large, thoughtful eyes full of tears and of thoughts, gazing shiningly and imploringly at them, and understood that it was useless and even cruel to insist.
But just at moments when such thoughts occurred to him, he would ask in a particularly calm and absent-minded way, which inspired the respect of the onlookers, Will it be long?
I go to bed after two in the morning, thoughts come and I can't sleep but toss about till dawn, because I think and can't help thinking, just as he can't help plowing and mowing; if he didn't, he would go to the drink shop or fall ill.
In his soul there suddenly arose such an unexpected turmoil of youthful thoughts and hopes, contrary to the whole tenor of his life, that unable to explain his condition to himself he lay down and fell asleep at once.
Señor Medena had no romantic thoughts about her.
Lisa tried to compose her thoughts and expression.
Whatever his thoughts, they were interrupted when Tammy sped into his arms like a bullet.
But then, it was like him not to reveal his thoughts or concerns – unless the mood hit him.
She shook her head free of pointless thoughts and began dusting.
Funny how little things like that could stay in a person's thoughts for hours.
What are your thoughts on my trying to see what happened to the entries in the million dollar contest?
With nothing but her troubled thoughts, the cold rain, and a lonely room in the bed and breakfast down the road, she didn't feel like leaving just yet.
The conversation between her father and the man who should've killed her rattled around in her thoughts as she returned to the door.
She purposely kept her thoughts of what was to come—and her fear for Jule—at the back of her mind, instead filling it with her willingness to learn her trade.
Yully slept fitfully and awoke before dawn, unable to rest with her troubled thoughts.
It acclimated to her and accepted her until it obeyed her thoughts before she thought them.
He recalled agony, and the darkness of his thoughts amplified the pain of the new magic in his blood.
The man in the corner of her mind stopped clawing at the edges of her thoughts and chose that moment to speak to her.
His thoughts turned dark.
His thoughts drifted to Sofia.
Lost in his thoughts, he didn't sense the danger until it spoke.
His brother wasn't sure of anything or anyone else, even if he did match the faces in his thoughts with those around him.
She was alone with her thoughts the entire way despite the presence of Pierre and Traci.
Deidre set down the journal, needing to distract her thoughts before she started to panic again.
Deidre kept her thoughts to herself, growing more distressed with the visit.
Martha paused, but the Deans allowed her time to gather her thoughts and continue.
There was the Friday meeting with the town ladies— just two days away—and Dean knew he should be gathering thoughts and notes but his mind was too scattered to construct a coherent speech.
Thoughts raced through his mind of another crash, when Bird Song's very first guest had met a similar fate—but on a traveled highway, not a remote Jeep road deep in the San Juans.
His thoughts wandered to Billy Langstrom's love-widow Melissa, now absent even those precious two commodities with which to face the world.
Gabriel's thoughts drifted to Deidre.
The thoughts made her feel worse.
The outside world distracted her from her troubled thoughts.
Her thoughts turned to him with some bitterness.
Her thoughts drifted to the Sanctuary, the only place she.d felt safe.
She wasn.t hungry but walked toward the cafeteria so she wouldn.t be alone with her thoughts.
His thoughts turned to Katie.
Her thoughts went to the prisoner, and she wondered if she'd see him again if she stayed a little longer.
She paused, collecting her thoughts.
He did have second thoughts about this marriage.
His thoughts drifted to the second night of the strange dream.
Having devoted much time to the study of the Latin writers, historians, orators and poets, and filled his mind with stories of the glories and the power of ancient Rome, he turned his thoughts to the task of restoring his native city to its pristine greatness, his zeal for this work being quickened by the desire to avenge his brother, who had been killed by a noble, a member of the ruling class.
Damian wrapped his arm around her and held her close for a moment, torn between thoughts of her naked and thoughts of his brother's death.
A light knock at his door distracted him from both painful thoughts.
Damian's gaze turned to the door to the bedroom, and she ducked back, remembering he could hear her thoughts.
Her thoughts returned to the dead man alone in the dark room.
She shook out the sexual energy running through her and turned on a light, not wanting to be alone in the dark while the dead man in her thoughts began to sob once more.
I'm … Claire shook her hand, and the visions that protruded into her thoughts floored her.
Her thoughts darkened and returned to Cody and Jake.
The man with mossy eyes turned down a corner and vanished from his sight and thoughts.
Damian's voice jarred her from her thoughts.
He paced, mind racing with memories he could no longer suppress, thoughts of his brother, of Claire, of Darian's death.
His cranky words echoed in her thoughts, and she smiled to herself.
You're full of shit, he said into her thoughts.
She gritted her teeth, hating the fact he had open access to her thoughts and worse—he could respond to them!
I've been spying on the thoughts of humanity for thousands of years.
Damian listened to the door close behind her, stunned by what he'd seen in her thoughts.
He'd heard it in her thoughts even if she didn't speak the words, and her ability to see through him as he did everyone else amazed him.
Every year you bitch about it, he said, enjoying the distraction from his dark thoughts.
She closed her eyes, the home videos playing in her thoughts.
The night's battle lit up her thoughts, and what she saw made her gasp.
If he were like his brother, he would hear her thoughts.
He walked through the halls quickly, the emerging thoughts in his head baffling him.
The thought pierced her thoughts, and she sagged against Two, not caring if she survived or not.
By the blank look in his unseeing eyes, he'd fallen into his thoughts again.
Her thoughts weren't entirely hers.
Darkyn extended his hand, drawing her from the thoughts before it was able to form fully.
His voice was the only thing that penetrated the haze coating her thoughts.
But her thoughts were falling under the control of something else.
The fog around her thoughts grew heavier.
Like her other thoughts, this one escaped before she was able to understand its meaning.
His cool touch calmed her this time, parted the reeling emotions and chaotic thoughts.
His cool magic calmed her thoughts.
Her thoughts went to Darkyn but her instincts warned her it wasn't him.
She didn't feel him rifling through her thoughts, but she sensed it was what he did.
Her thoughts returned to the sight of the girl in the bed.
Her thoughts went to the good she might be able to do from Hell.
Darkyn wore her out enough to where her thoughts no longer spun out of control.
I see your thoughts like mine.
Her thoughts went to what Darkyn taught her about dealing.
It probably means things are working out with her mother and I shouldn't think selfish thoughts.
But cogent thoughts were few and he began to feel like an empty-nested squirrel facing a long, tough winter.
Lydia spoke not another word, ignoring Dean in favor of her thoughts as she raced back to town.
Her thoughts went to the deal she'd made human-Deidre.
Wynn's warning weighed heavier on her thoughts.
He listened, thoughts turning darker.
Gabriel prodded her thoughts.
Gabriel checked Cora's thoughts, relieved to find her clean and started down the line.
Her body was on fire, her hands shaking, her thoughts so scattered, she wasn't able to think.
A knock at her door drew her attention from her thoughts.
Her hand went to her neck, and her thoughts grew disturbed.
She hated not being able to read his mind and see his thoughts, the way she had for the thousands of years they served the underworld together.
Reluctantly, her thoughts returned to the human she'd left in Hell.
She never realized how easily he read those around him until he was throwing her thoughts into her face.
His thoughts went to human-Deidre.
His thoughts returned to the deal the two Deidres made.
She walked down the hallway in search of the dining room, thoughts on all Darkyn's mate had said.
His attention shifted from his thoughts to the scene before him, and he slowed.
It was nothing but pure jealousy that guided her thoughts – and fear of losing him.
She staved off panic and tried to organize her thoughts.
She shook her head as if to clear her thoughts.
His gaze searched her face again, finding the hidden thoughts.
He might wish he had never asked her to write her thoughts down.
So absorbed was she with inner thoughts that the movement didn't immediately catch her attention.
His thoughts kept straying to a certain pink-haired woman whose scent on his skin was driving him crazy.
His thoughts went to the door in the corner of past-Death's bedroom in the underworld.
She dropped to her knees, the vision of Logan's faceless body forefront in her thoughts.
Her thoughts clearing, she realized she needed to call the police about the body she found.
Her thoughts drifted to the island.
She was quiet as she put form to her thoughts beyond the emotional turmoil.
A temporary sensation entered her mind, as if a breeze ruffled through her thoughts.
The round tub was luxurious, and her thoughts turned a different direction.
Rhyn pulled him from his thoughts.
There are conscious thoughts that you're aware of and subconscious ones that you're not.
Something Darkyn told her returned to the forefront of her thoughts.
Obliviously unaware that half his thoughts this afternoon and evening were on her naked, Deidre melted into his arms the moment he touched her.
No, I'm not anymore, he said, thoughts growing dark.
He resisted the instinct that told him he needed to peek into her thoughts.
The cold wind felt good against her face and roused her dark thoughts.
The voice of the friendly nurse from the nurse's station brought her back from her thoughts.
He dismissed his uneasy thoughts at his eldest brother's accented voice.
Images of Kris, his only love in two thousand years, swam through his thoughts.
She shook the thoughts away, suspecting they weren't hers.
Rhyn laughed, thoughts flying to the spunky human in the zoo.
Other thoughts collided with her emotions, ones that reminded her that she was forever trapped with some otherworldly creature that viewed her as a food supply and nothing more.
She tried to tell herself it was the alcohol scattering her thoughts and not the growing feeling of respect or concern she felt toward him.
The conversation with Gabriel turned over in her thoughts as she descended the stairs and left through the opened gate.
She sensed he was reading her thoughts, and she wondered what he was thinking.
Even as she spoke, her thoughts went to what Gabriel told her.
Her thoughts went to Jade, and she frowned, troubled.
His thoughts darkened as fury blinded him for a moment.
Rhyn pulled himself from his thoughts as he stood.
She ran hard and left the sounds of the battle behind her, her thoughts on Rhyn and nothing else.
She left him alone in the dark with his thoughts, and he began to understand more how his friend Rhyn felt in a world that was pitted against him.
She looked at the bottle anew, thoughts going to the long list of Immortals she could.ve used it on instead of bearing their attacks.
Katie watched him go, her nightmares in her thoughts and her heart pounding.
Her thoughts went to Rhyn.
Reining in her emotions, she tried to distract her dark thoughts by focusing on Toby.
Light exploded into his thoughts.
Rhyn stretched to tap fists with him, and the portal information lit up his thoughts.
Of all the thoughts on Kris.s mind, Hannah and Jade were foremost.
Another idea emerged from his dark thoughts, and he trotted out of the secretary.s office and to Katie.s chamber.
Sasha.s words echoed in her thoughts, and she tried hard to give them no credence.
Despite telling her he wouldn.t, he dropped into her thoughts to feel a little closer to her and was surprised to find she was packing to leave.
He said nothing of his thoughts but strode into the castle.
He wondered what a half-human son would be like, and his thoughts went to Gabriel, who started out human before turning Immortal.
His thoughts went to his father.s crypt.
His mind foggy with pain, Jade began to humor thoughts he.d previously rejected.
Desolation absorbed her into her thoughts, until Jade spoke again.
Jade was lost in his thoughts for a few minutes, staring without seeing.
Jade shook his head, as if tormented by his own thoughts.
She left the sounds of the battle behind her, her thoughts on Rhyn and nothing else.
Kiera's thoughts, warm and fuzzy after too much of Evelyn's special punch, drifted as she gazed into the quiet night sky.
The conversation was almost too serious for her muddled thoughts to follow.
When he disappeared around the corner, she returned to her thoughts and following the lights.
Of all the things to think about, she couldn't get the prisoner out of her thoughts, even when Evelyn returned with sweet bread she normally would've pounced on.
Romas's voice distracted her from her thoughts.
Kiera tossed the thoughts around in her head, guilty at the thought of ditching Evelyn yet offended that Evey thought to keep her here without telling her.
Her thoughts drifted to the prisoner, the memory of his touch and the strange energy making her blood quicken.
Kiera jerked out of her thoughts and twisted on the bed to face her.
Disbelief made her look twice to ensure her eyes hadn't gone as crazy as her thoughts.
Other thoughts were skittering through her brain, those that reminded her she was no longer on her own territory and he hadn't told her something she hadn't heard before.
Images from their first touch replayed themselves in her thoughts.
She relaxed after a nice, long soak in the bathtub, her thoughts wandering among the stars.
His conversation with Evelyn lingered in his thoughts.
His every look was penetrating, as if he sought to capture her thoughts whenever she crossed his path.
Opal, the head of the Council, rose gracefully, pulling A'Ran from his thoughts.
A'Ran pushed himself away from the table he leaned against and paced, thoughts turning to Gage, who would bear Ne'Rin's child.
She didn't have much time alone to mull their conversation or her troubled thoughts.
Her thoughts went to Ne'Rin.
Her thoughts and actions are hers alone.
She shook her head to focus her thoughts.
A'Ran was gone indefinitely for a surge operation in his war, leaving her alone with her thoughts.
His face was in her thoughts, and the idea of never seeing him again crushed her as surely as colliding with the planet would.
Her mind went crazy with thoughts and emotions, and she wondered if A'Ran would be happy to see her.
Dean thought of a few more snappy comebacks but kept the rest of his thoughts to himself in front of Donnie.
And I think you best keep your thoughts to yourself.
His mind was, at least for the moment, clear of all thoughts except this beautiful petite woman.
It's when my thoughts wander to that saintly man.
It certainly sounds as if it might be the thoughts of one of—those girls— not Mrs. Martin.
That goes for the closed doors of people's minds and thoughts as well as their elegant houses.
Even after Dean's rhythmic breathing told her he was sleeping she remained awake, her mind alive with thoughts of their discussion and all that had transpired.
Any thoughts of Shipton could wait until later.
The observation mirrored Dean's thoughts precisely.
It was if Annie bade him turn his thoughts beyond her long forgotten cares to the no less pressing concerns of today.
Any thoughts of questioning Cynthia about the happenings in the ice park never entered his mind.
Cynthia Dean kept pushing away all other thoughts from his tattered mind.
Questions bombarded Jackson's thoughts, yet he sensed if he were too bothersome, their chaperone might shut down.
Was the human having second thoughts?
She turned to Jackson, and could see that his thoughts were the same, so she put her arms around him.
He wanted to know her deepest thoughts and feelings.
Jackson left her to her thoughts for a while, then said, "You want to sit down or shall I bring your food to you."
Normally he wouldn't go more than a few hours without thinking about his next meal, but Elisabeth filled his thoughts so completely, there was no room for anything else.
When Elisabeth opened the door and he laid eyes on her, all conflicted thoughts were replaced with raw emotion.
She left him with his thoughts.
Thoughts of you crept into my mind at every turn.
His thoughts were scattered and irrational.
Thoughts cut across his mind like razors.
Her thoughts were interrupted by a cacophony of squawks and wings beating against the chicken coop walls.
She shook the ugly thoughts from her head and straightened, leaning on the hoe as she glanced around the garden.
The house on the hill caught her eye, immediately transporting her thoughts to another sector of her mind.
Do you have any second thoughts about getting married?
Browsing her face told him everything he needed to know about her thoughts.
Guardian's voice penetrated her spinning thoughts.
His thoughts were on Angel.
She breathed the chilled air to clear her thoughts.
General Greene spoke finally, his voice jarring her out of her thoughts.
His thoughts went to the injured woman he was charged with protecting.
He wasn't sure what it was about this woman that made him think thoughts he normally didn't in the middle of a warzone.
Her thoughts went to the Guardian.
Thoughts and emotions scattered, Lana watched him secure the vault in the safe and then leave.
Her thoughts came rapidly, and she refused to think twice.
They gazed at each other for a long moment, and he tried to figure out what was going through her thoughts.
She suddenly found these thoughts foolish.
Her thoughts turned dark as her mind wandered to Brady.
Brady forced his thoughts to his mission.
Brady's caution and Mr. Tim's words returned to her as her thoughts cleared with the exercise.
The terror on Lana's face was fresh in his thoughts, and he heard her scream again as he was flung from the helo, before it hit the water.
His heart leapt then sank as Lana's scream echoed in his thoughts again.
Her thoughts went to Brady again.
Her thoughts turned to the mansion on the lake and to the idea of spending her life there with Brady.
Rhyn's thoughts drifted to the castle.
The ocean's cold breeze swept over him, and his thoughts turned from his dead mate to his best friend, Gabriel, who had tried to kill him then disappeared.
Testing his magic, he realized he could call forth a portal. He needed an ally, but it wasn't Kris. He had no intention of bringing Kris to meet Darkyn, not when he didn't know what Darkyn wanted. His thoughts went to Gabriel, the best friend he hoped he hadn't lost completely. Gabe wouldn't try to negotiate with Darkyn if things went bad.
His thoughts grew dark as he thought about what it would take to save her.
Her thoughts went to him and her latest dream.
Her thoughts went to Rhyn then Hannah then the past few weeks as she sought to figure out where she'd gone wrong.
He considered once more the folly of his undertaking, but pushed away his second thoughts.
Biking was usually Dean's thinking time, but his brain felt overused lately and had opted for a day off, restricting his thoughts to nothing more pressing than the next hill.
However, Dean possessed no cogent thoughts on what to do with this new information.
The conversations were brief and the trip apparently uneventful, however Dean continued to have second thoughts about allowing Fred to dig into the matter on his own.
Dean dusted off a Christmas present bottle of VO with thoughts of re-igniting the glow from Ethel's gin and chasing away the gloom of the empty house but one sip and he re-capped the jug, deciding it wasn't a good idea.
With all other thoughts lulled from his mind by the steady cadence of the wheels, he moved step by step through every facet of the Byrne case.
Dean forced a pot full of evil thoughts about the beanpole bastard Edwin Mayer aside in deference to his concern over Cynthia's whereabouts.
Wheels of understanding began turning but before he could collect his thoughts, Randy returned to the room.
Although it was decades since Dean's Boy Scout days and he didn't relish the thoughts of bedding his exhausted body on the ground, he felt, in addition to saving money, his chance of running into his quarry in a camp ground was better.
While Dean was out of contact with Cynthia Byrne during the first two weeks of June, it didn't mean she was out of his thoughts.
The emerging brightness of the new day, while inviting, did nothing to sort out the tangle of thoughts crowding his brain like the line of a snarled fishing reel.
Then he heard the door close with a bang and Dean was alone with his thoughts and unanswered questions.
What are you thinking about – second thoughts?
Katie's musings interrupted her thoughts.
Alex's deep voice interrupted her thoughts.
She shook her head to remove the unbidden thoughts.
Here she was, thinking improper thoughts again.
Maybe he was having second thoughts now.
Maybe this was what they needed to do instead of thinking torrid thoughts about each other.
I never had torrid thoughts about Josh.
You're having second thoughts.
Surely second thoughts didn't come abruptly in the middle of a peaceful ride, or tie a persons' insides in knots.
Was he having second thoughts?
That sounds like a person with second thoughts.
Are you having second thoughts?
In her erotic thoughts about him, the actual act of undressing had never crossed her mind.
His deep voice broke into her thoughts.
He might think she was having second thoughts about getting married.
Yet the tense exchange remained in her thoughts.
She shook her head as if to clear it of distracting thoughts.
The smell of burning food broke into her thoughts.
Carmen seemed unaware that Josh still had romantic thoughts about her, but Lori noticed.
She pushed the thoughts of Darian from her head, instead focusing on seeing herself seated in his throne.
Exhausted, she closed her eyes, Jule's words to her from earlier echoing in her thoughts.
The memory of her Talia falling into the chasm returned, filling her thoughts.
The familiar words in her thoughts were chanted in a voice that wasn't hers.
The last of his thoughts about her in his bed slid away with the final push of her magic.
Jenn asked, thoughts going to the Original Vamp.
Her thoughts went in a different direction.
Pain flew threw him, scrambling his thoughts.
He roused himself, unwilling to sink into the dark thoughts.
She couldn't read his thoughts, but she saw the shadows in his eyes.
The low growl of the Original Vamp they'd inherited interrupted her thoughts.
The images passed through her thoughts again.
For all her ability to manipulate the minds of others, she couldn't push the memory of her family from her own thoughts.
Her thoughts were on her family.
She didn't think she'd fall asleep with the thoughts of her family and Darian's body close enough to make hers tingle with more than warmth.
Her thoughts turned to the one person she felt comfortable talking to.
A strange commotion in the hallway drew him from his thoughts, and he pushed the kitchen door open.
Jonny's words bounced around in her thoughts as she recalled the look Darian had given the portal they stumbled upon.
He didn't touch her thoughts, already aware of the level of turmoil he'd just caused her.
Darian watched her then finished his cheeseburger slowly, listening to her thoughts.
I can't change you back anyway, Darian muttered, thoughts on his missing family.
Jenn shook her thoughts away, her heart hammering with both anticipation of seeing him again and fear.
He apologized to her silently before he pushed deeper into her thoughts.
A tingle of regret rose from his quiet thoughts.
Touch the obelisk, Yully said into her thoughts.
She looked up at him again, unaccustomed to sharing her thoughts or emotions.
Her thoughts went to the Watcher that had spoken to her and healed her.
Darian's thoughts grew darker as he thought again of Jenn.
The Healer's voice radiated happiness that made Darian sink lower into the black thoughts in his mind.
Only when the sun peeked over the horizon did he decide to leave, preferring a dark place where he could dwell with his dark thoughts.
Darian rose and dusted himself off, thoughts going first to his cats at the cabin and then to the possible guardsmen nearby.
Rissa's voice drew him from his thoughts.
She withdrew from her thoughts and addressed him.
His eyes, so light in color they were more golden than brown, penetrated her thoughts with every look.
A tap at her door drew her from her black thoughts.
His intention - -to complete the mating ceremony - -exploded into her thoughts.
Beating at the door registered distantly in his thoughts.
The feeling of failure settled into her bleak thoughts.
He sensed something else about her that made his thoughts heavy.
Her fatigued body ached while her tired mind struggled to keep her thoughts clear of emotion.
Hilden's gruff voice broke into her thoughts as he trotted out of the hold into the street.
Her own thoughts had strayed to the man who spent enough time in Memon's armies to know the madman's strategies.
She sighed at the futile thoughts.
But even with those bleak thoughts swirling in her head, she felt herself slide under his spell once again.
Memon appeared lost in his thoughts, oblivious to her huddled on the floor.
The possessed king snapped out of his thoughts and looked around.
He rose and tossed the book away, wanting to distance his thoughts from the monsters that had condemned generation after generation of warlords with the beast.
An urgent knock at the door jarred him from his thoughts.
Her own breathing was loud in the pause, and she tried to focus on his voice and not the dark thoughts in her mind.
He left her to her dark thoughts.
For a long moment, he lost track of time, instead lost in his thoughts.
He felt himself sink into his thoughts but forced himself to respond.
His voice startled her out of her thoughts.
He smiled, obviously well aware of her unspoken thoughts.
What caused his second thoughts – a moment of passion?
He retired to rest with anxious thoughts of his future career, which haunted him through the night in three dreams that left a deep impression on his mind.
The consequence of these reports of the hostility of the church led him to abandon all thoughts of publishing.
Reason is in his idea not the individual reason, but the fountain of natural truth, whose chief channels are the various systems of heathen philosophy, and more especially the thoughts of Plato and the methods of Aristotle.
But his interest in theology had not abated, and his thoughts found an outlet in".occasional preaching.
As his over-sanguine visions of a new order of things to be ushered in by political change disappeared, he began to direct his thoughts to religious subjects.
My desires, volitions and thoughts are thus the desires, volitions and thoughts of God.
There appears to be no foundation for the statement that he was stopped by an order of council when on the point of abandoning England for America, though there can be little doubt that the thoughts of emigration suggested themselves to his mind at this period.
He is a pure scholastic. The great thoughts of his master - or perhaps indeed rather Leibnitz's secondary thoughts - are dried and pressed by him, labelled and catalogued.
His thoughts represent a transitional movement, and it is difficult to discover in them anything like a systematic philosophy.
Thus when one carries one's thoughts back to a series of events, one constructs a psychic whole made up of parts which take definite shape and character by their mutual interrelations.
Their national character remains largely the same; but they have adopted a new religion, a new language, a new system of law and society, new thoughts and feelings on all matters.
The idea laid hold of him of reviving the spirit of his countrymen by imbuing them with the thoughts of the great Greek writers.
The present outlook was hopeless, but in the enlarged horizon of time as well as space the thoughts of some of the most spiritual minds in Judaism were directed to the transcendent and ultimate.
Cyprian had none of that character which makes the reading of Tertullian, whom he himself called his magister, so interesting and piquant, but he possessed other qualities which Tertullian lacked, especially the art of presenting his thoughts in simple, smooth and clear language, yet in a style which is not wanting in warmth and persuasive power.
She published The Higher Education of Women (1866) and Thoughts on sonic Questions relating to Women (1860-1908, 1910).
Their hands were cleaner but their thoughts were more impious, for they pretended to divine inspiration.
He soon found such work not sufficiently remunerative to keep his petite horde in comfort, and then turned his thoughts to employment from the French foreign office, either in writing or in diplomacy.
The Logic, an eminently practical work, written from the point of view of Locke, is in five parts, dealing with (1) the nature of the human mind, its faculties and operations; (2) ideas and their kinds; (3) the true and the false, and the various degrees of knowledge; (4) reasoning and argumentation; (5) method and the ordering of our thoughts.
But Buffier does not claim for these truths of "common sense" the absolute certainty which characterizes the knowledge we have of our own existence or the logical deductions we make from our thoughts; they possess merely the highest probability, and the man who rejects them is to be considered a fool, though he is not guilty of a contradiction.
It would seem that in his fits of despondency one of the thoughts that marred his dreams of human improvement was the apparently inexorable character of economic laws, condemning thousands of labourers to a cramped and miserable existence, and thousands more to semistarvation.
The most convincing proof of this is that Origen (i) takes the idea of the immutability of God as the regulating idea of his system, and (2) deprives the historical "Word made flesh" of all significance for the true Gnostic. To him Christ appears simply as the Logos who is with the Father from eternity, and works from all eternity, to whom alone the instructed Christian directs his thoughts, requiring nothing more than a perfect - i.e.
The coup d'etat was favourable to Bonaparte; it ensured his hold over the Directors and enabled him to impose his own terms of peace on Austria; above all it left him free for the prosecution of his designs in a field of action which now held the first place in his thoughts - the Orient.
One name, and one alone, leaped to men's thoughts, that of Bonaparte.
Napoleon thereupon invited the senate to "make known to him its thoughts completely."
An expedition against India had recently occupied his thoughts, as may be seen by the instructions which he issued on the 10th of May 1807 to General Gardane for his mission to Persia.
The defection of Marshal Marmont and his soldiery on the 4th of April rendered further thoughts of resistance futile.
All creatures exist only through the continuous creative energy of the Divine Being, and are no more independent of his will than are our thoughts independent of us, - or rather less, for there are thoughts which force themselves upon us whether we will or not.
On first thoughts it would seem desirable that all spinners should buy cotton outright to cover their contracts, but on second thoughts the social disadvantage of their doing so becomes apparent.
But his troubles led him to more serious thoughts; and he published, in his 28th year, the Heptaplus, a mystical exposition of the creation.
They had torn men loose from the ancestral custom of home to walk in new ways and see new things and hear new thoughts; and some broadening of view, some lessening in the intensity of the old one-sidedness, was the inevitable result.
Two important principles are illustrated by these thoughts, (1) that there is no absolute distinction between the organic and the inorganic, and (2) that the argument from final causes is no explanation of phenomena.
Shortly before his death at Colford, near Crediton, Devonshire, on the 25th of September 1805, he completed his Second Thoughts on the Trinity, in reply to a work of the bishop of Gloucester.
Naturally, when the see of Rouen next fell vacant (1067), the thoughts of the electors turned to Lanfranc. But he declined the honour, and he was nominated to the English primacy as soon as Stigand had been canonically deposed (1070).
Sometimes he would pass hours thinking of a certain illustrious lady, devising means of seeing her and of doing deeds that would win her favour; at other times the thoughts suggested by the books got the upper hand.
His Christliche Dogmatik (3 vols., 1849-1852, new edition, 1870) "contains many fruitful and suggestive thoughts, which, however, are hidden under such a mass of bold figures and strange fancies, and suffer so much from want of clearness of presentation, that they did not produce any lasting effect" (Otto Pfleiderer).
Thus further weakened, he felt more than ever that he had only his own kin to rely upon, and his thoughts were ever turned on family aggrandizement.
Only in familiar letters, prolegomena, and prefaces do we find the man Ficino, and learn to know his thoughts and sentiments unclouded by a mist of citations; these minor compositions have therefore a certain permanent value, and will continually be studied for the light they throw upon the learned circle gathered round Lorenzo in the golden age of humanism.
All the thoughts, words and deeds of each are entered in the book of life as separate items - all the evil works, &c., as debts.
Ovando, the governor of Hispaniola (Haiti), who had exhausted the labour of that island, turned his thoughts to the Bahamas, and in 1509 Ferdinand authorized him to procure labourers from these islands.
Sometimes he thinks that they came direct from God, like all good things, but he is also fond of maintaining that many of Plato's best thoughts were borrowed from the Hebrew prophets; and he makes the same statement in regard to the wisdom of the other philosophers.
He has to give up all thoughts of pleasure.
To get drunk for the sake of the drink was the mark of a beast; but wine was a powerful stimulant to the brain, and to fuddle oneself in order to think great thoughts was worthy of a sage.
But the structure of the book, the symbolism and the connexion of the prophet's thoughts have given rise to much controversy.
It is divisible into two well-marked periods - the first extending to the end of the 12th century and embracing as its chief names Roscellinus, Anselm, William of Champeaux and Abelard, while the second extended from the beginning of the 13th century to the Renaissance and the general distraction of men's thoughts from the problems and methods of Scholasticism.
It may be held that they have a substantial existence of their own, independent of their existence in our thoughts.
The soul must be immaterial since it has the power of cognizing the universal; and its immortality is further based by St Thomas on the natural longing for unending existence which belongs to a being whose thoughts are not confined to the " here " and " now," but are able to abstract from every limitation.
Versifiers and adapters from the French appeared also in Counts Adam and Joseph Teleki, Alexander Baroczi and Joseph Peczeli, known also as the translator of Young's " Night Thoughts."
The school flourished under his management and also developed his administrative abilities, but gradually his thoughts began to turn towards other work.
The writer is more versed than any other New Testament writer except the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, and very much more than most of them, in the literary Greek of the period of the rise of Christianity; and he has, also, like other writers, his favourite words, turns of expression and thoughts.
The punishment of the wicked especially occupies his thoughts.
In 1784 Edwards wrote Thoughts on the late Proceedings of Government respecting the Trade of the West India Islands with the United States of America, in which he attacked the restrictions placed by the government upon trade with the United States.
His father's express orders prevented Aurangzeb from following up this success, and, not long after, the sudden and alarming illness of Shah Jahan turned his thoughts in another direction.
Meanwhile Comte did his official work conscientiously, sorely as he grudged the time which it took from the execution of the great object of his thoughts.
When he had thoroughly meditated every sentence, he sat down to write, and then, such was the grip of his memory, the exact order of his thoughts came back to him as if without an effort, and he wrote down precisely what he had intended to write, without the aid of a note or a memorandum, and without check or pause.
She wrote a little piece which Comte rated so pre- v posterously as to talk about George Sand in the same sentence; it is in truth a flimsy performance, though it contains one or two gracious thoughts.
During these years Tennyson's thoughts were largely occupied with the building of Aldworth.
Deeply anxious to make the best use of his life, Gladstone turned his thoughts to holy orders.
The 19th century had no more reverent thinker than Martineau; the awe of the Eternal was the very atmosphere that he breathed, and he looked at man with the compassion of one whose thoughts were full of God.
To this day the spoken language of Japanese women is appreciably simpler and softer than that of the men, and to this day while the educated woman uses the hiragana syllabary in writing, eschews Chinese sords and rarel pens an ideograph, the educated man employs the ideograp entirely, and translates his thoughts as far as possible into thi mispronounced Chinese words without recourse -to which it would be impossible for him to discuss any scientific subject, or even tc refer to the details of his daily business.
The Makura no Zshi (Pillow Sketches), like the Genji Monogatars, was by a noble ladySei Shonagonbut it is simply a record of daily events and fugitive thoughts, though not in the form of a diary.
Fukuzawa Yukichi, founder of the KeiO Gijuku, now one of Japans four universities, did more than any of his contemporaries by writing and speaking to spread a knowledge of the West, its ways and its thoughts, and Nakamura Keiu labored in the same cause by translating Smiless Self-help and Mills Representative Government.
In 1797 he published a translation of Young's Night Thoughts, which does not of itself show that he was well acquainted with English, for the version may have been made with the help of the French.
As it belongs, however, to a man's thoughts and not his deeds, it often can be proved only from suspicions.
They let us into the secret of his most serious thoughts and cares, and they give a natural outlet to his vivacity of observation, his wit and humour, his kindliness of nature.
There can be no reasonable doubt that as soon as the Athenians began to recover from the paralysing effect of the victory of Lysander and the internal troubles in which they were involved by the government of the Thirty, their thoughts turned to the possibility of recovering their lost empire.
The scryer, who was a stranger in a place which she had not visited before, gave, in a long series of cases, a description of the person or place on which the inquirer's thoughts were fixed.
He ought not, of course, to be told more than that he is to descry the inquirer's thoughts, and there ought never to be physical contact, as in holding hands, between the inquirer and the scryer during the experiment.
This, however, he resigned in 1832, his thoughts having been turned towards a clerical career under Evangelical influences, which affected him deeply throughout life.
This was conducted according to the principles enunciated in Locke's Thoughts concerning Education, and the method of teaching Latin and Greek conversationally was pursued with such success by his instructress, Mrs Elizabeth Birch, that at the age of eleven, it is said, Ashley could read both languages with ease.
Then Machiavelli turned his thoughts towards Lorenzo, duke of Urbino.
Everywhere he bent his energies to the exposition of the new thoughts which were beginning to effect a revolution in the thinking world.
It would seem that he had thoughts of annexing Carthage itself with the connivance of Rome.
The remainder of the year he spent at Zurich, slowly perfecting his thoughts on the fundamental problems left for solution in the Kantian philosophy.
From these primary axioms the whole body of necessary thoughts must be developed, and, as Socrates would say, the argument itself will indicate the path of the development.
A quarrel with the papacy turned, or helped to turn, his thoughts in the direction of Church reform, but he hoped this would come from within rather than from without, and with the aid of his friend John Gropper (1503-1559), began, about 1536, to institute certain reforms in his own diocese.
As empiricism had foundered on the difficulty of showing how our thoughts could be an object of sense experience, so Leibnitzian formalism foundered on that of understanding how the material of sense could be an object of thought.
On the other hand he insisted on the synthetic character of this activity without which it was impossible to get beyond the circle of our own thoughts.
Heat and cold, rain and drought, the winds in relation to the points of the compass, were nearest their wants and supplies, and were never out of their thoughts.
Herodotus may thus have had his thoughts turned to literature as furnishing a not unsatisfactory career, and may well have been encouraged in his choice by the example of Panyasis, who had already gained a reputation by his writings when Herodotus was still an infant.
But his father had no thoughts of letting him become a monk, and in 1500 he was sent to the university of Vienna, where he remained for another two years and "included in his studies all that philosophy embraces."
In 1841 a travelling tutorship took him to the continent; and on his return a book appeared called Sights and Thoughts in Foreign Churches and among Foreign Peoples (London, 1842), with a dedication to his friend the poet Wordsworth.
This was the celebrated "National Policy," which had been in his thoughts as long ago as the formation of the British-American League in 1850.
Recollections of their easy triumph in 1894 and perhaps thoughts of Sevastopol, German theories of the " brusque attack," the fiery ardour of the army, and above all the need of rapidly crushing or expelling the squadron in harbour, combined to suggest a bombardment and general assault.
But allegory was far from the thoughts of the original narrators.
His thoughts had dwelt often on his niece, and he repeatedly said that he was sure she would be "a good woman and a good queen.
The distribution of medals to the soldiers and the institution of the Victoria Cross (February 1857) as a reward for individual instances of merit and valour must also be noted among the incidents which occupied the queen's time and thoughts.
He had thoughts of becoming a preacher, but found the career uncongenial.
He had thoughts of joining the imperial service, and offered to transport from England a body of the old Commonwealth men; but this was refused by the English court.
Whilst curate in charge at Hurstpierpoint, his thoughts were turned by the murder of two missionaries on the shores of Victoria Nyanza to mission work.
While these thoughts were filling men's minds, opposition to the papal rule over the Church was also gaining continually in strength.
The extreme divergence in doctrinal position is fostered by the fact that the theology taught in the universities is in a great measure divorced from the practical religious life of the people, and the theological opinions uttered in the theological literature of the country cannot be held to express the thoughts of the members of the churches.
The real "objective" to which our thoughts must show conformity is not a world of things in themselves, but the system of thiligs as it exists for a perfect intelligence.
The Chinese had thoughts of pushing their conquests towards western Turkestan and Samarkand, the chiefs of which sent to ask assistance of the Afghan king Ahmed Shah.
Among his pamphlets are A Candid Examination of the Mutual Claims of Great Britain and the Colonies (1775); Historical and Political Reflections on the Rise and Progress of the American Rebellion (1780); Cool Thoughts on the Consequences to Great Britain of American Independence (1780); and The Claim of the American Loyalists Reviewed and Maintained upon Incontrovertible Principles of Law and Justice (1788).
Locke, who had been educated at Winchester and had lectured on Greek at Oxford (1660), nevertheless almost completely eliminated Greek from the scheme which he unfolded in his Thoughts on Education (1693).
The outline of Job's story was no doubt supplied by tradition; and a later poet has developed this outline, and made it a vehicle for expressing his new thoughts respecting a great moral problem which perplexed his contemporaries.
The thoughts of men were still set upon the near approach of the end, the troublous times that would issue in the break-up of the existing order and the return of Christ to introduce a new era.
During his stay in the city of Mexico his thoughts were seriously directed towards religion, and, eventually entering the Presbyterian communion, he ruled every subsequent action of his life by his faith.
Domestic bereavements and a severe illness then turned his thoughts in another direction.
Edwards personally reprimanded Whitefield for presuming to say of any one that he was unconverted, and in his Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion devoted much space to "showing what things are to be corrected, or avoided, in promoting this work."
At its May session in 1742 the General Court of Massachusetts forbade itinerant preaching save with full consent from the resident pastor; in May 1743 the annual ministerial convention, by a small plurality, declared against "several errors in doctrine and disorders in practice which have of late obtained in various parts of the land," against lay preachers and disorderly revival meetings; in the same year Charles Chauncy, who disapproved of the revival, published Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New England; and in 1744-1745 Whitefield, upon his second tour in New England, found that the faculties of Harvard and Yale had officially "testified" and "declared" against him and that most pulpits were closed to him.
Nature must not be conceived as merely abstract limit to the infinite striving of spirit, as a mere series of necessary thoughts for mind.
Yet it would be unjust to ignore the many brilliant and sometimes valuable thoughts that are scattered throughout the writings on Naturphilosophie - thoughts to which Schelling himself is but too frequently untrue.
Among his longer works are Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century (1869), Expository Thoughts on the Gospels (7 vols., 1856-69), Principles for Churchmen (1884).
His views were ably presented in his sermon Enthusiasm and in his Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New England (1743), written in answer to Jonathan Edwards's Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New England (1742).
But his thoughts were already working in a higher sphere.
Indeed, throughout his writings he shows a constant wish to avail himself of what is true in the opinions of others, whether they are philosophers, or poets or ordinary people expressing their thoughts in sayings and proverbs.
Physical science is occupied in endeavouring to decipher the divine ideas which find realization in our limited experience, in trying to interpret the divine language of which natural things are the words and letters, and in striving to bring human conceptions into harmony with the divine thoughts.
That in knowing objects certain thoughts are implied which are not presentations or their copies is at times dimly seen by Berkeley himself; but he was content to propound a question with regard to those notions, and to look upon them as merely Locke's ideas of relation.
This little collection of "Thoughts," written with wonderful vivacity, ingenuity and fervour, is the best summary of the author's social and economic programme, and contains some of his wisest and finest thoughts in the purest and most masculine English that he had at his command.
This was a medley of social, moral and religious reflections interspersed with casual thoughts about persons, events and art.
For years the subject of prophecy had occupied much of his thoughts, and his belief in the near approach of the second advent had received such wonderful corroboration by the perusal of the work of a Jesuit priest, writing under the assumed Jewish name of Juan Josafat Ben-Ezra, that in 1827 he published a translation of it, accompanied with an eloquent preface.
About the beginning of 1646 his thoughts began to take more definite shape.
If things different but similar have the same attributes, and are thereby the same, then in the first place the Kantian categories, though thoughts of mental origin and therefore confined to mind, are nevertheless applicable to things, because things, though different from, are the same as, thoughts, and have the categories of thoughts; in the second place, the Fichtian Ego of mankind is not the Absolute Reason of God, and yet is the same Absolute Reason; in the third place, the Schellingian Nature is the "other " of Spirit, and yet, being a mere reflex of the Idea of Nature, is identical with Spirit; and as this Spirit is everywhere the same in God and men, Nature is also identical with our Spirit, or rather with the Infinite Spirit, or Absolute Reason, which alone exists.
The creatures, however like, are not the same as the Creator and His thoughts.
Hegel, he said, had only supplied the logic of negative philosophy; and it must be confessed that the most which could be extracted from the Hegelian dialectic would be some connexion of thoughts without proving any existence of corresponding things.
Now, Wundt is aware that this is not always possible, for he holds that the logical principle of ground belongs generally to the connexion of thoughts, the causal law to the combination of empirical appearances.
Reason, as in most modern psychologies and idealisms, is introduced by Wundt, after all sorts of operations, too late; and, when at length introduced, it is described as going beyond ideas and notions to " ideals " (Ideen), as an ideall continuation of series of thoughts beyond given experience - nothing more.
Kant, then, as interpreted by English Hegelians, already believed, before Hegel, that there is one intelligence common to all individuals, and that a noumenon is a thought of this common intelligence, " an ideal of reason "; so that Kant was trying to be a Hegelian, holding that the world has no being beyond the thoughts of one intelligence.
Hegel only extended a priori forms to things by resolving things into thoughts.
But he feels that the language is un-Pauline, though the "admirable" thoughts are not second to those of Paul's unquestioned writings.
For some time he entertained serious thoughts of reformation; but the matter was first postponed and then forgotten.
The stressed lawyer wanted a quiet vacation, so she could banish her anxieties from her thoughts.
High as man is placed above the creatures around him, there is a higher and far more exalted position within his view; and the ways are infinite in which he occupies his thoughts about the fears, or hopes, or expectations of a future life.
His bold and vigorous language aptly expressed the thoughts which had long been secretly stirring Russian minds, and were now beginning to find a timid utterance at home.
Aristotle's suggestion that Thales was led to his fundamental dogma by observation of the part which moisture plays in the production and the maintenance of life, and Simplicius's, that the impressibility and the binding power of water were perhaps also in his thoughts, are by admission purely conjectural..
He was one of the signers of the White Plains protest of April 1775 against "all unlawful congresses and committees," in many other ways proved himself a devoted loyalist, and wrote the Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the Continental Congress (1774) by "A.
But his healthy and stimulating influence was largely due to the fact that he interpreted the thoughts which were stirring in the minds of many of his contemporaries.
Meanwhile Hobbes had his thoughts too full of the political theory which the events of the last years had ripened within him to settle, even in Paris, to the orderly composition of his works.
Taking up mathematics when not only his mind was already formed but his thoughts were crystallizing into a philosophical system, Hobbes had, in fact, never put himself to school and sought to work up gradually to the best knowledge of the time, but had been more anxious from the first to become himself an innovator with whatever insufficient means.
He was even unable, in dealing with the elementary conceptions of geometry, to work out with any consistency the few original thoughts he had, and thus became the easy sport of Wallis.
Upon every subject that came within the sweep of his system, except mathematics and physics, his thoughts have been productive of thought.
Finally, the psychology of Hobbes, though too undeveloped to guide the thoughts or even perhaps arrest the attention of Locke, when essaying the scientific analysis of knowledge, came in course of time (chiefly through James Mill) to be connected with the theory of associationism developed from within the school of Locke, in different ways, by Hartley and Hume; nor is it surprising that the later associationists, finding their principle more distinctly formulated in the earlier thinker, should sometimes have been betrayed into affiliating themselves to Hobbes rather than to Locke.
Windham's servant, who sat up with him during his last night, declared that "no man could appear more collected, more devout or less terrified at the thoughts of the approaching minute."
But the thoughts of many had already turned in the direction of peace, and in this manner John George of Saxony took the lead, signing in May 1635 the important treaty of Prague with the emperor.
Conqueror of southern Italy, he turned his thoughts yet further, and became the first ruler of Sicily to stretch forth his hands towards the eastern peninsula.
At a time when much speaking has depressed, has almost exterminated eloquence, he maintained that robust, powerful and vigorous style in which he gave fitting expression to the burning and noble thoughts he desired to utter."
In the spring of this year Garrison issued his Thoughts on African Colonization, in which he showed by ample citations from official documents that the American Colonization Society was organized in the interest of slavery, and that in offering itself to the people of the North as a practical remedy for that system it was guilty of deception.
There, thoughts about God's greatness and man's duty, which are familiar to us from childhood, were all new to the hearers - it is hearers we have to think of in the first instance, not readers - to whom, at the same time, every allusion had a meaning which often escapes our notice.
The thoughts are so simple as to need no explanation; and yet the prayer is full of meaning.
The first poetical work in which NizAmi embodied his thoughts on God and man, and all the experiences he had gained, was necessarily of a didactic character, and very appropriately styled Makhzanul Asrar, or "Storehouse of Mysteries," as it bears the unmistakable stamp of Sufic speculations.
Madame de Kriidener, and her colleague, the evangelist Empaytaz, became the confidants of the emperor's most secret thoughts; and during the campaign that ended in the occupation of Paris the imperial prayer-meetings were the oracle on whose revelations hung the fate of the world.
Thus the new art became a mirror of almost all the life and thoughts of the age.
A still more striking contrast is the passionate outburst of sympathy and indignation with which, in the same diary, he comments on the supposed kidnapping of Luther by foul play on his return from the diet of Worms. Without being one of those who in his city took an avowed part against the old ecclesiastical system, and probably without seeing clearly whither the religious ferment of the time was tending - without, that is, being properly speaking a Reformer - Diirer in his art and his thoughts was the incarnation of those qualities of the German character and conscience which resulted in the Reformation; and, personally, with the fathers of the Reformation he lived in the warmest sympathy.